And if you want to argue that the only way to raise a child is to put everything else, no matter how important, far on the backburner, that's one opinion, but many parents will disagree.
I don't think that's what I'm saying. Scully still has to work for a living. She still has to do the work she's getting paid for. Now she has another job, being a single parent to William. There are only so many hours in the day. I think what she's enduring is the separation from Mulder. She's lonely. Does she think about colonization? Does she still see it as a threat? That's a good question. If she did, would she still have wanted to have a kid?
Not that I envy Scully her position. It's a tremendously difficult position and by wanting her to fight the future and be a mother I know I'm asking a lot of her.
Plenty of women are working and raising kids on their own in this country, with very little help from anyone. I don't know what it's like in Canada. One problem is I'm not really clear what "fighting the future" looks like in this scenario of prufrock's or even what Mulder does when he disappears for months at a time. But that's not what this story is about.
But my Scully never stops fighting, no matter what, and I don't believe ITM puts her in a position where she has to.
Yes, and I respect that. I like that version of Scully, too. I'm just not sure that canon!Scully is as committed to the fight as we'd like her to be. Prufrock's Scully feels much more like the woman who could have ended up in a Catholic hospital working as a pediatric neurologist or whatever she was doing in IWTB.
As much as I loved Machines of Freedom," particularly the way it wove together the most problematic elements of canon into a coherent narrative, I thought the amount of responsibility Amal put on Scully's shoulders was, to say the least, unrealistic. Mulder wants a kid so she has one. Okay. She is still working full time up until a few weeks before delivery. Hard, but doable, even in your forties. In her spare time, she's organizing the counterinsurgency? Well, it's no wonder she got a Nobel Prize...
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I don't think that's what I'm saying. Scully still has to work for a living. She still has to do the work she's getting paid for. Now she has another job, being a single parent to William. There are only so many hours in the day. I think what she's enduring is the separation from Mulder. She's lonely. Does she think about colonization? Does she still see it as a threat? That's a good question. If she did, would she still have wanted to have a kid?
Not that I envy Scully her position. It's a tremendously difficult position and by wanting her to fight the future and be a mother I know I'm asking a lot of her.
Plenty of women are working and raising kids on their own in this country, with very little help from anyone. I don't know what it's like in Canada. One problem is I'm not really clear what "fighting the future" looks like in this scenario of prufrock's or even what Mulder does when he disappears for months at a time. But that's not what this story is about.
But my Scully never stops fighting, no matter what, and I don't believe ITM puts her in a position where she has to.
Yes, and I respect that. I like that version of Scully, too. I'm just not sure that canon!Scully is as committed to the fight as we'd like her to be. Prufrock's Scully feels much more like the woman who could have ended up in a Catholic hospital working as a pediatric neurologist or whatever she was doing in IWTB.
As much as I loved Machines of Freedom," particularly the way it wove together the most problematic elements of canon into a coherent narrative, I thought the amount of responsibility Amal put on Scully's shoulders was, to say the least, unrealistic. Mulder wants a kid so she has one. Okay. She is still working full time up until a few weeks before delivery. Hard, but doable, even in your forties. In her spare time, she's organizing the counterinsurgency? Well, it's no wonder she got a Nobel Prize...