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Date Posted: 08:38:31 03/19/02 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
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Agree with you, Rabid!
In reply to: Rabid, loyal fan from day one... but no longer... 's message, "Oh, no Melissa...I must object..." on 23:00:01 03/18/02 Mon

I wasn't watching it *just* for the MSR, but I'm not ashamed to say that it was the major element of interest for me. I think it's pretty obvious that the chemistry between the original leads was as much -- if not more -- a factor in the show's critical and commercial success than the writing, special effects, etc.
I've read *numerous* articles from professional TV reviewers who basically agree with you that:
1.) Mulder's quest was the whole focus of the show's existance. He was the one who constantly pushed for the X-Files to remain an active division within the FBI. Without him, there is no *point* to the show.
2.) CC constantly promises to "reveal" things and "wrap up key plot elements" but just ends up giving us more confusion. The show has lost any semblance of coherence.
As for a romance between Doggett and Reyes. . .I really don't care *what* they do with or to each other. They can get married, kill each other, start wearing each other's clothes. . .it doesn't matter to me. And, yes, I'll concede that having Reyes as a romantic interest for Doggett makes a *LOT* more sense than trying to simply shove Doggy into Scully's heart as a replacement for her beloved Mulder, which seemed to be a minor theme runnning through several of the season 8 eps. (For Doggy to have a "thing" for Scully would be kind of weird, considering that the *entire* time he's known her, Scully has either been pregnant with another man's baby or the mother of another man's newborn. A lot of men don't find pregnant women/new mothers particularly sexually attractive even when it's their own baby. And for Scully to have simply replaced her partner/best friend of seven long years -- who was also her lover/soul mate/father of her child -- with a "new" partner within a few months would have made her look pretty disloyal. . .and we all know that Scully has always been *VERY* loyal to Mulder!)
My only objection to a Dogget/Reyes romance is that for CC to tell us for the first five or six seasons that he "didn't want to incorporate romance into the show" and then turn around and do exactly that in season nine, with a couple of leads who have only known each other about a year, is kind of a slap in the face to both those of us who didn't want to have to wait until season seven to see the first real kiss between Mulder and Scully *and* an insult to those who (I'm assuming) breathed a sigh of relief thinking that all the romance elements had ended when Mulder left the show.

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More of MHO -- Melissa, 18:44:21 03/19/02 Tue
- All goind points Melissa -- kenamom, 07:40:13 03/20/02 Wed
- Re: More of MHO -- Islandgirl, 13:32:59 03/20/02 Wed
  - Aha! -- Melissa, 20:29:07 03/20/02 Wed
    - Have fun in Hawaii, Melissa! -- Islandgirl, 07:35:40 03/21/02 Thu