The Comfy Chair

I took issue with your saying, when I said I agreed with Trob about underlying connection being important to the story, that seeing that connection was an error brought about by an OTP reading of the story, a reading that was factually untrue. Which I know you've apologized for, and I'm not angry, though I was bothered, for a moment--I'm saying that that's what spurred my attempts to explain that seeing connection between these two isn't about fantasizing a one-true-love between them, and that I saw that connection in the text, where you didn't (or didn't seem to, as you continued to refute my interpretation), and that that had nothing to do with OTP. That you argued so vigorously about any reading of a connection in the story or its importance TO the story did lead me to believe that you thought that connection either isn't there or isn't important, yes. I've never argued that the story doesn't emphasize the physical, but, in the end, the story isn't about the physical, it's about the relationship and about the changes in them that change the relationship. There's a lot of talk about sex and physical attraction, but they don't end the story as fuckbuddies, they end the story as more, and that journey, the emotional, is happening concurrently with the physical and is just as important. So, we may have polarized, some, in our views in our attempts to get our points across. As far as logic and canon are concerned, I'd still say that recognizing the canonical connection between them and taking it for granted when reading a story that has been written to fit near, if not into, canon is logical, and to disregard it without reason is less so. You say that's not what you're doing, that you do see a connection between them, so that isn't an issue.