TW Ep. 2x09 Meta *spoilers*

TW Ep. 2x09 meta *spoilers*

The newest episode of Teen Wolf has sent me reeling. From the very beginning, I knew it was going to be an intense episode that changes everything. How? The triskele. We first saw it in season one on Derek's back, but has it ever been explained? It has here on Tumblr, but not on the show until today, iirc. I have read some wonderfully detailed blogs about it here, so when Derek started talking about it my heart leapt. "Hey! I know this!" I thought. But then he started talking about how omegas can become alphas and alphas can become omegas, and I knew some major shit was about to go down. To save your dashboards, my huge meta is behind a cut tag. Click and enjoy. ^^;

Then we had the interactions between Lydia and Peter, and the conversation between Allison and Lydia. She was as beautiful as ever, but something had changed. She was different. Intense. Inscrutable. Dark. Jealous. Peter knew all the right buttons to push and Lydia has been dragged into his darkness to become her tortured little puppet. But he was right. Her friends don't tell her ANYTHING and that will be their downfall.

Let's talk about her party. I felt devastated for Lydia when no one showed up to her party but the trio. Then it made me feel all kinds of validated when Allison said, "She wouldn't be the town wackjob if it weren't for us." How true is that?! So Scott brings in the lacrosse team and Stiles... who does he bring in? The gay community. If that's not appropriate I don't know what is.

But then we got to the hallucinations and things got serious. Here we have everyone's fears laid bare: Allison is terrified of being weak. She's disgusted by herself every time she shows the slightest sign of weakness. So what does she do? She kills that part of herself. From what we've seen of the next episode, those feelings may contribute to her desire for vengeance against Derek. While I'm sure her family will tell her it's all Derek's fault, she should damn well know better by now. She is letting her fear get the better of her and killing Derek will not bring her mother back. All it will do is drive Scott away and bring her one step closer to becoming her evil, manipulative, psychotic aunt Kate. But hey, she'll have shown herself that she's not weak, so it's all good, right? e_e

Stiles' hallucination revealed what many of us have suspected for a while now. He blames himself for everything, including his mother's death. He's terrified that he's ruining his father's life, that deep down his father must resent him, must hate having to raise him on his own, must hate having a hyperactive kid with ADD for a son. By this point I was rather certain that he was hallucinating, but the scene still broke my heart. Poor Stiles. To blame yourself for your own mother's death? That would be the weight of the world on your shoulders, impossible to bear.

Then there's Jackson's hallucination. Although we know he has never said, "I love you." since he was five and it was revealed that he was adopted, he seems horrified to find his parents looking for him. It seems pretty clear that he's terrified of the unknown his parents represent. Of not knowing who they are, and therefore not knowing whoheis. Once the hallucination has passed, he is so shaken that his face is visibly sunken with vulnerability and pain.  This character who I thought I would hate? This bully? This egomaniac? He has no idea who he is. He's alone. He's scared. This makes the fact that he's being used even more heartbreaking.

Of all the hallucinations, I find Scott's to be the least interesting. He's afraid that his girlfriend is going to cheat on him? Blah. Okay, so maybe he's actually afraid of betrayal. I like that better. It's clear that Allison is headed in that direction. The show is putting so much distance between them right now. When Allison fogged up the window, Scott had left her no messages. When Stiles advised him to apologize, he refused. If there isn't some major fallout coming between them, I will be shocked.

In Derek's world, everything is a terrible mess. He's doing everything in his power to protect his pack from themselves, to stop them from killing with reckless abandon. He tells Scott he can feel that this full moon is going to be a rough one but Scott leaves him alone to deal with the pack.

Scott asks Derek to open up, says that he expected there to be no secrets now that he was part of Derek's pack, but Derek is still protecting Scott, even now that he's recovered and is in no apparent danger. Derek has proven that he will be there for Scott, but when Lydia cripples him and is dragging his immobilized body into the charred, hollow shell of his family home, draining him of his alpha status and bringing the uncle who killed his sister (and tried to kill him) back from the dead, where is Scott? Sensing Derek's danger and rushing in to save him, to repay Derek for saving his life mere hours ago? No. He's being a jealous wolf, letting Matt creep on his girl, drinking hypno-punch and gaping at Matt while JACKSON pulls the drowning kanimaster out of the pool. In the end,Isaacwas the only person Derek had to help him on yet another "worst night ever" in a string of nightmares that make up Derek's tortured, miserable existence.

Does Scott fail Derek because Derek refused to tell him all his secrets? Is it because he's a teenage boy with tunnel vision? Can he not sense Derek's need? Or does he just not care? In the end, all Derek has is a new beta pup whose anchor is the love of a father who long ago stopped caring for him and started beating and imprisoning him in an old refrigerator. But even with his new-found control, Isaac can't help him because the one who's caring for him now has to do so by imprisoning him for his own safety and that of his pack. No matter what is coming in the next episode, the only thing I think is certain is that everyone is majorly fucked.

Tyler Hoechlin is trying to kill me with his stupid face and equally stupid pecs. T_T

Colton Haynes & Tyler Posey .

Why are you always kissing Haynes, Posey?! Stop trying to kill me with cuteness!

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