You seem to have ignored my ask so I'll just come off Anon. Tell me how it's "baiting" for stiles to look at derek with worry as he is dying? When scott thought derek died in 3A he totally freaked out and was full of guilt. Stiles wasnt. He didn't even care. And if scott did the same emotions stiles did people wouldn't call it baiting. So please enlighten me on how is it baiting for stiles showing emotion for a friend dying baiting? I hate to sound rude but you call baiting for everything.
Yeah, I just looked through a majority of my unanswered asks, and I didn’t see any ask even close to this one. But since you would like a response, allow me to provide you with one.
How is it baiting? Because Jeff knows damn well about the Sterek shippers. He knows damn well that people have wanted Stiles and Derek to get together romantically since season two. He knows that people still want Stiles and Derek to be together romantically. He know it so well that he has kept Stiles and Derek apart for two seasons, and gave both Stiles and Derek romances to rub it into the faces of Sterek shippers.
Jeff Davis has led Sterek shippers on since season two, telling us that Sterek could happen. Then he erases all Sterek interaction, further tries to enforce Stiles and Derek as heterosexuals, and then proceeds to give us ONE SCENE, at the end of everything, of Stiles hesitating to leave Derek as he dies.
That is baiting. Why? Because Jeff has no intention of putting Stiles and Derek together romantically, and he knows that Sterek fans will look at that scene and think, “Oh. This means that Sterek is going to happen”.
And why do fans still think that? Because Jeff hasn’t had the decency to come out and say, “No. Stiles and Derek aren’t going to ever be together romantically. Stiles and Derek are both straight, but I truly enjoy and support your guys’ enthusiasm for these characters and this pairing”.
He could have done that at the beginning, but decided to bait Sterek fans and lead them on through the seasons. And he’s still doing it. He’s still keeping Stiles and Derek from interacting, but then throws a huge Sterek bone at the end of the season to keep fans baited.
Scott looking at Derek like that would be baiting if there was a mass following behind Derek/Scott, and Jeff knew about it, kept Scott and Derek from interacting, and then threw them together in a touching, heartfelt scene to make fans think it means something more.
That is why it is baiting.