Not to mention the awkwardness and the yearning. I'm a sucker for some good pining (I think it's XF's influence), and they pine very well. I love how flustered both of them get around each other, because they're obviously really, really attracted to one another, but it's difficult to do anything about it because she's his direct superior. So they stumble over their words and walk into desks. And they pine! There's a great moment where, a couple episodes after their adrenaline-fueled kiss on top of a train, which they agree can never be repeated unless the exact same strange circumstances were to occur again, he tells her (with big sad eyes) that he's tried to forget it happened, but can't, and she's all, "...Really?" and then they get interrupted, dammit, but it's a great moment.
And canon gives us some intriguingly layered moments between them, sort of fridge-logical, "well, that was cute, but not really shipp--holy shit, that was REALLY, REALLY SHIPPY in retrospect!" things. An episode that I hate for being ridiculously contrived and just dumb nevertheless has this fascinating scene at the end: the premise is that Fraser has misinterpreted Thatcher's desire for him to help her fill out adoption paperwork as a request that he, er, help her have a child in the biological way (I told you it was a STUPID episode), and so he comes to her office, a bunch of flowers in hand, to say that he's willing, but would like to do things "incrementally," with dating and dancing and etc. before having kids, but definitely with having kids somewhere along the line. And my first time through the episode, I just read it as this sort of annoying, misinterpretation-used-for-cheap-laughs conclusion to an annoying episode, and then I realized exactly what he was saying/offering/wanting and went :O. There's a similar layering of meaning to the phrase "red suits you," which for a few episodes, anyway, becomes almost a code between them, standing in for all these things it would be inappropriate to actually say to each other, given their positions.
Whew. Okay, now that I've bored the hell out of you...
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TEAL. DEER. (Part 2)
Date: 2011-01-15 05:51 pm (UTC)And canon gives us some intriguingly layered moments between them, sort of fridge-logical, "well, that was cute, but not really shipp--holy shit, that was REALLY, REALLY SHIPPY in retrospect!" things. An episode that I hate for being ridiculously contrived and just dumb nevertheless has this fascinating scene at the end: the premise is that Fraser has misinterpreted Thatcher's desire for him to help her fill out adoption paperwork as a request that he, er, help her have a child in the biological way (I told you it was a STUPID episode), and so he comes to her office, a bunch of flowers in hand, to say that he's willing, but would like to do things "incrementally," with dating and dancing and etc. before having kids, but definitely with having kids somewhere along the line. And my first time through the episode, I just read it as this sort of annoying, misinterpretation-used-for-cheap-laughs conclusion to an annoying episode, and then I realized exactly what he was saying/offering/wanting and went :O. There's a similar layering of meaning to the phrase "red suits you," which for a few episodes, anyway, becomes almost a code between them, standing in for all these things it would be inappropriate to actually say to each other, given their positions.
Whew. Okay, now that I've bored the hell out of you...