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Date Posted: 19:34:22 04/21/02 Sun
Author: Rabid, sniffling...
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"We never gave up. Never will. If in the end that's the best they can say of us...it'll do!"

Well, well...uhm......well! I suppose I will give this episode to my buddy to watch. Episode wise it may have been somewhat lacking at some points but it was still a better statement for the condition of the X-Files than the last two were. I felt for the writers in this one...it felt like they were saying goodbye to something they passionately cared about...and I thought even that they were right...I mean, so WHAT if the show has slipped...they were still trying to do a good job. What had ALWAYS paid off for them suddenly stopped paying off but they didn't stop trying.

I can see CC and Co. in the Lonegunmen...standing up for what they believe in until the bitter end...even when they are mocked for it. Even when they are left alone in the end with the mess of the conspiracy and have lost everything they worked for the last 9 years. I reminded of the Nora Roberts' quote about writers that asserts that writing is an act of courage...even if it's very bad, even if it's laughable...it still takes courage to try to reach out to your fellow man and say something about yourself and your personal views on the world.

So...I suppose I should bury the hatchet with CC and Co...as we bury Frohike, Langley and Byers. I suppose I am only disappointed in the loss of something that passed within inches of greatness. But that is closer than most TV shows or other forms of entertainment ever get. After all the XF writers entertained me for a long time, and if CC has the fault of clinging too long to the thing that brought him success...well...at least he WAS the producer of a really fine show which is more than most people, including myself can say...and he never gave up...and maybe in the end...that'll do!

Rabid/Raeann
feeling all maudlin...now......also hoping that Mulder was there for the service...in disguise of course, back in the trees...but THERE...like me and my Buddy!

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Agree and have a question -- CW, 21:20:21 04/21/02 Sun
- *Sob. Sniff. Sniffle.* -- Kande's Sis, 22:19:02 04/21/02 Sun
  - I'm stunned -- Scullydoc, holding a squirt gun with knockout stuff, 22:51:30 04/21/02 Sun
    - Not nice! -- detoured, who cried for only the second time in the series, 01:00:14 04/22/02 Mon
      - Ack! Ack! Ack! -- kande, 04:23:52 04/22/02 Mon
        R.I.P. Lone Gunmen -- the badly dressed man, 06:35:14 04/22/02 Mon
        Okay...well...if we are going to complain anyway... -- Rabid, still trying to feel for the writers, 07:49:50 04/22/02 Mon
        I wonder how many more times we will be slapped in the face by 10-13! -- CW, 14:25:38 04/22/02 Mon
        Just who are they trying to attract? -- detoured, 16:06:33 04/22/02 Mon
        CC's hole is too deep to crawl out of... -- Rabid, holding everyone's hands..., 22:12:29 04/22/02 Mon
        wrapping it up... -- the badly dressed man, 06:43:15 04/23/02 Tue
        Perhaps CC should take a page from James Cameron's book. -- kande, 04:35:39 04/24/02 Wed
        all good things come to an end -- the badly dressed man, 06:37:15 04/24/02 Wed
        That is exactly right Kande... -- Rabid...doing the end part..., 16:43:24 04/24/02 Wed
        Tacking my thoughts onto the end of the thread -- Scully'sMyHero, 13:51:26 04/26/02 Fri
        I've decided that this episode... -- detoured, 15:10:24 04/27/02 Sat
        BTW, my former Phile friend who was planning to watch the last 5 if this one was good. Heard about this eppy and told me NEVER MIND...he didn't want to see it...he was done with XF. (NT) -- Rabid, trying to bring the throng back...but ALAS!, 16:56:53 04/24/02 Wed
      - Thanks--I was just hoping that's all! (NT) -- CW, 14:15:34 04/22/02 Mon

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