Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-24477929-20140128145606/@comment-24477929-20140702030728

Sometimes I think the producers of this show read the boards, see what we write, get pissy and do the opposite. Seriously, how else can anyone possibly explain what is happening?

Let's observe a badass ranking, based on last night's episode.

Teenage Derek > Kira > Scott/Malia tie

with Peter, Kate and the berserkers somewhat undecided though certainly stronger than last place.

Here's my problem once again, in the most blunt manner I can present it.

SCOTT'S SUDDEN LAMENESS IS FUCKING KILLING THIS SHOW FOR ME!

And here it is in a more detail version.

As I have said before, show's like this rely on immersion. If you are going to build a believable and interesting series that incorporate fantasy or Sci Fi elements you must create rules to keep the show grounded and thus interesting. Otherwise its just deus ex machina and mcguffins and Shocking Swerves. In other words a mess.

What breaks this immersion is when you change rules, break rules, alter, ignore or forget the fucking rules. That's not to say the in show universe must remain static, you can change rules. Or break them, or have the odd episode where they are ignored entirely. But if you do it too often or change them too much or too fast you chip away at that universe, pulling people out of the show and worse, destroying any tension or momentum you builtd.

Let's talk about the fight at the end. Peter who has been known to collect an odd amount of obscure lore, assures us the beserkers are bad news. In fact, one is enough to kill them all, unless they run. Lets assume he is more or less correct, seeing as how Peter is the first to run. Scott and Malia both end up fighting the things seperately and both seem to do rather poorly (although again, they shouldn't since Scott is an Alpha). Then Kira steps up. She actually does well against them. This is interesting although possibly ok, since all of last season directly implies that she is far more capable than Scott (...somehow). Finally, when all hope is lost, teenage Derek Hale swoops in to save the day. And he does. What. The. Fuck.

Teenage Derek Hale. Beats the beserkers. The unstoppable ones. Who just beat down an Alpha. An Alpha who is stronger than a beta, who just beat the beserkers. It's like a penrose ring, you follow the line of logic but it just doesn't circle all the way around.

Please don't misunderstand, I don't object to the beserkers being beaten (even though they are fighting 2-1 and should have a pretty easy time). What I object to, is that Derek is a beta, possibly a beta who cannot control the shift and is LITERALLY A TEENAGER JUST LIKE SCOTT WHO IS AN ALPHA.

Ok, serious time, does being an Alpha mean nothing anymore? A part of me truly believes that the power level actually runs in reverse, Omega's are strongest followed by Beta and last Alpha (especially Scott). Scott as an Omega was able to fight multiple werewolves and hold his own for a time against the lesser kanima. He could challenge Alphas, and although he never beat one, he made a good acounting of himself. Derek was potent enough as a beta, ineffective as an Alpha and then became a total badass as an Omega again. Seriously the only other explanation to this is that the TW writers have absolutely zero ability/inclination/talent to write powerful or dynamic characters and keep them in balance.

If Jeff is out there, consider this, all of yesterday's fight scene would have made perfect sense if Scott were still an Omega. He could still do all the things he currently does now, all of the character interaction would still be the same (because you have not done a god damn thing to build them in almost two years) and most of all the show would still be tense, instead of boring and frustrating.

He doesn't need to be an Alpha. Just make him an Omega again.