Hello there, I’m Paul Rea from the Official Teen Wolf Wiki and today I’m looking at six
Stiles scenes that sum up why I love Teen Wolf so damn much.
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Someone commented this week that I’m “milking Teen Wolf to death" with my channel.
I’ll admit that hurt my feelings a bit. I mean, maybe it’s true, but I’m also one of
the show’s biggest fans having spent the last ten years collecting and cataloging every piece
of established canon and behind the scenes content for the Official Wiki site.
I certainly don’t do it for money, my obsession with the show has cost
me a small fortune to maintain. I do this because I love the show.
Now, to cheer myself up after my admittedly overly emotional reaction to a single mean comment,
I set myself a challenge. Find one scene for each character in each
season of the show that helps explain by I still love Teen Wolf.
[bird noises]
I’m starting with Stiles because he’s the character that grabbed me from the very start.
There are literally dozens of Stiles moments in Season 1 that I absolutely love.
Stiles: Okay, just so you know, I'm not afraid of you.
Okay, maybe I am.
[screaming]
Melissa: Stiles! What the hell are you doing here?
Stiles: What am I doing? God, do you really even play baseball?
Oh my god. What is that?
Please don't kill me for this.
Ow!
But the one scene that explains why Teen Wolf grabbed me where other,
similar shows did not is this first Scott and Stiles scene in the pilot.
[women screaming]
It was here that I realized that Teen Wolf, while it was definitely a drama,
would not be taking itself as seriously as some other shows.
Scott: Stiles! What the hell are you doing?
Stiles: You weren't answering your phone. Why do you have a bat?
It was also Dylan O’Brien’s awkwardness in this scene that helped sell me on
the character. His performance is great here because it is so unpolished and raw.
He’s literally being himself, there’s no pretending or capital "A" acting going on.
He is Stiles and Stiles is him in this moment, which is instantly endearing.
Season 2 also gave us a plethora of fantastic Stiles moments.
Stiles: Me first?
Stiles: He did it.
Then, late in the season, we got this amazing scene in Raving.
Stiles: I got like 50 feet of ash left and I'm out.
Again, the humor is great.
Stiles: Okay? So, you've got to get your wolf-ass down there to help me because I don't know what to do.
But they also built some tension by playing on our love of Stiles,
Stiles: And I'm standing here like a fricking idiot all by myself with
a handful of magic fairy dust and I don't have enough.
...our discomfort at seeing him so stressed out and our overwhelming desire to see him succeed.
This is where a lot of people started to think that Stiles was magic or something but,
as I’ve explained at length in a previous video,
Stiles is such a great character because he isn’t special in some supernatural way.
Stiles: Yes!
He’s just the very best human on the show and that’s more than enough.
I kind of understand this desire to make him something else, but I
think that would seriously diminish him as a character so I against it.
Sheriff: Consider a bribe? Stiles: Couldn't meet my price.
Sheriff: Extortion? Stiles: You got nothing on me.
Dad? What are you doing?
I could do a whole hour on great Stiles moments from Season 3 it was his season.
Coach: Who is next? Who wants the quarter?
There you go! There's a gambling man!
Stiles: Beacon Hills First National closes its doors three months after vault robbery. It doesn't say here how
it was robbed but it probably won't take long to find out.
Derek: How long? Stiles: It's the internet Derek.
Okay? Minutes.
Stiles: You called the police before you called me?
Lydia: I'm supposed to call you first when I find a dead body?
Stiles: YES!
Stiles: All these symbols and things, the triskelion the bank logo, the mountain ash, all of it is from the Celtic druids.
And anyone who has ever looked up human sacrifice before knows the druids had a pretty big hardon when it came to
giving one up to the gods.
Stiles: Scott, just listen to me. Okay?
But the defining Stiles scene, the moment that cemented my love for the character and the show,
is really just one small step.
Stiles: All right, so.
That’s it.
Really.
I mean, yeah, the emotional stakes were ramping up to 11 with Scott’s anguish.
And, of course, Stiles’ speech trying to talk him down is epic
but it wasn’t until he took the step that this became something more for me.
It is a physical act of sacrifice. And it may be
cringe to say it out loud but it still gives me chills talking about it.
