The Heads of Houses – Guilded Age

Annotated 36-26

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 03:33:40 +0000

My notes to Flo on the rest of Pardo’s speech: Okay, here’s where things get interesting. The “points system” feels like more fatuous self-congratulation from the Heads of Houses, like Congress voting itself a pay raise, only not even about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 15-15

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 03:43:07 +0000

“CONSEQUENCES (con’ sek wen’ sez): The result of an action or situation. See also ‘shmonsequences.’ All right, that’s done, now go play outside!” Note that this is one of those scenes Ardaic is not present for. The terms of this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 15-14

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 03:56:15 +0000

Caneghem-ahems: “Dude. Dude. Dude. DUDE. DUDE. SHUT. UP.” To be honest, this is my least favorite of the Heads-of-Houses scenes, because there’s a little too much of the Heads acting as a single unit. Even if it’s pretty obvious what […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 15-13

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 03:19:20 +0000

Bit of a jolt in tone here as we move into Phil’s section. He wrote this part first, before I’d gotten anywhere with my pages. However, the aid-with-strings-attached seen here is a useful contrast with the charity of the last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Annotated 14-7

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 03:40:43 +0000

This sequence implies that Hewie and Pyre have had many encounters with Bandit before this, like they were her personal Sheriffs of Nottingham. “Never beaten me before and y’never will” also lowers the tension of this scene a tad, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...