COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
I saw the movie twice and both times I left with tears in my eyes. They weren’t exactly tears of disappointment, it was mostly melancholy. Because "The X-Files" have grown up just the way I have grown up. And because I didn’t want to leave that fictional world again that had been the source of so much inspiration in my childhood.
First of all I need to admit I didn’t like the story very much, to me it didn’t feel like an X-File, it didn’t have the atmosphere of the old episodes of the first season. It didn’t have the mystery, the typical X-Files vibe. There were some moments where I caught that vibe, but it didn’t really come to full bloom. Maybe it got stuck in all the snow ;) (Speaking of which: the soundtrack was terrific.)
So there was some disappointment there, but I guess you guys all spoilt us too much when we were kids. I would have loved to see a real Monster of the Week, a serial killer who eats livers, skin, fat, souls or memories. And I cannot deny that I felt a little sad that after 6 years without an X-file, this was the one – maybe the last one - we got. However, I guess the story itself wasn’t really what the movie was about.
And I must admit: the pressure coming from all those demanding fans out there was huge.
I feel the movie was about the characters themselves, about the fight between faith and reason, the fights we fight against ourselves and the world out there everyday. It’s about staying true to yourself, it’s about love and what life does to those who love. It’s about hope and how you should never give up even at times when you think you completely lost yourself on the way.
I loved how you developed the relationship. It comforted me. Because I now know that somewhere out there Scully and Mulder are doing just fine. And I had been asking myself that question for 6 years…I had wondered whether their love would be strong enough to keep up with the life they had chosen. My definition of the perfect partnership is based on Mulder and Scully and their love. And I somehow needed to know that this indeed was a love that could last, no matter what life would do to them.
You have finished one of the greatest love stories in TV history and you even managed to move past this, just like the fan in “BRAVE” said: You took the next step and told their story until the end: that loving each other means to fight for each other every day. That you need to stay true to yourself and to your partner to make it work.
I thank you very much for this very intimate and idiosyncratic aspect of the movie, for this big aspect, since it seemed to tell a story of its own. It described a complex relationship in the most realistic way I could have imagined and it was absolutely beautiful to see these two being to close to each other, physically and emotionally in such a natural way.
Thanks for sharing this short glance at their lives with the fans.
Interestingly, only 4 months ago I had written a piece of fanfiction about a possible plot for the next movie and even though I had written a mythology story I also had my thoughts on how their relationship might have changed in all those years. Which is why my appreciation for how you pictured it is so great: Because it’s really hard. Anyway, what made me smile was Mulder’s and Scully’s last dialogue in the movie where they talk about the darkness inside of him that would always find her. In my story I had written something very similar. (see excerpt below) And that is interesting. Because it shows how writing works and how fiction can come to life and how it influences the way we perceive, feel and think in very similar ways even though we all are very different people.
You created two interesting and wonderful characters who reached out for millions of minds out there where they continued to live even long after the end of the show. It’s like we all share one big collective consciousness where Mulder and Scully will always love each other in a true ‘not-walk-into-the-sunset-hand-in-hand’ way. And that makes them very real.
It’s the one thing we all want to believe in, regardless of our background. Because love is the only thing that makes live bearable. It’s the only truth and you taught us that.
Thank you and please don’t think I’m ungrateful for not loving the story so much. Here’s still hoping for a third movie.
Scully’s thoughts on leaving Mulder in my fanfic “Origin of Light”:
“Their search for answers could not be pursued in the light. For the answers lay in the dark. And they themselves had become part of that darkness that they were trying to defeat. That was what had destroyed them in the end.
And maybe that was the reason why she had left: Because she had been longing for the light Mulder hadn’t been able to give her anymore.”
Nathalie
Germany
First of all I need to admit I didn’t like the story very much, to me it didn’t feel like an X-File, it didn’t have the atmosphere of the old episodes of the first season. It didn’t have the mystery, the typical X-Files vibe. There were some moments where I caught that vibe, but it didn’t really come to full bloom. Maybe it got stuck in all the snow ;) (Speaking of which: the soundtrack was terrific.)
So there was some disappointment there, but I guess you guys all spoilt us too much when we were kids. I would have loved to see a real Monster of the Week, a serial killer who eats livers, skin, fat, souls or memories. And I cannot deny that I felt a little sad that after 6 years without an X-file, this was the one – maybe the last one - we got. However, I guess the story itself wasn’t really what the movie was about.
And I must admit: the pressure coming from all those demanding fans out there was huge.
I feel the movie was about the characters themselves, about the fight between faith and reason, the fights we fight against ourselves and the world out there everyday. It’s about staying true to yourself, it’s about love and what life does to those who love. It’s about hope and how you should never give up even at times when you think you completely lost yourself on the way.
I loved how you developed the relationship. It comforted me. Because I now know that somewhere out there Scully and Mulder are doing just fine. And I had been asking myself that question for 6 years…I had wondered whether their love would be strong enough to keep up with the life they had chosen. My definition of the perfect partnership is based on Mulder and Scully and their love. And I somehow needed to know that this indeed was a love that could last, no matter what life would do to them.
You have finished one of the greatest love stories in TV history and you even managed to move past this, just like the fan in “BRAVE” said: You took the next step and told their story until the end: that loving each other means to fight for each other every day. That you need to stay true to yourself and to your partner to make it work.
I thank you very much for this very intimate and idiosyncratic aspect of the movie, for this big aspect, since it seemed to tell a story of its own. It described a complex relationship in the most realistic way I could have imagined and it was absolutely beautiful to see these two being to close to each other, physically and emotionally in such a natural way.
Thanks for sharing this short glance at their lives with the fans.
Interestingly, only 4 months ago I had written a piece of fanfiction about a possible plot for the next movie and even though I had written a mythology story I also had my thoughts on how their relationship might have changed in all those years. Which is why my appreciation for how you pictured it is so great: Because it’s really hard. Anyway, what made me smile was Mulder’s and Scully’s last dialogue in the movie where they talk about the darkness inside of him that would always find her. In my story I had written something very similar. (see excerpt below) And that is interesting. Because it shows how writing works and how fiction can come to life and how it influences the way we perceive, feel and think in very similar ways even though we all are very different people.
You created two interesting and wonderful characters who reached out for millions of minds out there where they continued to live even long after the end of the show. It’s like we all share one big collective consciousness where Mulder and Scully will always love each other in a true ‘not-walk-into-the-sunset-hand-in-hand’ way. And that makes them very real.
It’s the one thing we all want to believe in, regardless of our background. Because love is the only thing that makes live bearable. It’s the only truth and you taught us that.
Thank you and please don’t think I’m ungrateful for not loving the story so much. Here’s still hoping for a third movie.
Scully’s thoughts on leaving Mulder in my fanfic “Origin of Light”:
“Their search for answers could not be pursued in the light. For the answers lay in the dark. And they themselves had become part of that darkness that they were trying to defeat. That was what had destroyed them in the end.
And maybe that was the reason why she had left: Because she had been longing for the light Mulder hadn’t been able to give her anymore.”
Nathalie
Germany
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