"Barring the sudden appearance of the calvary, I guess so."
Ahahahahaha! You're a little early to be bringing in heavy-handed religious overtones, Mr. Glasser. But if you come back in a later season...
But I still felt that the emotions--as when Scully "gentled" Mulder, at some length--were a little out of touch with brutal reality.
This was the one line of Certitude I remembered over the years since I first read it. Usually that would indicate I loved the line, but in this case, even though I find it memorable, it doesn't quite work for me, probably for the reason you've expressed.
It's also a line that I think of as being distinctly 'written by a man'. I'm certainly not claiming that a woman couldn't have written that line, or that the way men write fanfic can be stereotyped. All I mean is that to me something about the light that line casts Scully in, and the light it casts Mulder in, and the way it speaks of their relationship, just seems like a more masculine form of sensitivity to me: Mulder as the noble beast, Scully as the powerfully compassionate beast tamer. It's a very striking and sensual idea, though not one that I personally resonate stongly with.
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Date: 2011-08-17 10:24 pm (UTC)guess so."
Ahahahahaha! You're a little early to be bringing in heavy-handed religious overtones, Mr. Glasser. But if you come back in a later season...
But I still felt that the emotions--as when Scully "gentled" Mulder, at some length--were a little out of touch with brutal reality.
This was the one line of Certitude I remembered over the years since I first read it. Usually that would indicate I loved the line, but in this case, even though I find it memorable, it doesn't quite work for me, probably for the reason you've expressed.
It's also a line that I think of as being distinctly 'written by a man'. I'm certainly not claiming that a woman couldn't have written that line, or that the way men write fanfic can be stereotyped. All I mean is that to me something about the light that line casts Scully in, and the light it casts Mulder in, and the way it speaks of their relationship, just seems like a more masculine form of sensitivity to me: Mulder as the noble beast, Scully as the powerfully compassionate beast tamer. It's a very striking and sensual idea, though not one that I personally resonate stongly with.