I don't disagree with the drive behind this season, or Scully's character, but I do still disagree with the way it was handled. Your examples of "question of trust" episodes are great (except En Ami, which I've always thought was an incredibly lackluster episode that paints Scully as more than a bit of an idiot), but those first two come quite early. This is year eight, and I'd like to think that at this point, at least some things about either one of these characters are sacred, but apparently not. Mulder's intelligence, courage, honor, and... basically anything else positive about him, is raked through the mud this year, and as a fan, that's hard for me to watch, not to mention insulting. I'm also in the party that thinks the angst this season is a couple notches past great XF and too far into soap operatic territory, but to each their own.
Any writer can see that there were many other ways -- which would've involved more thought, care and effort by the writers to execute them -- to deal with Mulder's absence and its effects on Scully this year. The staff was just suffering extreme burnout at this point, and didn't care enough to bother.
Any writer can see that there were many other ways -- which would've involved more thought, care and effort by the writers to execute them -- to deal with Mulder's absence and its effects on Scully this year. The staff was just suffering extreme burnout at this point, and didn't care enough to bother.
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