I'm not really sure how I feel about this one... It has some parts I love and some parts that I worry about. I'm posting it anyways, so you guys can tell me what I should be worried about!
This is a little random... I'm a latecomer to the X-Files, and I've only just made it to season 6. As a matter of fact, I watched Dreamland II last night. (I'm really enjoying season 6 so far... Triangle, anyone?;D) The point: I saw Fight the Future about a week ago, and I was struck by the line: "One man alone cannot fight the future."
This little ditty is the result of a week of pondering that line. My appologies for anything that might be contradicted in later seasons that I don't yet know about.
Disclaimer: The X-Files is mine in spirit only... As in, not at all.
One man alone cannot fight the future. Whole coalitions and organizations, allied governments and their massed armies cannot stop the inevitable. My own people do no more than hope that the colonizers will be merciful, and honor the terms of the original negotiations, so sparing my life.
This vaccine was the first indication that we might do more than hope; of course, that is gone now. Mulder has seen to that.
Mulder. One man cannot fight the future, but Mulder seems determined to go out trying. With every stubborn attack on lies that deceive to save, he pushes the balance a little more towards the edge. Eventually he must fall, it is only a question of whom he will bring down with him. It may well be that he drags the whole world into Hell on his precious truth.
Deny everything, and no apology is necessary. What they don't know can't hurt them – yet. But such is life; all of it comes to a close in the end. An inevitable end, but Mulder doesn't know that. He has been told. I have warned him, as have others. But in his stubbornness he is as idealistic as a child. Nothing can waver his dream that the truth be known, and nothing we can say will show him the horrors that would unfold from such a calamity. The world cannot handle such a heavy thing as truth. It would crush them as surely as the search of it will drop Mulder from his ledge.
That fall would bring a welcome simplicity to my work.
I cannot kill him, but neither can I be blamed should he cast himself down. All will agree, he should have fallen long before now. He would have, if not for her.
One man alone cannot fight the future. But Mulder is not one man, he is a man with a woman who is his best friend and truest love, for whom he will go to the ends of the Earth and beyond for a chance at keeping. Without her, he is nothing, and with her, he is unstoppable.
We assure ourselves that one man alone cannot fight the future, and Mulder is no exception. But there are forces at work here not factored into our careful calculations. Specifically, a five-foot-two red-haired scientific factor, and it's throwing everything off. If one man cannot fight the future, perhaps one man and a woman can.
In case you didn't guess, the narrator was meant to be Cancerman. I'm not sure how well that worked/came across, but it's my new years resolution to branch out my angst. ;-)
Did you love it? Did you hate it? Do you think I'm the worst writer in existance and I should go die in a hole? Review and tell me! And I will love you even if you tell me to go die in a hole... I'm persistant that way. ;D