‘Teen Wolf’ Spoilers: Season 6 — Is Dylan O’Brien Leaving? | TVLine 

, kicking off Tuesday at 9/8c, will have everyone asking, “What the hell is a Stiles?”

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“We approached this season with the knowledge that we’d have limited access to Dylan O’Brien because of his burgeoning movie career, and thinking, ‘If this is the last 20 episodes of

, how do we give everyone a really big send-off?\'” executive producer Jeff Davis tells TVLine. “We came up with this story that creates this big mystery about Stiles and the memory of Stiles.”

The theme of this final season, Davis explains, is “how your life can be affected and changed by one person, and what that loss means. It’s all about memory, and how memory shapes us.” And that “one person” is O’Brien’s character, who — as revealed in the trailers for Season 6 — becomes “erased” from existence by the dreaded Riders; their backstory will become clear “towards the climax of the season.”

(Bonus fact, via Davis: “The title of the first episode is ‘Memory Lost,’ which is actually a title stolen from a feature script I wrote a long time ago about memory loss.”)

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Speaking of honoring people’s memories, Davis says there’s been a lot of internal discussion about “which characters we want to bring back for the last 20 episodes,” adding that Kira “comes up a little later in the story” and that her return is “not outside the real of possibility.”

As for fresh faces, there’s a hot new teacher — a redundant description, I know — at Beacon Hills High who happens to be harboring a supernatural secret. A really,

“We have a joke that Beacon Hills High School should be a lot better at background checking,” Davis says of Mr. Garrett Douglas (played by Pete Ploszek). “If they looked into his background, it would go all the way back World War II. … You see him in a flashback in the trailer, bearing his fangs.” (Suddenly all that talk about Nazi werewolves makes a 

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‘s final outing will continue to push Scott’s pack forward, while still honoring the people and moments that got us all here — a delicate balancing act at times.

“There’s one episode in particular where we dive back into the past, for a very plot-driven reason,” Davis teases. “It’s hard not to start looking back, which we do, but we’re trying to stay away from the kind of series finales where it feels like a role call of every character who’s been on the show. We still want to keep it new.”

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I can deal with Stiles being lightly represented in the first half of the season but I hope his presence in the back half is much stronger. I’m going to be bummed if it doesn’t end with Stiles and Lydia together.

i would really appreciate it if jeff davis wouldn’t bait the fans so much about past characters coming back, given how many actors have already said they’re not returning for the final season. it’s just pathetic at this point.

i understand they couldn’t use dylan every episode and i’m excited to see stiles’ storyline. i just hope we won’t go weeks without a sight of him.

It isn’t unheard of for actors to claim that they will not be appearing on/returning to shows in any capacity in order to get people to stop expecting it and therefore hopefully be surprised when it actually happens. Whether or not that ends up applying here (as opposed to them legitimately not returning) is of course unknown, but again, historically we can’t always take denial at face value.

So long as Allison is back before the end, I will be happy.

I just hope we don’t feel Stiles’s absence too much in 6b, even though I know Dylan hasn’t got much time to film. It would be really sad to end the show with so little of one of the core characters that made us fall in love with the show in the first place.

I agree. I am not expecting to see a lot of Dylan especially new footage but I hope his absence is not glaring obbious.

I hope Holland Roden picks up a nice CW gig once this is over. Serious props to her for sticking this out until the end.

ow well…i wont ever forgive you davis if you make me miss stiles,,,he and scott are teen wolf and without both of them teen wolf really wont have an impact… just make sure we see how really powerful scott is with his pack esp malia…and stiles has to be there,,he just has to be there

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