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Date Posted: 09:32:39 05/20/02 Mon
Author: Islandgirl
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Yet *another* article (season 8/9 spoilers)
In reply to: the badly dressed man 's message, "'nuff said" on 05:32:44 05/17/02 Fri

As the title suggests, there was more to this article -- a lot of stuff about "Friends" and "Ally McBeal" that I cut out -- but I like the stuff about XF, especially the end part about "remembering the good times". That's what I plan to do as I retreat to my little fanfic world of XF, which diverged from the "real" XF midway through season seven.

WHAT �FRIENDS� HAS GOING FOR IT THAT �ALLY MCBEAL� AND �THE X-FILES� DID NOT|
(EDS: Please note that the boldfaced word in the 4th graf should be set in italics.)|
|By CARYN JAMES|
|c.2002 New York Times News Service|

��The X-Files�� toyed with the idea that Dana Scully�s son, born last season, actually was from another planet, and even that couldn�t resurrect interest in the show. After David Duchovny left the cast two years ago, the series limped along and finally ended Sunday.
The difference between ��Friends,�� whose ideas seem awful on paper, and these failures, which at least sound inventive, suggest that there are no rules for how to keep a series alive except one: The show has to maintain the essential connection between the viewers and the characters on screen.
Like ��Ally McBeal,�� The X-Files�� was built on a certain amount of fantasy, unless you believe the mother ship is out there. And similarly it failed not because it lacked imagination but because it severed the connection between the characters and the viewers. When Duchovny left, it turned out that the Mulder and Scully team was irreplaceable, even though Scully (Gillian Anderson) stayed on and hung around with the new team, whoever they were. Technically we know who they were supposed to be: Robert Patrick was the skeptical agent, John Dogett; Annabeth Gish was the more open-minded agent, Monica Reyes. No one cared. They were colorless and too obviously a shadow Scully-and-Mulder team, their beliefs reversed. And where Scully and Mulder�s muted sexual attraction linked them to reality, Doggett and Reyes� chemistry was nonexistent, even as platonic partners.

Just as Duchovny came back for the ��X-Files�� finale, so characters from Ally�s past, including the dead Billy, will return Monday night. And as in any relationship, it�s easy to be sentimental after the fact. We had our moments, didn�t we? As any friend or divorce lawyer will tell you, that�s the time to remember: This relationship is dead for good reasons.

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Perhaps DD said it best when he said that "They ran out of stories." (NT) -- CW not quite sure about that though, 13:40:31 05/22/02 Wed