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Entry tags:
- au,
- msr,
- post episode,
- r,
- season 7
Story 181: "The Waterskiers" by Khyber
Well everyone (I'm not sure how numerous you are at the moment, but I'm going to be bold and say 'everyone'), we've reached the end of the road - the point where the narrative pavement turns to gravel turns to a beaten dirt path trailing off narrowly into the uncharted wilds of the great and sometimes terrible WIP territory.
By waybacking Khyber's website we get what seem to be conflicting accounts of what the future of KvsS7 was to be. In early 2008 there were five fics meant to follow "The Waterskiers," three of which were to be "full episodes" and two were to be vignettes (as seen here). This outline complies with Khyber's notes for "Amnesia" which he judged to be the "late beginning/early middle" of the story. Yet by late 2009 the titles of four of these five fics had vanished, and only the one titled "Parabola" remained. It was initially indicated to be planned as a vignette, but later seemed intended to have been a full episode.
In summary, the fate of the KvsS7 universe remains largely a mystery, and anyone participating in the comments thread should feel free to speculate on the future of the story, as well as share their thoughts about the fic itself.
TITLE: The Waterskiers (Mod note: You may have to c/p the URL, or find the fic on Gossamer.)
AUTHOR: Khyber
E-MAIL: khyber@khyberfic.net
DISTRIBUTION: Ephemeral, Gossamer, please ask for anywhere else.
RATING: R for mature content.
CATEGORIES: XR KEYWORDS: Withheld.
SPOILERS: Pbbblffft.
SUMMARY: Missing scenes... okay, a LOT of missing scenes... from "Hollywood AD."
Author's Notes: This story is part of "Khyber Versus Season Seven" and takes place during "Hollywood AD," specifically, following the end of the famous bathtub scene. The rest of the episode takes place a week or more after the end of this story.
Remember that the premiere of "The Lazarus Bowl," according to the episode, is "eighteen months later," sometime in late 2001.
Sadly the summer is over. That does, however, mean a return to something resembling a normal posting schedule at some point in the near future. Remember the old days (July) when a new week meant changing up the plot, style, and characterizations with an all new fic? Well those days are returning along with coats and scarves, so if you have any suggestions for fics you'd like to read this fall the recommendations page is always open.
By waybacking Khyber's website we get what seem to be conflicting accounts of what the future of KvsS7 was to be. In early 2008 there were five fics meant to follow "The Waterskiers," three of which were to be "full episodes" and two were to be vignettes (as seen here). This outline complies with Khyber's notes for "Amnesia" which he judged to be the "late beginning/early middle" of the story. Yet by late 2009 the titles of four of these five fics had vanished, and only the one titled "Parabola" remained. It was initially indicated to be planned as a vignette, but later seemed intended to have been a full episode.
In summary, the fate of the KvsS7 universe remains largely a mystery, and anyone participating in the comments thread should feel free to speculate on the future of the story, as well as share their thoughts about the fic itself.
TITLE: The Waterskiers (Mod note: You may have to c/p the URL, or find the fic on Gossamer.)
AUTHOR: Khyber
E-MAIL: khyber@khyberfic.net
DISTRIBUTION: Ephemeral, Gossamer, please ask for anywhere else.
RATING: R for mature content.
CATEGORIES: XR KEYWORDS: Withheld.
SPOILERS: Pbbblffft.
SUMMARY: Missing scenes... okay, a LOT of missing scenes... from "Hollywood AD."
Author's Notes: This story is part of "Khyber Versus Season Seven" and takes place during "Hollywood AD," specifically, following the end of the famous bathtub scene. The rest of the episode takes place a week or more after the end of this story.
Remember that the premiere of "The Lazarus Bowl," according to the episode, is "eighteen months later," sometime in late 2001.
Sadly the summer is over. That does, however, mean a return to something resembling a normal posting schedule at some point in the near future. Remember the old days (July) when a new week meant changing up the plot, style, and characterizations with an all new fic? Well those days are returning along with coats and scarves, so if you have any suggestions for fics you'd like to read this fall the recommendations page is always open.
Re: ohai (1)
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
Re: ohai (1)