Teen Wolf Review: Triggers (Season 6 Episode 16)

Fear arms a town against each other on Teen Wolf Season 6 Episode 16, “Triggers.” And once again, it’s made me realize that out of all the seasons of Teen Wolf, this is the most frightening.

Teen Wolf Season 6B is a study on prejudice and how easy it is to turn neighbors into enemies.

It doesn’t take a monster from the Wild Hunt to turn caution into full-blown panic that spirals into chaos and death. All it takes is one incident, one moment of fear, to be twisted up by someone with their own agenda.

In this case, it’s Gerard using Monroe’s fear to enable her to do the unthinkable against her own students and town. And it’s not a stretch to look at our own history, or the current political system in the United States, and understand that his methods are based in reality.

Fear puts terrifying people in power and allows them to spread their message for their own purposes. And, like we’ve seen in our own history, when we let it spiral out of control, it leads to people getting hurt and dying.

It leads to wars.

Unfortunately, the changes aren’t restricted to the town turning against each other. Fear can bring people together and tear them down.

So now I’m looking at everything twice and wondering what fear, particularly the fear coming from that mysterious creature, is doing to them.

Is fear making Liam lose control and almost rip someone’s head off? Is fear finally making Theo stay and work with others?

Is fear finally pushing Rafael to really stand by his son and those that he calls family? Sadly enough, I must question, is fear driving Scott and Malia into each other’s arms?

I want to believe that there was already a spark, or the possibility of a spark, between Scott and Malia. I don’t want what they have to just be a product of the fear that they are experiencing.

They have been friends and pack for a very long time. The trust is there, and I’m hoping the feelings and the bond that is opening up between them is real and remains long after the fear is gone.

We aren’t going to get those answers for a long couple of weeks as we are finally reaching the climax of the season. The McCall house is being attacked because others know, thanks to Gerard, who the alpha is.

With the repeating theme of Alpha and Beta being compared to that of a parent and child, the person who is bleeding on the McCall floor has to be Melissa. Storywise, Melissa is the heart of Scott, and it would be the perfect way to raise the stakes and scare, not just the Pack, but the viewers as well.

It hurts just as much for a child to see their parents in pain or in a hospital bed, cut off from the children they love. The fear of losing them can make Scott slip up and make it easier for Gerard to take him and his pack down.

Whatever comes next, you better believe that Gerard is going to play dirty and do whatever he can to get his movement off the ground and kill every last supernatural creature, even if it means coming for Melissa and finishing the job.

Additional thoughts:

• The hooligans going around cutting people’s’ hands would think I’m some sort of creature, because I would refuse to be touched by that nasty, previously used, and unsanitary scalpel. Okay, you’ll prove that I’m not a coyote or a werewolf, but you might give me some sort of infection from someone else’s human blood. Not happening. Nope.
• Also those bandages are pretty bloody. If you’re going to go around cutting people up, at least have the courtesy to bring butterfly bandages with you to hold it together, along with proper first aid supplies. Because right now you two are causing more damage to humans than Scott’s pack.
• Nolan is finally starting to crack under the pressure of what others are trying to make him do. Often enough, people who are entangled in situations like he is change their minds when it hits close to home or when they experience the prejudice that they are perpetuating through friends or family that they know. His friend was killed, and now he’s starting to see the cracks in Gerard and Monroe’s plan.

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