Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-5405024-20130820234137/@comment-6207588-20130825131112

Darkfairytales623 wrote: Actually, when you think about it, Peter has the intelligence and planning, cunning to be the Hale alpha...he just doesn't have the moral compass that Scott has...but sometimes you need someone to do the dirty work...just a thought.

This is one of the reasons that I think Peter was Talia's eyes and ears (or second in command). I know a lot of people see Talia as this wonderful loving moral mother that taught Derek what was right. And she may have indeed been that but it's a lot easier to wave that black and while moral flag when you don't have to do the dirty work yourself.

In that one scene where she changes from wolf to human again and Deucalion robes her they may have been going for a regal and royal feel but she came across as condescending and arrogant to me...I know that's just going to be my personal perception but I could conceivably see someone in that type of position letting it go to their heads and seeing others as lower than themselves.

I could also see her passing over Peter in favor of Derek for the next alpha not because she saw Derek has having more potential but because Derek could uphold the reputation of the Hale name better. Peter would not have that same moral compass as you put it...why should he if he's being doing all the dirty work behind the scenes...doing that for so long is bound to warp someone's idea of right and wrong. In the end he would not have a reputation of a morally upright Hale that always did the right thing but more than likely would be viewed as the black sheep of the family(I think you pointed this out in another post that even Jennifer seemed to know him in the end). In other words Peter would not have the right image to represent the Hale family.

At the same time I don't think the Hale family can function without him. If he really was doing all the dirty work for Talia behind the scenes so that Talia could keep her good reputation and image clean then it stands to reason that if Derek followed the same pattern he would need someone to do his dirty work as well. And by dirty work I mean getting rid of bodies like Peter did with Paige and spying like Peter does so well.

Anyway just speculation yet once again on my part.