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Date Posted: 07:29:20 10/13/01 Sat
Author: devlin
Subject: A victim of its own success
In reply to: Islandgirl 's message, "An XF tradeoff" on 16:18:41 10/11/01 Thu

A good, long read there IG and although I have yet to see S8, I am with you on all your points. I don't say this because I don't like RP (who I have yet to see and intend to give a fair hearing to) but because I *do* like Mulder. And the show without him can never be the same show I watched for seven years in total bliss. For me, he was the heart and soul of the series and if there was a mistake made by CC, it was making a show with a great myth-arc, directly involving Mulder and his family and creating a fantastic basis for in-depth study of him, specifically. Because now, to go away from that and try to pretend the show was intended to be monster-of-the-week is far too late. When it developed into government conspiracy territory etc, it became much more popular - these ideas caught the imagination and people lapped it up. With Mulder in the centre. Therefore, without him it has to be considerably weaker and what all fans fear happening will happen - it will die limping, rather than triumphantly winning the hundred metres!

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Your comments echo those of a lot of professional TV critics -- Islandgirl, 12:34:34 10/13/01 Sat
- Although, while -- CW, 14:53:54 10/13/01 Sat
  - Actually...if you want to stay up... -- Scully'sMyHero, 17:16:38 10/15/01 Mon
    - Thanks for the info--I do stay up and they have yet to put XFiles on at that time up here -- CW, 21:33:00 10/15/01 Mon
    - It's gone from the 1 am slot too in my area :-( -- detoured, 01:06:01 10/16/01 Tue
      - We still get XF reruns in Texas, thankfully! -- Islangirl, 09:51:33 10/16/01 Tue
        Guess I haven't stayed up that late in awhile! -- Scully'sMyHero, 11:24:02 10/20/01 Sat
        We still only get it in weekends too -- detoured, 12:43:35 10/20/01 Sat
        We were supposed to get All Things -- CW, 20:09:59 10/22/01 Mon
        We got 'all things' -- detoured, 00:15:58 10/28/01 Sun
        No fair! -- Islandgirl, 14:20:57 10/29/01 Mon
        Season four comes out in November, No word on Season 5 yet! (NT) -- Scully'sMyHero, 05:11:26 10/28/01 Sun
        Ok, it looks like XF is still on FX! -- Scully'sMyHero, 20:17:11 10/30/01 Tue