Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-14066471-20140114172238/@comment-10280603-20140116215154

LadyX wrote:

DManCO wrote:

It is a negative feedback loop problem. Derek's chosen subjects for the Bite were far from being ideal candidates, and as I said, team loyalty was not really strong with the people he chose anyway. Boyd was almost chronically antisocial (he was generally rude, even when people tried to be friendly towards him). Erica was a social outcast, as was Isaac. All of them had emotional (and in Erica's case physical) problems. Lacking social skills himself, Derek never really had any hope of taking these kind of people and forging them into a cohesive group.

But in a fair-sized small city like Beacon Hills I have a hard time believing that they were the only option he could find. And he obviously did spend time scouting them out. You mention that Derek only met Danny once. But had he ever even met Boyd, Issac and Erica at all? Did he scrutinize the student body for kids who were obviously smart, tough or otherwise useful but possibly more mentally together? Just picking the lowest common denominator and choosing the most desperate people who might accept the Bite was stupid strategy. Peter did better purely by random selection!


 * 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?

Idk i will agree that his choices were bad,though i dont see boy as chronically anti-social seeing as how all the interactions with him were people pretty much wanting something from him. But derek was going for quantity over quality. He didn't really care for his pack at first just as long as they added to his power. all they really needed to do is not die so he could become stronger. Hell until recently scott really wasnt even that much better than any of them the biggest difference in their lives is that he had stiles to help him out. We don't know how any of them would have turned out if left to their own devices without immediately being dragged into a fight with the hunters and a kanima.