“Superposition” was a great episode with bouts of nostalgia but some parts were not just right.


The episode picks up with a scary scene – tens of Ghost Riders are riding across a lacrosse field and they look pretty intent on whatever mission they are going on. Probably on this same lacrosse field, Scott is practicing with Liam and he thinks Liam’s backstrokes “suck” but it turns out his backstroke is pretty awesome when he gets about four goals past Scott’s defense. “I must have been thinking about someone else” Scott says.

In the Physics lab, Corey is trying to get some extra credit by studying and Mason is lending a helping hand. Coach comes by to kick them out of the premises saying “your teenage years are not the time for academic achievement”. Mason forgot his phone and had to go back inside and while Corey is waiting, the doors swing open and lots of leaves blow in. He quickly goes into chameleon mode and watches as a Ghost Rider walks into the school highway (and the clock also does a back take – may turn out to be important). Either the Ghost Riders are not as badass as painted and can’t see Corey or they just figured he’s unimportant.

Corey goes to find Mason and immediately engulfs him in chameleon mode. They notice a kid hanging in the air and being strangled by two ends of rope held by Ghost Riders. They watch until the kid just vanishes out of thin air. Is this how the big bad Ghost Riders erase people? By strangling them from existence? On the lacrosse field, Liam stops playing and says “something’s happening to Mason”. How can you tell Liam? Are you two now connected? We need more information on that.



Scott and Liam run to find Mason who tells them the Riders were in the library. When Scott asks what happened, they say nothing. That the Riders simply jumped down and left. Looks like they’ve already forgotten the boy dangling in the air. Turns out that the whole gang thought the Riders left with the storm. Mason wants to know what the Riders were looking for in a high school library. Seriously Mason, almost every supernatural who has attacked Beacon Hills has been at Beacon High at some point.

Meanwhile, Malia isn’t doing so great. She just had sex with some guy we’ve never seen and she looked disappointed. Are we to take it our beloved Stiles was good in the sack? She also goes ahead to lock the guy in what I will call an aggressive spoon – where she is the big spoon. A cuddling position we know Stiles surprisingly loved in Season 4. During the full moon, she tries to chain herself up and discovers that she couldn’t do it by herself so she calls Lydia and they both figure out that someone must have been with her down there. Lydia has also been getting bits and pieces of her time with Stiles – mostly she just hears his voice. When she tried to chase down a nurse she saw in class (whom no one else saw), she ends up relieving her last moments with Stiles. And that still doesn’t help her remember.

Scott is also having “holes” in his memory so he pays a visit to the good animal doctor. He shows him the blue-green shard of glass (from Kyle’s parents’ car) and says he remembers taking it but he doesn’t remember why he was at the Sherriff’s impound lot. Deaton likens his broken memory to a “phantom limb syndrome” and tells him his subconscious is trying to make him remember and the best way to do that is to go to bed. Scott takes his advice and wakes up in the middle of the woods. He calls Lydia and Malia and says he wants them to help him figure out what his subconscious is trying to tell him. He remembers being in the woods in sophomore year to look for a dead body but his version of events doesn’t quite fit. He comes to the conclusion that someone else must have been with him and that someone was very important. “I know this sounds crazy but I think I had a best friend”. Malia says she feels like she’s missing someone too. Lydia says she woke up thinking she had to meet someone but she can’t remember who and “whoever it is, I think I loved him”.

Oh now that he’s gone you think you loved him? First of all Lydia, how do you know it’s a “he”? You might have had one great lesbian lover for all you know. And secondly, it’s a little too late for Jeff Davis to make Stydia happen. I get that he’s trying to give viewers what they want in the Final Season but still. What happens to Malia in this Stydia paradise?

The three figure out that they’re missing the same person and that whoever it was, was in a picture with them. The three pay a visit to Deaton who is kind of like the Supernatural Detective.



Meanwhile, there’s trouble in the Mason and Corey world. Liam doesn’t like Corey because Corey was on Theo’s side and he just hid when he and his pack were trying to fight the Beast. Corey points out that Hayden was also on Team Leo and Liam had no problem forgiving her. (Yeah well she’s having sex with him. Are you?) Liam points out that Hayden almost died fighting the Beast. Mason is sad that his best friend and boyfriend are getting along so Corey tries to be the bigger person and talk it out with Liam. He says that maybe they can work together.

Here, we see the show try to make Corey’s almost useless seem a bit useful. Turns out that Corey (when in chameleon mode) can see the Riders and whatever they leave behind. He and Liam hold hands in the library and there Liam sees a library card. The library card is invisible to the ordinary eye until Corey holds it. Mason calls it a classic “Schrodinger’s cat” kind of situation. The library card is blank but when they put it in the computer, a name comes up “Jake Sullivan” and Corey and Mason remember that he was the one being strangled by the Riders. When Liam takes out the card, it’s no longer blank.

At the animal clinic, Deaton and the rest have come to the scary conclusion that the Riders aren’t just taking people but erasing them. The doctor has an idea that may help Lydia tap her subconscious and figure out the missing person. Lydia goes into auto mode and writes somewhat desperately on a piece of paper. Deaton stops her when she gets a little intense. Malia checks the paper and they see that she wrote the word “mischief” over again but the words formed another word “Stiles”. Lydia says “what the hell is a Stiles?”

Nice of Davis to bring back that line from Season 1 that everyone loved but it doesn’t really make sense now as they know they’re looking for a person so Lydia referring to him as a thing isn’t logical.

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At the animal clinic, Scott asked a very important question “How did we remember who’s been completely erased from our minds?” The Ghost Riders are doing a really sloppy job of erasing people. It’s almost like they want people to remember they are missing someone and that confuses me.

Oh and STILES’ MUM IS ALIVE!! Not only is she alive, she doesn’t seem to have that mental problem that plagued her when Stiles was a child. So the Ghost Riders have the power to completely modify reality by bringing back someone who is supposed to be dead but can’t completely erase a person’s existence? Smooth. Plus what happens when Stiles comes back? Does Mrs. Stilinski disappear and will the Sherriff remember that he had her? What if he would rather have his dead wife back than his missing son? So many questions.

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