Gethsemane
     Oh...my...God. I absolutly cannnot believe that Mulder is dead. (To get a bit off-topic here, I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but right in the middle of believe, there's a lie. Believe the lie. That's exactly what Chris Carter wants us to do--believe the lie, the lie that Mulder is dead. Of course, we all know that there's someway around this, there has to be. After all, there's at least one more season and a movie to go before it's over. I must say, though, that this is the only show I've ever watched where, out of the only two main characters, one of them is dead, and the other one is dying of cancer.) All that keeps going through my head are the opening lines of the song 'Take that Look off You Face'--'You must be mistaken/It couldn't have been/You couldn't have seen him [Dead on the floor]' Of course, this is probably a ratings stunt, a trick. I've thought about it, and there are an infinite number of ways in which this could be resolved.
     First of all, the episodes title-"Gethsemane"--it was the garden where Jesus was resurrected. So, does this mean that Mulder is to be resurrected? If he is, then there are a couple of ways in which this could be done. First of all, he really could have died, and then he could be brought back to life somehow. I, personally, don't much like this idea. You're always reading books where someone's come back form the dead, except the part of them that makes them really human is gone, and they're really changed for the worse. The second way, which is my favorite of the two, is to have it so that Mulder never really died, he was just so close to it that everyone thought he was, and then Scully discovers that he's not really dead.
     Another way to..wel, not so much bring him back to life, but to make this whole thing so that it never happened, is to make it all a dream. This is a rather popular way to sort of dispose of things on T.V. shows when they aren't wanted anymore--shows, seasons, or even the whole series, would be all a dream. Now, I'm not saying that I want the whole X-Files so far to be all a dream, far from it. I'm just thinking that, if the whole episode, or at least the part about Mulder's dying, should be either a dream by Mulder brought on by those electro-shocks he had last ep., or by Scully. All though, due to the way it was told, it would be hard to have the whole episode a dream, but that leads me on to a whole other theory.
     My final theory on this is, that, as Scully was telling the story, you weren't actually watching it happen, that she just fudged the truth a bit where Mulder was concerned, in order to protect him. This has been done before in TXF, most noteably in 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space'.(Well, all the stuff in that ep. couldn't possibly be true, could it?) Anyway, we all know that Scully...well, she's never actually lied for Mulder before, but she's been thrown in jail rather than reveal his whereabouts, so let's just say that she's willing to go to great lengths to protect him. Well, that's all my thoughts on that, I just wanted to force all my theorys on you, hope you found it informative :), and now I'll get on to the rest of the ep.
     The rest of the episode was basically spent tearing down everything about aliens that TXF had spent building up the past four years. Sure, you knew that the government was involved to some extent with aliens, that some of them weren't honest-to-God aliens, just people dressed up like them. But, you knew that there were aliens out there, and many different types, too--the clone type, the little green men type, etc. Which brings me to say that, the alien autopsy that we saw was probably the closest we've been to an alien in the entire X-Files history, and it didn't pay off. The alien looked, to me, rather fake, especially the skin.
     The appearence of Scully's brother was neat--I don't think that we've ever seen him before,and I must say, he certinately portrayed the image of a dashing naval officer very well, and his reaction to Scully's illness seemed very realistic, with the five stages, or whatever, he was obviously in the anger one when he met her at the hospital.
     On the topic of Mulder's death again, I must say that it was so sad, that once the Truth was seemingly revealed, and it wasn't what he wanted because it meant that his sister was, most probably dead, and that Scully was dying because of him, and that everything he believed in was a lie. That his whole adult life had been devoted to a cause that proves manknind's evil, cruel, deceptive side, and that it is slowly killing one of the people that he cares about the most, must have been a terrible blow to him. So, rather than stand by and watch everything and everyone that he cared about slowly desintegrate, he chose to end it all right then...
 
 
 
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