Also the characterisation was good but a bit dry emotionally. I didn't really feel much warmth for these two M&S, the way it was written didn't really make you care what happened to them.
But it's fanfiction! Of course, you care about Mulder and Scully. She's not supposed to have to put in extraneous stuff that every reader presumably knows already. Isn't caring about the characters a given? And it's not a relationship story. It's not hurt/comfort, and I sure don't miss the obvious emotional manipulation of that genre. It's a mystery novel, or maybe a horror novel (don't read those, so I don't know the conventions of them as well) I'm not sure what you would want in this that would fit into the story's framework. They are solving the mystery, following the clues, and we get information around the same time that they do, except we also get the pov of the orange, which until Mulder is taken, he doesn't have.
I agree, the ending is abrupt, but I still think it works, in a kick in the gut kind of way.
I feel warmth for Mulder and Scully all of the time, without reading anything at all. I do not understand this not caring thing of which you speak.
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Date: 2012-02-18 01:54 pm (UTC)But it's fanfiction! Of course, you care about Mulder and Scully. She's not supposed to have to put in extraneous stuff that every reader presumably knows already. Isn't caring about the characters a given? And it's not a relationship story. It's not hurt/comfort, and I sure don't miss the obvious emotional manipulation of that genre. It's a mystery novel, or maybe a horror novel (don't read those, so I don't know the conventions of them as well) I'm not sure what you would want in this that would fit into the story's framework. They are solving the mystery, following the clues, and we get information around the same time that they do, except we also get the pov of the orange, which until Mulder is taken, he doesn't have.
I agree, the ending is abrupt, but I still think it works, in a kick in the gut kind of way.
I feel warmth for Mulder and Scully all of the time, without reading anything at all. I do not understand this not caring thing of which you speak.