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The Farraday Cage
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| Title: | The Farraday Cage |
| Author(s): | Gloria Lancaster |
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| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
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| External Links: | online here |
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The Farraday Cage is a Jim/Blair story by Gloria Lancaster.
Reactions and Reviews
This is another story that, like my previous rec "Paper Cranes," illustrates the ease and inevitability of the Jim/Blair relationship. The Sentinel wasn't a show where you watched and saw clues that hinted that the slash pairing of the moment secretly liked each other (or could possibly get together someday.) It was a show where you could really see them having that kind of relationship *right now*-- a relationship with all the love, teasing, tension and struggles of a marriage.In The Farraday Cage, Gloria writes from the POV of a Blair who got together with Jim very early on in the run of the show:
It took, what, all of five seconds for me to decide to go for it. I think you just know when someone is interested, or available, or interested in becoming available, don't you? Tall, well built, military hard-ass attitude? What's not to want? So I took a deep breath and gazed up at him through my lashes and, when he didn't mind being gazed at, I threw a pass: which he caught very neatly.
It's a no-strings relationship, very casual (although a perceptive reader will notice more than a hint of unreliable narration.) Then something happens to shake Blair out of his complacency, and he has to grow up a little, maybe a little faster than he would have otherwise. (Perceptive readers who are also fans of the X-Files may notice something about the 'something' that comes between Jim and Blair. *grins*) [1]
To me, this is one of the best characterizations of Blair, ever. When an old friend of Jim's comes to town, Blair is forced to rethink their relationship and grows up a little. The last two paragraphs of this story really encapsulate what's so special about these two men together.[2]
References
- ^ 2003 comments at Crack Van
- ^ Fiction by the Sea Recommendations