Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13895380-20150711182035/@comment-13895380-20150712053610

I think I'm liking the idea that they are just scientists trying to experiment and discover, because it fits their professions, and makes it that much scarier -- supernaturals are basically demoted to lab rats to them. It pretty much puts Scott and the gang on a lower level than them, as test subjects or obstacles for the test subjects, and it seems like there's nothing they could do about it. It's just a lot scarier when its not personal, and they actually think they are doing something special in their own twisted way. Heck, it's probably scarier because we as human beings do these kind of things to other animals. This is probably what it feels and looks like to them if they were supernaturals and we were the Dread Doctors. :P

I particularly don't want them to be exterminators of supernaturals because this season is right after Season 4, when there was a literal hit list of supernaturals aimed to eradicate them from Beacon Hills. This would just be the same thing, except that they are sending hybrids instead of assassins. It'd be too much like season 4. Plus, I like thinking that they are supernatural. While werewolves, kanimas, etc. can be seen as supernatural creatures. The Dread Doctors can be supernatural beings, and it turns out they aren't as moral and god-like as we hoped.