I'm not sure what I have to say about this fic that everyone else hasn't already been saying. Um…
I am definitely not wild about this Scully characterization. If she were simply darker and more cynical than canon Scully (a la Iolokus) it would be fine. I think what strikes me as totally off about this Scully is that she actually comes off as gruff and even a bit crass. And I am just never, ever going to buy a crass Scully.
They don't brief you on the etiquette of female macho when you join up with the Bureau.
Maybe this is a part of the problem, this idea of Scully as someone who is, or is trying to be 'macho'. That's just not Scully to me.
I think the only part of the first section, before the POV change, that I like, is Scully thinking that at by having limes in her vodka tonic at least she's getting some vitamin C.
In the last section, the remainder of her POV, I still have trouble with how she's written. The urgency of the sex scene is hot, and I like the fact that it's hard and fast, and that Scully comes at a touch, because I think that's in keeping with the situation. Mulder says, Jesus, who would have thought that she was wired this tight? But of course they're both 'wound this tight'; they've both spent the last five years in relentless pursuit of answers and closure they never get, denied satisfaction, and now the evidence of all their efforts has been destroyed. It's the tension of existential crisis, but in an instant they switch to sexual crisis, like a train switching tracks without slowing down.
But like badforthefish, I found the whole Everest/Sherpas/avalanche metaphor a bit of a mood killer. That just - wow - that is a really bad sexual metaphor. Especially coming from Scully, who doesn't strike me as someone who tends to think in extended metaphors at the most casual of times. (Too sloppy and indulgent for left-brain Scientist Scully who tends more towards clarity, direction, and precision.)
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Date: 2011-10-22 11:10 pm (UTC)I am definitely not wild about this Scully characterization. If she were simply darker and more cynical than canon Scully (a la Iolokus) it would be fine. I think what strikes me as totally off about this Scully is that she actually comes off as gruff and even a bit crass. And I am just never, ever going to buy a crass Scully.
They don't brief you on the etiquette of female macho when you join up with the Bureau.
Maybe this is a part of the problem, this idea of Scully as someone who is, or is trying to be 'macho'. That's just not Scully to me.
I think the only part of the first section, before the POV change, that I like, is Scully thinking that at by having limes in her vodka tonic at least she's getting some vitamin C.
In the last section, the remainder of her POV, I still have trouble with how she's written. The urgency of the sex scene is hot, and I like the fact that it's hard and fast, and that Scully comes at a touch, because I think that's in keeping with the situation. Mulder says, Jesus, who would have thought that she was wired this tight? But of course they're both 'wound this tight'; they've both spent the last five years in relentless pursuit of answers and closure they never get, denied satisfaction, and now the evidence of all their efforts has been destroyed. It's the tension of existential crisis, but in an instant they switch to sexual crisis, like a train switching tracks without slowing down.
But like