Hello there.
I’m sorry to report that I don’t have a fascinating new video for you this week.
It’s not for lack of trying. I’ve literally been
pounding out ideas for days but nothing has formed into anything truly cohesive.
I really had zero ideas at all for new material until Saturday
when I was watching this video with Trixie and Katya. They were watching Fear Street over on
Netflix which made me think I should see what’s new on Netflix this week.
That led me to watching The Movies That Made Us which included one about Forrest Gump.
Watching the documentary and the fact that I used to live where they shot part of the film
made me want to watch the movie again which I did.
Mama Gump: Life is a box of chocolates Forrest.
You never know what you're going to get.
And then it hit me. I could do a Back to Beacon Hills about advice from the moms on Teen Wolf.
That would be cool.
Melissa: Women love words.
You can save people's lives but you cannot save them from life.
You Stiles are one profoundly sleep-deprived young man.
You need rest and you need it now.
But I quickly realized that all the good advice came from only one mom.
The advice from the other mothers was questionable at best.
Victoria: What you want right now doesn't matter.
Natalie: And you're going to be safe 3000 miles away so we don't have to deal with this.
Then I thought, hey, I’ll do good mom bad mom and pit Melissa against Lydia’s mom since Lydia’s mom
was truly awful in a few places and I’m too afraid of Eaddy Mays to really tackle Allison’s mom.
Natalie: Okay sweetheart, this is not a problem.
Having gotten my share of hickeys in high school, I developed some patented coverup methods.
Natalie: I think you need to focus more on your school work, all of you.
Sweetheart, since this is my first class and I haven't taught in five years, I just want to remind you of one thing:
Try not to embarrass me.
I got halfway through collecting examples of Ms. Martin’s bad parenting...
Mr. Martin: Erratic behavior.
I'm not the one who told her she has to choose who she wants to live with. As if that wouldn't warp a 16-year-old girl.
There are a lot of examples of Ms. Martin's bad parenting.
Valack (in disguise): It's a very different place now. She'll be safe there.
Natalie: She'll be safe.
But then I thought, hey, who am I to judge.
All the moms on the show were doing what they thought was right for their children.
Noshiko: Kira, where's your sword?
Even Mrs. Argent was just trying to protect her
daughter, even if that meant murdering another teenager.
I’m not here to throw stones, so Back to Beacon Hills: Good Mom/Bad Mom was a non-starter.
Then I turned to the comments section to see if there were any juicy questions to tackle. A lot of
people want me to do more on Stiles. But I’ve done that time everybody thought he should have died
because of the big skinned weasel.
I also did the whole Stiles seemingly gets random insights while trapped in a pocket dimension.
After that video I did a lot of comments from people who seem to think Stiles is
magic. That whole “Stiles has a spark” thing comes due to this scene from Season 2.
Scott: Doesn't sound too hard.
Deaton: That's not all there is. Think of it like gunpowder.
It's just powder until a spark ignites it.
You need to be that spark Stiles.
Deaton means “spark” metaphorically here. Stiles is the really the only person on the assault team
who can handle the mountain ash.
Stiles is the only one who can lay down the barrier because the others can’t touch it.
But combine the poetry of Deaton’s statement and the fact that Stiles was running out of
Mountain Ash at the rave and people see this as proof that he’s magic.
Yeah, Stiles is not magic. The ash
is magic. If you get it close it will form a circle every time.
You can throw it in the air.
You can throw it in a doorway.
You can just throw it and it will complete a circuit between any two existing sections of mountain ash.
This ability of the ash to always connect to itself means that, once Stiles got
close to closing the circuit around the warehouse, the mountain ash did the rest.
Oh and speaking of scenes that people don’t get or misinterpret, this thing
with Peter and Deaton in the animal clinic back in Season 1.
Yeah. A lot of people look at that and say to me, "Well, Deaton must be something supernatural
because that chair hit him and broke and he didn’t even flinch."
Yeah, no. The chair did not hit him. First of all, there is no chair. It’s all computer generated.
Second – it doesn’t hit him. It hits the wall
behind him. There’s even a little CGI dent they put in the wall where the chair was supposed to hit.
Here’s the part where the perspective on the shot is weird. The pieces of the chair fly out toward the camera.
From this angle, Deaton is in the way of those pieces. The effects people
and the editors cheat the broken chair so it flies out and around him,
but our brains don’t believe it and interpret it as hitting the vet and just bouncing off.
That’s not what happens and it’s not what was intended in this scene.
The writers just wanted to show that Deaton ain’t scared and stood his ground.
Deaton: Let me be as clear as possible, we are closed.
He’s not magic.
Isaac: What, are you some kind of witch?
Deaton : No, I'm a veterinarian.
He’s a veterinarian. A veterinarian with thousands of years of druid knowledge at his fingertips
so he can do some amazing things. But, again, he is not magic.
Look, I guess that stuff is interesting but it’s not a whole video’s worth of interesting.
Most of the other questions I’m getting lately
have already been answered in video’s I did previously.
Like a few people didn’t seem to understand the whole Benefactor plot even though I did this
complete, albeit sort of complicated explanation years ago.
The Benefactor is the primary antagonist during Teen Wolf’s fourth season.
The unseen force hired assassins to kill supernatural people via a computerized hit list or dead pool.
I guess I can try to simplify it further -
It was Peter's idea. Lorraine's programming and computer.
Meredith's initiative and Brunski's hands.
Too simple? Okay.
The benefactor idea originated with Peter who told it to Meredith Walker. When Meredith heard
Lydia scream at Allison’s death, she decided the time was right. She put together the deadpool
and then used the grandmother’s computer program to handle confirmation of kills
and payments. Meredith then blackmailed Brunski to steal the money and hand out the instructions.
Meredith was able to arrange everything because she knew what was coming at almost every turn
because she is a super banshee. She’s crazy in a cartoonish way,
but nevertheless a very powerful banshee.
Where was I? Oh yeah, There’s really nothing to focus on this week’s video.
I’ll try to do better next week when I go Back to Beacon Hills.