Scully, I was a footnote from the beginning. When we invented this family, all you wanted was a baby. Those were your terms – take them or leave them, Mulder. It was 'your baby' – not 'our baby.' I was the platonic friend with good genes. Look but don't touch. You made the rules and I played by them. And then that changed and I got to be a real father. Now, you're still making the rules and you're still changing them
I think that's the answer: she has got what she wanted but what she wants now has changed from the original desire. Part of her may still be wanting to fight the future side by side with Mulder but she has committed herself to her child, to the life she thought she wanted. Maybe she feels let down simply by Mulder's absence, or maybe because she is not out there fighting with him (or a bit of both most likely) but she is not at the mercy of Mulder...she is not little Starbuck with Daddy, nor is she there to keep the home fires burning. She is looking after her adored child which she went through hell on earth for. She established her priorities and lives the consequences in typical Scully fashion. It's just that she'd never fully considered how much she would want Mulder to be a partner in that too. That's the way I see it anyway.
I worked through my children's infancy, daycare, blah, blah, blah, but if I had had to fight to give them life the way Scully has had to I might not have been half so keen. And that's just going to work and coming home to make the supper, not to risk my life with mutants and murderers right across the USA. It is utterly Scully to make a decision to commit herself wholeheartedly and responsibly to what she does.
It is in the vein of S9 because William exists. I would have preferred he didn't (just give me M&S fighting monsters anyday), especially as TPTB obviously couldn't think of anything better to do with him than to get rid of him. That's why I like this story: I can imagine a whole series stemming from this episode where they can resolve these (avoidable) issues, find a way for Scully to still fight the monsters....keep William intact with his Mummy and Daddy....real human beings faced with life-changing decisions in other words. Eewwwwww.... it sounds like a bloody tedious soap-opera put like that...ahem!
I just mean that Prufrock's scenario lays the ground for a Season 9 that doesn't need to heap more and more tragedy on it in desperate attempts to keep audiences engaged.
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I think that's the answer: she has got what she wanted but what she wants now has changed from the original desire. Part of her may still be wanting to fight the future side by side with Mulder but she has committed herself to her child, to the life she thought she wanted. Maybe she feels let down simply by Mulder's absence, or maybe because she is not out there fighting with him (or a bit of both most likely) but she is not at the mercy of Mulder...she is not little Starbuck with Daddy, nor is she there to keep the home fires burning. She is looking after her adored child which she went through hell on earth for. She established her priorities and lives the consequences in typical Scully fashion. It's just that she'd never fully considered how much she would want Mulder to be a partner in that too. That's the way I see it anyway.
I worked through my children's infancy, daycare, blah, blah, blah, but if I had had to fight to give them life the way Scully has had to I might not have been half so keen. And that's just going to work and coming home to make the supper, not to risk my life with mutants and murderers right across the USA. It is utterly Scully to make a decision to commit herself wholeheartedly and responsibly to what she does.
It is in the vein of S9 because William exists. I would have preferred he didn't (just give me M&S fighting monsters anyday), especially as TPTB obviously couldn't think of anything better to do with him than to get rid of him. That's why I like this story: I can imagine a whole series stemming from this episode where they can resolve these (avoidable) issues, find a way for Scully to still fight the monsters....keep William intact with his Mummy and Daddy....real human beings faced with life-changing decisions in other words. Eewwwwww.... it sounds like a bloody tedious soap-opera put like that...ahem!
I just mean that Prufrock's scenario lays the ground for a Season 9 that doesn't need to heap more and more tragedy on it in desperate attempts to keep audiences engaged.