[ SECRET POST #4639 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4639 ⌋

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[tabaqui]

Seven years is a bit *too* long for me, but yes....how about we don't have 'twue wuv' in ten minutes?

Or, you know - romance-free plots work, too!

[(Anonymous)]

Seven years is a bit *too* long for me

I agree. Stretch it out too long and it becomes unsatisfying and unrealistic, but definitely don't have it happen instantly because then nobody cares!

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I think if they'd been playing the will they/wont they game from S1 with Mulder and Scully, then seven years might've felt too long. And definitely if the entire focus of the show had been on their relationship, then seven years would've been too long.

But I loved it and it worked for me because there were 3+ seasons where the relationship, on screen, was written as two deeply bonded colleagues with a shared mission and an increasing amount of shared trauma. There was a single scene here or there that felt like it might be hinting at the possibility of attraction, but even then it was really ambiguous.

Plus, the focus of the show was on the work and their experience with the work, and how they worked together. Their relationship was the vital underpinning of everything, but it wasn't the focus, so development could be a lot slower without it feeling ridiculous.

Seconding that romance-free plots work too. TBH, I'm a hopeless romantic at heart and a hardcore shipper. But even I think there are times when a story doesn't call for romance, or times when a story has a place for romance, but not the lush, idealized "endgame" romance that's so standard in most fiction. And definitely I would rather have no romance than something trite and shoehorned in (aka like 70% of canonical het).

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

TBH, I'm a hopeless romantic at heart and a hardcore shipper. But even I think there are times when a story doesn't call for romance, or times when a story has a place for romance, but not the lush, idealized "endgame" romance that's so standard in most fiction.

I'll agree with this, too. Some pairings are just meant for that bittersweet "what could've been" ending, and done right, that can be just as poignant and touching as a happy-ever-after.

Re: OP

[tabaqui]

And definitely I would rather have no romance than something trite and shoehorned in (aka like 70% of canonical het).

Dear gods, yes. This.

And you mae a good point re: X-Files (though even that, it's still just...too long).