Closure - 02/14/00

"Mulder deserves closure just like anyone else." ~ Scully

Episodes like this make me ashamed to be Phile. I almost cried last night 
after it went off. Not because the last scene was so powerful, dramatic, 
and moving, but because it was none of the previous things. As Rhett Butler 
said in Gone With the Wind, "...it'll never rise again." He, of course, was 
speaking of the South (but we showed him, didn't we?). I am speaking of our 
beloved show. Through out the past five years I've endured a lot from this 
show. Even after Rain King, Agua Mala, Arcadia, etc., I never imagined that 
The X-Files was dead. It always seemed to redeem itself slightly but enough 
to keep my hopes up that it would someday regain its vigor and appeal that 
it once had. After last night, I know that these hopes are false. The X-Files 
has reached its peak (waaaaaaay back in the fourth season) and is well past 
it. Our show will never rise again. It is dead. Anything beyond this is like
beating a dead horse named Chris Carter. It had a good run, but its now time
to stop and say, "We're out of ideas".

With that said, lets review.

In a word, Closure sucked.

I knew we were screwed after the teaser voice-over made me want to vomit. 
That feeling didn't go away for an hour. 

I've struggled with how to put my feelings for this quasi-mytharic wannabe 
since last night, and I still haven't come up with the appropriate words. 
Below is my best attempt.

Do you remember the days when the mythology didn't make sense, but you 
believed it anyway because you believed in Mulder's search and that what the 
Consortium was doing is bad and "justice should be served"? Do you remember 
seeing Samantha clones and Mighty Morphin' Bounty Hunters and alien fetuses 
and water-babies and women being abducted, returned, and given a lethal 
cancer? Do you remember Deep Throat, X, Krychek, The Well-Manicured Man, the 
leper colony, black oil, the Cold War not being over, and Max Fennig? Do you 
remember the Lone Gunman and a helpful and kickin' butt Skinner? Do you 
remember when Scully wasn't just Mulder's sidekick? 

Yeah, me too.

The thing about last night's episode that upset was the fact that all of the 
past mytharic episodes were apparently lies, and 1013 has just been toying 
with us for 7 years. After all of times that Mulder chased the truth about 
his sister to the Arctic or  to Nazi war criminals or anything in between, 
we find out that all of that was a wild goose chase and that she was dead 
all along. She's been dead since 1979, when the protector souls decided to 
take her (by means of starlight, of course) so that she wouldn't have to 
endure unnatural harm. Makes perfect since by CC and Co.

Question: Where were the protector souls in 1973? 

So, CSM took Sam from her home and raised her as his daughter beside Jeffrey 
Spender and presumably with Cassandra Spender as her mother. CSM allowed 
painful tests to be done on Sam until finally she escaped in 1979, was picked 
up by the police, taken to the hospital, and disappeared in the exact same 
way as Amber Lynn LaPierre as taken to live in the starlight. 

In 1989, Mulder finds the X-Files, mixes all of the crap about alien abductions
 with what he kinda remembers about his sister's disappearance, and concocts 
an abduction scenario involving his sister. Eleven years later, through many 
trial and tribulation, trips to Canada, Russia, and God knows where else, 
after bringing himself, as well as his partner, close to death dozens of 
times, Mulder learns that it was all for nothing, and that he's been chasing 
a fantasy for 27 years.

Does anyone else feel used?

Musings:

- So I'm guessing the parents of Amber Lynn LaPierre know that their daughter 
is okay.

-I'm also guessing that Mrs. Mulder (or Mrs. Spender, as the case may be) 
received a ransom note before Sam's abduction (you pick 1973 or 79) with the
words "No one shoots Santa Claus", meaning never refuse a gift someone gives you.

- Speaking of, what ever happened to Ed Truelove and the Santa Claus murders? 
What did all this have to do with Amber Lynn LaPierre and Samantha?

- I know that Mulder watching "Planet of the Apes" is symbolic of something, 
but what?

Closure: the climax that we've been building to for 7 years. 

Closure: the show can now end and we can all walk away, with our heads down and 
our tails between our legs.

Closure: we know the truth.

Tagline: "Believe to Understand"

If that was the truth, I don't believe.

At least Mulder's ~free~

Rating: 0 lounge chairs out of 5

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." ~ Janis Joplin