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Date Posted: 13:04:57 05/21/02 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: "The Truth" is bittersweet

I posted this on the Mulder and Scully board last night, but it kind of got buried over there, so Detoured suggested I repost it here.
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Talk about your bittersweet endings!!
I'm glad Mulder and Scully got reunited, are acknowledged to be a couple in the romantic sense and will,
apparently, spend the rest of their lives together (i.e. until Mulder "dies" again). But I think it's awful that
the price they must pay for this togetherness is that their relationship must never include children; that
William must remain with his adoptive parents and -- since any future children they might conceive would
undoubtedly be subject to the same dangers that led Scully to make the painful decision to place him
for adoption in the first place -- there is no point in ever having another baby. I realize, of course, that many
couples are quite happy to remain childless; they have each other, they have their careers and they don't particularly want to be parents. However, since we have had *ample* evidence over the past few seasons that this is NOT Scully's attitude, I think it's sad to end it this way.
I guess what really makes me upset/angry at CC is. . .what was the *point* of the whole William storyline??
After all, if they had jumped directly from "Je Souhaite" to "The Truth" we would have ended up at more
or less the same place we are now: Mulder and Scully together as "partners" in every sense of the word,
but with no possibility of ever becoming parents, as Scully had already been diagnosed as barren several
seasons earlier. At that time, however, I would have considered this a HAPPY ending!! Were the past
two seasons just supposed to reinforce the idea that Scully had to pay a price for joining Mulder in his quest for the truth?? Golly gee, considering that during the first seven seasons she lost her father, her sister, her daughter (Emily) and her dog; plus was alien abducted, plus was diagnosed as barren, plus
nearly died of cancer; and also had to endure various "deaths" of Mulder. . .I think that had already been
made pretty clear!!
I'm now *REALLY* glad I made the decision not to watch any of the season nine eps prior to the series finale. Also -- and maybe this is part is partially influenced by watching "Attack of the Clones" this weekend -- it seems obvious that CC borrowed *heavily* from George Lucas to set this whole thing up.
I mean, if the XF franchise progresses to a fifth movie, I fully expect it to involve a light saber battle
between Mulder and the by-then-grownup William!
For me, one of the central points of XF was always whether or not Mulder and Scully would end up leading the life *he* wanted them to lead or the life *she* wanted them to lead. That they both wanted to live a life where they were "together" in the romantic/sexual sense of the word was always pretty obvious to me (yeah, yeah, I know; it wasn't at all "obvious" to a lot of people. . .I'm sure there are a few diehard noromos who still prefer to believe their relationship was purely platonic) but, other than that, they seemed to have
radically different ideas for the future. Scully expressed hers in the opening sequence of "Dreamland" she
wanted to get married, have kids, acquire pets. . .the whole normal (or boring, I suppose, depending on your
POV) American lifestyle; and Mulder wanted to just keep on keepin' on. . .sure, he wanted to become
Scully's lover, but other than that modification in their relationship, he wanted them to do what they'd
always done -- chase aliens, investigate the paranormal, travel around the country, etc.
So. . .Mulder (and CC) "win" the lifestyle argument as far as the TV series go. I'll just comfort myself
with fanfiction (my own and that of a number of other writers) where Scully is "winning" by a landslide!

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