#de-void

Hey all! To round out the best teen wolf episode tournament, I'm going to give the rankings of how every episode placed of the 100 teen wolf episodes. How I'm ranking them is going by the rounds. So the episodes that didn't make it past the first round are the lowest, then second, third round etc - within each round, they're ranked by how many or few votes they got.

So if an episode made it past the first round, I'll put their total votes just to see how many they got throughout the whole competition, and just for those who might be curious - but total votes don't have any bearing on their placements. So one episode might have gotten a lot one round and very few the next round, but have more total votes than the episode ranked above them because that episode got more votes the second round.

I know this ranking isn't full proof, but I'm just doing this for fun, so again let's not take it too seriously. This way just made the most sense for how each episode should be ranked. Also I will highlight an episode's vote count red to indicate that it was eliminated that round.

Additionally, I thought it would also be fun to add where the episodes rank on IMDb. Obviously they are not a perfect comparison as IMDb got more votes and such, but just for fun anyway I thought it'd be fun to see the differences and similarities in our rankings.

So, without further ado, the rankings! Part 5 😁 (Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)(Part 4)

#10-#1

10. 1.04 Magic Bullet - 89 votes

(Round 1: 208 votes | Round 2: 149 votes | Round 3: 154 votes | Round 4: 89 votes | Total Votes: 600) (IMDb's #10: 6.09 Memory Found)

9. 2.10 Fury - 101 votes

(Round 1: 221 votes | Round 2: 161 votes | Round 3: 125 votes | Round 4: 101 votes | Total Votes: 608) (IMDb's #9: 3.11 Alpha Pact)

8. 3.22 De-Void - 107 votes

(Round 1: 189 votes | Round 2: 152 votes | Round 3: 168 votes | Round 4: 107 votes | Total Votes: 616) (IMDb's #8: 6.10 Riders on the Storm)

7. 2.02 Shape Shifted - 127 votes

(Round 1: 224 votes | Round 2: 134 votes | Round 3: 111 votes | Round 4: 127 votes | Total Votes: 596) (IMDb's #7: 3.23 Insatiable)

6. 3.02 Chaos Rising - 26 votes

(Round 1: 201 votes | Round 2: 139 votes | Round 3: 165 votes | Round 4: 111 votes | Round 5: 26 votes | Total Votes: 642) (IMDb's #6: 3.24 The Divine Move)

5. 3.19 Lutheria Vulpina - 35 votes

(Round 1: 203 votes | Round 2: 161 votes | Round 3: 171 votes | Round 4: 172 votes | Round 5: 35 votes | Total Votes: 742) (IMDb's #5: 3.12 Lunar Eclipse)

4. 1.09 Wolf's Bane - 93 votes

(Round 1: 232 votes | Round 2: 123 votes | Round 3: 143 votes | Round 4: 123 votes | Round 5: 93 votes | Total Votes: 714) (IMDb's #4: 3.06 Motel California)

🥉3. 3.10 The Overlooked - 39 votes

(Round 1: 206 votes | Round 2: 130 votes | Round 3: 159 votes | Round 4: 143 votes | Round 5: 155 votes | Round 6: 39 votes | Total Votes: 832) (IMDb's #3: 6.01 Memory Lost)

🥈2. 2.04 Abomination - 77 votes

(Round 1: 239 votes | Round 2: 191 votes | Round 3: 193 votes | Round 4: 172 votes | Round 5: 156 votes | Round 6: 77 votes | Total Votes: 1,028) (IMDb's #2: 3.18 Riddled)

🥇1. 3.24 The Divine Move - 78 votes

4. Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

Fandom frequently talks about the events at the end of Season 3B and what it means to Stiles, but few consider those same events and what it means to Scott's conception of his role in the world beyond Allison's death in Insatiable (3x23). My opinion is that this is a mistake. The impact on Scott is measurable and consistent.

De-Void (3x22) is when I feel Scott stopped being the reluctant alpha and chose to fully embrace his role as the Protector of Beacon Hills -- the title that Derek gave him in Riddled (3x18). We won't see him fully acting on this decision to be proactive in his efforts to save others until Season 4 (the rescue of Derek being the first evidence of it), but he experience something unique here. The Nogitsune's trick of splitting Stiles in two and materializing a new body for him out of the McCall's living room floor, all in order to steal Lydia out from under them was the first time he witnessed a magic event of such magnitude happening to someone else.

Scott had experience redefining acts of power before -- his initial mutilating transformation and homicidal mind-control in Season 1, the malicious subtlety of Gerard's kooky-grandpa-with-a-knife act and vicious forethought of Victoria's poisoning in Season 2, and Deucalion's tactical brilliance and Jennifer's Darach magic in Season 3A, but they all of them had been directed at him. Other major supernatural events -- Peter's resurrection, Jackson's transformation into the kanima and the shift of control to Gerard, Noshiko summoning the oni -- had not been things he personally witnessed.

But this event, this was an act of magical power directed at someone else during which he was merely an observer and only peripherally involved. While I have in the past expressed personal exasperation because I don't know why the nogitsune played this particular trick (other than to give the production a way of saving Stiles without turning him into a supernatural creature), Scott was not a specific target of it anymore than the rest of the witnesses in the room were. All of them were meant to be distracted while the nogitsune stole Lydia away.

I feel Scott's reaction to this is indicated by his Season 4 approach to events. He decided someone had to be prepared to protect others. He is still a high-school student and not an occult expert and an alpha with little experience (as intense as it had been). Still, look at his behavior during The Dark Moon (4x01) and 117 (4x02). He's not just reacting anymore -- he investigates Derek's loft, he directs the pack to Mexico, he makes the decisions for how to deal with the Calaveras, he works towards solutions by marshalling resources and thinking strategically, such as when he asks Deaton "Do you think this is permanent?" about Kate's transformation of Derek into Young Derek.