my very favorite benton-bob dialogue ever

[schmerica]

Fraser: Oh, great.

[his dad is sitting on his bed]

Robert Fraser : Move over.

[Fraser shifts, making room for his dad to lie down beside him in the twin bed]

Robert Fraser: The eyes are the first to go.
Fraser : Hmm?
Robert Fraser : You start to miss things that you used to be able to see. Worse still, you start to see things that aren’t there anymore.
Fraser: Well, I’m not seeing you, I’m dreaming you. Would you move your shoulder?
Robert Fraser: Are you asleep?
Fraser: I’m dead to the world.
Robert Fraser: Are you sure?
Fraser: I’m a log.
Robert Fraser: You don’t look asleep.
Fraser: Well, I am. So, if you wouldn’t mind, I could really use a decent night’s rest.
Robert Fraser: Oh.

--from "The Edge", [due South transcripts]

Comments

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

You should post this to my_father_said.

It's a great scene. Gotta love Bob.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I watched that episode tonight!

Actually, I watched a lot of episodes tonight (I just got S2 on DVD the other day) but that one was among them.

And I was not at all thinking horrible Benton/Bob incest thoughts during the bed scene. Nope, not a bit.

God, someone get me a psychiatrist.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee. You know, when I was first getting into due South from Smallville, one of the things I posted about is how one of the very clear differences between the two was that if dS fandom was more like SV fandom, there'd be Benton/Bob up the wazoo.

Also, you just managed to squick me out! Hee. That's not easy to do! (For some reason, while intergenerational incest can turn my crank, crossgenerational carries no interest for me.)

Actually, I have trouble seeing Benton/Bob, just because their relationship is so based on the emotional distance between them, you know? Even a gross wrong squicky connection is a connection, of a sort we don't really see between them.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's any comfort to you, the incest scenario is my mind is sad and unsexy and depressing.

I see what you mean about emotional distance, but I guess I also see Fraser as craving some kind of closer connection to his father. Which is to say, not the kind where Bob pops up at odd moments and gives useless advice, but the kind where Fraser actually feels loved.

So in the right emotional circumstances I could see Benton/Bob happening. But it would not be pretty, and afterwards I think Fraser would be absolutely shattered and guilty and possibly suicidal. Because once again he would have sought an emotional connection at the expense of all his moral feelings.

Not something I'd actually write. Probably.

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Just watched that episode last night! And did not, Not, NOT even for a tiny, single, passing nanosecond have any bizarre father/son in bed kink thoughts. Because it was a sweet and touching bonding moment and my brain was far too busy having its poor woobie!Fraser having-nightmares-about-getting-old button judiciously poked. And because two men in bed does not always equal hot mansex. And because I do not have perverted kinks except for that non-con thing and maybe a little friendly BDSM and okay the occasional incest!fic but that's nothing like this shut up

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, the incest thing NEVER CROSSED MY MIND. Seriously, you people are disturbing me! That's hard to do!

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

What?! I said not, I did not think the thoughts of the dirtybadwrong. *g*


*prides self in disturbing the nearly indisturbable pearl_o*