Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-14066471-20140114172238/@comment-19765459-20140116222806

LadyX wrote:


 * gasp* oh my gosh, did you just compliment Scott? Lol. I haven't seen that from you yet. Or were you referring to Lydia?

I agree with you, Derek made bad, bad choices. And convincing teenagers to make themselves better, fast, stronger isn't that hard, he could even tell them about the risk associated with the Bite not taking and all most would hear was the good. Especially if he downplayed it a little. And most teenagers naturally have a pack mentality, we just tend to call them cliques, so finding overt followers isn't a real issue either.

Btw, has the show ever mentioned what the success rate of the bite is? A rough estimate or anything? Actually, I was giving some (rare I know) credit to Scott, although Lydia was also on my mind as well. While I don't believe that Scott is a plausible werewolf Messiah, I do think he is pretty good guy and a team player (as evidenced by the group of talented people he has managed to surround himself with). Peter should have bitten Stiles when he had the chance though.

You're right of course. Indeed, this was exactly the case with Jackson, who probably figured he could just get his father to sue the Argent's out of his way. As near as I can tell, Derek was not very honest about the impending dangers (Hunters, Alpha Pack, etc.) that his new Betas would be facing. His scene with Erica in particular appeared to be playing up his promise to cure her epilepsy, rather than explaining that she was about to become a soldier in a werewolf war.

The closest we have to a statement of success rate is Peter's claim that if the subject is "young and strong" the Bite "usually" takes. Typically vague. That presumably means more than 50% chance. But at the same time Peter has also given the caveat of "If they survive" (in this case talking to Stiles about Lydia). Ironically, the Bite did take successfully with both Alexander and Victoria Argent, both of whom were adults. Gerard, an elderly man with Cancer, was also pretty confident of his chances of survival until he realized he'd been tricked into taking MOOOOUUUNTTTAAAIINN ASSSHHHHH!!!