this is a great point, and i absolutely agree. i swallowed the premise, but only because i wanted to see where this fic was taking me. and yeah, the fact that i wanted to follow this fic to The Dark Place is a testament to how good the writing is, but umtimately there was still a big part of my brain hanging back, going, "wait now, hold on a minute? Mulder, what proof do you actually have? and wouldn't you be thinking you were being played by the guys who are making you think scully's playing you, rather than played by scully herself?" Mortimer does try to power through that train of thought with this fairly blunt statement:
If he hadn’t seen the evidence for himself, if he hadn’t heard it, he never would have believed it.
and it does help me to suspend my disbelief quite a bit, but i didn't feel like it was nearly enough. then again, i think part of what makes Jane's fic so well written is that she seems to have recognized that if her readers are were going to buy this premise it was going to be because they had too little information and she was making them feel like they had too much - not the other way around (we're much like Mulder himself, in that way - and in a lot of ways - during the reading of this fic).
also, i keep having to remind myself that this fic was written before S3 had even began - at least i think that's what the A/N imply. the level of untouchability and, well, virtue that was later built up aroud mulder and scully and their relationship had only begun to be established at that point, so suggesting something like this about them was probably a much different undertaking.
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Date: 2010-07-17 08:24 pm (UTC)If he hadn’t seen the evidence for himself, if he hadn’t heard it, he never would have believed it.
and it does help me to suspend my disbelief quite a bit, but i didn't feel like it was nearly enough. then again, i think part of what makes Jane's fic so well written is that she seems to have recognized that if her readers are were going to buy this premise it was going to be because they had too little information and she was making them feel like they had too much - not the other way around (we're much like Mulder himself, in that way - and in a lot of ways - during the reading of this fic).
also, i keep having to remind myself that this fic was written before S3 had even began - at least i think that's what the A/N imply. the level of untouchability and, well, virtue that was later built up aroud mulder and scully and their relationship had only begun to be established at that point, so suggesting something like this about them was probably a much different undertaking.