I think I probably would've liked West better if he'd been eased in more slowly. But there was like, this disgusting contrast which seemed like a very blatant intentional 'fuck you Paire shippers' with Caitlin and Peter's first kiss and Claire and West's first kiss one scene right after the other. Kring has said he's trying to "teach" fans how to watch the show, so I think that was a shining example of that. (Seriously, the fans are going to ship whatever the hell they want, don't try to tell them what they should ship.)

But that aside, what, three episodes in and Claire trusts the guy and is making out with him. Trusts him enough to doubt her father. I kind of think that in the long run, the popular theory of West being a Company operative is in the green, although I'm not entirely certain why Bob would send Mohinder to locate Claire if he already had West keeping a line on her, but who knows.

Of course, Kring could've also completely missed how juicy of an opportunity it would've been to manipulate Claire via West.

Bottom line is though that I dislike West and wish horrible painful things upon him. I mean. Anyone who floats outside your window is not going to be an awesome boyfriend.