Since amyhit is just going to sit back and enjoy your commentary, I'm going have to jump in here. EC thinks I take this fanfiction thing too seriously but if you're truly going to need to disappear again for good, this may be my only chance to get my questions answered.
Yes, Scully is being difficult about the ship and getting a rough ride of it. Scully's basically attempting to yank the only remaining chain she has in her life to assure herself that she still has some agency somewhere. When Scully's doorbell rings at the end of WIEAYB, we know that the doorbell is either Mulder, or something I invented, because Scully has no zany-but-wise gay neighbour coming to drop off his Yorkie for Scully to watch overnight, no friend from work coming over to watch a movie because the kids are with her ex this weekend. There is *no one*. She may as well be going home to a wall-mounted charger that she plugs into until it's time for something else in which Mulder is largely central.
Her personal life in canon isn't great but you've made it much worse by having her family disown her. Why would you do that, by the way? From where I'm sitting it looks like it was to justify her pissy behavior toward Mulder, while you invent a life for him and let him be the adult for a change.
I would answer Wen by saying that Mulder is a lot less neurotic by S7 than he was in the past, and that he's come to terms with a lot of things that Scully still struggles with. Some of that's personality, some of it has to do with gender and expectations, and some of it has to do with Mulder having reached some symbolic resolution and closure on some of his "quests."
Is he really less neurotic? He wasn't acting any less neurotic to me. Is there any evidence of that in canon that you can offer? My position is that Mulder doesn't change from the pilot episode to the end of IWTB. Scully is the character who grows and changes.
In canon, Mulder does find out what happened to his sister. I think the plot for "Closure" is ridiculous and badly written but it's not merely a symbolic resolution. He gets closure, real, stupidly conceived closure. With the death of his mother, his family is gone, leaving only Scully. But in canon, Scully still has her mother and her brothers and sister-in-law and her nephew. Except you decided to take them away in this series for some reason. And Scully still has her work. Maybe Mulder's quest was only about finding the truth about his sister, but after her abduction and her sister's death and the deaths of the other Mufon women and the loss of Emily, I think Scully's quest was about justice. I'm unwilling to accept that that has changed for her, which is one reason why I dislike IWTB.
And, yeah, it is dark, but not in a confronting-evil kind of way, just... life sucks sometimes.
Look, I know this is your baby but that makes no sense in the context of this story. You have Skinner and the Smoking Man escorting refugees to "safety" who have been part of a Chinese program that experimented on human beings to what end? To create a viable human/alien hybrid? Fight the future? Find a vaccine for the black oil/virus/whatever? That sounds like a bigger problem to me than just "life sucks sometimes," even in XF terms. It's also a dropped plot thread, assuming you had no plans for it.
Wen, remember M and S get suspended during the episode after their murder victim turns out to be not dead-- noli me tangere, baby.
Right. Sorry, Hollywood AD was not one of my favs and I didn't get inspired to rewatch it this time.
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Date: 2011-12-02 03:24 am (UTC)Yes, Scully is being difficult about the ship and getting a rough ride of it. Scully's basically attempting to yank the only remaining chain she has in her life to assure herself that she still has some agency somewhere. When Scully's doorbell rings at the end of WIEAYB, we know that the doorbell is either Mulder, or something I invented, because Scully has no zany-but-wise gay neighbour coming to drop off his Yorkie for Scully to watch overnight, no friend from work coming over to watch a movie because the kids are with her ex this weekend. There is *no one*. She may as well be going home to a wall-mounted charger that she plugs into until it's time for something else in which Mulder is largely central.
Her personal life in canon isn't great but you've made it much worse by having her family disown her. Why would you do that, by the way? From where I'm sitting it looks like it was to justify her pissy behavior toward Mulder, while you invent a life for him and let him be the adult for a change.
I would answer Wen by saying that Mulder is a lot less neurotic by S7 than he was in the past, and that he's come to terms with a lot of things that Scully still struggles with. Some of that's personality, some of it has to do with gender and expectations, and some of it has to do with Mulder having reached some symbolic resolution and closure on some of his "quests."
Is he really less neurotic? He wasn't acting any less neurotic to me. Is there any evidence of that in canon that you can offer? My position is that Mulder doesn't change from the pilot episode to the end of IWTB. Scully is the character who grows and changes.
In canon, Mulder does find out what happened to his sister. I think the plot for "Closure" is ridiculous and badly written but it's not merely a symbolic resolution. He gets closure, real, stupidly conceived closure. With the death of his mother, his family is gone, leaving only Scully. But in canon, Scully still has her mother and her brothers and sister-in-law and her nephew. Except you decided to take them away in this series for some reason. And Scully still has her work. Maybe Mulder's quest was only about finding the truth about his sister, but after her abduction and her sister's death and the deaths of the other Mufon women and the loss of Emily, I think Scully's quest was about justice. I'm unwilling to accept that that has changed for her, which is one reason why I dislike IWTB.
And, yeah, it is dark, but not in a confronting-evil kind of way, just... life sucks sometimes.
Look, I know this is your baby but that makes no sense in the context of this story. You have Skinner and the Smoking Man escorting refugees to "safety" who have been part of a Chinese program that experimented on human beings to what end? To create a viable human/alien hybrid? Fight the future? Find a vaccine for the black oil/virus/whatever? That sounds like a bigger problem to me than just "life sucks sometimes," even in XF terms. It's also a dropped plot thread, assuming you had no plans for it.
Wen, remember M and S get suspended during the episode after their murder victim turns out to be not dead-- noli me tangere, baby.
Right. Sorry, Hollywood AD was not one of my favs and I didn't get inspired to rewatch it this time.