yes, it does...I was incredibly frustrated at the time and thought she MUST have written more, searching frankly on the net. The ending is too abrupt and unresolved. If I recall it wasn't so much Henderson's sudden departure, although that struck oddly too, but Scully saying to Mulder about A WEEK later, "Errrr, have you seen Henderson lately?" or something like that - like she had been so smitten with him (as a Mulder substitute but a gorgeous one at that) and then Pfff, out of sight, out of mind. Nor did I ever truly get the whole "out to get Henderson plot" thing in the last third, but aside from these little (!) quibbles, I found the dynamic so exciting and I was so HAPPY for Scully to have some lovely sex with a lovely guy who wasn't completely screwed up and although it couldn't last (what with MULDER around and everything) I thought it could have been resolved a little less - I don't know - it just sort of vanished as if Tesla had suddenly got bored with the whole thing.
Still, not being a writer myself, I understand that endings are absolutely the most difficult thing to do well and some good stories are still worth it for everything that comes before. So yes, I hated that ending too but the rest of it was worth it even so.
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Date: 2010-12-02 01:55 am (UTC)Still, not being a writer myself, I understand that endings are absolutely the most difficult thing to do well and some good stories are still worth it for everything that comes before. So yes, I hated that ending too but the rest of it was worth it even so.