It depends a lot on how realistic you want things to be. The X-files (as Wendelah pointed out earlier) is not big on realism, but that's one thing. Fanfic is another. And in this universe Prufrock has taken a realistic (yet still heroic) take on the Mulder/Scully day-to-day reality.
And if you want to argue that the only way to raise a child is to put everything else, no matter how important, far on the backburner, that's one opinion, but many parents will disagree.
No absolutely not. many of us have tried to raise children on the sort of basis that they fit into your life, not you into theirs. Except that this quickly turns unrealistic. So in the unreal world, yes, Scully can be a great parent, a great FBI agent, a great partner...effective, loyal, brave and capable - but in the setting of the realist context of this story, that would not be feasible. What happens if you try to have too many roles in life? you are good at none and rubbish at all. Scully, here, knows this and has chosen where her focus might lie. But Mulder has chosen a different set of priorities (I hasten to add, in my view not necessarily wrong within the context of his choices) and herein lies the rub.
But if we want un-realism, then sure, the whole ITM universe is mundane and relatively pedestal-denting. I think most of us got hooked onto the X-files mostly because , whilst still retaining entirely human characters, it represented the opposite of the every-day, it stretched the imagination - and ITM pulls all of that AU charge out of it and puts it into a very RL scenario. Which still could, in my view, be a valid springboard for typical M/S heroic and above-us-all antics in a rational Season 9.
Actually don't think anyone is disagreeing with anyone really. It's just about realism versus....the opposite. Pru gives us a chance to see the X-files through credible RL lenses which is rare in (good) fanfic and probably unheard of in Canon. It merits this sort of discussion.
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Re: Realism MSR
Date: 2011-05-26 02:52 am (UTC)No absolutely not. many of us have tried to raise children on the sort of basis that they fit into your life, not you into theirs. Except that this quickly turns unrealistic. So in the unreal world, yes, Scully can be a great parent, a great FBI agent, a great partner...effective, loyal, brave and capable - but in the setting of the realist context of this story, that would not be feasible. What happens if you try to have too many roles in life? you are good at none and rubbish at all. Scully, here, knows this and has chosen where her focus might lie. But Mulder has chosen a different set of priorities (I hasten to add, in my view not necessarily wrong within the context of his choices) and herein lies the rub.
But if we want un-realism, then sure, the whole ITM universe is mundane and relatively pedestal-denting. I think most of us got hooked onto the X-files mostly because , whilst still retaining entirely human characters, it represented the opposite of the every-day, it stretched the imagination - and ITM pulls all of that AU charge out of it and puts it into a very RL scenario. Which still could, in my view, be a valid springboard for typical M/S heroic and above-us-all antics in a rational Season 9.
Actually don't think anyone is disagreeing with anyone really. It's just about realism versus....the opposite. Pru gives us a chance to see the X-files through credible RL lenses which is rare in (good) fanfic and probably unheard of in Canon. It merits this sort of discussion.