Greetings From Saturn! I Have A Prompt For You: Sergeant Price Being An Absolute Nerd And Yapping To

Greetings from Saturn! I have a prompt for you: Sergeant Price being an absolute nerd and yapping to Mac about the different plants he has or has seen while taking apart more of his pens.

I like to think that whenever his mouth is busy then so are his hands, which is admirable but dangerous at the same time because— you want to try and focus on what he’s talking about but can’t help worrying about whatever he’s touching.

And he switches topics bad. He could be talking about Captain America and then start talking about how he was made as war propaganda for kids.

Mac should've been finished completing the stupid paperwork in front of him for the day, keywords - should've been. But John had popped in to ask him about something roughly 46 minutes ago and now the lad is sitting across from him, dismantling his fourth pen so far, the one that used to be in Mac's hand and he's going on about Kurt Russell's influence in the production of the 1993 Western, Tombstone.

"-he'd give Cosmatos a shot list every night for what they were shooting the next day but let him present himself on set as the director so that Russell wouldn't outshine him. I mean, Cosmatos was hired as the director so it was his job to do but he just wasn't in a position to take on such a thing, especially for a movie that was so highly anticipated."

MacMillan nods, glancing at the spring that previously belonged in his pen which is now in John's hands. He bites back any comment he thinks about making, he isn't going to shoo the lad off. He'll sit through as much cowboy nonsense as John wants to spit at him.

"Understandable, Russell let the other bloke huv his moment. Very humble of him."

John grins, sitting down the spring and grabbing yet another one of Mac's pens to dismantle.

"Exactly, even Kilmer credits Russell as being responsible for the film's succession. Through acting and his behind-the-scenes directorial actions. The film wasn't completely accurate historically, Costner's Wyatt Earp in 94 was more historically accurate but it wasn't received nearly as well by the public as Tombstone. It might've been because it was released after Tombstone and audiences didn't want to see the same story again so soon but I think it's because Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid are just boring as fuck."

He snorts, leaning back in his chair as he crosses his arms and watches the sergeant animatedly explain his views on the two Westerns.

"That a can agree wae, Quaid shouldnae be forgiven fir Jaws 3. Costner's performance in Robin Hood offended me an am no even a fuckin Englishman."

John offers him an appreciative look. It's not often he sees John talking to people like this, the younger man had once let slip that his dad was never one for tolerating John's constant prattling. Mac wouldn't lie, John could talk the hind legs aff a donkey but he'd listen to him go on any day so long as the lad was comfortable enough to do so. Besides, he had learnt a lot about Tombstone in the past fifty minutes.

"Did you know that in Jaws 3-"

That was on him for mentioning another movie.