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Date Posted: 05:22:32 02/14/00 Mon
Author: kande
Subject: Sorry, but I'm not feeling closure

After reading the other posts, I suppose I'll get blasted, but I have to say it anyway.

Don't get me wrong - I thought the episode was very moving (I was nearly in tears at the end). And I can even almost accept that Mulder feels closure. But it just didn't work for me.

It was all a little too convenient. Samantha and Jeffrey's names - pretty common names - in the cement that Mulder just *happens* to stumble across. The diary (do we even know if it was written by a Samantha?) that was conveniently left behind for Mulder to find in the first place he looked. Yeah, yeah, the little ghost boy led him there. Really, the only "proof" Mulder has that any of this has to do with his sister is because Harold says it is. Harold, the schizophrenic.

I also don't like the suggestion that these missing children are now in a "happy" place. I assume that at least some of them came from families where they were loved. Am I supposed to believe that they are happier now that they're dead? What about the families they left behind - don't they also deserve happiness? Don't they deserve to know what happened to their children? And just what did happen to them? How much of what happened to Samantha did Mulder's parents know?

I found the Harold character to be annoying, which maybe he was supposed to be. Last week Skinner was heavily involved in the case, yet we don't see a glimpse of him this week. This week Scully has no problem pulling Mulder aside when she thinks he's being irresponsible (when he first meets Harold and seems to find him credible) yet didn't say a peep last week when he was talking to the woman in jail until after Mulder was done.

I guess I need a body and scientific proof that Samantha is dead before I'll believe it.

krh

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Replies:

Hi, kande! -- hairytoes, 10:42:10 02/14/00 Mon
- On the "better place" -- SanFranPhile, 20:04:51 02/14/00 Mon
  - The diary scene... -- detoured, 20:37:50 02/14/00 Mon
    - Don't mention the "P" word! -- SanFranPhile, 20:45:21 02/14/00 Mon
      - I think she was definitely holding back tears -- Foxywoxy, 01:51:48 02/15/00 Tue
  - Diary scene -- Jake4me, 00:49:26 02/15/00 Tue
    - Oops I should've read yours first... -- Foxywoxy, 01:54:14 02/15/00 Tue
  - "Better place" but.... -- kande, 04:22:11 02/15/00 Tue
    - Amber Lynn's "better place" -- SanFranPhile, 22:07:39 02/15/00 Tue
      - Who is this Amber Lynn? -- ice9, 00:58:18 02/16/00 Wed
        Hi, ice9! Wow, haven't seen you around for a while! -- hairytoes, 01:08:30 02/16/00 Wed
        Re: Hi, ice9! Wow, haven't seen you around for a while! -- ice9, 17:58:09 02/16/00 Wed
      - Or maybe she's "death warmed over"! -- detoured, 00:38:18 02/17/00 Thu
      - Mrs. Mulder in the Great Beyond -- kande, 04:34:09 02/17/00 Thu