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[plumsnickety]

This was much the fun. Any other requests (characters, prompts, etc) can be dropped off in comments. I'll tackle them for Wednesday.

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[serialkarma]

And in the end I did end up watching due South last night, precipitating my revelation on exactly why I gravitate towards Ray Kowalski so much. A revelation which hit during "Mountie and Soul". Oy.

...so? Why?! *waits patiently*

for I am Viseral Girl, not Thinking Girl (dS thoughts)

[plumsnickety]

Okay, so you know that me and fully sensical explanations are kinda non-mixy things, right? Anyway, here's my attempt...

So I was paying close attention to this ep because of your brilliant meta, and because I've been trying to suss out the differences in relationships between Fraser and RayV and Fraser and RayK -- like what exactly is that hinge that this whole thing pivots upon, because clearly Fraser acts completely different around RayK than he did around Vecchio.

Whew. Now that that is out of the way I can get on with this. So I've come to realize that the big thing about Fraser and RayK is that Ray allows Fraser to fight with him, to be snarky and kind of an irritating asshole sometimes. Ray provides this sort of "exchange" so Fraser can act like a normal person, not completely forced into the role of Scotch Guarded Mountie. Vecchio on the other hand, well, he had the bad habit of dismissing Fraser's nonsense most of the time. Where RayK actively inquires as to what the hell Fraser's doing (and actually sits through the

Re: for I am Viseral Girl, not Thinking Girl (dS thoughts)

[serialkarma]

the big thing about Fraser and RayK is that Ray allows Fraser to fight with him, to be snarky and kind of an irritating asshole sometimes. Ray provides this sort of "exchange" so Fraser can act like a normal person, not completely forced into the role of Scotch Guarded Mountie. Vecchio on the other hand, well, he had the bad habit of dismissing Fraser's nonsense most of the time. Where RayK actively inquires as to what the hell Fraser's doing (and actually sits through the bizarre explanations and Inuit Stories), Vecchio would just roll his eyes.

I like this a lot. It's a good intra-textual explanation for the differences in Fraser from S1 to S3.

and yeah, I hear you on the Ray thing. He so does that and it just makes me want to wrap him up in a hug All The Damn Time.*g*

[tobyfan]

Amen on Ray Kowalski.

I got your postcard and put it up on my LJ yesterday. Thanks. *G*