The way the author treats the cancerarc there is--I have no words. It's just so them, the way they want to talk but without actually doing the talking. Am I making sense?
You have no idea how excited I am by this. I now know two (!!) people who have read and loved this story. Because Nascent let her site go down so long ago, and had never archived anything at Gossamer, this story and many of her others are not getting the attention they deserve. Her version of the Mulder/Scully relationship is so much like the series' that it just thrills me to pieces. Finding her fic was like discovering filmed new episodes that had never been broadcast.
Yes. I know exactly what you mean about the way they want to talk without talking. And, yes, the casefile is a real x-file, one whose solution isn't immediately obvious, either. I think it is way better than the average MOTW, in terms of dramatic structure and dialogue and the Mulder/Scully characterization is dead-on. The science even sounded plausible (although Nascent acknowledges in her author's notes where it is and where it--isn't) which means she went to extra trouble to make it sound that way. The themes tie together, too: Scully's cancer as a result of what happened to her at the hands of the Shadow government dovetailing with the tragedy of what happened to the scientist's family. All of the stuff about hostage negotiation throughout the story tying in with the story's climax. My brain is doing a happy dance about the scene between Mulder and Scully at the end, and how it ties in with Gethsemane.
Since you love the story, I would save it to your hard drive. Wayback links often go wonky.
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Date: 2009-05-18 06:42 pm (UTC)You have no idea how excited I am by this. I now know two (!!) people who have read and loved this story. Because Nascent let her site go down so long ago, and had never archived anything at Gossamer, this story and many of her others are not getting the attention they deserve. Her version of the Mulder/Scully relationship is so much like the series' that it just thrills me to pieces. Finding her fic was like discovering filmed new episodes that had never been broadcast.
Yes. I know exactly what you mean about the way they want to talk without talking. And, yes, the casefile is a real x-file, one whose solution isn't immediately obvious, either. I think it is way better than the average MOTW, in terms of dramatic structure and dialogue and the Mulder/Scully characterization is dead-on. The science even sounded plausible (although Nascent acknowledges in her author's notes where it is and where it--isn't) which means she went to extra trouble to make it sound that way. The themes tie together, too: Scully's cancer as a result of what happened to her at the hands of the Shadow government dovetailing with the tragedy of what happened to the scientist's family. All of the stuff about hostage negotiation throughout the story tying in with the story's climax. My brain is doing a happy dance about the scene between Mulder and Scully at the end, and how it ties in with Gethsemane.
Since you love the story, I would save it to your hard drive. Wayback links often go wonky.