Are you ever just scrolling through Google's recommended articles when you stumble across something that just automatically triggers your rage.
Here was the one that triggered mine from today.
And because I'm apparently something of a masochist, I decided to click on the link. Boy was I not disappointed (by, of course, being totally disappointed).
Here's the opening line of the article.
I knew from the moment I read that line that I was in for a ride that I would not enjoy. Here's their list of the "10 Worst Things Scott McCall has ever done".
10. Scott didn't join Derek's pack
And we're starting off strong with the whole "if only Scott had joined Derek then Isaac, Erica and Boyd wouldn't have needlessly suffered" and "they could have figured out that Lydia wasn't the kanima sooner". Of course, we're totally ignoring that Isaac, Erica and Boyd all needlessly suffered because they were tricked by a grown man into joining his army of child soldiers for a war that they weren't totally informed of. Same thing with Lydia. If Derek had just listened to Scott instead of just trying to kill everything he perceived as a threat, Lydia's life wouldn't have been in danger from his pack in the first place.
It will never cease to amaze me that the same people who proclaim from the rooftops how much they love Derek Hale are the same people who completely ignore all the things that made him that character.
Can you claim to love a character if you ignore more than half of what made them that character?
I know the AA is going to be in my inbox asking how I can claim to love Scott by ignoring his "canon abusive behavior", but we've already covered that multiple times.
9. He made out with Lydia.
While this author does acknowledge that the full moon was playing havoc with Scott's emotions and judgement, they neglect to inform the reader of this article that it was Lydia who kissed Scott, and as such, the author places all the blame squarely on Scott's shoulders.
8. He trusted the bad guys.
Once again, I have to ask (as I often do) whether this person had ever actually watched the show? Or did they get their information from out-of-context gifs and metas and clips on YouTube? Because I don't know how anyone who actually watched the show can say that Scott trusted all the bad guys with conviction.
If Scott had trusted the bad guys without fail, then Gerard and Theo and Peter and the Nogitsune and Monroe would still be running around killing people. Just because he wasn't paranoid the way Stiles was doesn't mean that he was dangerously naive. Scott was willing to work with the bad guys, but he didn't trust them. All the evidence you need is right there in the damn show.
7. Scott tried to control Allison's love life.
And here we have yet another example of a fan trotting out the whole "Scott hit an abuse survivor" excuse, while they never seem to care when Scott, himself a victim of domestic violence was attacked, or when Stiles openly mocked Isaac's abuse.
It's funny how it's bad when one character does it but not so when done by another, huh?
It's also funny how this section was about Scott supposedly controlling Allison's love life and yet just became about how Scott was wrong to hit Isaac. For the record, he was wrong to hit Isaac, but why frame it about him controlling Allison? Could it be the author was trying to make Scott look misogynistic as well as violent? Probably.
6. Scott didn't let Ethan and Aiden in
Just like the first reason listed, the author tries to make Deucalion abandoning the twins, and then Aiden's death, all Scott's fault. The very same author who just criticized Scott for trusting everyone and now they're upset because he didn't automatically trust the twins, especially after they attacked him multiple times, helped kill Boyd and tried to kill Isaac.
It's also amusing how they leave out one of the key reasons why Scott didn't automatically accept the twins into his pack. Because Stiles and Isaac didn't trust them!
"Scott wasn't a great planner."
Um, actually, Scott was a great planner. That's how people like Gerard and Theo got taken down by Scott and his pack. The author goes on to say....
...He might have been the leader, but most of his strategy came from Stiles. The few times he acted without Stiles knowing led to some pretty awful choices.
I don't know where this whole idea that Stiles was this super genius schemer came from, but it sure as hell wasn't the show. Because if they were going by the actual show, they'd know that Stiles' plans ended in disaster almost every time.
It was actually one of the better done things on the show, how Scott and Stiles balance each other other. Scott is great when he has a plan, but the moment he has to think on his feet, he stumbles. It happened at the high school when they were cornered by Peter. It happened at the Rave. It happened when the Nogitsune kept Scott distracted all day. Scott was the planner. Stiles was the one who thought better on his feet. It's right there in the show if you don't believe me.
4. He made everyone else's choices for them
I have to put the full thing in for this one because it's just...
