Newbie Teen Wolf question

[rivkat]

Ok, because of Tumblr I watched the last few episodes of last season, plus the premiere; I had previously seen the pilot.  Can someone with more knowledge tell me why Alison isn't a bad guy who decided to hunt and torture Erica and Boyd because she was mad at the wolf who made them and they were vulnerable?  Even assuming a lawless, revenge-based world, what does she have against them?  When she was trying to apologize to Scott I just kept thinking wrong wolf, yo!

Comments

[batdina]

Teen Wolf is far more fun to watch if you let go of little things like "continuity" and "character growth/consistency."

(I, too, waver on liking Allison, and thinking she's an idiot. Ditto Scott, Derek, etc. the only one I don't have an ambivalent relationship with is Lydia. Witness icon.)

[brownbetty]

You have to let go of little things like causality, and the space-time continuum to watch Teen Wolf.

[brownbetty]

Or, and just as much an answer to your question: because Scott's in love with her, and she with Scott, and Scott's the hero!

[ceares]

Don't watch the show, just the recaps and fanfic but I think the general idea(that the show is pushing for the fans) is that she was manipulated by someone she trusted during a time when she was extremely emotionally vulnerable--beloved aunt and mother, both murdered by werewolves within something like 6 months of each other--flipped out and had a period of temporary insanity and basically hated all wolves except Scott.

Which, I don't have a problem with that idea, I mean she was thrust into all this at the same time the rest of them were and they're all 16 and doing crazy shit and well, if this was Buffy, I'd expect more fallout/contemplation/redemption but *shrugs*

(And frankly, they let Peter hang around, when he murdered Derek's sister, cut her in half and left her in the woods like, well, an animal, attacked Lydia, then later almost drove her crazy, and I think they're using the same, 'well he was crazy at the time' reasoning so I don't really expect them to deal with this with any degree of intent)

Most of the other supernatural based teen aimed shows(SV, SPN, Charmed, TVD)have a history of glossing over moral and ethical issues anyway. Sadly my expectations are low.

[evalangui]

Welcome!

There's a lot of handwaving regarding Alison's behaviour and very little of any explanations or apologies both in canon and fanfic. A bit like how nobody (except this one fic) mentioned Hermione disfigured a fellow classmate for tattling to the teachers about her secret club in HP or kept a person in a jar for six months because she's meant to be one of the good guys.

Alison is sort of in the immediate aftermath of having her whole life transformed by the existence of supernatural monsters (and non-supernatural ones in her own family) and her mother's death so that can be taken as mitigating circumstances. There's also the fact that pain caused to werewolves is read differently because it is so easily fixed (ie Derek breaks Isaac's arm in the middle of training because he complains about it being too much work).

Oh, and I'm pretty sure she's apologizing to Scott for breaking up with him? Not any violence?

[rivkat]

Yeah, I figured she was apologizing for the breakup. It made sense for her as a teen, but as a viewer I was not satisfied.