Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-99.103.118.133-20130922222847/@comment-27547895-20160819182156

NervousShipper wrote: Peter is more irritating than Theo because the characters keep trusting him. Yes they keep doing that with Theo, but the difference is that Peter's ability to discover things and his more nuanced performances mean that it's much more difficult to believe he hasn't succeeded yet. He hasn't killed some other stupid alpha to get his power back. It's really very annoying. He's like an older Theo who wasted his potential and lives in the basement of his mom's house. Hehe, you have a point. But, honestly, I don't know that alpha's are that easy to find. Plus, the closest known alpha, other than Scott, is Satomi, and I'm fairly sure she'd wreck him.

I view the trusting him as another of Scott's many personality flaws.

On another note, I feel like it is harder to take an alpha's power than we think. If you look at it - it took both Scott and Derek to take down season 1 Peter. Then, Peter didn't even try taking it back from Derek by force. When Deucalion's beta tried to attack him, Deuc was blind, and still killed him. Then, Scott, who is notoriously weak wins against Peter in a 1v1. Peter orginally took his status as alpha from a new alpha who inherited, rather than stole or earned, their alpha status. (At least, that's my understanding of what the show states, but we have no clarity on how such inheritance works.)

So, basically, Peter may well know that it is going to be hard stealing alpha status, and has been targetting Scott due to his weakness.

But, I do think you make an interesting point. Peter is the king of fail, at this point.