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Date Posted: 09:54:30 10/16/00 Mon
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: After rewatching "Requiem"

A couple of things struck which I don't remember noticing or commenting on the first time around.
One was how at ease Mulder and Scully were with each other even before we got to the ubershippy scenes out in Oregon. At the very beginning of the ep, when they were in their office together, they were smiling and joking around. In some eps, this would have been noted as a shippy moment, but in this ep it was overshadowed by the even shippier stuff later on.
This leads me to a related item I've only really picked up while viewing the eps a second time around. Did Scully's attitude toward their work undergo a major shift in the positive direction immeditately after the events of "all things"? It sure seemed that way to me. Throughout most of season seven Scully whined (sorry; I like Scully a lot, but there's honestly no other word for it) to Mulder at the beginning of virtually every episode "Why are we here? What makes this an X-File?" She did it so frequently that Mulder even joked about it at the beginning of "Theef". However, in the last few eps of the season � like Je Souhaite and Requiem � she seemed downright eager to run off with Mulder to investigate mysterious happening in remote locales.
This episode also raises a couple of questions that I don't think have been answered:
1.) Was Teresa's baby a boy or a girl? (I'd been thinking it was a girl but, on rewatching the ep, I didn't hear any mention of the infant's gender. Did I just miss it?)
2.) With all the emphasis on the personal issues (Mulder abuducted! Scully pregnant! Krycek free! CSM dead! Skinner a believer!) It seems a rather important issue was left dangling. Did they close the X-Files or not? When the eighth season begins, is Scully going to still be in her basement office, or is she going to be out at Quantico again, as she was when they closed the X-Files during Season Two?

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Re: After rewatching -- CW, 10:48:48 10/16/00 Mon
- I could go for. . . -- Islandgirl, 14:03:30 10/16/00 Mon
  - I could also go for.. -- Scully'sMyHero, 14:45:15 10/16/00 Mon
    - I sensed a bit of plain old evil revenge... -- detoured, 19:21:58 10/16/00 Mon
      - I think Krycek is in charge -- Scully'sMyHero, 19:29:15 10/16/00 Mon
        Krycek in charge of the fate of the universe?!!! -- detoured, 02:10:32 10/17/00 Tue
        Alien contacts with earthlings? -- CW, 06:59:50 10/17/00 Tue
        I can't see a Darth Vader scenario either -- detoured, 00:28:20 10/18/00 Wed
        13 according to the counter I found!NIMcan't wait!NIM (NT) -- CW, 13:47:32 10/23/00 Mon
        That's a scary thought, isn't it! -- Scully'sMyHero, 15:48:31 10/17/00 Tue
        That food scene was so strange! -- detoured, 00:39:06 10/18/00 Wed
        What if Krycek is -- CW, 13:55:54 10/18/00 Wed
        I don't think *that's* true -- Scully'sMyHero, 14:30:47 10/18/00 Wed
        Why don't you and Krycek have Mulder and me over for dinner some time? -- detoured, 23:51:23 10/18/00 Wed
        Have Mulder call Krycek and we'll set something up! -- Scully'sMyHero, 07:19:40 10/19/00 Thu
        If Mulder called Krycek... -- detoured, 00:08:41 10/20/00 Fri
        Mulder and Krycek fight? Never! -- Scully'sMyHero, 09:56:53 10/22/00 Sun
        Ah, CW you are forgetting about the faceless aliens... -- Rab-id, who has long held to the Krycek is an alien idea, 21:13:00 10/19/00 Thu
        An entire race of aliens that look just like Krycek! How do I get abducted? -- Scully'sMyHero, 22:18:22 10/19/00 Thu
        Sorry--I did forget--good reminder which makes a lot of sense!!NIMWHoisratbioyanyhow?NIM (NT) -- CW who loves those licenseplates that look like my NIM!, 13:54:32 10/23/00 Mon
        But as you said he was -- CW, 13:50:06 10/23/00 Mon
        Okay, Det., I volunteer to check Krycek for those bites! Nim-it'sadirtyjobbutsomebodyhastodoit-id (NT) -- Rab-id, 20:54:45 10/19/00 Thu
        OK you can do that Rab-id. Meanwhile... -- detoured, 00:11:25 10/20/00 Fri
      - "Agent Scully doesn't deserve this." -- Islandgirl, 08:18:42 10/17/00 Tue
        I never thought of him as selfish -- detoured, 00:12:31 10/18/00 Wed
        Re: I never thought of him as selfish -- Islandgirl, 12:59:26 10/18/00 Wed
        That might be a good question to ponder... -- detoured, 00:15:31 10/19/00 Thu
    - But Mulder was abducted in the Pilot episode... -- Rab-id, 13:07:42 10/17/00 Tue
      - Good catch! Maybe this was what CC meant when he says the fans are 'missing' something!?!?! (NT) -- Melissa, 14:11:37 10/17/00 Tue
      - Hey Rab-id! I didn't think of that either -- detoured, 00:22:02 10/18/00 Wed
        Ooooh, Good idea... -- Rab-id, 09:35:21 10/18/00 Wed
        Everybody remember to. . . -- Islandgirl, 13:02:20 10/18/00 Wed
        LOL! I think Mulder should be suspicious of CC too! (NT) -- detoured, 00:09:36 10/19/00 Thu