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⌈ Secret Post #3947 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

He does get punished, though. He was turned into a werewolf against his will. He was stalked by Peter, who tried to make him kill his friends. He was betrayed by Derek. He was turned suicidal by the Darach. He was turned into a berserker. He was literally murdered.

There isn't much causality in the show to begin with. Not many people's actions have consequences. But he suffers. He's put on a pedestal because he tries to do the right thing, even though he does not have to in any way. He uses his immense powers for good. I think the true alpha thing is bullshit too, but he's a good person trying to do the best he can in straitened circumstances that he never asked for or provoked.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, no. Calling the set up of the whole story a punishment is bullshit.

I maybe could agree on the berserker and the murder thing, but I stopped watching the show before that happened. Maybe the showrunners wised up a bit. Good, but not enough incentive to make me go back to liking Scott.

He tries to do the right thing by doing pretty shitty things, though, and he should have at least enough common sense to realize they were really shitty. For example, poisoning Gerard and using Derek to finish him off was an effective strategy, but I would never claim it to be a morally superior one. But that's what the show did with Scott.

I'm just so severely disappointed. I started out liking Scott a lot, but the show treating its viewers as if we were stupid really soured me on everything.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if the show ever did present the deception of Derek in that situation as Scott doing the right thing, though. It was pretty clearly shown as having been a shitty decision by both Derek's and, interestingly, Stiles' reactions. I felt, as a viewer, that we were supposed to feel for Derek. As if it set Derek's and Scott's dynamic arcs back several paces. Plus, the consequence there may have been simply that Scott did this, and it still didn't kill Gerard.

Derek earlier that season had been a true antagonist to Scott. He hadn't shown himself to be trustworthy. I don't think that excuses Scott's actions, but he had a reason, early on, not to confide in him. Only a few months or so earlier in the timeline, Derek had turned his back on Scott and worked with Peter, and then was going around seducing and biting random teenagers.

I view this as one of Scott's worst mistakes, but I do think it was framed as a misstep rather than completely a moment to be celebrated, because they worked in the beginning of trust and alliance between Scott and Derek again before breaking it down. They showed us Derek's stricken reaction. They showed us Stiles having had no clue this was happening and he wasn't happy about it.

But yeah, the show treated its viewers like morons who wouldn't even remember a quarter of things that had happened the entire way through, I agree with you there.