[ SECRET POST #2195 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2195 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get where the OP is coming from, but I have to admit, I was unsettled by the scene in Stiles' bedroom with all the expensive gifts (especially the TV), in a way that I hadn't been by Stiles/Lydia up until that point. Maybe it was because the scene was so serious in contrast to the other scenes where Stiles' crush is presented as somewhat humorous. But there was definitely the feeling when looking at all those gifts..."er ok, this is a little beyond a normal teenage boy crush". (And also the thought of how did he pay for all of that?)

[(Anonymous)]

This. I didn't have much of a problem with Stiles' behavior towards Lydia because it tended to come across as him having a crush on her but not being creepy-level pushy about it. The scene with all the presents and the whole comment about changing his plan to a 15 year plan (even AFTER the scene with Jackson and it being made very obvious that Lydia had feelings for him and was making a choice to support him) took it into creepy territory with me.

This probably wasn't helped by the fact that a lot of his worry over Lydia throughout the season seemed a bit conditional and that he couldn't be assed to be honest with her about wtf was going on. That particular problem wasn't one that was just on Stiles, though, since Scott and Allison and basically everyone else was guilty of it as well.

[atgdng]

How did he pay for it was honestly my biggest question, ha (seriously, he has no job and I doubt Sheriff makes that much). Made me consider that he actually stole it all and it running a criminal enterprise on the side and just lied about it (poor Lydia, everyone lies to her)

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe he's been selling his adderall to other kids at school. He's the Beacon Hills drug dealer.

[(Anonymous)]

It was awkward as hell but I didn't find it creepy at all. He's had a crush on her for about 7 years, which is a very long time for someone that age. He's uncertain how to handle the situation now he's no longer invisible to her. He didn't know what to get her for her birthday and he wound up buying a lot of stuff and then choosing at home. It seemed incredibly plausible to me in the context of his character and background.

As for the money, that's another one of those "We don't ask that" questions that the PTB keep throwing at us and I hate it. Even a throwaway line about him having been saving for a long time to give her something special on her 16th birthday would have made it better for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Buying a lot of stuff I could see maybe. Buying that kind of stuff? Especially the TV? No. (I don't know why exactly, but the TV really was what made it feel creepy to me.) Especially when we know his family's probably not got a lot of money and so he's probably just charging all this on his dad's credit cards. To go do that after his dad got fired because of him? That's..... yeah. I'm sorry. Still unsettling.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but that was a Macy's product placement. I'm not sure the writers really realized what the gifts might say other than "Macy's has a lot of cool stuff, please go there and buy it."