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Story 170: "Certitude" by Justin Glasser
This is picfic, but for that other movie, the one I at least liked a lot better. Still, for all its virtues, Fight the Future did leave a huge plot hole for the fanfiction writers to fill in: what exactly did happen after they escaped from the alien ship? How did they get from Antarctica to Washington DC and what happened in between? "Certitude" tells that story so well, I've probably reread it a half dozen times with pleasure, and recced it, well, everywhere but here.
Besides an absolutely riveting plot, Glasser give us a Mulder-and-Scully who come as close to the characters on screen as any writer before or since. In case you weren't certain of my feelings, I love this story. The link is to Mulder in Jeopardy, where it is broken into two parts, one containing sections 1-5, the other, 6-10.
Certitude Part One
Certitude Part Two
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Besides an absolutely riveting plot, Glasser give us a Mulder-and-Scully who come as close to the characters on screen as any writer before or since. In case you weren't certain of my feelings, I love this story. The link is to Mulder in Jeopardy, where it is broken into two parts, one containing sections 1-5, the other, 6-10.
Certitude Part One
Certitude Part Two
Send feedback to the author, then come back and let us know what you think. The nomination post is always open for your suggestions.
Re: Things I liked:
Nah, not really. This is actually how I have fun in real life, critiquing bad, inaccurate medicine and science on TV. I have much lower expectations for fanfiction than I do for TV--I can't stand House, for example. It's just that I know how medical research is conducted--I work at a research hospital--and this ain't it. Yeah, if her blood had taken on abnormal, never-before-seen characteristics that would be huge. That would be Nobel prize material. But in this story, she isn't the test subject. Neil thinks that she's just going to be eliminated once "the test" is over; that's one of the things that drives him to free them both. THIS MAKES NO SENSE IF HER BLOOD IS WHAT IS BEING TESTED. THESE ARE SOME DAMN CRAZY RESEARCHERS.
Then again, I could say the same of the black-oil test subjects, yet they seemed to leave them bound under chicken wire.
Yes, it looks dramatic on TV but like so much of what 1013 did with the myth-arc, it made no sense. So in that respect, these mad scientists fit in just fine.