Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-121.45.89.17-20130804051413/@comment-13965604-20140210160112

Grahamburglar wrote: Given that everyone has said True Alphas are SUPER rare and come around once every hundred years and even Deaton and Peter seemed really impressed by the fact that Scott was one, I'm gonna say no, Talia Hale was not a True Alpha.

From what we know about the Hales... I think there *must* be a way for Alpha power to transfer to another wolf in the pack without killing, and I imagine this is how the Hale pack changes Alphas (or used to). Like, when an Alpha got too old or weak they could give their Alpha spark to whomever was next in line?

I'd imagine that Talia, knowing she was going to die in the fire (assuming that is how she died), gave her spark to Laura as her dying act -- to make sure there would still be a Hale Alpha. Of course, this is just conjecture but it makes more sense than Laura killing her mother to become an Alpha or Talia going from murdering a pack member just to become Alpha and then being all wise and calm and peaceful.

I completely agree with Laura not killing her dying mother, and that there is probably a way to pass the alpha spark along. However, I don't think you can bring Talia's demeanor into any arguments. We don't know when she became an Alpha, how much time had passed since she became Alpha when we saw her, ad with age comes wisdom, and if she had been through a lot of fighting in her time she could've easily mellowed out and realized that fighting doesn't really solve anything.