The sex is poorly timed, and that *is* what makes it kind of hot.
It certainly worked for me. Bad timing and misunderstanding are also key elements in "A Bitter Taste on the Tongue." Then just throw a little unrehearsed bondage into the mix, and wheeee! But that's just me.
The misunderstandings surrounding the sex make it even more heart wrenching, however. Scully believing she has just given up her last mystery, and therefore, made herself less interesting, made me ache a little bit. It was believable Scully POV for me, which I sometimes think is harder to pin down than Mulder POV. On the other side of it, Mulder wondering whether the chip had somehow brought her to his bedroom and whether she remembered it at all--gah! That slayed me.
Oh, me, too. But I think that emotional disconnect and the resulting heartache were also part of what was a turn-on for me. It's very hard to be analytical about sex.
It ends happily enough (except for the threat of cancer and Mulder's disappearance) with them together, so we know this was all resolved, but I also would have been happy had we not known that some of these aspects were tied up between the two of them. We have ample evidence that these two leave a lot unspoken, so unresolved would have been fine with me. Maybe I just enjoy the angst and delayed payoff too much.
I wouldn't say this ends happily, not really, not at all. What I would say is that Syntax6 is really good at writing AU scenarios that fit seamlessly into canon without fundamentally altering the outcome. Even without the chip, Scully doesn't die of cancer, although we don't ever find out why. Diana still dies as a result of her efforts to try to save Mulder. Yeah, Mulder and Scully end up together a little sooner, but Scully still ends up inexplicably pregnant (maybe due to something done to her while she was still under the influence of the chip, who knows?). Because Scully's memory of what Diana told her gets lost when the chip is removed, Mulder still gets abducted, and then rest of seasons eight and nine and IWTB presumably proceed without interruption.
I know from experience how difficult it is to work a new story into and around existing canon. Damn, she makes it look so easy, and what's more, she's done it over and over again with the same excellent results. I really admire her writing.
edited: for tense issues. I did not sleep much last night.
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Date: 2010-08-17 05:47 pm (UTC)It certainly worked for me. Bad timing and misunderstanding are also key elements in "A Bitter Taste on the Tongue." Then just throw a little unrehearsed bondage into the mix, and wheeee! But that's just me.
The misunderstandings surrounding the sex make it even more heart wrenching, however. Scully believing she has just given up her last mystery, and therefore, made herself less interesting, made me ache a little bit. It was believable Scully POV for me, which I sometimes think is harder to pin down than Mulder POV. On the other side of it, Mulder wondering whether the chip had somehow brought her to his bedroom and whether she remembered it at all--gah! That slayed me.
Oh, me, too. But I think that emotional disconnect and the resulting heartache were also part of what was a turn-on for me. It's very hard to be analytical about sex.
It ends happily enough (except for the threat of cancer and Mulder's disappearance) with them together, so we know this was all resolved, but I also would have been happy had we not known that some of these aspects were tied up between the two of them. We have ample evidence that these two leave a lot unspoken, so unresolved would have been fine with me. Maybe I just enjoy the angst and delayed payoff too much.
I wouldn't say this ends happily, not really, not at all. What I would say is that Syntax6 is really good at writing AU scenarios that fit seamlessly into canon without fundamentally altering the outcome. Even without the chip, Scully doesn't die of cancer, although we don't ever find out why. Diana still dies as a result of her efforts to try to save Mulder. Yeah, Mulder and Scully end up together a little sooner, but Scully still ends up inexplicably pregnant (maybe due to something done to her while she was still under the influence of the chip, who knows?). Because Scully's memory of what Diana told her gets lost when the chip is removed, Mulder still gets abducted, and then rest of seasons eight and nine and IWTB presumably proceed without interruption.
I know from experience how difficult it is to work a new story into and around existing canon. Damn, she makes it look so easy, and what's more, she's done it over and over again with the same excellent results. I really admire her writing.
edited: for tense issues. I did not sleep much last night.