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{{MetaEssay
{{MetaEssay
|fanworktitle= I like... iced tea
|fanworktitle= I like... iced tea
|creator= Hobrock, Patterson and Zuffy
|creator= Hobrock
|dates=
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|medium= online
|medium= online
|url= [http://www.bardsmaid.org/XF/ArchMSRIcedTea.htm online here]
|url= [http://www.bardsmaid.org/XF/ArchMSRIcedTea.htm online here]
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'''I like... iced tea''' is an essay by Hobrock, Patterson and Zuffy.
'''I like... iced tea''' is an essay by Hobrock.
It is one of many essays at [[The Cave's X-Files Commentary Archives]].
It is one of many essays at [[The Cave's X-Files Commentary Archives]].
By making an off-handed comment Mulder managed to avoid any real vulnerability and, with it, any emotional openness. This stance, along with some unfortunate results at times, has become the forte of their relationship. }}
By making an off-handed comment Mulder managed to avoid any real vulnerability and, with it, any emotional openness. This stance, along with some unfortunate results at times, has become the forte of their relationship. }}
==Comments==
The essay's author included two fans' comments to this post.
{{Quotation|Reply: I love root beer by Patterson: You say Potayto, I say potahto.
Hobrock, you scared me! I thought that you were headed down shipper lane at first. Glad to know some things can still be counted on. I adore this scene. I think it's one of the first times, if not the first time Scully really opens up and says what she feels instead of trying to convince him he's crazy or delusional or wrong. I think you're analysis is dead on. I think that's exactly why he said what he did and why he commonly refers to love and/or sex in jokes. It's like if you say it, it diffuses it. But I also think he very well may really like her if not love her on some level at this point (Note: acknowledging a love feeling does not make me a shipper). No one has ever treated him with the respect and loyalty that she has and I think that's really messing with his head at this point. In essence, Scully rocked his world, to use the language from the street. }}
{{Quotation2|I Love... liverwurst by Zuffy: The UST is a feature of the conflicts between them and within each of them. I don't think it takes any of the obvious and somewhat trite forms that one sees more commonly on television. I agree completely, Hobrock, that Scully spends no time sitting around wondering whether Mulder loves her. I doubt she uses that word to herself, either with respect to his feelings or to hers, focusing instead on terms like trust and belief.
What's just beneath the surface, though, is a sense of physical attraction, separate from and largely subsumed by the intense emotional bond between them. It's there, Mulder realizes it and I suspect Scully does, too, but they both put it away again and again. It starts with the bite scene in *Pilot with Mulder's startled reaction and more-or-less instant decision that he doesn't know what's going on with this woman, but he is *not going to make a move. Because they both know that potential and they have both put it aside, they can joke about it on Mulder's terms. If they didn't recognize the potential, I think the jokes would be unfunny. Bring it up, defuse it, move on leaving just a lingering scent of the forbidden. The forbidden is sexy, isn't it? And I agree with you on Detoured that Scully's sudden forwardness sent Mulder into retreat. She's so reserved, he must have been shocked that she might be ready to move out of the comfortable zone.
As for the scene in Tooms, I have always been amazed at the undercurrents. I agree with you to an extent about his reaction. He is trying to get her to back off, but only if the basis for her allegiance is misguided (in his view) personal attachment to him. I don't think he assumes her statement is *not about love; he looks at her in total amazement after her statement. (Patterson is dead on about her 'rocking his world.') I think it scares him and he is afraid as much for her as for him. To my ear, his rejoinder means "if this is about love, don't do it." But if her willingness to put herself on the line is out of commitment to what they do, then I think he very much wants her to stay. }}
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