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Date Posted: 21:38:40 01/22/00 Sat
Author: c_shantal
Subject: The Wizard of Oz or the Bermuda Triangle?
In reply to: Mat 's message, "Yes, she did look good!! ;o)" on 14:27:48 01/21/00 Fri

Mat, there _is_ another point of view for this episode. Perhaps it will offer the credible sounding explanation you are looking for.

The Bermuda Triangle itself is the core of this episode, and does exist. There are documented disappearances and re-appearances of ships; people have mysteriously disappeared; and planes have vanished, some within sight of Florida. It certainly fits into the paranormal scope of the XFiles.

If viewed in the context of what the Bermuda Triangle represents this is a remarkable story of parallel universes and/or a riff in the time-space continuum. Mulder enters another plane of existence while in the BT area. While existing there he experiences the events as they play out aboard the Queen Ann, where he meets people who look remarkably like people he knows in 1998, including a Scully look-alike. Meanwhile in real time while Mulder is 'out of this world', Scully and TLG are searching for Mulder based on his last coordinates, the ship reappears and is nothing more to them than what it is - a ghost ship, empty and barren. Thus, nic, the explanation of the "ghost ship" remark by Scully. The events aboard the ship for all involved play out simultaneously yet on different planes of existence. The defining proof of this theory is witnessed as Scully and her look-alike cross paths, or rather walk through one another, while in the ship at the same time. A definite X-Files moment.

I want to believe this theory; I prefer it over the dream theory, IT is an X-File, while a dream is not. But it has it's problems. This BT alternate planes of existence visit can not account for Scully's, ah, wildly over-exuberant behavior. Sure I would like to believe she would be _that_ concerned for him, but Scully threatening people (and quite comically I might add - hum, like a dream-Scully?), and planting a smack-a-roo like that on Skinner, and saying the things she does?? And I agree, nic, about the LGM wondering around in the FBI building like that. Wouldn't they just have called her? And their van was in the parking garage of the FBI building?!! It would be more like our paranoid friends to park a block away... And of course, the real time line problems are just too confusing.

But we have to face the reality that this is indeed all a dream. A dream of Mulder's inspired by his heightened excitment of being actually in the Bermuda Triangle and searching for the re-appeared ship. CC said he filmed this as a homage to The Wizard of Oz. If he is right and not just jerking our chains, it all makes sense, all of it up to the ending scene in the hospital. Mulder's dream parallels Dorothy's dream. Just like hers a knock on the head allows this strange dream of same-time different realities to begin. Just like hers the people he knows show up as but in different roles. A dream would explain so much. His exuberant behavior; Scully's exuberant behavior at the FBI as he would like for her to be - just oh so concerned about him; the LGM's involvement as who he would turn to for help; the kiss, with Mulder agressively planting one on Scully all else be damned and the 'exiting' of the dream by jumping overboard as he is rescued by the Coast Guard, or whomever it was. A truly wonderful touch of continunity is when the elevator doors open and we see from Scully's POV CSM and other conspirators - including Kersch - chatting in the hallway. Mulder has probably worried about Kersch's involvement with CSM to the point that it makes an appearance in his dream. All the real time problems can be twisted to fit the dream any way as his mind twists it all together. Like Dorothy he awakens to insist it was all true, "You were there, and you, and you".

And in this episode my man Mulder grows! He looks Scully in the eye, not at the floor or out the window, and tells her he loves her. Good for you Mulder! No need to worry about her reaction at that moment, he has said what he wanted to say, what he has needed to say. Personally, I saw no evidence he was drugged so badly he didn't know what he was saying. I like to think he _used_ that same excuse precisely for that reason to tell her then because
she wouldn't be pressed for a return commitment.

So the controversy goes on. For all the things we can't quite make sense of, and all the problems with both theories, it is still a finely written, entertaining hour of the XFiles, IMHO. CC does not give us clear answers, as you know, but involves us, the viewers, in a way no other tv program does. He invites us to suspend our belief with Triangle and takes us places we might not otherwise go, be it a dream of the Bermuda Triangle, or a trip into an alternate universe.

If you are still reading this way too long post, thanks.
Sorry I've repeated so much of everyone else's comments.

"Way bizarre!" Scully when walking through herself ~

Chantal
BTW, excellent posts you guys!

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Replies:

nice post! -- cvl, 13:25:06 01/23/00 Sun
- You're right, cvl -- c_shantal, 13:30:45 01/27/00 Thu
Re: The Wizard of Oz or the Bermuda Triangle? -- Mat, 16:04:22 01/25/00 Tue
- No, Mulder seemed genuine to me at the end -- devlin, 16:54:29 01/25/00 Tue
  - Three little words -- nic, 05:16:46 01/26/00 Wed
    - Take me here! Take me now! -- detoured, 15:14:33 01/26/00 Wed
      - it ain't gonna happen!! -- cvl, 08:33:39 01/29/00 Sat
        Scully and Skinner made sense to you? Urk! NIM -- Cookie monster, 13:41:14 01/29/00 Sat
- The Soap Files. -- c_shantal, 13:41:26 01/27/00 Thu
Re: The Wizard of Oz or the Bermuda Triangle? -- nic, 05:45:19 01/26/00 Wed
- We aren't who we are. -- c_shantal, 13:54:59 01/27/00 Thu
  - Romantic contradiction - I can go with that. -- devlin, 16:21:18 01/27/00 Thu
    - As usual, I'm undecided -- nic, 15:01:41 01/30/00 Sun
      - Doesn't this make you a fencesitter? -- devlin, 17:15:25 01/30/00 Sun
        That line.. -- nic, 07:51:09 01/31/00 Mon
        Maybe you ought to call your self a fenceshipper! ;-) NIM -- Cookie monster, 08:33:15 01/31/00 Mon