There is a lot of Steven hate going on on the board and so I thought I would go back and revisit Steven's episodes.
Here's the thing: Steven didn't kick out Lizzy. She left voluntarily as she SHOULD HAVE because she broke the rules, because she wanted Burt to maintain leadership while Michael was gone, because she knew that it was the right thing to do (since Burt wasn't going to enforce the rules himself). Burt didn't kick her out because she was in the "inner circle" of Tower residents, but if it were any other character... If it was a character who we didn't know, a character we didn't like? Would we have reacted differently? I think we would have.
Remember when we didn't like Kelly and we cheered when Michael nearly kicked her out? And we were disappointed when she got to stay?
Here's the thing, I don't really like Steven much but we don't have to like all of the characters. Lizzy really did put the inhabitants of the Tower at risk. She fell asleep during guard duty and failed to stop an attack of the garage by six zombies. Burt said pretty clearly that it was lucky that he was going on rounds and was there to take care of it.
Everything that's happened to her since: Horrible. But Steven isn't the blame. He wasn't trying to be a dick. He was trying to make sure that everyone was safe. So with this in mind let's talk about Steven and Pippin.
Steven said, clearly "I don't feel comfortable doing my job with him in there." He was creeped out and suspicious of Pippin... He sounded pretty sure that Pippin couldn't be trusted and was happy to get away from him. Now there are no few forum goers who are saying that this is proof that Steven was the rat and killed Pippin to make sure that Pippin couldn't sell him out. But I don't think that was the case.
If Steven was the rat then why did he make such a big deal about Lizzy falling asleep at guard duty? Wouldn't someone who took an active roll in nearly destroying the building want some one there who couldn't be trusted to keep an eye out on the monitors? I mean that sounds like an amazingly ideal situation to me if I were invested in any way shape or form in taking down the Tower. It wouldn't be difficult to tip off the others when Lizzy would be on duty again, probably asleep again...
So either Steven is concerned about the safety of the tower or he isn't. And it seems to me that he is. I don't think that Steven is the rat, I don't think that Steven is the shooter either. I think that Steven is a red herring as he is entirely too easy to blame for everything.
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