Pretty Badass

From left to right: Crystal Reed as Alison Argent, Holland Roden as Lydia Martin, Shelley Hennig as Malia Tate, and Arden Cho as Kira Yukimura

I'm very big on television, but every Monday night I make sure that I'm in front a TV to watch that week's episode of Teen Wolf. Having been a fan of the show since the first season, I haven't missed a single episode  and I've even developed emotional attachments to the characters. Aside from it being incredibly well written with well thought out storylines, what I love the most about Teen Wolf is that the female characters are able to hold their own against the male characters and then some.

Last season, when the lead cross-bow wielding heroine Alison Argent (played by Crystal Reed) was killed off the show, I was sobbing right along with the rest of the fans. It had been confirmed that someone was going to be killed off the show that season, but who would've thought that it'd be dear, sweet Alison?

In the first season, Alison went from being a love interest for main character Scott McCall (played by Tyler Posey), to being a fighter against supernatural right along with him and his best friend Stiles (played by Dylan O'Brien). Her best friend, Lydia Martin (played by Holland Roden), goes from being the superficial it girl to being the resident banshee (a woman who begins to wail when she senses that someone is about to die) and becomes a huge help to Scott's pack.

In the last season, two more female characters, Malia Tate (played by Shelley Hennig) and Kira Yukimura (played by Arden Cho), were added to the cast; both with heavy influence on that season's storyline. Malia began the season as a werecoyote stuck in her animal form, believing that she killed her mother and younger sister when she shifted for the first time eight years earlier. Scott and Stiles find her, help her shift back into her human form, and she is now a member of Scott's pack. Kira started off as a new student in their high school and a potential love interest for Scott, with him and Alison having broken up two seasons prior. One thing that I love about Kira's storyline is that when she was first introduced, we didn't just see her as a love interest; the writer's left room for there to be a little mystery surrounding her. That mystery turned out to be that she is a thunder kitsune, a mystical creature that gets its power directly from electricity. 

When Alison died in the episode before last season's finale, I really appreciate the writers showing how her death affected the other characters; affirming that she was a major part of the show. Even though the show is now short one female character, I'm not at all worried about testosterone taking over. When you've got a banshee, a werecoyote, and a thunder kitsune, you can't get any better than that.