I think it helped me to appreciate this fic a little bit more when I realized it was written after Requiem but before S8 began, a point in time where anything could happen. Nobody knew how the show was going to handle things (or fail to handle them) so even the tone of the fic was entirely flexible. No one knew if S8 was going to be a horror fest or a gooey family love-in (admittedly unlikely). Bugs was just theorizing, spinning one possible idea of what the future might hold.
Admittedly you could say this for all fic, but I think when a fic is being written in direct response to a canonical revelation, and before the fic writer has anything to go on, it changes the dynamic between writer, content, and audience quite distinctly. Especially where The X-Files is concerned, the writers tended to make very dramatic moves that had even the most stoic viewers thinking the sky was falling, and then they'd downplay things significantly after the gap. Considering where Requiem left things, it's not unreasonable that fic writers prophesied S8 would be gruesome and full of anguish.
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Date: 2011-02-13 03:20 am (UTC)Admittedly you could say this for all fic, but I think when a fic is being written in direct response to a canonical revelation, and before the fic writer has anything to go on, it changes the dynamic between writer, content, and audience quite distinctly. Especially where The X-Files is concerned, the writers tended to make very dramatic moves that had even the most stoic viewers thinking the sky was falling, and then they'd downplay things significantly after the gap. Considering where Requiem left things, it's not unreasonable that fic writers prophesied S8 would be gruesome and full of anguish.