Nope. I made it through the third book and I just can't anymore. I hate it.
It's not just that the characters don't act like Mulder and Scully; they don't act like people. Every single character is a sex addict (Scully and Marita? Also, come on, you don't almost have sex with a serial killer just because he looks like your lover), and the level of violence and callousness is just...too much.
To wit: Scully is abducted, made infertile, had her eggs stolen, given cancer, tenuously cured, discovers that she has a daughter, has said daughter die in her arms, walks in on a room full of strangled schoolchildren, discovers that she has a warehouse full of monster-babies, kills said monster-babies, kills woman she slept with the night before, gets brutally raped, discovers that she has even MORE children, walks in on a room full of slaughtered pregnant women and dead babies (all of which are hers), rescues one but decides that she's not in great shape to parent and gives her up, witnesses her lover savagely ripping a man apart, is stalked by a serial killer and nearly murdered, finds a dead body in her bed, has psychic dreams of children being murdered, AND I'M PROBABLY FORGETTING SOMETHING. All this, and Mulder calls her a bitch every other paragraph because she doesn't want to cuddle? Fuck you, Mulder.
I don't care how they manage to end up together in the end, because they shouldn't. Mulder is a monster (even if they try to say that the twins were invading his mind or something), Scully needs to be a psych ward, and Miranda should be with more stable parents. It looks like the third book is about a custody battle; I hope the other couple wins.
Also, all the plot holes. I tried, I really did, but I'm done.
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Date: 2015-07-10 04:57 pm (UTC)It's not just that the characters don't act like Mulder and Scully; they don't act like people. Every single character is a sex addict (Scully and Marita? Also, come on, you don't almost have sex with a serial killer just because he looks like your lover), and the level of violence and callousness is just...too much.
To wit: Scully is abducted, made infertile, had her eggs stolen, given cancer, tenuously cured, discovers that she has a daughter, has said daughter die in her arms, walks in on a room full of strangled schoolchildren, discovers that she has a warehouse full of monster-babies, kills said monster-babies, kills woman she slept with the night before, gets brutally raped, discovers that she has even MORE children, walks in on a room full of slaughtered pregnant women and dead babies (all of which are hers), rescues one but decides that she's not in great shape to parent and gives her up, witnesses her lover savagely ripping a man apart, is stalked by a serial killer and nearly murdered, finds a dead body in her bed, has psychic dreams of children being murdered, AND I'M PROBABLY FORGETTING SOMETHING. All this, and Mulder calls her a bitch every other paragraph because she doesn't want to cuddle? Fuck you, Mulder.
I don't care how they manage to end up together in the end, because they shouldn't. Mulder is a monster (even if they try to say that the twins were invading his mind or something), Scully needs to be a psych ward, and Miranda should be with more stable parents. It looks like the third book is about a custody battle; I hope the other couple wins.
Also, all the plot holes. I tried, I really did, but I'm done.