IT WAS AMAZING!!! 
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
(^only possible expression for how i feel right now) 

Closure redeemed my wavering faith in the writing of the show!!  Some of the 
things in SUZ didn't sit right w/ me. (it may have partly been because of 
the spoilers...) 

DD did an excellent job! I can see how Mulder's become worn down from searching 
all these years for Samantha, how he needs (how corny is this?) closure. The 
quest may have driven him and given him hope for fulfillment in life that 
comes from having family. Wouldn't he want that considering his dysfunctional 
post-samantha family! 

Samantha must have been the only thing about his family that wasn't messed up. 
After all, his parents divorced, he didn't talk to his father, and he was not 
even very close to his mother. the only thing that didn't fall apart was his 
memory of his sister. i think that's why she meant so much to him. also, mulder 
seems like he might've been a lonely kid (just how i see it. i can't give any 
evidence to support why i think that.) Being isolated like that would've 
definitely made life w/o her more unbearable. 

ok back to closure. i was annoyed by scully in this ep, altho not as much as 
I was annoyed w/ her in SUZ. She became an obstacle to Mulder. Geez, scully, 
he's not blindly searching for his sister like he used to. Give him some 
credibility!! She didn't have to nag him about hurting himself blah blah-damnit, 
scully, he knows! 

Mulder approached the sister issue/search much more rationally-you could see 
it in his face! In previous seasons he would have an intense look of hope and 
despair w/ a side of innocence. Now his face is like "i have to be practical 
about this. look how long i've been searching in vain. i'm probably not going 
to find her like i didn't find her the last blah blah times, but i still want 
her back, or at least know what happened to her." It's the look of experience 
and resignation and hope.


>>This still does not totally jive with everything we have heard about Samantha. 
She had tests done on her, but Casandra said that she was with the the aliens 
or colonists. << 

exactly. i was upset over the inconsistency in SUZ b/c of the evidence u pointed 
out. But i've come to this explanation: isn't it possible that cassandra saw a 
clone of samantha with the aliens instead of the real thing? mulder probably 
thought this-if he did, it explains why he was completely indifferent to the 
revelation in two fathers or One Son. He probably thought Cassandra was mistaken 
just as he was mistaken many times in the past. 


I want to know too! the music was beautiful, mesmirizing (sp?)! The words sounded 
like they were played backwards on a record or something. But then it also sounds 
like a mixing of the voices, distorting them at the last phrase. it sounds like 
'this is my ' w/ the word 'home' (which kept placing itself in my mind, although 
i never heard it in the lyrics) distorted and rearranged in some way. 
I heard somewhere that the music was like a middle eastern mourning chant-interesting!

i was wondering if Mulder started to believe in God. He was never religious 
(except for that scene in Conduit where he is in a church crying over samantha's 
picture, but that didn't indicate much about his faith). The opening scene of 
Closure seemed inconsistent to me at first-Mulder? religious? "God's recompense"? 
huh? 

But after seeing the whole ep, I think Mulder wants to believe in a safe place 
where children's souls can exist in peace and eternal play, so he believes in God, 
in "starlight" and spirits and "walk-ins" as agents of God's mercy. 

I think Mulder's faith is different from Scully's. She believes in the traditional, 
he believes on a personal basis. I doubt they can share the faith because their 
views are so different, and because Mulder is so closed off about such things.