Which is to say that its impossible but is happening anyway.
That is not to say its happening because it worked the first time.
Season 11 has built itself around nostalgia, sometimes leaning into it, sometimes affectionately tearing those memories down.
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That same fallout, demanding closure, pushed their son back into the picture.
If at first you dont succeed, why not give it another spin two decades later?
Im sorry, Im burying the lede.
Its impossible, but itsmore than.
What was the point in making one of the agents most loyal friends change sides?
Empty intrigue, apparently.
If Monica wanted Mulder to kill everyone at Purlieu, she got her wish.
He also, in a very smooth move, shoots Y in the head.
Mulder and Scullys revival-era fight skills continue to bear gifts.
(Mulders wordplay remains as dad-jokey as ever: I had some payback…to…pay back.)
But theres so much to learn on the web!
I held you when you were a baby.
Its an outlook Jackson has spun into self-loathing.
before running off, trusting Mulder just enough to leave him alive but not enough to stay.
As for Scully, shes gone full Mulder out of a potent combination of boredom and good instinct.
To spread the word, she turns to the No.
1 internet site for people who say internet site:Truth Squad With Tad OMalley.
When Scully decides to ignore scientific proof, she really goes all in.
(Mulder and Scully call it Wednesday.)
Kersh yells at Skinner.
Skinner half-heartedly tells Scully hessupposedto yell at her.
Scully considers fighting Kersh.
All the while, a word on the glass wall hovers between them: INTEGRITY.
Shes still paying it.
She asks why hes risking his career and going against orders.
Skinner just stares at the road: I think Ive been pretty clear about that.
The partners short-term memory where Skinner is concerned was frustrating enough in this seasons Kitten.
Is that closure for Scully and her son?
Scully should have known she wasnt talking to Mulder when he told her not to help Skinner.
The last we see of him, hes not moving.
CSM walks away alive…and couldnt Skinner have just dived to the side instead?
(It feels longer.)
(Why else would Ghouli emphasize how much Jacksons interests line up with Mulders?)
Instead, My Struggle IV doubles down on a depraved plotline without taking it anywhere interesting.
But the mythology never got out of the gate.
Williams parentage didnt save Mulder or sentence him to death.
as he fires round after round into the chest of the man who thought he was just shooting him.
This patricide has been a long time coming.
Mulder throws his gun into the water, rejecting the violent cycle his father passed on.
Its a cruel ouroboros.
What am I now if Im not a father?
She means she guides his hand to her stomach and lets that say it all hesgoingto be a father.
Are they both pleased?
Scully is 54, but thats not the point here.
Theres no sense in applying real-world rules toThe X-Files.
But the internal logic of the show avoids neat solutions like this one.
Mulder never found his sister alive.
A man in season 4 who went back in time to change his own life failed.
In season 7, a wish for world peace backfired and erased everyone on Earth.
The impossible is not a quick fix; this is part of what grounds the story.
Of course, the show has betrayed that rule before, with Scullys last pregnancy.
Its a quick fix for a show that rarely employs them.
At the very least, its 15 years too late.
Both she and the son she was carrying have now been treated as exactly that.
Williams return rings hollow if it was all meant to wrap up his story and shove him aside.
Mulder and Scully are together and fairly happy, and thats something.
