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Date Posted: 09:04:33 01/06/01 Sat
Author: devlin
Subject: I think a little differently
In reply to: Sig 's message, "Re: the timing of never again" on 07:44:01 01/06/01 Sat

I am interested to hear about the order of episode production here. I have thought that perhaps Scully's frustration in Never Again *was* associated with her cancer. (Maybe not entirely but in some part). I try to put myself in her shoes. Along with what I said before about her feeling secondary, this sudden ill-temper of Scully's must have come from somewhere. I believe that she was thinking about her own mortality and asked herself "What am I achieving here? I'm stuck in this office underground, never seeing the sun, trying to keep up with and support Mulder and his ever-more-wild theories. I don't want to live like this. I don't even know my place here, amongst this very personal burrow Mulder has created, let alone my place in Mulder's life or in the great scheme of things. And now I might die and I will have spent my last months doing this same soul destroying thing day after day. What about me???"

No, it isn't a cry for help as such, but I think showing Mulder her frustration is a sign he should take notice of. Stardoe is right - she should tell him about the cancer, but she doesn't tell him IMO because it shows defeat and weakness and an acknowledgment that she really is sick and may need looking after. She may feel that her independence is going to be taken away from her. So she deflects it from a discussion about illness and turns it into a pouting bad temper.

Mulder is sooooo slow on the uptake here. What he should have done is dug deeper to find out the cause, not snap back as he did. That's men for you... Even Mulder doesn't score highly this time.

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Re: I think a little differently -- Sig, 13:00:55 01/06/01 Sat
- I think we know too much about behind the scenes XF -- Stardoe, 15:19:41 01/06/01 Sat
  - Re: I think we know too much about behind the scenes XF -- Sig, 05:21:54 01/07/01 Sun
    - I see your point Sig. -- Stardoe, 15:02:42 01/07/01 Sun
      - Re: Technical stuff -- Sig, 15:58:16 01/07/01 Sun
        I watched Arcadia last night. -- Stardoe, 21:57:45 01/08/01 Mon
        re:production orders -- cvl, 12:38:22 01/09/01 Tue
        There's always an Old Ep to discuss! -- devlin, 16:43:38 01/10/01 Wed
Re: I think a little differently -- Sig, 13:02:22 01/06/01 Sat