wendelah1: (All I wanted was a career in medicine)
wendelah1 ([personal profile] wendelah1) wrote in [community profile] xf_book_club 2011-06-02 08:14 pm (UTC)

Oppressive?

Look, I like the story, too. But why do you keep give "Inventing the Mulders" such a hard time? Scully sounds much more in character in it than she does in this story. What you describe as "quarrelsome" sounded to me just like how they were together most of the time in canon. Yes, of course, the title "Inventing the Mulders" is about their struggles at creating a family unit. He wore a wedding band, even though they weren't married in the traditional sense. She didn't, which speaks volumes, too. How could that process ever be easy for them? It's not easy under the best of circumstances for ordinary people. And how is it that "China" is not an angst-filled read? Scully is miserable from start to finish, except for when she's at the dinner party telling the story about Mulder and the manure and the cockroaches.

I am well aware that you don't like angst, yes. The problem is this is not a show that lends itself to light, weird yes, but not light, which is why we are quickly running out of non-angsty fic to read here... Help! We need more funny fic here!

Since my favorite movie of all time is The Wizard of Oz, and my favorite book of all time is A Wrinkle in Time, I cannot be fairly accused of disliking fairytales. Besides, even fairytales have real endings, and they aren't always happy ones, either.

Jon Stewart totally has the requisite inner pain. All of the best comedians and satirists do.

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