I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby.

ellemarchpane:

He seems quite willing to put other people in danger to protect his interests. Like the plan he cooked up with Deaton to double cross Gerard Argent to protect his mother. I believe there was Allison motivation as well, convoluted as it was.

On the other hand, Derek,…

yep, derek’s constant lying in season one, right up until he killed peter did not put anyone at risk. his breaking scott’s wrist and isaac’s arm… nope, nobody at risk. And Scott never puts himself at risk. He’s seriously the worst hero ever. Because he wasn’t at risk the first time he fought Peter, or constantly resisting Peter’s influence the entire first season.

Seriously. What about night school, where scott locked everyone in a classroom so that he could go and confront peter himself. This thought process makes no sense to me and it has nothing to do with me being a scott fan. I find derek intriguing too. And stiles. But scott is always the hero. All those times he’s said ‘i won’t let you hurt them’ do you know who he was talking to? He was talking to derek - the guy who drafted teenagers in his war against hunters. The guy who wanted to kill an innocent person on  SPECULATION (a bit worst than getting a guy arrested after finding a dead person buried in his yard don’t you think?). The guy who flipped sides without any explanation.

Scott is a sixteen year old child dealing with the repercussions of turning into a werewolf against his will. Derek is an adult who already knows how to deal with being a werewolf. And yet scott still has a consistently better moral compass. That’s why Scott’s the hero. It doesn’t mean Derek isn’t interesting to watch, but I don’t understand why people have to insult Scott and take every singe action he makes out of context in order to make Derek look better.

cometoseetheshow:

imjustateenagewasteland:

cometoseetheshow:

There is something that always bugged me about the push to remind myself (and to be reminded by others) that Scott is supposed to be the main character. He is the teen wolf. It’s not that I don’t love Scott because I do. How can you not love that cutie? It’s just that I…

Yeah but I don’t understand the complaint. You watched Buffy and Angel didn’t you? The entire cast of Buffy was badass, but in the end - buffy was the star, it was her show. They played side kick to her more often than not. She got to save the world. You got Angel - who was the star of the show, the main character, the show was named after him. The cast played side kick to him. Okay. Teen wolf isn’t called Heroes or Shameless - it isn’t named for the theme; a concept that allows an ensemble cast. It’s named for THE teen wolf. Scott McCall. He gets to be the main character, people get to play side kick to him.

And don’t shit yourself because this is important and progressive. You get a person of color that is the title role. That’s great, despite how gross and problematic Jeff Davis can be. So why the fuck are you uncomfortable by it?

Your Buffy and Angel argument is one of the more valid I have seen but allow me to elaborate a bit more on my argument.

Let me first reiterate something that I included in my response to the person that you rebloged this from:

I think what a lot of people are picking up on is an underlining conflict between the goal of having Scott be the teen wolf and the execution of the show. What I mean by this is that Jeff gives a lot of screen time for the other non-main characters for their story and character to develop in a way that challenges our view of who the main character actually is. But then they do make the push to have Scott take his role as the main character. It is through these conflicting actions of the production that makes me ‘uncomfortable’ with them making an extra effort to make Scott the teen wolf.

So as you can see, my complaint is more about the execution of the show. If the show was set up in such a way that Scott was made the main character without contest, then I wouldn’t have a problem. 

I am very excited about the fact that they cast a Mexican actor as the lead (I’m Mexican myself and this is exciting to see as I stopped my pursuit of studying performing arts because I was told I didn’t have a future in it.)

However, it would be more progressive and important if Tyler Posey would be given a proper main role, don’t you think?

I don’t see, actually. I mean, I see your problem. Except Scott’s narrative is the only narrative we see. Sure we got some scenes of other characters to get a view their povs - Allison’s entire arch at the end of the second season was told through Stiles’s POV. But the main POV has always been Scott’s. That’s why we don’t understand hunters as clearly as we should after two seasons; it’s why we don’t know how Stiles’s mother died. It’s why we don’t get to see the fallout of what Derek is suffering - because Scott doesn’t get to see that. So no, I don’t see your problem. If Jeff were to invest any more time in Scott’s narrative, then every other character would exist as little more than plot devices, and that’s not something I’d be interested in watching.

cometoseetheshow:

There is something that always bugged me about the push to remind myself (and to be reminded by others) that Scott is supposed to be the main character. He is the teen wolf. It’s not that I don’t love Scott because I do. How can you not love that cutie? It’s just that I…

Yeah but I don’t understand the complaint. You watched Buffy and Angel didn’t you? The entire cast of Buffy was badass, but in the end - buffy was the star, it was her show. They played side kick to her more often than not. She got to save the world. You got Angel - who was the star of the show, the main character, the show was named after him. The cast played side kick to him. Okay. Teen wolf isn’t called Heroes or Shameless - it isn’t named for the theme; a concept that allows an ensemble cast. It’s named for THE teen wolf. Scott McCall. He gets to be the main character, people get to play side kick to him.

And don’t shit yourself because this is important and progressive. You get a person of color that is the title role. That’s great, despite how gross and problematic Jeff Davis can be. So why the fuck are you uncomfortable by it?

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the-girl-that-runs-with-wolves:

I’m sorry, can we just acknowledge that basically every time Derek has gone all protective over Stiles… It’s been with someone more or possibly more powerful than him??

There was the Kanima that Derek stood basically no chance against(AND he turned his back it to protect Stiles, just sayin’).

…

Because it’s not just Stiles. That’s how someone can watch it and not ship them. Derek is protective of Scott every other episode. He got captured and tortured for two days because he was protective of Scott (riiight after he told Scott he was going to kill him, along with Jackson). He fought that same uncle, who he was so close to when he was a kid (according to who, btw - how do we even know he was close to Peter at all?) and attempted to kill him. He spent the entire season helping Scott with Peter. Like… how can you not ship them? Derek is completely in love with Scott.

But I can read into this too. He’s not protective of Stiles for Stiles at all. He’s protective of Stiles because Stiles is a human and Derek has proven that to some degree he values human life (he drove home the niece of the woman who burned his family alive in the pilot just so Scott wouldn’t accidentally kill her during his first full moon - and on top of that, Derek has not killed a single human - and his greatest enemies are human.) In a fight, Stiles is always the physically weakest person there, therefore Derek finds a way to attempt to remove the physically weakest person from the situation. I think by claiming he does this for a love that hasn’t materialized at all, you’re really overlooking the one thing that, in my opinion, makes Derek so unique. Derek protects people who don’t like him, and people he doesn’t like, because they are innocent - that’s what’s unique. Hell, he could’ve killed Kate in the last seven years and he still failed to do it - and when Scott came to let Derek out (which btw, Scott had to figure out where Derek was himself, because Stiles - who had already figured out how to find Derek decided to keep it to himself - another reason we can manage to not ship them; Stiles was willing to let Derek die) - Derek wanted to run, instead of facing Kate. He wouldn’t have killed her, the woman who used him to murder his entire family. He wanted to run from her. It’s unique and far more interesting that shipping two people who don’t seem to like each other.

Seriously. Stiles wanted to let him die. How can you watch this show and ship it.

….That’s a rhetorical question. I’m not judging the shippers, it’s just easy to not ship them. Because Stiles would have let him die.