HT100 #123: Scene It - Prompts 9 & 10

[cmk418]

I've inverted these because chronologically it makes sense. (And I selfishly really want you to read the first one)

Prompt: Dirt Road
Word Count: 130
This may seem like something I've written many times before but there's a little bit of a twist.

Comments

[murielle]

Nice introspective pieces. Think I liked the second best but that's an easy call because I never like Querns.

[cmk418]

He wasn't very likeable, but he was always fascinating. Thanks for reading!

[luci_2]

Poor Tim. I imagine that the first thing Querns would do, after the biohazzard crisis, was firing Tim.
I never liked Querns.
Good job.

[cmk418]

I always imagined that Tim would be done with Oz (between Querns' and Governor Devlin's interference) as soon as the bus went through the gates of Lardner or wherever they were headed.

Thanks for reading this.

[michele659]

I liked both-but I especially liked the second.You really captured the way Tim would think while he was waiting to return to Em City. He would see the world as unbalanced without it.You seem to really have an understanding of the character.I always thought Tim was maligned too often. He could be unreasonable sometimes about some prisoners, but at least he tried. He was just often handicapped because the people above him really dodm't want the programs to succeed. I liked the line about Claire Howell,that was funny and captured his desperation!

You also captured the evil,obnoxious Querns well. I liked that this precedes the evacuation cos it showed that karma really was actually working against him.

[cmk418]

Wow. Thank you. I had such a hard time with that second one so I'm glad it turned out. I'm also glad there's someone else that shares a lot of my feelings about McManus.

And Querns was just fun to write. I kept thinking two things as I was going - how well the beginning part would work for season four McManus, and just how wicked Querns really was.

[ozsaur]

Both are excellent. For the first, isn't it fun writing a character that few people like? I think you really captured him.

For the second, love your characterization of Tim.

[cmk418]

For the first, isn't it fun writing a character that few people like?
Well, so few people seem to like McManus that I think I've gotten a bit of practice on that score. But seriously, I did enjoy Querns' villainous side. (I think I'm going to have to do something with him and Claire together at some point.)

For the second, love your characterization of Tim.
Thank you, and I'm glad you like it because I think I'll write something for him again sometime *g*

[ozsaur]

(I think I'm going to have to do something with him and Claire together at some point.)

Now there is a deliciously terrifying thought! *g*

[cmk418]

I think I found a prompt for it, but it's a ways down the road.

Love the icon. It's very appropriate