Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-75.109.132.34-20131231131940/@comment-19765459-20140111034749

Bigwolfonbase wrote: Oh the only thing about that is peter never did anything that Impressive as an Alpha. He killed some humans. Hell derek or Scott could have killed any of those people and nothing would have been different. The only really impressive thing peter has done so far has been come back from the dead. Hes never given any knowledge that wasnt already pre known by someone except for maybe the eyes. Which I'm sure was also pre known by Derek. I do agree that there were a lot of things that he probably didnt know not even just because he didnt think hed get to be alpha but because hes family died while he was still in school so there might have been things he was just to young to be taught. The original post was about Scott not being able to ask him for help because derek wouldnt know anything to help him because he didnt know any special alpha powers. I'm merely saying that the only really special ability that peter showed was the mind meld. Which as he said isnt even an Alpha ability. The full shift was already stated not be done because of budget. I get what your saying about plot lines going undone. They had a bit of the bromance triangle in the episode where they found the rotc strung up but they never went anywhere with it. Yet you cant count things such as budget constraints in the same way. What you cant do financially and what you dont do story wise are two different things.

From a canon perspective they are not. If they don't happen onscreen then they didn't happen. Period. Heck, there have been times when even Jeff has teased Sterek or Scisallison. It doesn't make them canon pairings.

As an Alpha, Derek certainly had the potential to shift shape. However, it was very explicitly stated in 308 that the ability to shift completely to wolf form was unusual, and Talia Hale was greatly respected because she could do it. Peter's wolf-monster form was also unusual. We already know that werewolves do not instinctively know how to use their powers. Peter's ability to manipulate the mind of his Beta (Scott) and his ability to read minds, Alpha or not, are things that Derek just didn't know how to do. Period.

Scott tends to go to Derek for advice because, let's be frank here, Peter still makes people nervous (with good reason) and there is only so much that Stiles can dig up via Google search. But we have also seen that Derek often doesn't have the answers, or pretends that he does when he clearly doesn't. Deaton almost certainly knows all about this stuff, but derives some perverse amusement from watching the werewolves struggle to figure it out on their own and for whatever reason Scott is too intimidated to be pushy about asking him.