Yes, I would see it differently with different characters, but those are my preferences; I'm not suggesting that's in the story. My interpretation is that the story doesn't privilege an OTP reading of McShep, but that it does presuppose a connection between the characters (not true love, a connection) which you seemed to want to discard completely. Within the framework of this story, that could easily apply to another pairing.
And I don't think we actually disagree; I think you're just stating your case a bit too strongly in order to balance out the usual OTP view, so that it sounds like you're making it all about the shared experience with nothing else taken into account. And I'm pretty sure you don't mean it that way. :-)
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Date: 2007-04-11 10:07 pm (UTC)And I don't think we actually disagree; I think you're just stating your case a bit too strongly in order to balance out the usual OTP view, so that it sounds like you're making it all about the shared experience with nothing else taken into account. And I'm pretty sure you don't mean it that way. :-)