Prison Break Gen Fiction: To Find That Lost Horizon (2/2)

[halfshellvenus]

Title: To Find That Lost Horizon (2/2)
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Michael and Lincoln (Gen, AngstRating: PG-13 (subject matter, language

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[halfshellvenus]

Veronica visited Michael in the pilot "evidence if cooked/most dysfunctional definition of love" convo (unless you mean the first time after Lincoln's death).
In the pilot she came as his lawyer, though-- not really so much a visit as a business discussion.

Sigh you know me, I'm always fascinated by the strange and disturbing realities of capital punishment. *shakes head*
That's part of why this is in here. Pope is used to these executions, which doesn't mean he likes them or approves of them. And here, him wanting to do the kind thing for Michael and being blind to the irony of it rings very true. Being Pope, he has to ask in case Michael does want a service.

I think so many "Lincoln actually dies" fics just assume that he would give the plan up and so I like that in this case he didn't.
Well, my other one of these assumed that Michael would kill himself afterward. Because after all, dying is easy-- surviving is hard, especially when you've made returning back to your own life so impossible.

Here, it was Westmoreland who persuaded Michael to live. I doubt anyone else could have-- except Lincoln, whose voice Westmoreland used as the motivation of guilt.

You are a horrible person. How can you stop right at the point where it would get interesting?
Mainly because we know that at this point Michael has chosen survival-- finally really chosen it. And we have the clear implication that he'll find a new family in Westmoreland to help replace the one he's lost-- Westmoreland is offering that, where Michael hasn't asked (we already know Michael would be happy with that). And because the reader knows what it means that Westmoreland wants to go to Utah... we know the money's there waiting for them too. At least, those of us who watched Season 2. ;)

Saddest sentence of the fic.
*is very pleased that you noticed that one*

Bwahahhaha, the thing that all of us have always been wondering about :D
Seriously, where was Michael's critical thinking at that point? That seems like a late idea thrown into the plotting, to show some reason why the "Brother's Keeper" Michael who has given up on Lincoln would be motivated to care all over again. Thin plausibility, though.

[thelana]

Yeah, surviving is certain the hard part. Which is precisely because I wanted more of that. Because I'm mean and greedy that way. :)

Also wanted to pinch in that even though we know that V's fiance is dead, it's probably realisitic that Michael doesn't know at this point. So it was probably a wrong complaint on my side :)

Seriously, where was Michael's critical thinking at that point? That seems like a late idea thrown into the plotting, to show some reason why the "Brother's Keeper" Michael who has given up on Lincoln would be motivated to care all over again. Thin plausibility, though.

Don't get me started. It still pisses me off how the writers were jising all over that episode like it was the best thing ever when there's just so much that is flat out WRONG with it.

I'm not doubting that it had some good and some flat out interesting moments, but ARGH the flaws!!!

[halfshellvenus]

Also wanted to pinch in that even though we know that V's fiance is dead, it's probably realisitic that Michael doesn't know at this point.
I felt it was likely that he didn't know, and wouldn't be sensitive enough to pick up on it at a time like this anyway if she didn't tell him.

It still pisses me off how the writers were jising all over that episode like it was the best thing ever when there's just so much that is flat out WRONG with it.
That's actually one of my LEAST favorite episodes of S1. It's "Josstastic" more than anything, and a lot of it rings false given where some of the characters were shown to be in the present.

Really kind of a throwaway to me, more a way to turn the characters on their ears than anything. :(