QUICK tangent here: but I think your earlier comment about him wondering if this was against THEM or HIM would also lead to the marriage-as-cover and who, exactly, that cover was for. Was it just for Mulder? Or was it also for Scully's sake? Were their affections mutual or one-sided? Mulder, as the remembering one in the main story, has to deal with the possibility that Scully was dragged into it because of him (and made his wife for his sake, in an attempt to make him subconsciously happy enough to not question anything). If this is true, in a sense, then, it's his fault that she'll never come back as herself. Ouch. Again, trauma for the one who remembers: it's just a different kind of pain than for the one who forgets themselves.
I didn't think Dana was too ruthless but I sped through this story so fast I might have accidentally missed something telling. I think CSM existed solely to plant the ultimate doubt into Dana's mind. She can't trust ANYTHING or ANYONE ever again. So I agree with you: it's a way to mess with her one final way so severely she'll never regain her footing even if she DOES get her memories back.
(I think Scully can be the more dangerous of the two of them, by the way, depending on the circumstances. Mulder might fly off the handle but there's something pressingly terrifying about controlled righteous indignation, which Scully could utilize and probably has in spades. She's more in control and in that sense more calculating and a bigger issue to worry about than was initially suspected of her. Which I felt the show did try to convey to an extent, though they always put Mulder in the spotlight.)
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Re: Whew
Date: 2016-09-07 05:01 pm (UTC)I didn't think Dana was too ruthless but I sped through this story so fast I might have accidentally missed something telling. I think CSM existed solely to plant the ultimate doubt into Dana's mind. She can't trust ANYTHING or ANYONE ever again. So I agree with you: it's a way to mess with her one final way so severely she'll never regain her footing even if she DOES get her memories back.
(I think Scully can be the more dangerous of the two of them, by the way, depending on the circumstances. Mulder might fly off the handle but there's something pressingly terrifying about controlled righteous indignation, which Scully could utilize and probably has in spades. She's more in control and in that sense more calculating and a bigger issue to worry about than was initially suspected of her. Which I felt the show did try to convey to an extent, though they always put Mulder in the spotlight.)