The Big Questions
I was just about incapable of function or communication for three hours yesterday evening studying my newly-bought copy of The Complete X-Files. I was close to simply cutting it, snorting it and blissfully OD'ing on all the pretty. For me, its most evocative photograph is a double-page glossy of the young, serious and dark-clothed Agents Mulder and Scully rounding their rental car in the misting Vancouver rain, surveying a crime scene (p.46). Stumbling across it unexpectedly, it has instantly become my defining image for seasons one through five and reminded me of CC saying that Vancouver was itself a character within TXF.
But coming to the point of this post, there's an intriguing passage towards the beginning of the season seven chapter which states:
"[The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati] ends with both Mulder and Scully profoundly affected by their exposure
to the radiation from the alien spaceship."
This sounds to me like a rather heavy-handed hint regarding The Problem of Scully's Miraculous Conception. Confirmation perhaps of the theory that the healing powers of the African craft were responsible for Scully's restored fertility, and thus that William was conceived naturally.
Or is this too much conjecture on the basis of one sentence?
But coming to the point of this post, there's an intriguing passage towards the beginning of the season seven chapter which states:
"[The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati] ends with both Mulder and Scully profoundly affected by their exposure
to the radiation from the alien spaceship."
This sounds to me like a rather heavy-handed hint regarding The Problem of Scully's Miraculous Conception. Confirmation perhaps of the theory that the healing powers of the African craft were responsible for Scully's restored fertility, and thus that William was conceived naturally.
Or is this too much conjecture on the basis of one sentence?