Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-207.254.224.12-20140717193212/@comment-19765459-20140717195442

Agreed. The show is trying to have both ways. It has been getting progressively darker as the seasons have moved on. But Scott is still trying to be The Innocent and it is no longer making sense.

Inaction is still an action! Scott deliberately holding back, especially because he doesn't trust his own self-control is not noble if he does so under circumstances where he irrationally relies on other, blatantly hostile, creatures and people to exercise self-control as well so that he does not have to risk his own. As he should have learned full well when Jennifer was killing people for power, not everyone out there is holding back and leaving room for compromise. Just because Scott has frequently been lucky in that people like Derek and Deucalion have been willing to do what he hasn't does not mean he can rely on such luck forever. Nor is it fair for him to expect others, like Derek, to do the killing for him so that he can keep his claws clean!

Scott is drifting out of focus as the Hero of the show (I have long been of the opinion that the actual Hero is Derek anyway). If this is meant to become a team or ensemble sort of show then fine. But in that case they need to ditch the True Alpha thing (which was never a good idea to begin with), because Scott is not Luke Skywalker out to redeem Darth Vader. If the villains were not often killing each other, or getting killed by others within Scott's circle, he'd have a massive backlog of villains piling up!