Keep the Flame Alive

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Title: Keep the Flame Alive
Creator: Tony Scullystud
Date(s): 2001, near the end of the original run of the show
Medium: online
Fandom: The X-Files
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Keep the Flame Alive is an essay by Tony Scullystud posted to Semper Fi, "a John Doggett & Scully/Doggett Fansite."

This essay was first posted to Yahoo!Group SHODDS, a Yahoo Group."

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Excerpts

I realised Mulder hadn't always been an obsessive asshole who sniped at Scully but there was an intensely likable character there at first- i could see why there once was hope and electricity (of a different kind than between D and S i hasten to add- it was passionate but not true fire!) I could understand why shippers had sprung up- but then from Season six onwards i sensed the dynamics changed a bit- maybe they had left that particular consummation too long- maybe it should have been followed through on in the movie when the real edge had been there in that hallway scene?

Things became more hit and miss in that relationship- i began to see why Doggett was much more a suitable partner for Scully than Mulder was. There was more maturity there, more of an openess to reach out, to help, to protect. To put it bluntly, Doggett was more

normal (but still unique, intense and extremely likable).....Mulder had become a little too flippant, a little too obsessive, a little too out there. I realised even if i had joined the show from the very beginning, even if i had embraced shipperdom, i would still have changed my mind when Doggett arrived. I think a lot of the points mentioned previously on this thread i agree with as why Doggett is so much better for Scully.

And i do think Season 9 reinforces it- im probably going to go against the grain and say i still liked Scully in this season- alright she's not as strong or kick-ass as she was, more vulnerable and emotional than ever before- but she is a mother stuck in the middle of a nightmare trying to have a normal life- and her irrationality and tendency to shut her friends out through a lot of the season cries to me of a character having what is close to a nervous breakdown- i think this explains her giving away of William when there's no way in god's earth the Scully of previous seasons would have- she needs a strong man like Doggett to take her in hand, to show her how she is losing control of her life and give her the emotional rock she needs which i still believe Mulder is now too self-obsessed and withdrawn to really give her and to bring out the true fire of that strong-willed lady Doggett first met and fell in love with.

Actually, i found Season 9 a lot stronger and more entertaining than i imagined i would- and it made me madder than hell RP and AG didn't get at least another season to shine in! And the finale was a damp and unforgivable squib for those two characters. Mulder

seemed so boring and lifeless in it- a pale shadow of his original self and it just showed up the differences between him and Doggett even more closely. Fair enough, Scully and Mulder ended up in bed together at the end of it all but we saw no proper consummation. Did anybody else feel that for all the happy talk from GA about working together with DD, there was little chemistry between them in that ep? I sure felt so. There was a definite distance there and almost an artificial quality to the emotion on hand and i still think there was much more chemistry between "vulnerable, crying Scully" and JD than DS and FM, oh, yessir!

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