until now we can think that perhaps Gene has watched 2006!Sam moving up in his career, keeping an eye on him, gaining some comfort from his presence in the world.
yeah, absolutely. in fact, i originally had a prologue where old!man gene walked up and punched a totally bewlidered 2006 sam in the face for not following orders (ie, for pursuing the robbery suspects on his own and getting 'killed'). but its tone was completely different than the main story and too distracting, so i ended up losing it in the end.
re: the finality - that's something i love and hate, too. i suspect gene has never really grieved for sam up until this point, because there was never any body found, and thus some lingering uncertainty whether he was really dead or not. but once gene runs him over that's it; no more sam forever. and he can finally start to grieve for him.
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Date: 2008-07-31 09:45 pm (UTC)until now we can think that perhaps Gene has watched 2006!Sam moving up in his career, keeping an eye on him, gaining some comfort from his presence in the world.
yeah, absolutely. in fact, i originally had a prologue where old!man gene walked up and punched a totally bewlidered 2006 sam in the face for not following orders (ie, for pursuing the robbery suspects on his own and getting 'killed'). but its tone was completely different than the main story and too distracting, so i ended up losing it in the end.
re: the finality - that's something i love and hate, too. i suspect gene has never really grieved for sam up until this point, because there was never any body found, and thus some lingering uncertainty whether he was really dead or not. but once gene runs him over that's it; no more sam forever. and he can finally start to grieve for him.