#txf s7

later when she plays with his tie and says “please? for me?” with that little pout and those big doe eyes.

you know what DOES get rid of the rage? what gives you a final sense of closure? revenge. anyway, i support dana scully shooting every man who ever wronged her.

Ok, first of all, fuck off.

i've seen lots of opinions online about this episode—especially from those who watched the original run of the series—saying that they found 'closure' to be a really disappointing end to samantha mulder's story BUT

i seriously thought that was a beautiful way to end her arc. honestly i was a bit sick of the red herring clones of her being brought back with no real answers as to what happened to her, and so i think that this ending that mulder got in regards to his sister was almost perfect (at least in the way i interpret it, not that i think CC wrote it intentionally like this)

mulder gaining closure because of his realisation that closure does not exist??? as scully said at one point in the episode, mulder's emotional wound surrounding samantha's disappearance never healed. he never found an answer and his whole life's work had been spurred by his desperate need to discover what happened to his sister, with the distinct lack of answers being the true source of his frustration. he was set free from this torment not because he FOUND closure, but because he finally understood that closure was impossible for him to ever obtain.

i think that the obvious symbolism of this surrounding samantha's final disappearance (ie her physical death, and the lack of physical evidence that this resulted in) is quite simple, but also a really beautiful finish to her story. mulder's acceptance of samantha's fate in a way that—despite his obviously radical beliefs in terms of the paranormal—contradicts his atheism in terms of the more religious aspects of the show was really quiiite lovely to me, although again i don't think chris carter meant to do that. or maybe he did. idk. s7 is kinda all over the place

i don't think a big, groundbreaking finale for samantha's arc would've satisfied me like this did. the fact that it WASN'T some huge ending is a lot more realistic for me (despite the actual context of what happened of course) and mulder's understanding that she wasn't still out there and that she had, in fact, died many years beforehand was a good ending I'd say. like i dont know how else they could've done it especially with everything else that happened up til s7.

anyway the graveyard scene made me cry horrifically ahahahaha