My Yuletide gift (Sleepy Hollow), Fight Club, and why I love fanfic

[wneleh]

First off, let me recommend my Yuletide story, Come and See. It's 4,000 words of beautifully-crafted friendship-rooted Abby/Ichabod. The author warns for dub-con, but I'm not sure I would have, so don't let that put you off unless you're really careful about such

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[marinw]

I think that Ichy keeps hoping to get Katrina out of purgatory.

There is also the uncomfortable race issue. Ichy clearly likes and respects Abbie, but simply can't fathom anything romantic with her.

Because I shallow I keep waiting for Ichy to get new clothes. He would make a beautiful hipster.

[wneleh]

I think that Ichy keeps hoping to get Katrina out of purgatory.

I know he wants to free her; does he want to bring her back to full life? I was assuming he wanted to release her into death... Either way, it's his big driver, I accept that, I just can't get into her story.

RE: Ichabod and race - I'm not so sure. I would be very surprised if Ichabod has *marriage* in his wheelhouse of possibilities, but I'm sure he has seen plenty of examples of sexual relationships between races, under all sorts of emotional conditions (putting this as delicately as possible). I'm chalking up his shock at Jefferson/Hennings to the well-known close partnership he shared with his wife, whose death in 1782 Ichabod wouldn't have known about.

[greenlady2]

"... The big problem with this dynamic in shows like Moonlighting, Remington Steele, X-Files, and Lois and Clark (to name my favorites; yes, I'm showing my age) is that there's really no reason for a couple that has the chemistry these do NOT to start dating by episode four or whatever."

Exactly. It's frustrating. The characters don't have to jump into bed together in the second episode, but they could work out their relationship gradually, instead of muddling around for years, and then suddenly discovering they're in love.

I loved the relationship between Lois and Clark on 'Lois and Clark'. But the show built up the whole question of 'when they'd get together' for so long, that when they finally did, the show sort of lost its whole reason for existing in the minds of much of the audience. The same thing happened with 'Moonlighting', I'm told, though I never watched that show.

[wneleh]

At the time, I thought part of the reason the shows failed once the romantic relationships were established was that the writers couldn't (or thought America couldn't) handle a driven woman who was part of a couple. I haven't taken this notion out and examined it since I've shifted from young-single to married-with-kids; certainly literature since the beginning of literature has had married women who have their own agendas.