Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-174.92.154.208-20140728051603/@comment-14168656-20140728211613

DManCO wrote: No. We've discussed this before. I in partcular am in the Deaton-is-untrustworthy camp.

Aside from the way he withholds valuable information, there are other oddities. Most notable was the extended ritual Scott, Stiles and Allison had to go through, just to locate the Nemeton? Deaton is a druid, living in the Beacon Hills area for years. One would expect him to have long since mapped out the telluric currents and identify a place of power like the Nemeton. Those kinds of things are important to druids.

So why a ritual to find it? Because he didn't need to find it. He knew where it was already. The ritual (which ran longer than he said it would) was transfer power to the Nemeton with Scott, Stiles and Allison acting as surrogate sacrifices! Deaton was firing it back up on purpose!

Both Deaton and Morrell have been shown to have a rather amoral worldview (except where their own lives are concerned). They like to sit back and let conflicts play out, offering crumbs of information whenever they need to keep things moving. About the only time Deaton has been unambiguous with Scott was when he had just nearly become one of Jennifer's sacrifices himself! Otherwise, despite the fact that Scott works in that clinic and they are together for hours on end, he gives away very little information!

I agree with pretty much everything you said. I think it makes perfect sense, BUT I think that i's just poor writing. Even though Deaton has not provided help MANY times when he easliy could have and whole acrifice thing made NO SENSE, he also has healed Scott, Derek, The Twins, and could have easliy let some of them die. Like I said all the red flags are there, but I think it's just poorly thought out plots.