One of the quirks of the Mulder/Scully dynamic was always that no matter how completely pissed off they were at each other they always refused separation. They'd rather suffer each other's silent anger than be apart. I actually have to disagree there. Funnily enough, because of one of the parts of FTF that has always bothered me. Scully just up and decides to leave (which has always struck me as pure contrivance and quite OOC), without much motivation, in comparison to everything they've been through up to that point. Considering all they've been through by NOW, together and apart? It's much easier to swallow, especially without professional ties binding them. Am I making any sense?
We totally waved back to them; most of the theater did at the midnight show. It was awesome.
But I if this was going to be our end, I think I would've liked a chance to delve back into the mytharc. I'd disagree here as well. The mytharc became an incredibly nonsensical, tangled mess in the last two years, after basically ending in S7. At this point, they have to either (a) attempt to untangle that ridiculous ball of strings, or (b) start fresh. I'm not eager to visit either potentiality, frankly.
'm taking every single bad review -- whether it's from an actual critic or just an LJ friend -- like a sucker punch to the gut. I can't even look at most of the reviews. I'm with you there. I just sort of posted in the same vein of that feeling. I keep telling myself to take it in stride, which is getting easier for me, but it's tough, isn't it? I imagine once everything is less immediate, I'll be able to return to that feeling of the past 48 hours; of purely enjoying every moment, just for me. Ordinarily I'd call that selfish, but it's so clear that the film was made for US that I just can't care.
I actually have to say one more thing that I find ironic and rather funny (in an annoying way): people saying the plot is weak, and at the same time saying FTF was better. FTF's plot is so ridiculously flawed, it's like it was made of Swiss cheese (and I thought most people were aware of that, considering how obvious it was that they were ultimately going for blockbuster spectacle). Don't get me wrong, I love FTF (you know I do), but I honestly feel that IWTB at least makes SENSE. FTF honestly does not, if you think about it for more than 5 minutes.
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I actually have to disagree there. Funnily enough, because of one of the parts of FTF that has always bothered me. Scully just up and decides to leave (which has always struck me as pure contrivance and quite OOC), without much motivation, in comparison to everything they've been through up to that point. Considering all they've been through by NOW, together and apart? It's much easier to swallow, especially without professional ties binding them. Am I making any sense?
We totally waved back to them; most of the theater did at the midnight show. It was awesome.
But I if this was going to be our end, I think I would've liked a chance to delve back into the mytharc.
I'd disagree here as well. The mytharc became an incredibly nonsensical, tangled mess in the last two years, after basically ending in S7. At this point, they have to either (a) attempt to untangle that ridiculous ball of strings, or (b) start fresh. I'm not eager to visit either potentiality, frankly.
'm taking every single bad review -- whether it's from an actual critic or just an LJ friend -- like a sucker punch to the gut. I can't even look at most of the reviews.
I'm with you there. I just sort of posted in the same vein of that feeling. I keep telling myself to take it in stride, which is getting easier for me, but it's tough, isn't it? I imagine once everything is less immediate, I'll be able to return to that feeling of the past 48 hours; of purely enjoying every moment, just for me. Ordinarily I'd call that selfish, but it's so clear that the film was made for US that I just can't care.
I actually have to say one more thing that I find ironic and rather funny (in an annoying way): people saying the plot is weak, and at the same time saying FTF was better. FTF's plot is so ridiculously flawed, it's like it was made of Swiss cheese (and I thought most people were aware of that, considering how obvious it was that they were ultimately going for blockbuster spectacle). Don't get me wrong, I love FTF (you know I do), but I honestly feel that IWTB at least makes SENSE. FTF honestly does not, if you think about it for more than 5 minutes.