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Date Posted: 10:39:18 04/14/01 Sat
Author: devlin
Subject: The response
In reply to: devlin 's message, "All Things come to those who wait" on 06:56:44 04/07/01 Sat

I can't say the things that happened to Scully were against Scully's beliefs. They just happened to her. It wasn't like she was going along saying "Ooh I think I'll be a Buddhist now" because all that happened is that she was exposed to a strong vision. I saw it as another case where Scully sees something strange and unusual and is affected by it - like when she sees ghosts, aliens, people who come alive again after they're dead, Flukemen, people who are hundreds of years old and live on bile..etc etc. She has seen these things, and had to adjust her beliefs. Why not again here? She has been portrayed as a Catholic who constantly questions her faith, not as a staunchly religious woman. She has been portrayed as a a scientist with strong views about the physical nature of the universe, who argues that the answers are there if you know where to look. Yet this Buddhist experience, if we can call it that, seems to be making several of you think that it is Gillian Anderson soapbox, to have Scully experience this. I can't see it as that.

The other thing which has been mentioned is the idea that the memory of Daniel might have specifically been holding her back from Mulder. It was good that another 'older man' came out of the woodwork, because it showed me a picture of Scully which maybe not everyone has seen clearly - she used to rely more on the control of older, possibly more powerful people to show her the way. For me, Daniel only represented the past, and showed us the sort of decision she was making then. Meeting him again made her see that her past was behind her and she was able to move on. I didn't believe at all, that she held a torch for him, which might have re-ignited at any time in the last ten years. I think she knew he was in the past, but only now looking at him afresh was she able to say - yes, I need to be the person I am now, not the person I was then.

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Add in -- CW, 08:11:18 04/16/01 Mon
Where time seems to expand. -- Sig, 13:58:19 04/17/01 Tue
- What are you on about? -- detoured, 01:14:38 04/19/01 Thu
- Sig - nicely said! You warm and gooey thing, you! NIMSY (NT) -- devlin, 12:59:06 04/19/01 Thu
OK I can go along with things just happening to Scully.. -- detoured, 01:20:05 04/19/01 Thu