I remember the selling of the "New Year's kiss" and the fever of the fans. I think that bloodless little smooch was Chris Carter's typical way of reducing the ship to a tease rather than a complex and acknowledged reality.
I have to say, I think you're right about that. I knew from the beginning that there would be a New Year's kiss in S7, and that it would be brief and sweet and, yes, bloodless, so I never had any other expectations, and the way I conceptualized it in my mind made it feel right. (I did this with the help of much fanfic, naturally. *g*)
But if I'd been watching the show at the time, and waiting and hoping that the ship would develop, I know I would have been very upset with that dismissive little stunt CC turned it into. Scully's-reaction-in-Collapsar levels of upset, at least.
It was his curse, that ship, and he went down with it.
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Re: 1. Collapsar
Date: 2011-08-31 07:00 pm (UTC)I have to say, I think you're right about that. I knew from the beginning that there would be a New Year's kiss in S7, and that it would be brief and sweet and, yes, bloodless, so I never had any other expectations, and the way I conceptualized it in my mind made it feel right. (I did this with the help of much fanfic, naturally. *g*)
But if I'd been watching the show at the time, and waiting and hoping that the ship would develop, I know I would have been very upset with that dismissive little stunt CC turned it into. Scully's-reaction-in-Collapsar levels of upset, at least.
It was his curse, that ship, and he went down with it.
This. Is. So. Wonderful.