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Date Posted: 18:24:47 05/23/00 Tue
Author: Sybilia
Subject: Interesting point, bizarre situation
In reply to: CW 's message, "OOH--a little sarcasm here..I would have yanked the trach and stuffed a kleenex in the hole! NIM" on 18:49:29 05/22/00 Mon

Cruel, heartless, vindictive...actually you bring up a very interesting point. What's up with that trach tube anyway?
Admittedly medicine is hardly my field, but it was something I noticed right away. I've seen characters in movies smoke that way before but they all supposedly had cancer of the throat or larynx. I though CSM was supposed to be dying of cerebral inflammation. I wouldn't think the two conditions to be in any way related. Are the writers getting careless or did they just want to go for the gross-out effect? Something seems a little off here. In "Closure" CSM looked unwell and told Scully it was due to complications from brain surgery he'd had the previous fall. In "En Ami" he tells Scully he's dying of cerebral inflammation due to that same surgery, that the doctors only give him a few months to live but actually he looks much better. Now two months later we find him at death's door but apparently from some type of lung or throat cancer, a totally different ailment (although one that anyone who knows him would probably consider eventually inevitable).
Also, regardless of what information was or wasn't on that disc Scorpio gave Scully in "En Ami" it seems apparent that the alien implants can cure cancer. They did a pretty good job on Scully. I can't imagine CSM letting himself die in the manner he's always seemed to most fear when he has access to the technology to prevent it. He is, perhaps, the most arrogant and egotistical individual I've ever seen, and as ruthless as they come, but I think he really does believe that he knows what is best for mankind and sees himself as the only one who can be trusted to do it whatever the price. Even his final comment to Krycek seemed to indicate he sees himself and Mulder in some sort of savior roles. It just doesn't seem in character for him to suddenly give up and leave things in what he would no doubt see as far less capable hands. Any thoughts?

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