As you so eloquently put it, the style is distinctively hers, with "evocative prose and compassionate characterizations" as two of the elements.
It does have a beginning, a middle and an end, although I had to print it out for careful scrutiny to be certain.
To recap, Mulder has a dream triggered by a newscast, a dream laced with memories of them on the ship in the north Atlantic, both of them inexplicably dying of old age. Scully's dad makes an appearance. Then Mulder has another memory triggered by finding out that a neighbor is dying of cancer; the memory is of Scully's last hospitalization for cancer. She is dying. She tell him she's grateful he is there with her. He decides he has to go tell her he's grateful, too.
I just don't know. I mean, one minute he's baking a pie and telling himself he's not missing Scully (um, right); the next minute he's taking the pie over to her house and he's hugging her, there's kissing and then the fade to black.
The "spoilers" indicate this takes place in season seven, but other than an oblique reference to "rapid-fire images," there isn't much to connect it to the episodes it supposedly contains spoilers to. Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand what she's getting at here. There must be a kind of emotional logic to this story, with the dream and the memories and the pumpkin pie and the cancer arc and Mulder's own latest brush with death, but I don't understand why this year of all years Mulder would decide to bake a pie and why he'd decide to take it to her and well, why any of it really.
Like all of JET's stories, it's beautifully written, full of imagery and subtle emotion, but in the end, it just doesn't add up. I don't find myself getting pulled into the drama or convinced that they're really doing it. Any of it. Maybe this story would have more meaning for me if I shipped them? I admit I was pleased that the inevitable sex was suggested rather than described in detail.
I want to believe. I swear I do. But I think there's something missing here. Plus, Mulder's sister disappeared in November, so it seems odd that there's no mention of Samantha. And what about his family? He thinks about Scully's family and their Thanksgiving celebration. He has a dream where her dad appears. Well, Mulder had a father, too. He still has a mother. No thoughts of her, either, on a holiday this family-centered?
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As you so eloquently put it, the style is distinctively hers, with "evocative prose and compassionate characterizations" as two of the elements.
It does have a beginning, a middle and an end, although I had to print it out for careful scrutiny to be certain.
To recap, Mulder has a dream triggered by a newscast, a dream laced with memories of them on the ship in the north Atlantic, both of them inexplicably dying of old age. Scully's dad makes an appearance. Then Mulder has another memory triggered by finding out that a neighbor is dying of cancer; the memory is of Scully's last hospitalization for cancer. She is dying. She tell him she's grateful he is there with her. He decides he has to go tell her he's grateful, too.
I just don't know. I mean, one minute he's baking a pie and telling himself he's not missing Scully (um, right); the next minute he's taking the pie over to her house and he's hugging her, there's kissing and then the fade to black.
The "spoilers" indicate this takes place in season seven, but other than an oblique reference to "rapid-fire images," there isn't much to connect it to the episodes it supposedly contains spoilers to. Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand what she's getting at here. There must be a kind of emotional logic to this story, with the dream and the memories and the pumpkin pie and the cancer arc and Mulder's own latest brush with death, but I don't understand why this year of all years Mulder would decide to bake a pie and why he'd decide to take it to her and well, why any of it really.
Like all of JET's stories, it's beautifully written, full of imagery and subtle emotion, but in the end, it just doesn't add up. I don't find myself getting pulled into the drama or convinced that they're really doing it. Any of it. Maybe this story would have more meaning for me if I shipped them? I admit I was pleased that the inevitable sex was suggested rather than described in detail.
I want to believe. I swear I do. But I think there's something missing here. Plus, Mulder's sister disappeared in November, so it seems odd that there's no mention of Samantha. And what about his family? He thinks about Scully's family and their Thanksgiving celebration. He has a dream where her dad appears. Well, Mulder had a father, too. He still has a mother. No thoughts of her, either, on a holiday this family-centered?
I'll try reading it again.