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Date Posted: 09:13:31 09/18/00 Mon
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: Re: Jes Souite (I think that's how you spell it?)
In reply to: CW 's message, "Jes Souite (I think that's how you spell it?)" on 06:55:16 09/18/00 Mon

About the French thing: I think she said, "I wished for a long life and great power". I think "Jes Souite" (does *ANYBODY* know, for sure, how to spell the title of this ep??) translates to "I wish".
Now here's a nitpick I didn't even think to mention the first time I viewed the show: Why did Mulder stand there with a blank face on his look when Jen started speaking in French? We have heard it it mentioned, several times, that Mulder speaks French! (In "Nisei/731" he's looking through a book written in Japanese and makes a remark about "wasting my time studying French" and in "Skin", one of the "official X-Files novels" he's speaking French in an effort to communicate with an Asian who doesn't speak English.) Now, I don't think he's supposed to absolutely fluent in French, so maybe he wouldn't have been able to translate everything she said, but I think it would have been more in character if she had said her speech in French and he had started trying to translate it for Scully, something like this:
Jen: Says her stuff in French
Scully: Huh?
Mulder: She said she wished for a long life and. . um. .
Jen: great power.
The other thing, about a multi-part wish, is kind of interesting. The only thing is: I don't think it would have been very nice for Mulder to wish for Scully to have her fertility restored *AND* for himself to be abducted!! I'd like to think he wouldn't deliberately have left her if he knew there was a good chance she might be pregnant.
Also. . .if he'd made such a wish, wouldn't he have been a little less wistful and a little more suspicious of the truth during the baby-holding and Scully-fainting scenes in "Requiem"? And if we assume that Scully didn't regain her fertility 'til the end of "JS", we'd have to assume that at least three weeks � probably more like five or six weeks � had passed between the end of "JS" and the beginning of "Requiem". Women don't start showing signs of pregnancy the week after conception, ya know! (However, given the notriously wonky time frame of "XF", this is certainly possible.)
It's an interesting theory, CW, and I'm not trying to pick it apart, just pointing out some things that would have to be taken into consideration if it were true.

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Forgot about -- CW--glad for the mind exercise!, 13:59:37 09/18/00 Mon
- Mulder's wishes -- detoured, 22:15:34 09/19/00 Tue
  - I say let him stay sleeping until he is rescued! NIM sweetdreamsandstop droolingNIM! (NT) -- CW, 13:46:10 09/20/00 Wed
    - Yes I agree... -- detoured, 02:34:27 09/22/00 Fri
      - Re: Yes I agree... -- c_shantal, 17:57:27 09/24/00 Sun
        Ditto!! NIM (NT) -- CW, 10:58:13 09/26/00 Tue
  - Am I the only person on this board who saw -- Rab-id, 21:26:06 09/20/00 Wed
    - I agree Rab-id -- kenamom, 22:21:41 09/20/00 Wed
    - Saw what?! Saw what?! Don't keep me in suspense.. -- detoured, 02:24:05 09/21/00 Thu
    - I saw the look too but -- CW, 06:24:56 09/21/00 Thu
      - That look.. -- c_shantal , sittin' on the fence.., 11:45:31 09/21/00 Thu
        That's why -- CW, 13:21:31 09/21/00 Thu
        This is a very interesting discussion. -- Stardoe, 00:07:23 09/27/00 Wed
        I *DEFINITELY* wish. . . -- Islandgirl, 19:55:59 09/27/00 Wed
    - I said..."Am I the only person who saw ALADDIN?" Nim (NT) -- Rab-id, who was truncated again in above post., 10:22:57 09/21/00 Thu