A Thought That Occurred To Me...
Mar. 6th, 2015 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jjpor...while watching the 2008 X-Files movie (a.k.a. I Want to Believe a.k.a. The One With Billy Connolly In It) last night...
No, not "Yay, it's the Skin Man!" but only because I've seen it a couple of times before. That was certainly my main thought when I first viewed it.
And not how different it was to the first movie made a decade earlier, while being if anything even truer to the actual television series (especially some of those dark, nasty little stories in Season 4 or thereabouts), although that is a thought that has occurred to me before in relation to this film.
No, what I thought was that when the TV series ended in 2002, we were left with the knowledge that the full-on alien invasion - the one CSM and the Syndicate had been semi-willingly paving the way for for all those years - was going to go down in 2012. That this coincides with the whole not-really-Mayan-Apocalypse thing that was briefly mainstream news a couple of years ago is, I think it's fair to surmise, not even remotely coincidental. We were also left with Our Heroes, Mulder and Scully, effectively fugitives from the heirs to that Syndicate (whose actual members, you will recall, were mostly dead by that point) and their super-soldiers.
And yet...the alien invasion (judging by the fact that the Mayan Apocalypse was a non-event as far as we know) did not actually happen. In fact, in 2008 Scully was holding down a job as a doctor - under her own name - in what appeared to be a fairly prestigious Catholic hospital. Mulder, at least, was apparently still a fugitive in some sense, but the FBI apparently knew exactly where to find him and when they did wanted to use him as a consultant in return for dropping all outstanding charges rather than slapping on the cuffs. The Conspiracy, it would appear, was no longer a factor.
I could be wrong, but the main thought I take away from this is that at some point between 2002 and 2008, in an untold (assuming there are no comic series or really good fanfics out there I really ought to know about) but presumably epic story...Mulder and Scully won.
Even with the post-9/11 iteration of the Conspiracy holding all the cards, able to do the nefarious things they'd once done in secret out in the open using counter-terrorism as a figleaf, somehow Our Heroes won...and straight-up saved the Earth and humanity into the bargain. And then went off to live together in relative obscurity like it was no big deal.
Seriously, I don't really know how active X-Files fanfiction is these days, but somebody out there needs to write this tale in all of its 100-chapter glory. Right now. ;)
No, not "Yay, it's the Skin Man!" but only because I've seen it a couple of times before. That was certainly my main thought when I first viewed it.
And not how different it was to the first movie made a decade earlier, while being if anything even truer to the actual television series (especially some of those dark, nasty little stories in Season 4 or thereabouts), although that is a thought that has occurred to me before in relation to this film.
No, what I thought was that when the TV series ended in 2002, we were left with the knowledge that the full-on alien invasion - the one CSM and the Syndicate had been semi-willingly paving the way for for all those years - was going to go down in 2012. That this coincides with the whole not-really-Mayan-Apocalypse thing that was briefly mainstream news a couple of years ago is, I think it's fair to surmise, not even remotely coincidental. We were also left with Our Heroes, Mulder and Scully, effectively fugitives from the heirs to that Syndicate (whose actual members, you will recall, were mostly dead by that point) and their super-soldiers.
And yet...the alien invasion (judging by the fact that the Mayan Apocalypse was a non-event as far as we know) did not actually happen. In fact, in 2008 Scully was holding down a job as a doctor - under her own name - in what appeared to be a fairly prestigious Catholic hospital. Mulder, at least, was apparently still a fugitive in some sense, but the FBI apparently knew exactly where to find him and when they did wanted to use him as a consultant in return for dropping all outstanding charges rather than slapping on the cuffs. The Conspiracy, it would appear, was no longer a factor.
I could be wrong, but the main thought I take away from this is that at some point between 2002 and 2008, in an untold (assuming there are no comic series or really good fanfics out there I really ought to know about) but presumably epic story...Mulder and Scully won.
Even with the post-9/11 iteration of the Conspiracy holding all the cards, able to do the nefarious things they'd once done in secret out in the open using counter-terrorism as a figleaf, somehow Our Heroes won...and straight-up saved the Earth and humanity into the bargain. And then went off to live together in relative obscurity like it was no big deal.
Seriously, I don't really know how active X-Files fanfiction is these days, but somebody out there needs to write this tale in all of its 100-chapter glory. Right now. ;)
