Comments | xf_book_club: Story 47: "Backlash" by Joann Humby

wendelah1 in xf_book_club

Story 47: "Backlash" by Joann Humby

Jul 24, 2008 02:59

Okay, I admit it. This is not a short story. Written back in 2003, with the movie in mind, Humby tried to come up with a plausible scenario to bring Mulder and Scully back into the FBI mainstream, away from their life on the run. Start it now and you may not be able to put it down.

BacklashAs always, let the author know what you think; let us know ( Read more... )

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What??? No comments? bmerb September 21 2016, 20:35:49 UTC

I can't believe nobody commented on this. It was right up my alley. Tension, x file, some profiling!Mulder, some ghosts, emotional tension... It was written clearly from Mulder's PIV which is fine by me since I love love love Scully and I'm picky about her internal portrayals (key up some Nascent).

Anyway I hope someone else out there enjoyed this one and would want to talk about it, I'm sure curious. Seems clear that the ghosts were really there interacting with Mulder, thanks to Charles' presence, but the little piece about the address from X and Gibson helping him realize he's always know threw me for a bit of a loop.

Also can I just say that I loved the no sex aspect? Like, this was not at all the focus in any way and yay?? Hooves you have any thoughts on this one??

Re: What??? No comments? wendelah1 September 22 2016, 10:33:44 UTC

I nominated and posted it, so I love it. It got no comments because of the timing--people were either discussing the movie, or movie spoilers. It was all anyone talked about online. No one had any interest in discussing a story that was about to be/already had been jossed.

I'll need to reread it but I'll come back and comment on it.

Here's a comment. wendelah1 September 22 2016, 16:45:52 UTC

I thought the opening scene where they get pulled over by the federal marshals was tense, exciting and quite theatrical. I thought it could easily could have been filmed ( ... )

RE: Here's a comment. bmerb September 22 2016, 18:01:18 UTC

Hmmm those are good points you brought up. I was wondering how it is that the ghosts are corporeal somehow for Mulder. Like, solid handshake corporeal, not just images. I guess I didn't think too hard about how the charges were set since I wasn't quite following the tech talk about the explosions.
Yeah, Scully's misery seems just about right to me here. Gave up her son, unable to contact her family for a year and then learns that her brother is dead, THEN learns he is postmortem responsible for bombings, her partner seems to be delusional and not so interested in emotionally connecting for most of the story, sounds like a perfect recipe for misery to me too.
And yeah, the author ties things up much better than CC did.

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