I haven't read this fic in a while, and tbh I don't particularly want to go and read it again for the purposes of discussion. I don't mean it was bad. It was very, very good, but dark in a way I find very disturbing. However, I wanted to comment on this:
What I wonder most, I suppose, in regard to how others see this story, is whether the sort of emotional hinge-pin moment, the one where Rodney and Teyla decide to go forward with it, works for others, too. And, if it does, is it as much because you want it to as that you could believe in it? Is it more about what you believe the characters would do or what you want the characters to do?
Yes, that hinge-pin moment did work for me, but it was because I didn't want them to continue. The thought of someone in such a dark state of mind watching me in an intimate moment like that is, to me, horrifying. That's not what the act is about, and I wanted John to leave so that they could finish undisturbed (in both senses of the word). So when they allowed him to stay, and watch, and continued to have sex, that was a powerful moment for me because it illustrated the level of fucked-up-ness of the situation.
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Date: 2005-08-23 06:12 pm (UTC)What I wonder most, I suppose, in regard to how others see this story, is whether the sort of emotional hinge-pin moment, the one where Rodney and Teyla decide to go forward with it, works for others, too. And, if it does, is it as much because you want it to as that you could believe in it? Is it more about what you believe the characters would do or what you want the characters to do?
Yes, that hinge-pin moment did work for me, but it was because I didn't want them to continue. The thought of someone in such a dark state of mind watching me in an intimate moment like that is, to me, horrifying. That's not what the act is about, and I wanted John to leave so that they could finish undisturbed (in both senses of the word). So when they allowed him to stay, and watch, and continued to have sex, that was a powerful moment for me because it illustrated the level of fucked-up-ness of the situation.