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LadyX wrote:

First season he wanted to help and be helped by Scott. I don't think he's really evolved as a character though. He never really wanted to be an alpha, I don't think, and he really sucked at it, and he recognized that. Granted I don't blame him for being sucky, it wasn't something he wanted AND he had a bunch of crazy messed up shizz go down when he was still trying to sort himself out. But that's not really evolving as a character. Don't get me wrong, I love him, and I wish more time could be dedicated to Derek, Regrettably, Jeff is a bit of a gleeful sadist, and in his enthusiasm for torturing his characters, he sometimes seems to forget to develop them. Derek has been the prime victim of this. Because he is an adult, not a teenager, it is TV safe to do really appalling things to him that might otherwise be challenged by the network if they were done to teenage characters. By the same token, Derek is also a deus ex machina used in all those situations where Scott would otherwise be compelled to do morally-questionable things. Instead, most of that stuff gets foisted onto Derek so that Scott can remain unsullied.

It is a thankless position and I do feel badly for Tyler H because he is stuck in a character development dead end largely because his function is to be the victim or perpetrator of all the things that cannot happen to Scott or Scott cannot be shown to do.