Chronicle X Interview with Jean Robinson

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Title:	Chronicle X Interview with Jean Robinson
Interviewer:	uncredited
Interviewee:	Jean Robinson
Date(s):	February 2000
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	X-Files
External Links:	interview is here;copy
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Chronicle X Interview with Jean Robinson was conducted in 2000 by the Chronicle X archive.

Some Excerpts

It was a combination of the "what if?" trigger and the desire to fill in the blanks wherever possible. "What if" Scully was conscious after the bee stung her in the movie. "What if" Mulder wasn't the nice guy we all thought he was for the first season and a half. "What if" the Consortium really thought Scully was the true threat from the beginning. What happened after Emily's funeral? What happened after they ditched that team-building seminar? and so on. If Chris Carter and 1013 aren't going to enlighten me, then I'll just have to make it up to suit myself.

I'm not the first to wail and gnash my teeth about this, and I'm sure I won't be the last. But please, oh, please, is continuity really that much to ask for? One explanation for the origins of Scully's cross? A timeline that doesn't have them blithely country-hopping on other cases when they're really supposed to be in the middle of a month-long quarantine? Tattoos and bullet wounds that don't disappear like magic? I could excuse all the gaffs and quirks for the first two seasons. But by then, they really should have acknowledged that the show was going to last and kept some sort of bible. It's not that hard. Other shows, especially those in the sci-fi genre, do it all the time. They could have trolled the Internet and picked it all up off one or two web sites for free. Fans had already done the work for them. The answers were there. They just didn't care enough to look.

If I had to fall off the fence, I'd land in with the shippers. Realistically, I can't imagine them with someone else, so Mulder/Other or Scully/Other stories rarely interest me. I don't know that they'd be happy and comfortable together as a couple. But I feel they'd be better off with each other than with someone else. My one deviation is a secret weakness for Scully/Skinner stories. Every now and then, I just have to have one. I don't know why, but I have a few suspects to blame for it. ;-)

I don't really remember the first thing I read. But I know the first two fanfic items that made an impression on me. One was finding Karen Rasch's page. I know I discovered this after I had read a few things on Gossamer, because it totally floored me to find a site where the stories themselves were not only absolutely amazing in every way imaginable, but were also grammatically correct and properly punctuated. I was starting to wonder if it was an X-Files "thing" to misuse, misspell and generally mangle the English language.

The second thing that made an impression on me was reading Jill Selby's "Poised for a Fall," via a recommendation in a newsletter. Again – wow. A good story that I can read without raising my Grammar Hackles and growling in frustration. That led to finding Jill's whole page.

Between her site and Karen's, I think I stayed up for almost a week reading non-stop. I wore out my printer cartridge because I knew I just had to have hard copies of this stuff. <g>

I've met several fascinating, encouraging people from around the world, people I never would have ever had a chance to know aside from this common interest. I'm eternally grateful to have been given a web site, something I never expected. But Beaker offered to create one for me, with Jen doing the graphics, just like that. It was a wonderful present and I'm enjoying every minute of it. I've also relearned the values of diplomacy and patience – to write something, think about it, edit it, think about it some more and then decide whether it should be posted publicly, rather than rushing into discussions or arguments.