Sorkinverse Challenge 20: fic with prompts - S60: Who Steals My Purse Steals Trash

[phoebesmum]

Title: Who Steals My Purse Steals Trash
Fandom: Studio 60
Character: Harriet Hayes
Rating: G
Word count: 770
Notes: Written 24 July 2010 for Sorkinverse challenge #20, fic with prompts, prompt: assassination.

Comments

[dipenates]

Oh, this is lovely. I love Harriet Hayes.

[phoebesmum]

Thank you!

She gets overlooked, like a lot of female characters. And she had some unfashionable principles. But at least she had principles!

[phoebesmum]

I only watched it with half an eye after the first couple of episodes - following on from Sports Night and The West Wing it suffered from the law of diminishing returns.

And thank you!

[leiascully]

Awww. Harriet. I love her strength.

[phoebesmum]

Thank you!

Female characters tend to get overlooked a lot in fandom (and in the shows themselves a lot of the time; Sorkin kind of forgot about Harriet when he went off on his Danny-and-Jordan bender), but Harriet had definite qualities.

[phoebesmum]

Thank you!

The media has altogether too much power - although I suppose that's the public's fault for letting them get away with it and allowing them to feed us non-stories about people's breast implants and coke habits, as if that were any of anyone else's business. I like to think that Harriet would take the fight into her own hands.

[kmousie]

Fantastic. She was a lovely character!

[phoebesmum]

Thank you! She was an unusual character for Sorkin. I don't know how heavily he based her on Kristen Chenoweth, but she was a lot more three-dimensional than some Sorkinese women have been.

[kmousie]

A lot more three-dimensional than women characters, period! But yeah, especially for Sorkin.