W, your reminder of vulnerable, second-season Scully made me think.
I was just trying to defend the writer's decision to write the story she wanted to write. From my pov, within the story's universe, everything that happens is plausible. It must be the writing that is the problem, because many of the people commenting here have had no problem accepting a more passive version of Scully in other stories. This is a Scully who submits because he tells her that's what he needs from her. It's a lie, or a half-truth at best but she believes him.
She doesn't instantly acquiesce. She leaves the room, drives around the block and comes back. It's not until he speaks the magic words that she finally gives herself permission to capitulate.
"You don't want the weather? You don't want politics? Oh, I see. You don't want general information. You want to help me."
His fingers circled her breast lazily, out of sync with his voice. "Yes. I. do." Dammit.
His mouth moved up to her ear. His whisper was low and hoarse. "Then help me. This is what I want. This is what I need."
The tone, the undeniable truth of what he was saying, pounded through the last of her defenses. She couldn't not respond to a need that strong. She had to cling to him to keep from falling down.
She believes him. Maybe she shouldn't, maybe you don't like or believe that she would but I think it is clear that in this story, she does.
As I said to bravenewcentury, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work. If you think Scully should have walked out of that apartment and not come back until she had had it out with him, well, fine. But that is not the story Mortimer wanted to write. She wanted to write a story about trust and illusion, about the lies others tell us, why we sometimes accept them as truth and what happens when we do.
I imagine you could work up a floatable theory that M & S are recreating Scully's state of utter helplessness at the hands of her abductors. That she survives her bondage and is rewarded with an orgasm should be therapeutic.
I believe someone wrote a parody version of this scenario. *cough*
Mulder doesn't care about what she is feeling, except in brief flashes of conscience, at any point during the story, does he? He sets out to hurt her, and I think by the end we can all see he has succeeded. There is nothing redemptive going on here except as illusion.
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Date: 2010-07-18 03:47 pm (UTC)I was just trying to defend the writer's decision to write the story she wanted to write. From my pov, within the story's universe, everything that happens is plausible. It must be the writing that is the problem, because many of the people commenting here have had no problem accepting a more passive version of Scully in other stories. This is a Scully who submits because he tells her that's what he needs from her. It's a lie, or a half-truth at best but she believes him.
She doesn't instantly acquiesce. She leaves the room, drives around the block and comes back. It's not until he speaks the magic words that she finally gives herself permission to capitulate.
"You don't want the weather? You don't want politics? Oh, I see. You don't want general information. You want to help me."
His fingers circled her breast lazily, out of sync with his voice. "Yes. I. do." Dammit.
His mouth moved up to her ear. His whisper was low and hoarse. "Then help me. This is what I want. This is what I need."
The tone, the undeniable truth of what he was saying, pounded through the last of her defenses. She couldn't not respond to a need that strong. She had to cling to him to keep from falling down.
She believes him. Maybe she shouldn't, maybe you don't like or believe that she would but I think it is clear that in this story, she does.
As I said to bravenewcentury, if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work. If you think Scully should have walked out of that apartment and not come back until she had had it out with him, well, fine. But that is not the story Mortimer wanted to write. She wanted to write a story about trust and illusion, about the lies others tell us, why we sometimes accept them as truth and what happens when we do.
I imagine you could work up a floatable theory that M & S are recreating Scully's state of utter helplessness at the hands of her abductors. That she survives her bondage and is rewarded with an orgasm should be therapeutic.
I believe someone wrote a parody version of this scenario. *cough*
Mulder doesn't care about what she is feeling, except in brief flashes of conscience, at any point during the story, does he? He sets out to hurt her, and I think by the end we can all see he has succeeded. There is nothing redemptive going on here except as illusion.