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I think she felt pressured into committing to yet another season, given the open ending, no?
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Either that, or maybe the William retcon was what really upset her? She put a lot of work into those scenes of her breaking down over William, so it might have been frustrating at how quickly it all got brushed off at the end. I don’t think she’s ever really clarified what she isn’t happy with though __________________
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Hmmm... I actually thought it felt like an ending and not necessarily a cliffhanger.
Like David said, an unusually hopeful one William not dead, still possibly the solution to mankind's problems, CSM hopefully dead, Mulder and Scully together... the pregnancy was maybe a bit much but the shipper in me thoroughly enjoyed it I agree the connection between William and Scully was really built up and felt like it was left hanging in the air... __________________
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Yeah I didn’t hate it either, it felt a bit abrupt , but it seemed like CC was trying to give the M/S fans a nice ending in a way. Everyone online was super negative though, so maybe that also affected how Gillian saw it afterward? I remember on Twitter she responded with a Scully eye rolling giif and said boy does she hear their complaints, so, I assume her negative feelings towards the revival do revolve around how they concluded it in some way. Maybe she thought that Scully getting pregnant at her age was too unrealistic, maybe she felt let down at the William conclusion after putting her heart and soul into those scenes of Scully breaking down over her loss?
Revealing that CSM was the father was what really upset everyone I think, I was expecting that to be just a twist, but instead the finale doubles down on it and has Scully dismiss William as never really her son, that was what upset me about the finale the most. I didn’t mind the pregnancy though, but a lot of fans thought that was stupid and they were too old for a a new baby __________________
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It's believable she has alien DNA but not that she can get pregnant?
I'm with you on her dismissing William too quickly but I actually felt like she was trying to make it their loss instead of Mulder having to suffer alone. And also it might have been a way of emotionally distancing herself from the loss... CSM as the father... yeah, I never expected that to stick... disgusting twist More soap opera than XF __________________
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True. Quiet a let-down. Guess he's proud of his ability to still surprise us after all these years
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I think CC just didn’t have a clue how to go about writing shorter seasons quite honestly, it’s very different from the old 22 episode style, and for the revival he seemed to think it was acceptable to just cram every idea he had in to a single episode. He just puts in these major reveals like Monica working for CSM, or Scully finding out that CSM is William’s father, and there’s no time to deal with the emotional reality of it before the story rushes you along to the next action moment
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Yeah, that’s the thing that’s been like that with the X-Files, even in the earlier seasons. Big events happen to Mulder and Scully and the emotional fallout is never seen so we wonder if they even went through one! This is where fanfiction is so useful for me cause it gives that side of it and those writers are sometimes fantastic with where they took the storylines off camera! For example, Scully finding out she had a daughter without her consent and then the child dies. She didn’t seem overly affected and the episodes afterwards never quite touched on what it could do to someone’s mind/emotions.
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But I also like that some aspects of Mulder and Scully's lives seemed personal and off limits in a way. That made the personal moments that were shared with us even more special
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I think so, after All Souls, I don’t remember them mentioning Emily again!
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I wouldn’t be surprised
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