Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-14066471-20140114172238/@comment-19765459-20140116202700

Bigwolfonbase wrote:

Your still missing the point of turning people who want to be turned. Most people with the actual skills and temperment to be apart of your team arent going to readily accept choosing between the certainty of life and the possibility of death the bite or death by hunters on the slim chance that they might get to be werewolves. Never really cared about the whole danny thing as much as everyone else as he's just a filler charcter and derek only met him once. He knew that the ones he was choosing (with the exceptionn of boyd) had more to gain by joining him then refusing. Boyd really the only one where your argument makes sense about the amount of time he might have used scouting people as boyds reason for joining is very weak as opposed to the other two. There's also the fact that you have to be careful in that the people you turn aren't like jackson. So full of themselves that they won't want to join a pack. Or Scott who when first was turned was very co-dependent with stiles. It is a negative feedback loop problem. Derek's chosen subjects for the Bite were far from being ideal candidates, and as I said, team loyalty was not really strong with the people he chose anyway. Boyd was almost chronically antisocial (he was generally rude, even when people tried to be friendly towards him). Erica was a social outcast, as was Isaac. All of them had emotional (and in Erica's case physical) problems. Lacking social skills himself, Derek never really had any hope of taking these kind of people and forging them into a cohesive group.

But in a fair-sized small city like Beacon Hills I have a hard time believing that they were the only option he could find. And he obviously did spend time scouting them out. You mention that Derek only met Danny once. But had he ever even met Boyd, Issac and Erica at all? Did he scrutinize the student body for kids who were obviously smart, tough or otherwise useful but possibly more mentally together? Just picking the lowest common denominator and choosing the most desperate people who might accept the Bite was stupid strategy. Peter did better purely by random selection!