I have recently been made aware of a faction of the fandom that seems to believe that
Scott's true alpha rise is something to do with Peter or the Hale alpha spark.
Peter: I am the alpha!
I have always been the alpha!
Follow along.
In this new religion - they cast Peter as the ultimate progenitor and his spark
is somehow special and is responsible for most of the miracles we see on the show.
Peter: For my family's power to be rightfully inherited by me.
First to the myth of Peter: Father of True Alphas.
Scott's alpha bit was made in his body from the strength and purity of his soul.
Any other alpha in the history of the world could have bitten Scott and he
would have still risen to alpha on his own because that part comes from inside him.
The second part of that myth has Scott somehow
being a Hale family member just because Peter bit him.
Peter: It was my bite that changed your life and my bite that can end it.
That part's just dumb.
Packs are mostly chosen families and Scott rejected both Peter and Derek outright.
Scott is not a Hale.
The rest of the religion of Peter points to minor miracles that are
harder to dispute but are no less fallacious.
Peter: You think power like that was going to come out on its own?
I'm the spark that let your fire sweetheart.
He did brutally attack Lydia and torture her psychologically to the
point that her dormant banshee abilities rose to the surface.
Peter did make werejaguar with the power of a demigod.
But that wasn't down to Peter. It was all to do with the evil already living inside Kate.
Just like Scott's soul was super good and made him a true alpha,
Kate's was super twisted and made her into an evil cat creature.
All Peter's godly feats are in reality simply the story of a
desperate man who did not care who he hurt in order to get what he wanted.
Peter: You think power like that was going to come out on its own?
I'm the spark that let your fire sweetheart
I used this quote in another video this week and
it struck me how misinterpreted that it's been over the years.
Yes, Peter did brutally attack Lydia and embed memories in her that caused
her dormant banshee abilities to flare up.
But it was the trauma of that event that triggered her.
It was not the bite.
It was not Peter's spark trying to make a new werewolf.
Trauma makes banshees more powerful.
We saw it at least three times, maybe four times, on the show.
First we had Lydia's story where Peter used
her and her latent banshee as a backup plan in case he died
You can see how this trauma played out right there on Lydia's face.
This is why her abilities began to grow.
Lydia's grandmother Lorraine was the same way.
For much of her life she just had little intuitions until an upcoming personal
trauma - the death of her partner Maddie - triggered her first and, for a while,
her only banshee experience with seeing future death.
After that experience she hunted for clues about herself and her limited
foreknowledge which kind of drove her crazy.
Lorraine never had banshee-level power until after
she was committed to Eichen House and they drilled a hole in her head.
Natalie: I told you to stay in the car.
Lydia!
The physical and emotional trauma literally opened her up and she
developed abilities so strong she was able to predict the entire benefactor
plan and all the individuals who would be in danger from it years in advance.
She didn't realize that she was creating the benefactor victims list at the time.
But she knew her granddaughter would be in the middle of it and tried to plan accordingly.
Lorraine: They're coming Lydia. They're coming for all of us.
We saw that a hole in Lydia's skull had the same effect.
It was greatly amplified by further tampering and pain visited on her by Dr. Valack.
This show makes it clear that trauma brings out the abilities of banshee.
Meredith's experience in the white room amplified her power.
It could be argued that losing her whole town and being the only one left behind by the
Ghost Riders in Canaan was enough trauma to trigger Lenore's banshee abilities.
I have been over this in a half a dozen videos but I'm constantly being asked
to defend my belief that the Zeus origin of werewolves that we heard on the show is true.
Gerard: Lycaon didn't just refuse to honor the gods, he challenged them.
He invited Zeus to a banquet and then tried to serve him the flesh of a human being.
Zeus blew the place apart with lightning bolts
and then punished Lycaon and his sons by turning them into wolves.
Yes Gerard is an unreliable narrator.
But he did not write this book about the druids and how they hooked up with the werewolves.
That is an ancient story but it also reflects
a modern ongoing relationship that we all know is very real.
At some point the werewolves sought out the druids and they became besties
to the point that - thousands of years later - almost all the
organized packs that we saw on the show had a druid working with them.
Deucalion: Don't kid yourself Marin, it's not the first time you've gotten your hands dirty.
The druids on Teen Wolf are undeniably real.
They hang out with werewolves.
And all the things they do with plants and physical sacrifices actually work.
Jennifer You call them sacrifices but you're not understanding the word.
It's derived from the Latin sacrificium,
an offering to a deity, a sacred right, a necessary evil.
So all of the Druid stuff that we know is true points to this
part of the werewolf origin story also being true.
Gerard: Lycaon sought out the druids to help turn him back to human.
They couldn't make it Lycaon and his son's human
again but they did teach them how to shift back and forth.
I've actually covered this before but it keeps coming up.
I'm again addressing how I think werewolf babies are born on Teen Wolf.
I'm not covering the male contribution to the conception process.
I tried a few animations and it's just kind of gross trying to show
how the spark might be shared during the act.
Anyway, my theory isn't as well formed when it comes
to the alpha dads so we're just doing moms today.
There are a few hard and fast canonical rules that you need to accept before we can move on.
Only Alpha were wolves have enough energy in their spark to make new werewolves.
Peter: As an alpha you have that bit of extra,
that spark that intensifies the color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red.
Beta werecoyotes can give birth to little werecoyotes but will
lose some of their supernatural power in doing so.
Corrine: What you do have is power, strength,
speed and the capacity to heal. And you know where you got it from Malia?
You know where you stole it from? Me.
These are the things we've been told and as of right now - two
months before the Teen Wolf movie debuts and we find out how Eli Hale came to be -
this is the canon that we know from TV.
With those two established canonical points in mind, how
are little baby werewolves and werecoyotes made?
With an alpha werewolf mother, it's pretty straightforward.
The embryo fully develops in the light of an alpha spark.
At some point, a little spark will Infuse
the fetus just like we see when an alpha bites someone.
With a beta werewolf mother it is different.
While this child is also inside a supernatural environment,
there is no new spark of energy because the beta is not powerful enough to share.
The twist to this situation is with a beta werecoyote.
Like the werewolf, the beta spark is too weak to create a new spark
instead the mother's spark almost fully transfers to the embryo.
This leaves the mother with weakened abilities
while imbuing the unborn child with an almost adult-level spark.
Phil the Bartender: Well the base pay is crap.
But with tips you can make up to a grand at one night.
This featured extra in the process of applying for
a job at the Sinema nightclub went nameless in the Teen Wolf episode Required Reading.
But when he appears on screen for adult entertainment powerhouse Randy Blue,
he goes by Brett Beckham.
Phil: But with tips you can make up to a grand in one night.
Let's see what you got.
Maybe less.
Me showing you clips of his non-teen wolf work would be a one-way ticket to demonetization,
but here is a decidedly mild image of one of his professional credits from 2016.
We're not giving his real name here because the Brett Beckham pseudonym
seems to have retired after doing only a handful of adult entertainment films.
And while he's instantly recognizable due to his numerous tattoos,
I did not have the time to stalk every adult entertainment studio's website
looking for this image to see if he's now going by another name.
Given recent events and the rise of celebrity fan sites specifically
designed for adult content, at least one other Teen Wolf star
is now at least partially involved on the milder side of the industry.
Tyler Posey: I'm kind of gay. Right? Pan? The internet labeled me as pansexual.
Is that right?
Is that what I am?
I really don't know.
I was just open on here and then the next morning everybody said I was pansexual.
Back in season five this crossover was worth noting.
Phil: But with tips you can make up to a grand in one night.
Let's see what you got.
Maybe less.