Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13965604-20140715134406/@comment-19765459-20140717010534

Paul.rea wrote: So which is it? He's a mad poisoner? He's a chump?

Where are you getting these rules from?

The show is about a teenager who got bit by a werewolf and what happened next.

Turns out he's a good kid. The power doesn't go to his head and his only desire is to keep his friends and family safe.

Stuff happens, He deals with it as best he can. He saves a few people. Stops a bad guy from becomeing a more powerful bad guy and stops a woman from sacrificing his mom and his best friends' dads.

In both instances his actions were for the greater good. The lesser of the evils presented.

He's just a really good guy without a trace of selfishness or hate.

That's character. Just a guy doing the best he can in a super weird world.

So are Stiles, Derek, Lydia, Kira, Malia (sort of) and dearly depated Allison and newly French Isaac!

The point is that what is lacking is clarity about what is SPECIAL about Scott. He's not the only person to get bitten and work their way into being a heroic werewolf (Isaac), or comes from a supernatural background and behaves heroically by choice (Derek, Kira)  or is a bad*** (near-) normal like Stiles, Allison or Lydia, who face dangerous threats that could shred them to pieces!

That Scott is somehow special (as in, intrinsically better than the other characters) is being treated as an a priori fact. But it really is not one. It is NOT self-evident. Which is why this whole True Alpha thing has become so problematic. It would appear that the writers are feeling this problem too, because they have given Scott this special exalted status, but seem to be struggling to quantify it.

It was much cleaner when Scott was just a Beta and there were no questions about special destinies. Of course, as I understand it this problem arose from Colton's departure, as the Alpha Pack was originally supposed to be motivated to come to Beacon Hills because of the Kanima, and the storyline was supposed to follow a slightly different direction. But they've painted themselves into a corner on this one.

And don't start giving me **** about my statements being "fan fiction" I'm making up or whatever. Other people have opened entire threads around this exact point on the forum! I am not alone in noticing the issue.