The story starts with an unusually gruesome murder that unless I missed the solution remains unsolved by the end.
I thought that the idea was that Robert Rothstein had done it, or had somehow been forced to do it by his implant? If you go back and read the prologue again, it certainly looks like it's him.
...a universe where Scully is fucking Krycek.
Which clearly can't be the right universe, isn't that so? The very nature and fabric of the universe leads us inexorably towards the Mulder/Scully OTP, and all else represents a deviation from the path of truth and righteousness. While I thought I was kidding when I typed that, on reflection I think that RivkaT and MustangSally--despite the unsentimental nature of their stories--do lead us to that conclusion in a way.
Why ours, dear reader, the universe of fan fiction.
What an interesting concept. Some people in the Usenet thread did see "Tikkun Olam" as a kind of satire, and I wonder if that isn't right. Mulder journeying through the many stories of his life and trying to choose the right one. The one with Scully and a picket fence and a house in the suburbs. The one that doesn't end with a brutal quadruple muder (quintuple if you count the cat, sextuple if you count the unborn baby).
Re: To Repair and Transform the World
I thought that the idea was that Robert Rothstein had done it, or had somehow been forced to do it by his implant? If you go back and read the prologue again, it certainly looks like it's him.
...a universe where Scully is fucking Krycek.
Which clearly can't be the right universe, isn't that so? The very nature and fabric of the universe leads us inexorably towards the Mulder/Scully OTP, and all else represents a deviation from the path of truth and righteousness. While I thought I was kidding when I typed that, on reflection I think that RivkaT and MustangSally--despite the unsentimental nature of their stories--do lead us to that conclusion in a way.
Why ours, dear reader, the universe of fan fiction.
What an interesting concept. Some people in the Usenet thread did see "Tikkun Olam" as a kind of satire, and I wonder if that isn't right. Mulder journeying through the many stories of his life and trying to choose the right one. The one with Scully and a picket fence and a house in the suburbs. The one that doesn't end with a brutal quadruple muder (quintuple if you count the cat, sextuple if you count the unborn baby).