I like Thomas Dekker as well. Right now his character on TSC is pretty much a non-entity, though. He barely even has a scene here or there so I can't blame him too much for being dull.

That said, this show is weird anyways, the Cassie character and probably the Jake character have potentially interesting material but those two actors can't act to save their lifes. I giggled when Jake was trying to convey "conflict", "love", "anger" and "heartbreak", pretty much with the same never-changing expression. And Cassie just opens her eyes really wide and that's it in terms of "acting".

So, they write for the people who can't act and don't write for the people who can. Which means as a result all the characters are flat.