The emails

Pike
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By Pike on Monday October 16, 2017 07:43 am

What did you guys think about the emails that Mulder and Scully exchanged in "Trust No 1"?

Mulder:

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I've resisted contacting you for reasons I know you continue to appreciate. But, to be honest, some unexpected dimensions of my new life are eating away at any resolve I have left.
I'm lonely, Dana, uncertain of my ability to live like this.
I want to come home. To you, and to William.

Scully:

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I am physically shaking right now, seeing your words. Wishing it were you speaking them to me.

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By Agent_Spooky on Monday October 16, 2017 02:56 pm



Didn't like them. They seemed way too full of purple prose. Dearest Dana drew me right out of the story.

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By Pike on Monday October 16, 2017 04:38 pm

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Agent_Spookywrote:

Didn't like them. They seemed way too full of purple prose. Dearest Dana drew me right out of the story.

Ahaha, didn't think of the "Dearest Dana". I should use that one in my working emails. "Dearest Client,".
I also hated those emails. It really didn't feel like Mulder and Scully writing. At that moment, we didn't even have a kiss from M&S, and suddenly we go to the full other side with poetic letters, I mean, comon!
"I'm lonely, Dana".
We can see in the series that Mulder and Scully are both extremely strong characters. They would never open up that way and suddenly scream that they are lonely.
Also, I think that season 9 should have avoided Mulder entirely. Mulder was the centric piece of season 8 and that made sense (and was fun to watch). Trying again to add the search for Mulder in season 9 felt really terribly bad.

When I first heard of the title ("Trust No 1"), I was super excited. I would have never imagined having to sit through such a bad episode.