Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-31079951-20170118192820/@comment-13895380-20170121011851

Honestlycynical wrote:
 * "And they said the what the Dread Doctors did to Douglas made him part wolf, part lion and part ghost rider before he ate the peneal gland of the ghost rider in the previous episode?!"

I think we interpreted that scene differently.

Liam speculates that Douglas had the power of an Alpha, a Lowenmensch and a Ghost Rider; not that he became "part those."

Theo states that whatever "disease" the Ghost Riders give people they whip (if it goes deep enough) tainted the fluid the DDs put Douglas in, which he somehow absorbed, which made him stronger. He was sitting in that tube for 70 years or so.

As we saw, and were told, in the same episode, Douglas needed to eat the gland from the GR in order to use their power. So, while he (supposedly) had the strength of a Ghost Rider, he didn't actually get their power until the previous episode. By "part those", I mean he has some of the attributes of each. The part that isn't clear is in what way did he have the power of a Ghost Rider in the first place. They never said it was the physical strength of a Ghost Rider that he obtained. They don't seem much physically stronger than Liam; I doubt they are physically stronger than La Bete and Alpha Peter, so if they only meant physical strength, that's pretty lame. I speculated that it gave him the ability to be immune to the weapons of the Ghost Riders -- that they can't erase him (hence, why he didn't vanish from the whip lash). That would be a power specific to Ghost Riders, while physical strength is such a generic trait that there would be no point in saying he gained "the power of a Ghost Rider" right after (seconds before) someone said he was made stronger by the GR poison & DD.