Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24463749-20140817230644/@comment-14168656-20140819135443

LadyX wrote:

I do think he's been lying for a while. But part of the reason that it feels like it's been too long is the shortness of the shows timeline compared to real world time. For us it's been four years since he died, and about 3-3 1/2 since he came back, but in the show it's been about a year (give or take) since the beginning of s1. When you look at it as under a year, it isn't too horrible. And you can almost understand them not worrying about him too much until now because they've been pretty damn distracted.

I think he WAS weak at first, since even Deaton said he would be. What I'm just dying to know is did he just gradually gain his strength back naturally. Or did he do something to get it. I was convinced that he had somehow siphoned it from Derek, but I was also assuming that he was working with Kate from the beggining to get it. When we saw that he just approached her a couple episodes back it made that seem less likely. Then there''s the Nemeton. did killing Jennifer there give him power? I really hope they explain this.