Next on Teen Wolf…

By: Kim Olson

*Disclaimer: This is all speculative. I know nothing about anything.*

The “Teen Wolf” season six mid-season finale, Riders on the Storm, could have seriously, honestly, straight up and so easily been the series finale. But as final as it felt, there is still more to come. This raises some serious questions: What happens next? What will 6B look like? Who will be in it? When will it take place? Where will it take place? So, while we process our emotions from the mid-season finale, let’s look ahead at the final ten episodes of “Teen Wolf” and try to answer some of these questions.

Like Stiles said in the mid-season finale, “Everything’s changed.” The high school chapter has officially closed for our main trio and they’re off to college, in different cities. Teen Wolf could so easily see this as an opportunity to write out some of the recent grads, like Stiles, played by the especially busy Dylan O’Brien (who was working on American Assassin during 6A and is working on Maze Runner: The Death Cure during 6B). The series very well intended the mid-season finale to be the end of Stiles. He gave away all his stuff.  If he were to come back he would have nothing left (except for the love of Lydia Martin and his best friend Scott McCall). But “this can’t be it.”

This can’t be the end of Stiles and Lydia (Holland Roden). The book can’t close on them in the same episode they get started! They can’t get together/become canon in Stiles’ last episode ever and then never be seen (on-screen) as a couple. There needs to be more of them together! They’re just getting started! There isn’t enough. There’s so much they haven’t done, like Lydia telling Stiles “I love you” to his face! It’s too soon for them to only live on in fanfiction. Stiles and Lydia need to be a fluffy couple that goes on dates and sleeps in the same bed on the show. If Stiles isn’t there, hopefully Lydia references her boyfriend and how much she loves him in every single episode. Hopefully, the show reveals how they are as a couple, even if it’s just words out of Lydia’s mouth about date nights and her talking on the phone with him. Lydia will be there, loving and missing her boo. But where is her beau?!

Will Dylan O’Brien ever be on “Teen Wolf” again?  Multiple sources have confirmed that Dylan O’Brien/Stiles WILL return to the series “in some capacity.” These questions now remain: In what capacity? How many episodes will Stiles return for? Will he only be in one episode? Will he just come back for a moment in the series finale and that’s it? (HOPEFULLY NOT. “Teen Wolf” needs him for more episodes than that.) This is a cliffhanger. MTV and Jeff Davis, writer and showrunner, are understandably keeping this such a secret. They can’t and won’t talk about this big news because they want to hold onto it so fans create drama and drop it at a specific point so the same fans are excited. Hopefully. Dylan/Stiles can be in every single episode of 6B and just film out of order. If not, we can hope he’s in at the very least three episodes, like he was in 6A. I think I’ll be in a “depressed” state until I know how much of 6B Dylan/Stiles will be in! Every other season guaranteed Stiles would be there. Now it’s uncertain and up in the air. It’s a waiting/praying game. Consider me waiting and praying the hardest for more Stiles and Stydia on my screen!

While pondering and possibly crying over the mystery that is Stiles’ presence in 6B, let’s think about some positive headcanons we’d like to see come to life on-screen. Scott and Lydia are supposed to be in the season so will there be on-screen college adventures for these newly turned freshmen? Think about it… The mid-season premiere opens with Stiles and Lydia having sex in one of their dorm rooms / their home on the east coast and Scott (Tyler Posey) calls, asking them to come back home to Beacon Hills. He needs them. Past characters will also return this season, so what if: Jackson (Colton Haynes) comes back to Beacon Hills and Stiles gets concerned/insecure/jealous so he comes home as well and realizes Lydia really loves him. Then, she clearly tells him, “I choose you Stiles. I love you.” That could be the first time she tells him “I love you” to his face. If the “Teen Wolf” series finale resembled “The O.C.’s” in that Stiles and Lydia get married and Melissa (Melissa Ponzio) is either pregnant or just had a baby, I wouldn’t be mad. For, possibly, as long as “Teen Wolf” has been on the air, fans have compared Stiles and Lydia to “The O.C.’s” characters Seth (Adam Brody) and Summer (Rachel Bilson). Seth and Summer married in their series finale so it would only make sense for Stiles and Lydia to marry in their finale. They could have a huge wedding that all of the long gone, original characters return for, even Allison (Crystal Reed) could watch from heaven. And when Lydia says her “I do’s” she can call Stiles by his real first name “Mieczyslaw.” Also in “The O.C.” finale, Seth’s mom had just had a baby. What if Scott’s mom and Stiles’ dad (Linden Ashby) get together and make a family, making Scott and Stiles officially, literally brothers? (Or Scott’s mom could have a baby with his dead girlfriend Allison’s dad, Chris, but…) Even better, Lydia’s pregnant and that’s why she and Stiles get married. They’re having a baby. The whole Stilinski family (Stiles, Papa Stilinski and Lydia) can be ALL together and growing!

The only thing known for certain right now is 6B will focus on Scott as an adult werewolf – “Man Wolf.” The majorly unknown of this situation is straight up causing emotional distress. Sadly, all we can do is wait until summer for any answers to too many questions. What will 6B be about? How much Stiles and Stydia will there be? What would you like to see in 6B? For now, we wait.