Brother Homon – Guilded Age

Annotated 38-4

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 03:31:10 +0000

Most of the early stuff in this chapter is mine, but Flo tagged in for this one, and what a job she and John did. This chapter was going to be mostly about the machinations of native Gastonians, but this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 36-14

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 03:44:36 +0000

I think we should have spent more of pages 12-13 showing Brother Tom’s emotional transition. It’s a bit of a journey back from “What even is this, how dare something happen that I didn’t predict, who is this squinty-eyed jackass telling me my nihilism is meaningless” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 36-12

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 03:27:44 +0000

I think the key sentence here is “You would do the same things, regardless of whose approval you sought.” Surely some of the specifics would be different, but Brother Tom is basically a born serial killer, with everything that that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 36-11

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 03:10:15 +0000

Brother Tom was a bit of a challenge to us as scriptwriters. His arc is perilously close to a line: he doesn’t go through any real changes and, almost without exception, gets everything he wanted from beginning to end. It’d […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 36-10

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:54:08 +0000

You sure that last line isn’t “Krss kwa hecta,” Homon? Same basic pronunciation, just a little less elided. Common mistake. Maybe he’s just getting slangy with it, it probably still works, no matter what the universe thinks about the spelling […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...