In contrast Scully was going to have an experience which would confirm for her that some greater force works directly in the world with a purpose that is uncompromising and beyond easy comprehension, and that whether she chooses to accept it or not she is sometimes an instrument of that purpose. Though this is a pretty Catholic sentiment, I was fighting with the idea of whether not Scully would see this through a Christian frame or not.
KvS7 was going to end with Skinner dead in Bellefleur, and CSM trying to convince M and S to help him and a few others re-establish a version of the Project and fight the future. And we, the readers, know that CSM is "right," but M and S don't. And to take this path that we know is "right" in terms of XF mythology would invalidate most everything and everywhere they have been through the rest of KvS7, reduce them again to suits and guns and test-tubes.
And I was going it leave it there, unresolved.
IWTB:
One of the things I liked about IWTB was that it actually worked as well or better after KvS7 than it did after the canonical series, except that Skinner was still alive. Their relationship in IWTB is pretty much exactly how I always imagined things turning out. I have been slightly misquoted regarding IWTB having a 'happy' ending that I liked; I think I said that it's an ending that feels true. I felt like it had been twelve years since Antarctica, and Antarctica's still there but so is a lot of other life. I can imagine how they got there and where it's going after and it feels like something real. I credit DD and GA for this, because their performances in IWTB are little gems of naturalism by great character actors (despite GA being saddled with one terrible montage scene.)
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Date: 2011-11-23 10:59 pm (UTC)KvS7 was going to end with Skinner dead in Bellefleur, and CSM trying to convince M and S to help him and a few others re-establish a version of the Project and fight the future. And we, the readers, know that CSM is "right," but M and S don't. And to take this path that we know is "right" in terms of XF mythology would invalidate most everything and everywhere they have been through the rest of KvS7, reduce them again to suits and guns and test-tubes.
And I was going it leave it there, unresolved.
IWTB:
One of the things I liked about IWTB was that it actually worked as well or better after KvS7 than it did after the canonical series, except that Skinner was still alive. Their relationship in IWTB is pretty much exactly how I always imagined things turning out. I have been slightly misquoted regarding IWTB having a 'happy' ending that I liked; I think I said that it's an ending that feels true. I felt like it had been twelve years since Antarctica, and Antarctica's still there but so is a lot of other life. I can imagine how they got there and where it's going after and it feels like something real. I credit DD and GA for this, because their performances in IWTB are little gems of naturalism by great character actors (despite GA being saddled with one terrible montage scene.)