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I really meant to do more with Scott and Jean than I did. Once the plot got moving I felt like there wasn't time, and then later I wanted to bounce Joel off people his own age, rather than surround him with adults all the time. But I should have played more with them, because (thinking out loud here) they add something -- Scott is a sane person who doesn't really know how to deal with a kid like Joel, which is why his embrace in the hospital room is the right move: it's a gesture of normality. Jean is almost a motherly figure, but unlike Joel's actual mother, she has some experience of being institutionalised. There's interesting stuff there, and I don't know if I'll get a chance to add to it in the next story. I hope so, because I feel like I shortchanged those characters.
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Date: 2005-11-23 08:28 pm (UTC)I really meant to do more with Scott and Jean than I did. Once the plot got moving I felt like there wasn't time, and then later I wanted to bounce Joel off people his own age, rather than surround him with adults all the time. But I should have played more with them, because (thinking out loud here) they add something -- Scott is a sane person who doesn't really know how to deal with a kid like Joel, which is why his embrace in the hospital room is the right move: it's a gesture of normality. Jean is almost a motherly figure, but unlike Joel's actual mother, she has some experience of being institutionalised. There's interesting stuff there, and I don't know if I'll get a chance to add to it in the next story. I hope so, because I feel like I shortchanged those characters.
And I like Scott and Jean, dammit.