Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-16083651-20140722215813/@comment-19765459-20140723223323

The Omega was a homeless bum surviving by scavenging. Kind of like a wild animal raiding trash cans. Derek would probably expect a wolf belonging to a pack to be less conspicuously struggling to survive. So the assumption that the guy was an Omega was not far-fetched.

In the flashback to the big pack pow-wow, the packs seemed to be pretty solid groupings gathered around their Alphas. Even Laura behaved in a solicituous manner towards her mother. That at least suggests that in times of conflict packs try to present a unified front. Scott's pack tends not to do that. They're often fragmented. Like Allison and Isaac spending at least as much time with Chris as with Scott, the twins hovering on the periphery, Lydia expressing variable interest, Derek coming and going, and Peter plotting God alone knows what kind of evil.

Since Scott is only a teenager, it is doubtful that other wolves think this is part of some grand strategy, and more likely that they just think that Scott is very lax Alpha. His only reliable "Beta" (and apparent second) is Stiles, who isn't even a werewolf! Alpha's are supposed to be clear leaders of their packs. But Scott isn't. Heck, I don't think he even know if Isaac formally asked Scott's leave before taking off with Chris Argent!

The other thing of note was that Deucalion's, Kali's and Ennis's packs all seemed to have a fair number of members in them, and none were obviously human. For example, if Deucalion had any humans, it would have been handy to have them around (and armed with guns) in case of Hunter treachery (which did in fact happen). Supposedly some Hale's were not werewolves, but we know nothing about them. Scott's pack is small, with a constantly shifting membership.