I've been thinking about 2012 and fighting the future and I'm suddenly really bothered that Scully's started some new career and Mulder's hiding out cutting out newspaper articles and obsessing over his dead sister when they're SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING THE WORLD. EXACTLY. I completely get disconnecting them from the mytharc, but regardless of what context they put them in, IT HAS STILL SHAPED THEM AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN WAYS WE COULD NEVER IMAGINE, YOU KNOW???? And Mulder-- after everything he's been through and worked for and all of that, to think that he just kind of gives up and lives happily ever after? I really want to believe (no pun intended) that he/they could do that, but I just don't think it's in their nature AT ALL. But at the same time, I have never even seen the 9th season so I'm not one to really talk but. I don't know. I think there were ways to have them have that almost delusional happily ever after thing going on (delusional in the sense that they're just trying to make the best of the time they have together before everything goes to hell) while still being true to them.
But I'm constantly second guessing myself and wondering, but wait-- maybe this is them and I'm being too harsh with my criticism? After all the shit they've gone through, they've grown and changed and all they want is each other and nothing else matters? BECAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE TOO. And I LOVE that idea, but...To say that this film is great on that sheer basis while completely disregarding the crap story they're telling? That just ain't right to me. The reason why I love XF so much is because THEY WERE ALWAYS ABLE TO STRIKE THAT BALANCE. Between amazing storytelling and Mulder and Scully's epic, I guess it's now canon to say love? (GOD, I bet you they had conversations in bed about the first time they knew they were it-- THE THOUGHT OF THAT MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.)
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part two: re being a standalone film, seperate from mytharc
Date: 2008-07-26 05:15 pm (UTC)EXACTLY. I completely get disconnecting them from the mytharc, but regardless of what context they put them in, IT HAS STILL SHAPED THEM AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN WAYS WE COULD NEVER IMAGINE, YOU KNOW???? And Mulder-- after everything he's been through and worked for and all of that, to think that he just kind of gives up and lives happily ever after? I really want to believe (no pun intended) that he/they could do that, but I just don't think it's in their nature AT ALL. But at the same time, I have never even seen the 9th season so I'm not one to really talk but. I don't know. I think there were ways to have them have that almost delusional happily ever after thing going on (delusional in the sense that they're just trying to make the best of the time they have together before everything goes to hell) while still being true to them.
But I'm constantly second guessing myself and wondering, but wait-- maybe this is them and I'm being too harsh with my criticism? After all the shit they've gone through, they've grown and changed and all they want is each other and nothing else matters? BECAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE TOO. And I LOVE that idea, but...To say that this film is great on that sheer basis while completely disregarding the crap story they're telling? That just ain't right to me. The reason why I love XF so much is because THEY WERE ALWAYS ABLE TO STRIKE THAT BALANCE. Between amazing storytelling and Mulder and Scully's epic, I guess it's now canon to say love? (GOD, I bet you they had conversations in bed about the first time they knew they were it-- THE THOUGHT OF THAT MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.)