XF movie HUH?

[timepiececlock]

I'm looking at a pop-up ad that says the X Files movie sequel is in theaters this July. I... didn't know that. I remember hearing that one was being made, but for some reason I thought it was only in production, and would be out next year or something.

I don't know if I *want* to see it.

Okay, that's a lie. I do want to see it. But I'm afraid to see it-- just like I'm afraid to watch the 4th season of Doctor Who that's airing right now. And just like I am afraid to watch the final season of Veronica Mars.

It's why I fucking hated the Harry Potter epilogue. (aside from the fact that it was poorly written)

I'm really itchy about ships, see. I can handle my ship getting a tragic ending or a happy ending or ending up with different people, but once it ends, I want it to end. Because once the canon stops I can go running off into the distance with fanfic and speculation and watercool talk and incredibly detailed essays about why I think X couple does or does not have a future past canon.

Adding more canon later to something that I have already come to terms with isn't a *good* thing in my mind, in fact it's a BAD thing. It takes away my opportunity to speculate. It takes a thousand possible doors and slams them shut until only one single door is left, swinging in the ominous empty hallway of the show's potential.

I skipped the last two seasons of the XF, I admit it. I lost interest. But I did see the final episode of the show, and I know vaguely what was going on, and that was the end of that. My show was over, my ultimate first true television OTP was resolved with the confirmation that they were partners turned best friends turned lovers turned survivors, and they were probably the closest things to soul mates and "made for each other" that you'd ever get on television, and even when the world was ending and everything was bad they at least had each other. Nifty. I can dig that.

...and now there's a movie. A movie that will probably totally wreck that dynamic just for a bid at sexual tension (damn that bee!) or something.


You know, the only time something like this has ever happened to one of my shows and had it be a good thing was Farscape. And that's probably only because the series finale was never intended to be anything but a season finale, so it felt like it needed the miniseries to end it. Also, I knew the writers couldn't POSSIBLY fuck up that OTP in just four hours of television, because John/Aeryn were about as close to made for each other as Mulder & Scully, but with a director/creator/writers team that I trusted more than Chris Carter.

So, to end this now too-long post... I don't know what the XF movie is about, I haven't seen any trailers, and I don't know if I'll see it. Except I probably will. On video or something. I dunno. I probably will, actually. But I'll have to have lots of good whine first. Because even if the movie does wreck my OTP, they can't *really* wreck my OTP, because Mulder/Scully became untouchable truthiness back in season 6 or 7 and in my head that's where the story really finished. All this is just...fanfic, or something.

Comments

[mswyrr]

I too am disturbed about the whole thing and what a clusterfuck it might turn out to be. I probably won't see it 'til it's at my local video rental store, unless my flist loves it a lot.

One gorgeous picture came out of it, though. Even if the whole thing sucks, that one pix is canon in my head. They're so... mature and beautiful and together in this sincere, amazing way.

((clutches pic close))

::blink::

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That picture probably just restored my faith in the entire movie idea.

I mean... I still think it's a shameful grab at milking a franchise that's passed its prime, but...

but...

That's a GREAT picture.

::hugs it close::

Re: ::blink::

[mswyrr]

:) Glad it made you happy, too.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

I don't like when new canon is added after canon's been closed for a while, regardless of the source. I severely dislike getting joss'd, and I prefer to keep to the canon as much as possible when writing certain types of fic.

Maybe if I'd ever finish the damn fic I wouldn't care so much, but...

[chase820.livejournal.com]

I'm of two minds about whether to watch the film or not, for the reasons you state. But I figure, worse comes to worse I can blank it out the way I blanked Seasons 8 and 9. We'll always have Iolokus, my favorite XF ending ever.

[sabrinanymph.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been watching bits of season eight for the first time ever and finding that I actually don't mind it nearly as much in retrospect as I hated the idea of it at the time. And maybe that's just because I'm watching the six episodes (or whatever) that DD was in that season, but they've been really well done and I'm actually developing a fondness for Doggett, or whatever.

Anyway... I think for me, because the show ended (in my head) while it was still being written (sometime mid-season six is when I sort of stopped watching, and by season seven I really wasn't watching regularly, I don't think I saw any of eight, or nine, except for the finale), I'll go see the movie. And if I love it, I'll love it, and if I don't I'll shrug it off as, whatever. That's what I did with the final seasons at the time. Although it's interesting how much I'm liking them ten years later.

There's just some seriously beautiful Gillian Anderson acting there.