he is always saying that he wants to be good while he keeps messing up
You just described 99% of the people on Earth. Opportunity knocks once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. Aidan is a addict. He wishes he weren't, but struggles everyday with his addiction.
So why did he save the Dutch guy and kill Bishop while the Dutches openly state that they want to kill humans and the Bishop says that he doesn't?
BHUS.S01E05:
Bishop: Well, nobody sells eternal life like a priest.
Aidan: Since when do you need to sell it? Anytime that you want someone you just take him... or her.
Bishop: That's right, you missed the meeting. Um, I'm only turning the willing now. The influential? The useful? People like... Sarin and Father Gates? You remember when Lincoln used the Archbishop to sell the union cause?
Aidan: I was too busy fighting a war to read the paper.
Bishop: Yes, you were very young. It turns out that great monarchs have always had holy men by their side to consecrate wars, win over the masses... from Charles the first, to hell... George W. Everyone's used religion.
Aidan: Used it for what?
Bishop: You remember how we used to say that being a vampire was almost perfect? But the lying, the hiding, the stifling day job to cover our tracks... It was exhausting and tedious! When we have the numbers, and we have the power, we won't have to hide. We can live right out in the open.
Aidan: You're not serious!
Bishop: Don't tell me you haven't thought about it!
Aidan: How many times have you drove it into me? "Keep a low profile", "Blend in", "Be invisible"!
Bishop: Because we had to. Soon we won't.
Aidan: What happened to you, Bishop?
Bishop: You're asking me? I can barely stand to look at you, starving and weak!
Aidan: You're delusional?
Bishop: Now, I have been patient, understanding, and even helpful during your little "experiment", but it is time to wake up, Aidan! We live forever, humans don't! Do the math! It's evolution! It's nature taking it's course!
Aidan: There is nothing natural about us!
Bishop wanted the vampires to start a war against the humans so the vampires could take over and rule the world. How much more patently "bad guy" can you get than wanting to take over the world? Why do you think Marcus went to the Dutch? Over Aidan? No! Marcus got the Dutch involved because Bishop was going to upset The Balance, and he was hoping that the Dutch would sanction Bishop, and put him in charge of the Boston Family. Marcus was taking Bishop's plan to take over the world as an opportunity to sell out Bishop to the Dutch for his own career advancement.
Bishop knew he wouldn't be able to get the other vampires to fall in line with his plan without Aidan's support. (Aidan explained this to Josh in the beginning of S01E12) Aidan had been Bishop's son and his second. The duty to kill Bishop and stop the war fell to Aidan. (Which is why Rebecca told Aidan that he couldn't
go with her when she died at the end of S01E11. "No. You have to finish this.") Both Aidan and Suren refer back to Bishop's plan in Season 2.
Remember the book He's Just Not That Into You? I am starting to suspect that's how you feel about the show. If you have watched it, and re-watched it, and still completely missed that one character wanted to TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD (yes, Starting with the Entire Eastern Seaboard), then maybe this isn't the show for you. You're
watching the show... but you're not
seeing it. To fully "get" the show you have to focus and study and analyze... and you're just not that into it! You've
watched the show, what more do you want? I mean seriously.... how much more time do you want to dedicate to this series? I'm sorry if you feel you need to vindicate yourself for ranting about imaginary plot holes, but really, it's unnecessary. You would have to practically have the episodes memorized to find the inconsistencies in the show, and there really are no plot holes that can't be spackled with a good fanwanking. None!
But, if you want to persist... I'll be here.
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