Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-76.7.31.153-20140111210510/@comment-19765459-20140113163811

Coolrevi wrote: DManCO wrote: I have long suspected that was why Derek was such a lame Alpha. The writers didn't want him to come across as better and cooler than Scott. Derek As an alpha was used his powers wisely, He Made a pack Where he gave powers to those who needed it except for Jackson. Though he failed to protect the same except for Isaac by sending him off his pack. He used his power to heal his only Sister Cora by giving away his power not a wise move but a good Sacrifice. He lost all his friends and Family in the process. As stated by Davis i personally think that Something is up for Derek this Season, something bettter.

No, he chose emotionally-troubled teenagers to receive superhuman powers that also dimish their personal control. His choices (Jackson, Isaac, Erica and Boyd) all exhibited some degree of being mentally/emotionally disturbed. When Jackson's change started to fail, he ran away, horrified by what he'd done. But then he went and tried again with other kids. He beat them up in boot camp training, but provided only basic emotional guidance. Then, when they came to doubt his competence, he simply let two of them just run away unsupervised (the third would have gone too but for Scott).

Derek's flaw as an Alpha was that he had never had to be one (and never expected to be one). Until just before the first episode, he was a Beta to either his sister or his mother. Most of the intrigue of season one was because of Derek's abysmal communication skills. He is very reserved, secretive and doesn't like to give away information (a side-effect of what happened to him as a teenager). Most of the problems in season two were because he was improvising in his role as an Alpha, had no plan and no patience to deal with his teenage Betas when he had problems with them.

He is supremely self-sacrificing, which makes him a good friend and pack mate. But it does not make him a good leader. That is the subtle game the writers have played to contrast him and Scott. Scott pulls people/werewolves together, so that they listen to him (even when he is clearly no more in the know than Derek), whereas Derek becomes more surly and closed off under pressure.