Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-11584966-20160128152215/@comment-4091815-20170722214002

Killer kev wrote: Paul.rea wrote: Don't bringing up S2 when we've had 76 episodes and multiple interviews with Jeff that contradict those lines. Old canon is still canon. Scott said that they psychically become more powerful in a pack. That statement has not been contradicted within the show. Deuc even backed it up with his talk about packs being stronger due to their individual parts. The stronger the individual parts (Betas), the stronger the whole (pack). But none of that denotes a transfer of power directly to the Alpha just by adding members to a pack. The pack is stronger due to the higher number of members. That's obvious. We're discussing if there is some supernatural or physiological change that takes place within the Alpha due to the addition of pack members.

The canon suggests there is not.

However, the distancing of pack members ( as in Season 5) does diminish the confidence of the Alpha and can lead to increasingly poor decision making and dangerous situations wherein he lacks the backup needed to succeed. This too is the narrative's way of reflecting the Pack = Family paradigm.

We're not disagreeing that a large, well-loved pack means a confident and superior Alpha, but the canon and Jeff say this is an emotional component, not a supernatural or physical one.