This whole scene and the one later where Stiles gets an MRI
are why a lot of people think the show peaked in Season 3, but for me - my love of Teen Wolf
grew stronger at this moment when a boy put his life on the line for his best friend.
Araya: Not smart to come alone.
Stiles: What makes you think we came alone?
After Dylan O’Brien’s incredible growth as an actor in the previous seasons,
season 4 offered up some heavier Stiles scenes.
Stiles: You, you, please don't do that ever again. Malia: Do what?
Stiles: I thought you just took off. I thought you were running.
Malia: I was running.
Stiles: No, I mean, like I thought you were leaving.
Malia: I wouldn't leave without you. Stiles: Really?
Stiles: No. We found him buried in a tomb of wolfsbane in an Aztec temple in Mexico underneath a church
in the middle of a town that was destroyed by an earthquake.
Stiles: Are you guys kidding me? There's a family murdering axe murderer. We're not going to do anything aobut it?
So, the two of you just want to stay here, school, go to class?
Never heard anything so irresponsible in my life.
Stiles: Because I don't think you're going to hurt me.
And I think that maybe you're so afraid of hurting me because of what you did to your family.
Narrowing my Season 4 choice down wasn’t easy because my heart wants to go with one of the brief
glimpses of humor we got but I know it was actually this scene with Malia that is peak Stiles.
Stiles: I remember everything I did and the worst part is I remember liking it.
He’s admitting some hard truths, telling us how much he actually suffered at the end of Season 3
while also admitting that feeling powerful is tempting to even the best people.
Stiles: But, when I cam through it, I learned something else.
Control is overrated.
Again, it’s a scene of raw emotion
and is the kind of moment that mostly seems forced when other shows try it, but Teen Wolf,
I don’t know, they just knew how to build to these moments and make them believable and heartfelt.
Stiles: You did it.
Scott: Why can't you trust anyone? Stiles: Because you trust everyone!
Alright, I’m dreading Season 5,
no pun intended, but these episodes are thick with brilliant Stiles scenes.
Stiles: I think you're going to need a bigger blade.
Donovan: Don't worry Stiles, I'm just going to eat your legs.
Stiles: Mom? Mom, what are you doing?
Scott: This is yours?
Finally, I had to be honest and pick the scene that made me feel the most, even if
what I felt was an overwhelmingly negative emotion. I literally hate this scene.
Scott: Why didn't you tell me when it happened?
Stiles: I couldn't.
Scott: You killed him?
Stiles: You think I had a choice?
Scott: There's always a choice.
Stiles: Yeah, well, I can't do what you can Scott. I know you wouldn't have done it.
I’m so mad at both of them after this. Talk to each other. Communicate
and everything will be okay.
Stiles: Guess what? All of us can't be true alphas.
Stiles: Some of us have to make mistakes. Some of us are human!
But what made this scene so personally frustrating for me is that I’ve lived
through this type of breakup. I acted stupid and stubborn and hurt everybody involved.
So this scene is just a very real moment delivered well.
Scott: They don't need us anymore.
Stiles: They need us. They just don't know it.
Wow, already up to Season 6? There were fewer Stiles moments but they certainly made them count.
Woman: Who are you going to see?
Stiles: No one.
Stiles: We were trying to gently persuade him to pull over.
Stiles: Maybe you think you can’t leave, you know, like the whole thing falls apart if you’re not there, which I get, but you have to.
I know you’re supposed to drive out tonight, so, if you don’t call me back, promise me you’re actually going.
Just get in the Jeep and go.
Stiles: Everyone is forgetting. Everyone is forgetting everything.
Sheriff: Okay, slow down. We'll figure this out together.
Stiles: Okay.
Sheriff: Why don't you tell me your name.
That one right there was a contender for key scene for me. The horror of that moment I think defines
why the Ghost Riders are so scary but it’s not the most "Teen Wolf Stiles moment" in this season.
Stiles: And him.
[Hellhound growl]
Stiles: Grab him. Grab him now.
[strangling penguin]
Stiles: Liam, you're fine.
Parrish: Stiles? What are you doing here?
Stiles: Buddy, I love you, but we're way past that.
Again, it’s a simple moment of levity in a terribly serious situation which is something
that defines Teen Wolf at its best. And that ability of theirs to laugh in the midst of trauma is the primary reason I still love this show.
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