User blog comment:Truefriend101/I don't feel bad for Derek/@comment-63.155.225.68-20130617051042/@comment-5436198-20130617053949

Her character leaving most definitely wouldn't have helped the story, but it would have at least left some space for Gage to come back. If you look at the long term effects of taking a risk, Erica leaving would have been a better choice. At this point Erica could have been dead for months seeing that Jeff said on the q & a last week that Erica would not die the next episode which was "Chaos Rising." Peter was revived and reborn, but looking at the Teen Wolf Timeline he had only been dead for a few weeks so he wasn't as deteriorated and the body wasn't as old. It would also risk a possibility of death becoming unimportant on this show. It's either the risk of her character development, the risk of taking her off the show, or the risk of death becoming irrelevant (if she could even be revived after this long).