Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-24565701-20140221023529/@comment-6383956-20140225050424

Either it was enough of a rumor that Derek believed it might be true or he was intentionally misleading Scott to coerce him into helping. If it was the latter, that's not exactly noble behavior. If it was the former, Derek's murder of Peter was astonishingly selfish. Especially since Peter was pretty much mortally wounded at that point already -- seriously wounded by hunters *and* set on fire? Come on now. Derek could have just let him die. Derek could have let Scott kill him to find out if it would cure Scott. But Derek wanted to be Alpha. And, yes, wanted vengeance for Laura but do we really think "vengeful" is one of the traits of a True Alpha?

Furthermore, let's talk about how Scott was out of control. When Derek fully believed Scott was going to kill people he never thought he shoud kill Scott. He wanted to help Scott -- and yet, when a teenager is turned into a kanima Derek has zero desire to help them. He only wants to kill them. There's only one possible reason for the difference: Scott was useful to Derek, and whatever poor teenager was the kanima was absolutely not useful to Derek. Because, keep in mind, Derek at no point suspected that the kanima was anyone who would have had time to learn control. He thought it was Lydia who Peter had bitten like a week earlier. Then, he thought it was Jackson who he had himself bitten a week earlier. He still thought the solution was murder even though he was the one who created the kanima to begin with.

And when he learned the kanima had a master? Still wanted to kill it. When the kanima's master was defeated and Lydia had helped the kanima to deal with his emotional baggage? Still tried to kill it. As opposed to Scott -- who was useful to Derek even when he was out of control. So, no, I don't think killing the kanima can really be argued as the "right choice" or justifiable in any sense.

As for the Alpha pack -- firstly, because Colton left the show, they canonically were never after Jackson and that's what I'm discussing (that whole thing was SO mishandled anyways...) Secondly and more importantly, the people Derek warned his little wolflets about were hunters. When Erica and Boyd heard the other wolves and decided to leave for another pack, they clearly had no prior idea that there even were other packs out there and certainly had no clue that those packs could be a threat. Derek didn't even warn them about the Alpha pack when they left (though I don't think Erica or Boyd would have believed him at that point). So Derek created this pack to help against a threat he never even bothered mentioning to them existed at all. Further lies and manipulations of younger people to achieve his goals.

He's grown a lot. A LOT. But there is no case whatsoever that he deserves to be a True Alpha. The fact he is as heroic as he is now is largely by Scott's influence. As I said, the show hasn't done a great job of proving to us that Scott should be a True Alpha but they've done a really excellent job of showing us why none of the other werewolves we've met could be.