thanks for the info, you two! (vague season 8/9 spoilers) -- X-Philes World-X-Files Movie 2

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Date Posted: 08:13:22 03/26/02 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
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thanks for the info, you two! (vague season 8/9 spoilers)
In reply to: the badly dressed man 's message, "the expert (of what I don't know).." on 05:43:49 03/26/02 Tue

It does sound like a lot of the mytharc elements of XF were borrowed from "The Puppet Masters".
I'm surprised that a book published in 1951 had a female agent working alongside a male agent. One thing I've noticed about a lot of science fiction novels written in the 1950s and 60s is that, while they predicted (some better and more accurately than others), the *techological* advances society would have achieved by the 21st century, almost all of them do a woefully inadequate job of predicting the *cultural* changes that occurred during the last three decades of the 20th century (i.e. the number of women doing what were traditionally thought of as "male" jobs or the declining stigma attached to unwed motherhood). You've got all these books from that era with families living on space stations and stuff, but they're still traditional nuclear families.
That business about "Brother" and "Sister" eventually becoming romantically involved is kind of weird. But isn't that basically what happened on "The X-Files"?? During the early seasons, it was stressed that Mulder and Scully had an utterly platonic, almost-sibling-like relationship with each other. (Indeed, a popular theory floating around the interent in the early XF days was that Scully was really Samantha.) As the years progressed, they eventually became sexually attracted to each other and conceived a son together.

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