I being impressed by his favourite books as well - it was at that point that I realised that he was intelligent.
What has annoyed me is that I've always felt that this intelligence is hidden behind a bland and laddiish exterior for the benefit of the viewing public, and maybe through BB editing.
It counted to me that both Fed and Jon said he was intelligent and also Gaetano and he had no reason to lie about that.
I hope we start to see more of this in the coming week. I think he may benefit from the absence of Nush. Maybe part of the problem was that at the beginning he was very close with Fed and much of his attention seemed to be on that relationship. Apart from their late night chats, we would often see them deep in conversation but could never hear what they were discussing.
Then Fed left and it was Nush and a similar thing happened. Here we were shown what they were talking about, the cameras liked to focus on Scott when he was with Nush, but unfortunately their conversations largely made little sense or else were fairly inane.
Therefore
Scott/Fed relationship - largely ignored
Scott/Nush relationship - only shown in flirt, giggle and lovesick mode
Result: Scott, who he?