Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-14066471-20140114172238/@comment-19765459-20140116180353

LadyX wrote:

I'm not too disappointed by the choice of Boyd, he looks like the strong silent type, and his only issues are his family is poor, and he doesn't have friends. He could definitely have been trained up well, and possibly quickly. I also get the initial thought of Isaac, grave digging is hard work, but not particularly skilled, or indicative of any deeper talent. But when he found out about the emotional issues he should've been out. Unless all he wanted was a cowering little yes man who would follow orders and not ask questions for fear of injury. Which doesn't coincide with what he claimed to be looking for. And don't even get me started on Erica. First of all, she's a girl (not that we can't be badass) secondly, she had been sick her entire life and Derek isn't exactly an expert on how turning ill people works; werewolfism might have made her brain misfire even worse than it already did, the brain is not something to be messed with and it seems like her chances of survival would be significantly lower. Thirdly, partly because of her lifelong illness in addition to everything we saw of her, there was no indication that she ever had any sort of fight or self defense training to even give her than leg up. She was a stubborn lady, but that, to me, would indicate she might be a problem once she turned. Well this is yet another case of the writers not looking back on episodes that have already aired before writing new ones.

Paige's death should, if anything, made Derek extremely wary of changing anyone in questionable physical health. Plus it should have also provoked discomfort in that Erica, like Paige, was a girl, if only because of tragic memories. Then of course there was the fact that his first attempt to give someone (Jackson) the Bite seemingly failed and he should have been extra cautious.

They need to keep past seasons in mind if they are going to insist on doing character development via retcon!

Physically strong Betas make sense to the extent that they would be going up against Alphas. But again, Derek would have done well to shoot for traits besides things like size because that alone was not going to cut it against the Alpha Pack. It is not just that I like to lament that Danny gets passed over as a character, but that Derek was consciously choosing dysfunctional people on the (extremely irrational) logic that he was going to somehow "improve" their lives by subjecting them to the potentially-fatal process of becoming werewolves and then throw them into a meat grinder against the Alpha Pack!