Particularly Mulder's guilt complex, which although people tend to go overboard and attribute everything about his character to it, I think you're dead on in saying he doesn't think he deserves that family. YEAH, UH, BIG SURPRISE, I totally agree. There's so much more to Mulder than a guilt complex, but I think the guilt is so much of why he acts like all he ever wants is to lie on his couch and chase spaceships and eat sunflower seeds-- he's not allowed to want a family until he's saved Samantha and saved the world. And that's what the Sixth Extinction is all about. I know we've discussed the degree to which they both want families/how Scully's infertility affects that/wanting to get out the car, like, a ZILLION AND ONE TIMES, but it's so interesting. IN CONCLUSION: I LOVE HIM.
Haaaaaa, as the oldest I don't even have to think about it. My two years younger sister isn't a problem either, she's dead set on giving her kids names like Penelope or Sebastian.
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YEAH, UH, BIG SURPRISE, I totally agree. There's so much more to Mulder than a guilt complex, but I think the guilt is so much of why he acts like all he ever wants is to lie on his couch and chase spaceships and eat sunflower seeds-- he's not allowed to want a family until he's saved Samantha and saved the world. And that's what the Sixth Extinction is all about. I know we've discussed the degree to which they both want families/how Scully's infertility affects that/wanting to get out the car, like, a ZILLION AND ONE TIMES, but it's so interesting. IN CONCLUSION: I LOVE HIM.
Haaaaaa, as the oldest I don't even have to think about it. My two years younger sister isn't a problem either, she's dead set on giving her kids names like Penelope or Sebastian.