Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-14066471-20140114172238/@comment-19765459-20140116174342

Bigwolfonbase wrote:

Your answer is in your argument. He was in a hurry. As we've seen pack membership is extremely flakey. He wanted people he could convince to say yes quickly. As morally grey as him asking someone who had seizures and someone who was a victim of  child abuse is he still chose not to force change anyone. If your not gonna force change anyone than its gonna be easier convincing kids who have nothing and feel like itll never get better to choose the bite and possibly death. Also he didn't assume that Jackson was gonna be a dick or that Scott would be that stubborn. Also he plans kinda got interrupted with the whole Kanima Gerard thing which he didn't see coming. With more time who knows what those kids would have become as Isaac has been coming into his own kinda. Your argument would work if he actually knew these people. But how much time did he have to spend lurking and creeping in order to identify Isaac, Boyd and Erica as supposedly agreeable candidates? If you're going to search through the fruit stand anyway you might as well pick the best pieces of fruit, not the ones that are looking a little off. After all, it is not as if his rag tag pack of misfits was proving easy to train or very reliable. Heck, Boyd and Erica actually ran away (and gave him notice that they were doing so!), and Isaac was going to until Scott showed him puppy love.

Just saying, there is a lot of supporting evidence for Derek's nickanme "failwolf". If you're going to do something, doing it right the first time is a good idea. Technically, when the Alpha Pack officially made their presence known (by marking the Hale House front door), Derek was down to one Beta (Isaac) and one (kind-of, sort-of, maybe-he-might-try-to-kill-me) pseudo-Beta (Peter). That was why so much time that could have been spent preparing for dealing with the Alphas ended up being nothing more than time spent searching for his runaway Betas.