Another original that faded. Nanny’s garden in Maine always had beautiful orange daylilies. This is just a store-bought Easter lily, but somehow it makes sense to repair Nanny’s portrait with it.
Nanny’s Lily
Fairy Child, revisited
The original faded with age, so I repurposed it.
Kin
LEFTOVER NINE
Henry’s final moment from the previous episode replays.
ONE
Three Months Later. We’re in snow country. A man carrying rabbit carcasses strides up to a self-sufficient cabin. We don’t see his face until he enters and exchanges a glance with this wife, who sits by the fire. Her eyes move sideways, and Joel steps from behind the room’s center post with his gun drawn.
The couple goes through some hilarious schtick, the kind only longtime partners have, and the man sits. Joel is looking for Tommy. Ellie, from the loft, asks to come down. Husband and wife exchange another speaking look.
TWO
Joel asks for their location on a map and how to travel west. “Go east,” the man says. Past the river are a lot of dead bodies, only some of them infected. Joel and Ellie head out, having no choice but to continue on.
(This was a jewel of a scene that ended way too soon. Give Graham Greene and Elaine Miles their own show. I’d watch them all day.)
THREE
As they leave, Joel has what appears to be a panic attack, although it could be angina.
Continue reading “Kin”All the Stations of the Cross
It’s an official completed series! My first. For the most part I ended up satisfied with them and didn’t tweak. However, Four was always going to need work. We knew that at the time. And Eight wasn’t quite finished. Otherwise, I’m happy.
It’s published!
Acting the Enneagram is now available at amazon. You may have noticed I’ve become more interested in how a character’s Enneagram impacts the overall success of the story.
In this book I go over the basics of Personality Typing for the Enneagram using movie characters and posts from the blog. I add some never-before-seen Storytelling Enneagram breakdowns for an assortment of movies, and then I mash the two sections together.
Going forward look for me to try more of this weaving of Enneagrams in my posts and in future books. I’m convinced this is the best way to write, create, and critique film and television stories. Besides, it’s fun!
John 20:18
“I have seen the Lord”
Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb
Thirteenth Station: Jesus is taken down from the cross and given to His mother
Endure and Survive
ONE
Fireworks. People chanting and celebrating in the street. FEDRA is defeated, its officers shot, and the Resistance owns the city. (This is a flashback.) Henry and Sam hide from the searchlights and communicate with sign language.
TWO
A jail enclosure filled with people. Kathleen, Perry guarding her, enters and sits. These are the FEDRA snitches. With her sweet, girlish voice, Kathleen promises them a trial (where they’ll be found guilty) and some time served if they tell her where Henry is. When she threatens to shoot them, someone implicates the doctor. Kathleen insists Perry go door-to-door until Henry’s found. And the snitches, even the one who talked, should be shot and burned.
Henry and Sam enter a building. Random gunfire can be heard outside. They find the attic hidey-hole where the doctor waits. (Kathleen shoots him at the beginning of the previous episode.) Henry calculates they have enough supplies for 11 days. In that time they need to figure out an escape route.
THREE
To calm Sam, Henry comes to see what he’s drawing on his Magic Slate Paper Saver. (Yes, I had to google the official name of this well-known toy.) It’s Super Sam, wearing a heroic mask. Henry gives him a bag of crayons so he can decorate the brick walls.
Continue reading “Endure and Survive”Twelfth Station: Jesus dies on the cross
