Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24447558-20140701205038/@comment-13965604-20140702204331

Forevermyalpha wrote: Okay this conversation has devolved entirely. Stick to debating the facts of the situation in regards to the show. Leave personal attacks out of it. The fact of the matter is that there is a HUGE portion of the fandom who firmly believes that the relationship between Kate and Derek was predatory and justifiably able to be defined as statutory rape. I'm in this boat, too.

The fact of the matter is that Jeff Davis didn't have a show bible until well into season 3 and he didn't realize this little issue until it was entirely too late and then had to retcon by changing the way werewolves age, to sort of mince around this issue and avoid the unfortunate implication made in season 1. But the truth of the matter is, if we boil it down to its nuts and bolts, whether Derek was "of age" or not legally speaking at the time he was with Kate, their relationship was predatory because of Kate's agenda: Killing the Hales and doing so outside the specifications of the Code.

What gets me is Jeff didn't really need to retcon anything. First, there's a lot of unreported sexual assault, especially from males. Secondly, it doesn't really matter if he was over 18 to the world he was a high school teenager.

Derek pretty clearly suffers from PTSD, what's the difference, character development wise, whether he has it strictly because of his hand in his family's murder or if it was partly from the molestation too?

But yea, I completely agree. It was still predatory regardless. It's just a matter of could she have been prosecuted for it. And statute of limitation is over anyway,I think, so even that is a moot point.