Thread:Paul.rea/@comment-4083360-20151016220446/@comment-4091815-20151017092142

At this point in the narrative, Theo is merely a tool carrying out the Dread Doctor's wishes and deferring to them. While he likes to think of their relationship as equal, it is obviously anything but. He is their creation and their minion at this time.

As for the Kanima, like The Alpha Werewolf in Season 1, it was the big bad for more than half the season before we found out that its situation was more complicated.

In the case of the TAW, it was actually Peter Hale. In the case of the Kanima, it wasn't in control of its actions. It was the big bad in most of the episodes in which it appeared and that is not negated by the later information.