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Paul.rea wrote: The "Omega" status is what Gerard was talking about.

"Omega" as an insult and to illustrate how little respect they received in their pack was Ethan's usage.

They were the "Omegas of the pack" that's like saying you're the "red headed stepchild" is colloquial for "bastard" or saying you're the "black sheep" - it's not literal it's illustrative of their situation.

I'm trying not to be insulting but this stuff has never caused even the slightest confusion for me. I got what he meant immediately and knew it had nothing to do with their werewolf status.

Spear thingee - do you really think the woman who was controlling the weather, had turned Kali into a glass pin cushion and broken the neck of the biggest stuntman the production could find - could really be taken down by the Deucalion spear thingee?

Could they have taken the minute or so to try it so that you would know for sure she could have deflected it? Yeah, I guess they could've cut something else out of the episode to make time but I guess they just expect people to keep up.

The writers are doing fine - they're writing thought provoking and entertaining television.

You're need to have each and every character motivation spelled out in large font confuses me. They're just people - dealing with weird stuff. How they deal with it makes up the show we see there's nothing more there nor should there be.

You must've hated LOST.

Now who's making up "head canon"?

You are doing exactly what you just criticized me for doing, interpreting things and filling in the blanks left open by the writers.

For example, that is entirely your take on how the term "Omega" was used by Gerard as opposed to by Ethan. Your explanantion was never used onscreen, it is simply what you made up in order for the dissonance to be resolved in your own mind. Both Gerard and Ethan were very explicit in their nonetheless contradictory explanations of what an Omega is.

The spear thing? Why wouldn't it have worked? The entire reason that Jennifer was hiding inside the Mountain Ash circle was that she had depleted her personal power healing Deucalion, and was no longer even strong enough to fight Derek, a Beta, much less one Beta, an Alpha and a borderline Alpha. She didn't have the strength to go firing off kinetic blasts just then. So she took a defensive position and was waiting for the storm (a spell already in progress) to complete the sacrifice of the parents and increase her power. She said so herself.

That didn't mean that Derek and Deucalion needed to stare at her mindlessly while they all waited. It was just a writing twist that they needed to have the dramatic scene of Scott breaking through the barrier and becoming an Alpha. But at the same time they made sure that (as usual) somebody else actually stepped in and did the killing so that Scott could remain morally-pure. It was all very contrived (even more so when they just walked off and left Deucalion to do whatever he saw fit).

Although it made me laugh because of Jennifer's subsequent disappearance, and Scott (as usual) failing to question it. It reminded me of a line from one of the Mortal Instrument books: "Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body. That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes."