I just read another story of Zuffy's that tackled the mess that is S8 ("Hieroglyphs of Memory") and it pretty much blew my mind with how successful and engaging it was.
Maybe we should add that to the reading list, then?
I don't think it's the only reason either, but I also don't think it should ever be underestimated. If Scully wasn't pregnant maybe she would have pressed harder to find Mulder. She seems so passive during that whole season, which really annoyed me. Can you imagine season seven Scully putting up with Doggett's crap? She'd have eaten him alive. Instead of crumpling into a widdle ball when Mulder says "I don't know how I fit in here," she'd have told him (and shown him *cough*).
Yeah, of course you have to blame the writing but as you say, it is canon and so I have to try to make sense of it. The major changes in Scully's life in season eight are (1.) Mulder's abduction, death and whatever you want to call the coming back from the dead thing he did and (2.) her pregnancy. If it was just about losing Mulder, you'd think she'd be getting back to herself once he came back but she never does. Grrr. Another reason to hate season eight.
Parenthood is often a make or break for relationships and it certainly does end up coming between them by the beginning of the (hated by me) season nine opener.
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Re: Well, yes and no, Part 2
Date: 2009-09-06 01:05 am (UTC)Maybe we should add that to the reading list, then?
I don't think it's the only reason either, but I also don't think it should ever be underestimated. If Scully wasn't pregnant maybe she would have pressed harder to find Mulder. She seems so passive during that whole season, which really annoyed me. Can you imagine season seven Scully putting up with Doggett's crap? She'd have eaten him alive. Instead of crumpling into a widdle ball when Mulder says "I don't know how I fit in here," she'd have told him (and shown him *cough*).
Yeah, of course you have to blame the writing but as you say, it is canon and so I have to try to make sense of it. The major changes in Scully's life in season eight are (1.) Mulder's abduction, death and whatever you want to call the coming back from the dead thing he did and (2.) her pregnancy. If it was just about losing Mulder, you'd think she'd be getting back to herself once he came back but she never does. Grrr. Another reason to hate season eight.
Parenthood is often a make or break for relationships and it certainly does end up coming between them by the beginning of the (hated by me) season nine opener.