Thanks for the warm welcome wendelah! I have created an account, as per your suggestion.
"Someone at Tumblr posted that Mulder and Scully had already been through so much, that for the mini-series, they just wanted to watch them brush their teeth."
Ha! Someone after my own heart. Of course you’re right about character and plot balance, particularly in a singular, self-contained work. But fanfiction will always have a parent source, it can’t be separated from the established series and plot, therefore any fanfiction work will automatically have a built in back-plot and much more leeway to focus on any element the author wants, even at the exclusion of others. It’s a small story within an established larger story. In my case, I look at the thing in the context of the whole... and we’ve already had so much plot shoved down our throats (much of it completely unwatchable towards the end of the series) that I tend to gravitate toward the stories that focus solely on the elements I like to see fleshed out.
Given everything that’s happened to them (each personal tragedy would probably ruin a normal person for a lifetime) I just want to say, far out, let them be happy together. I dislike the ‘mythology’ stories, I dislike the alien stories, simply because Chris Carter’s philosophy was ‘put something weird and scary on screen, make everything up as you go along, logic, planning and continuity be damned’ and what you end up with is a ludicrous, laughable mess. You can make any topic interesting if you do it well, but often the series did it very poorly. By the end, between Mulder coming back from the dead, babies, super soldiers, alien replacements, magnetite, killing off the Lone Gunmen, Krycek, mock trials, death sentences, ‘Dearest Dana’.. and on and on and on… them simply brushing their teeth would be a welcome reprieve.
But you’re right, the mini series is not fanfiction, and will need to be complete stories with all the proper elements in balance. And for me, the best of the series (Home, Clyde Bruckman, The Field Where I Died, Beyond the Sea, Elegy, Unruhe, Leonard Betts, Detour, Bad Blood, Tithonus, Jose Chung, Humbug, Quagmire, Pusher, Irresistible) was just that – complete, interesting stories with balance, that weren’t tied to the mythology. Just two FBI agents investigating weird happenings – mutants, cults and serial killers - whose bond is forged through respect for one another and the work. I hope that’s what we’ll see for the bulk of the new series.
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"Someone at Tumblr posted that Mulder and Scully had already been through so much, that for the mini-series, they just wanted to watch them brush their teeth."
Ha! Someone after my own heart. Of course you’re right about character and plot balance, particularly in a singular, self-contained work. But fanfiction will always have a parent source, it can’t be separated from the established series and plot, therefore any fanfiction work will automatically have a built in back-plot and much more leeway to focus on any element the author wants, even at the exclusion of others. It’s a small story within an established larger story. In my case, I look at the thing in the context of the whole... and we’ve already had so much plot shoved down our throats (much of it completely unwatchable towards the end of the series) that I tend to gravitate toward the stories that focus solely on the elements I like to see fleshed out.
Given everything that’s happened to them (each personal tragedy would probably ruin a normal person for a lifetime) I just want to say, far out, let them be happy together. I dislike the ‘mythology’ stories, I dislike the alien stories, simply because Chris Carter’s philosophy was ‘put something weird and scary on screen, make everything up as you go along, logic, planning and continuity be damned’ and what you end up with is a ludicrous, laughable mess. You can make any topic interesting if you do it well, but often the series did it very poorly. By the end, between Mulder coming back from the dead, babies, super soldiers, alien replacements, magnetite, killing off the Lone Gunmen, Krycek, mock trials, death sentences, ‘Dearest Dana’.. and on and on and on… them simply brushing their teeth would be a welcome reprieve.
But you’re right, the mini series is not fanfiction, and will need to be complete stories with all the proper elements in balance. And for me, the best of the series (Home, Clyde Bruckman, The Field Where I Died, Beyond the Sea, Elegy, Unruhe, Leonard Betts, Detour, Bad Blood, Tithonus, Jose Chung, Humbug, Quagmire, Pusher, Irresistible) was just that – complete, interesting stories with balance, that weren’t tied to the mythology. Just two FBI agents investigating weird happenings – mutants, cults and serial killers - whose bond is forged through respect for one another and the work. I hope that’s what we’ll see for the bulk of the new series.