Scott was incredibly self-righteous before he ever became an Alpha. Despite being a teenager who made a lot of mistakes, Scott always seemed to think he was in the right. Scott’s moral high ground could leave everyone else underwater.
Yes, it’s good to have a hero who has a conscience. Scott, however, didn’t seem to understand that a difference existed between doing bad things for fun and doing bad things for good reasons. That was especially true when it came to things like killing in self-defense or preventing a sociopath from gaining power. It was also true when it came to things like giving someone the bite. Scott only wanted to do things on his terms; he was never ready to accept someone else making decisions or compromising with them.
What so many of these fans condemn as being "morally superior" was really just Scott not wanting murder and violence to be the go-to choice.
And the instances they list, such as "preventing a sociopath from gaining power" or "giving someone the bite", they claim he is self-righteous but leave out the context behind those instances. Such as the Bite, in which they're obviously referring to Hayden, where they ignore that Scott was pretty sure (and had that opinion backed up by Theo) that giving her the Bite while she was dying would probably kill her. And the other one, did they watch the show? Did they miss the episode where it was revealed that Scotf and Deucalion were working together to prevent Theo from stealing the Beast's power? I'm willing to bet money that the author of this article is the same type of person who loves to blame Scott for the death of half the chimera pack, too.
As for the whole "killing in self-defense" one, we'll get to that next.
3. He believed Theo over Stiles
You knew it was going to be on this list.
I knew it was going to be on this list.
In fact, I knew that you knew it was going to be on the list.
And once again, if we would just watch the show, we would see that Stiles never denied killing Donovan. He never tried to tell Scott it was an accident and used the whole instance as an excuse to start hitting Scott where he knew it would hurt the most.
2. Scott passed judgement on his friends' choices
This one is just downright stupid.
Amusing, too, in that Scott is "too judgemental" and yet the author has spent this entire article judging Scott for how the fandom portrayed him.
1. He refused to get his hands dirty
Seriously, all of this would just stop if these people would just watch the damn show. Actually sit down in front of a television and watch it.
...fans want their heroes to have a moral compass. The issue is that Scott still refused to end the life of a supernatural being even when they were killing everyone in their path. He also frequently manipulated other people into doing it for him...
There was more than one occasion where Scott said out loud he'd be perfectly willing to kill someone. Gerard and Jennifer are the two biggest examples of this. Oh, and there's also the fact that his main goal (via Derek's manipulations) was to take out Peter in season one to cure himself.
Speaking of Derek and Peter...
It started in the first season when Scott refused to kill Peter even after the Alpha turned him and tried to make him into a murderer. Instead, he let Derek do it. In fact, Scott frequently had Derek around to do the dirty work for him...
This right here is how you know this person never watched the show. At all. They've spent their entire Teen Wolf fandom existence on AO3 and following Sterek blogs on Tumblr. Because anyone who had watched the show knew that aside from what I mentioned above about Derek lying to Scott about how killing an Alpha was the only known cure for lycanthropy, that when push came to shove, when they finally had Peter down and the killing blow needed to be struck, that Scott begged Derek to stop and Derek didn't listen, wanting the power for himself. He wanted to be the Alpha now.
That's all right there in the show. It was the season one finale, for crying out loud! It was right before Derek bit Jackson and left him for deas... or did we miss that part, too?
Everything on that list can be easily disproven by simply watching the show they claim to love so much. I know I ask this a lot, but I still don't get how people who claim they love a show can outright ignore almost every single aspect of it.
Now, you may be asking yourself, "why is he so obsessed with this? The show ended four years ago." And you'd be right, except it's been four years since the show ended and we still see takes like this, where the writer has twisted canon to make their views more palatable and believable as opposed to explaining what actually happened on the show.
Hell, this article alone is two years old...
... but I haven't r seen any kind of retraction or correction to this ans that's why I feel compelled to correct this deliberate attempt at spreading misinformation. I can't change the racist attitudes of the people who put stuff like this out there, I know that for a fact. Because sadly it has been four years since this show ended and I still see stuff like this with regularity. The best I can do is point out the lies instead of just letting them sit there with no correction and continue to call out the racism in this fandom.
And at the end of the day, that's what the problem is.
Because there is no other explanation or excuse as to why people like this author and the AA and others continue to condemn a Latino character for the very same things they praise white characters for.
So, Amanda Bruce, if you're out there and you see this...
