The age/years things really bothers me too. One thing you forgot to mention when talking about the stupid flashback episode is that Peter is played by young actor Peter, who looks between 18 and 22, while Chris Argent and the sheriff are still played by the same actors. So, if anything, that would mean that werewolves age more rapidly than they look, since Peter goes from 19ish to 35ish in a year. Why a year? Because I think your timeline is correct, and there could have only been a year between Derek dating Paige/the flashback and Derek being seduced by Kate/the fire. And we see old!Peter at the fire. So...15+ years in one. Yikes. That could be disconcerting for anyone. Maybe that explains some of the psychotic side of his personality! :)
I didn't know that Derek was originally supposed to be 18! Tyler Hoechlin doesn't look 18, so I'm glad they went with a little older. I thought he was supposed to be about 22 or 23 in the premiere, which makes sense. How old is Peter supposed to be though? They show him in flashbacks as only a few years older than Derek, but now? He has to be 12 to 15 years older. Frankly, I think he had to have lost a child and wife (or husband) in the fire to make him lose touch with reality so much. And that wouldn't have happened in a year either.
I think the whole blue-eyed wolves story came out of nowhere. My theory is that Jackson's blue eyes were originally because they were going to find out he was a Hale, but when the actor left, they had to come up with something else. What did Peter, Jackson and Derek have in common? Well, actually nothing if they're not all related. But Peter and Jackson both murdered innocents, so therefore, they had to have Derek murder an innocent. I think it was a stupid thing to do, even though they bent over backwards to make it for a sympathetic reason. Because, imho, what is the determining factor that makes that decision? What if that wolf doesn't see his murders as innocent victims? What if a wolf doesn't know he's murdered an innocent? What if it looks like a person is innocent, but it turns out that they'd murdered someone too? It doesn't make any sense, and it wasn't thought out.
I have friends who think that Cora=Erica, and that the only reason that Cora came into being was because they needed to slot in another female werewolf for Derek's pack. In their theories, that explains why Cora and Derek's relationship seemed less familial and more generic, because she wasn't written as his sister until the last five or six episodes of 3A. I can see that too, but I think that Cora also replaced Jackson.
My theory is that Jackson was going to be the wolf in danger of dying from the Darach's attention, and that would be unbearable for both Derek and Peter because he was their nephew/cousin/half-sibling/some other relation Hale. And when they realized that they'd lost both Jackson and Erica, they came up with the character of Cora to fill both roles.
I also wonder if there had originally been more Boyd/Erica in captivity scenes that were edited out. That whole story with Boyd's sister came out of nowhere, but it seemed like it was supposed to be something we already knew about. So...maybe we missed something because it was cut?
Didn't the tattoo end up signifying less of the Alison doodling and more the rings on the trunk of the Nemeton tree? That was what I got at the end. Maybe I was wrong.
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Date: 2013-09-15 07:25 pm (UTC)I didn't know that Derek was originally supposed to be 18! Tyler Hoechlin doesn't look 18, so I'm glad they went with a little older. I thought he was supposed to be about 22 or 23 in the premiere, which makes sense. How old is Peter supposed to be though? They show him in flashbacks as only a few years older than Derek, but now? He has to be 12 to 15 years older. Frankly, I think he had to have lost a child and wife (or husband) in the fire to make him lose touch with reality so much. And that wouldn't have happened in a year either.
I think the whole blue-eyed wolves story came out of nowhere. My theory is that Jackson's blue eyes were originally because they were going to find out he was a Hale, but when the actor left, they had to come up with something else. What did Peter, Jackson and Derek have in common? Well, actually nothing if they're not all related. But Peter and Jackson both murdered innocents, so therefore, they had to have Derek murder an innocent. I think it was a stupid thing to do, even though they bent over backwards to make it for a sympathetic reason. Because, imho, what is the determining factor that makes that decision? What if that wolf doesn't see his murders as innocent victims? What if a wolf doesn't know he's murdered an innocent? What if it looks like a person is innocent, but it turns out that they'd murdered someone too? It doesn't make any sense, and it wasn't thought out.
I have friends who think that Cora=Erica, and that the only reason that Cora came into being was because they needed to slot in another female werewolf for Derek's pack. In their theories, that explains why Cora and Derek's relationship seemed less familial and more generic, because she wasn't written as his sister until the last five or six episodes of 3A. I can see that too, but I think that Cora also replaced Jackson.
My theory is that Jackson was going to be the wolf in danger of dying from the Darach's attention, and that would be unbearable for both Derek and Peter because he was their nephew/cousin/half-sibling/some other relation Hale. And when they realized that they'd lost both Jackson and Erica, they came up with the character of Cora to fill both roles.
I also wonder if there had originally been more Boyd/Erica in captivity scenes that were edited out. That whole story with Boyd's sister came out of nowhere, but it seemed like it was supposed to be something we already knew about. So...maybe we missed something because it was cut?
Didn't the tattoo end up signifying less of the Alison doodling and more the rings on the trunk of the Nemeton tree? That was what I got at the end. Maybe I was wrong.