History Recap / TeenWolfS03E08Visionary

* ADayInTheLimelight: Peter's story features this,though it’s surprisingly not Peter who’s in the limelight. It’s Derek. Peter tells most of the story about why Derek tends to isolate himself so much. We learn more about Derek in this episode than any other episode in the series.
* FramingDevice: For the entire episode. Peter's story about Derek and Paige occurs within the frame of Gerard’s story of the alphas and how Deucalion lost his eyesight.\\
This framing of the episode is a reference to HeartOfDarkness and the way its story is told. This fact is made clear by Stiles’s name-dropping HeartOfDarkness to Cora at the end of the episode.

Stiles’s comment to Cora at the end of the episode continues the way that the entirety of season 3A pays {{Homage}} to the novel HeartOfDarkness. Stiles explains to Cora that one of the biggest parts of ''Heart of Darkness'' is that its narrator is clearly not to be fully trusted.

Stiles’s comment to Cora at the end of the episode continue the way that the entirety of season 3A pays {{Homage}} to the novel HeartOfDarkness. Stiles explains to Cora that one of the biggest parts of ''Heart of Darkness'' is that its narrator is clearly not to be fully trusted.

'''Season 3, Episode 7''':
!Currents

* SeparateSceneStorytelling: A supertrope to a bunch of the tropes listed for this episode, this one might seem unnecessary. The fact that this episode’s events have already occurred but the audience watched them unfold rather than just listen to Gerard and Peter speak is what makes this trope present here.

This framing of the episode is a reference to HeartOfDarkness and the way its story is told. This fact is made clear by Stiles’s {{ShoutOut name dropping}} HeartOfDarkness to Cora at the end of the episode.

** Peter's story features ADayInTheLimelight, telling most of the story about Derek and why he tends to isolate himself so much. We learn more about Derek in this episode than any other episode in the series.
** This episode is shown as a FramingDevice. Peter's story about Derek and Paige occurs within the frame of Gerard’s story of the alphas and how Deucalion lost his eyesight.
** Since this episode is told by two extremely untrustworthy people who have shown that they’re both unafraid of lying to make themselves look good and others look worse, this episode is a prime example of [[Rashomon-style]] storytelling, and it’s amped up by the fact that the episode is a flashback episode. Peter’s story has some obvious lies in it, and so does Gerard’s. At times in the episode (especially the scenes surrounding the distillery), Gerard and Peter tell about the same event, but they each tell it in different ways. Some of the differences in their stories can be explained by the fact that every person experiences something in a different way from another person. However, the episode does a really good job of causing the audience to question which narrator, if any, is telling the truth. And these scenes with the slight discrepancies are where that aspect shines brightest.

In the aftermath of a climactic previous episode, Scott, Allison, Cora, and Stiles seek out some untrustworthy storytellers to find out about the possible origins of the Darach as well as the Alpha Pack. Scott and Allison make a risky deal with Gerard to find out what happened when the alphas were first in Beacon Hills years ago. Meanwhile, Stiles and Cora listen to a long-winded tale from Peter about Derek's first girlfriend Paige, what happened to her, and why the alphas are involved. The audience is finally introduced to the Hale matriarch and former alpha, Talia Hale. And Gerard explains that emissaries like Dr. Deaton and his sister Ms. Morrell were assigned Druids to each pack, and Ms. Morrell is the emissary of of the alphas. The tragedy that happened to Paige gives insight as to why Derek has remained so isolated for his entire life, and the story seems to imply that Peter is to blame. The flashbacks reveal that Deucalion was once a good man, and Gerard corrupted him through taking his sight.

** This episode is shown as a FramingDevice. Peter's story about Derek and Paige occurs within the frame of the story of the alphas and how Deucalion lost his eyesight.