There's a certain degree of personal and professional drama involved that makes any type of continuing online 'secret life' implausible,
Well, that is discouraging. I hope things get calmed down on your end. It saddens me that people still feel threatened because of their participating in fandom. Is that why you let your website go down and your email address went away? :(
... but the main thing is that a hard drive sucked up a bunch of foreign dust and eroded away all the drafts of the rest of VS7. A coming-back scenario a la Sokol is pretty much inconceivable.
That really sucks. Pardon me while I go back up my computer...
Regarding tone in general, but especially with regard to "Amnesia" and "Vapor Trail"-- this is where you basically *have* to be on board for the central conceit that the other episodes (and the time implied in them) happens. "Amnesia" takes place probably a month after WIEAYB, "Vapor Trail" probably another two weeks at least after that. As well, I tried really hard to have the "tone" of the post-ep at least in the same ballpark as the episode, at least as I saw it. In retrospect don't think this lends itself well to sitting down and gobbling all the stories at once.
To be fair, we didn't exactly gobble them down. We spent the better part of a month discussing this opus. I still think KvS7 works best if you watch the episodes as you go along. That's what I did the first couple of times I read these.
Seriously, though, Amyhit was right, though I know nothing about quantum mechanics and it sounds suspiciously like poetry itself with its collapsing wave functions. That jewel-toned story that we see a flash of at the end has started and it's going to tell itself whether anyone is listening or not.
Oh, okay. I had to go back and reread her comments to see what you were referring to. It's this: I actually don't think of the narrative's final return to the false reality as having actually been experienced by either Mulder or Scully. I see it as what could have been, purely a theoretical outcome - a branch off of a branch off of reality. This may be kind of pedantic of me, but I've always thought of it in quantum mechanical terms. The last bit of the 'dream' was obliterated when they chose to fight for the truth, and against their conditioning. On a deeper level, it's a reality that they lost (chose against) once before as well, in their actual reality, as we discover in Coyote Luck. So the possibility embodied by the last scene is like exploring the collapsed part of a wave function. (i.e., a result that could have been but was not.)
I guess I also like thinking of it in these terms because, in quantum mechanical terms, every possible reality can be thought of as a reality on a different plane. I'm not sure if I buy into the "many worlds" theory of physics, but it is a theory that's held by many, and I love the idea that the final scene can be real and completely non-existent at the same time.
That's a pretty startling conclusion. Finding out that she was right is pretty wonderful. <3
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Date: 2011-11-24 02:59 am (UTC)Well, that is discouraging. I hope things get calmed down on your end. It saddens me that people still feel threatened because of their participating in fandom. Is that why you let your website go down and your email address went away? :(
... but the main thing is that a hard drive sucked up a bunch of foreign dust and eroded away all the drafts of the rest of VS7. A coming-back scenario a la Sokol is pretty much inconceivable.
That really sucks. Pardon me while I go back up my computer...
Regarding tone in general, but especially with regard to "Amnesia" and "Vapor Trail"-- this is where you basically *have* to be on board for the central conceit that the other episodes (and the time implied in them) happens. "Amnesia" takes place probably a month after WIEAYB, "Vapor Trail" probably another two weeks at least after that. As well, I tried really hard to have the "tone" of the post-ep at least in the same ballpark as the episode, at least as I saw it. In retrospect don't think this lends itself well to sitting down and gobbling all the stories at once.
To be fair, we didn't exactly gobble them down. We spent the better part of a month discussing this opus. I still think KvS7 works best if you watch the episodes as you go along. That's what I did the first couple of times I read these.
Seriously, though, Amyhit was right, though I know nothing about quantum mechanics and it sounds suspiciously like poetry itself with its collapsing wave functions. That jewel-toned story that we see a flash of at the end has started and it's going to tell itself whether anyone is listening or not.
Oh, okay. I had to go back and reread her comments to see what you were referring to. It's this: I actually don't think of the narrative's final return to the false reality as having actually been experienced by either Mulder or Scully. I see it as what could have been, purely a theoretical outcome - a branch off of a branch off of reality. This may be kind of pedantic of me, but I've always thought of it in quantum mechanical terms. The last bit of the 'dream' was obliterated when they chose to fight for the truth, and against their conditioning. On a deeper level, it's a reality that they lost (chose against) once before as well, in their actual reality, as we discover in Coyote Luck. So the possibility embodied by the last scene is like exploring the collapsed part of a wave function. (i.e., a result that could have been but was not.)
I guess I also like thinking of it in these terms because, in quantum mechanical terms, every possible reality can be thought of as a reality on a different plane. I'm not sure if I buy into the "many worlds" theory of physics, but it is a theory that's held by many, and I love the idea that the final scene can be real and completely non-existent at the same time.
That's a pretty startling conclusion. Finding out that she was right is pretty wonderful. <3