Talk:Alec Pomeroy

I don't know why I've never thought to ask this before, but why was a seven-year-old present when adults were fighting a battle to the last man? Isn't that the sort of thing a parent would want to protect a child from? Sylvia was fully prepared to swing after she murdered Kimball, and to leave her children as orphans; but she made sure they would be provided for beforehand. Mort not only didn't do that with Alec, he put Alec squarely in the line of fire. How hard would it have been to send him out to Maude's farmhouse or something?

Unless Mort had tried to but Alec snuck back into the diner and it was too late for Mort to do anything because Grimes's unit was upon them. Sounds like something we could have observed if HT had replaced Mary with Mort instead of Pound, who could tell or show us nothing that a dozen other characters weren't already revealing. If HT had tired of Canada in spite of the Evidence!, why did he have their resistance kick up after he had given himself a way out? Why did he go back to Rosenfeld in particular? And if he had always intended to keep that story active up to that scene in TG, why did he shut down POV coverage in the town at the very moment when a POV would have had something interesting to share for the first time in ages?

Hmm, maybe that's why I never thought to ask about Alec being in the stronghold till now. DttE and TG have so many huge story flaws that it's easy to lose track of the flotsam and jetsam like this. Turtle Fan 20:57, October 15, 2009 (UTC)