X files william adoption

Spender suggests that the Cigarette-Smoking Man is effectively living on in the spirit of the new conspiracy. I took revenge on my father by taking William away from them.

On one level, this makes a great deal of sense. Indeed, his appearance in The Truth was all but inevitable. At the same time, there is an inelegance to William , hinging as it does on flashbacks from three seasons earlier and forcing connections between the work of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and the more recent colonisation mythology.

It adds clutter, rather than clearing the way. With only three episodes left, it feels like a miscalculation. After all, the eighth and ninth season mythology is fairly linear and straightforward. Simplicity is not bad. William signals that the show will not be adopting that approach. The show will not limit itself to addressing issues relating to the current mythology. Instead, William suggests that The Truth will be laying all nine seasons open and reconnecting with all of the mythology from the peak era of the show.

If the Cigarette-Smoking Man is back in play, then so are the bees and so is the black oil. The entire show is up for discussion and debate, despite the fact it took the production team a year and a half from One Son to Requiem to close the first mythology the first time around. Again, it is easy to see why the show made this decision. The end of The X-Files was a cultural event.

There was a chance to make The X-Files a topic of pop culture conversation once again. People who had not watched the show in years would be tuning in. People expected the Cigarette-Smoking Man; people expected the black oil; people expected faceless men. It does not matter that these were not part of the show any more. The X-Files would make them part of the show. To be fair, there was probably a way to do this properly. There are suggestions that the revival is harking back to the classic mythology, bringing back everything that people loved about the show, even if that stuff was not a feature of the later years.

It might have been best to make a concentrated effort to foster and grow those connections across multiple episodes, instead of just laying the entire past open to discussion in William and The Truth.

The final season of The X-Files desperately wants to offer resolution and closure, because that is what everyone seems to want of it. However, its attempts to offer satisfactory closure only serve to reopen old wounds and inflict new ones. William is a prime example, an attempt to tidy things up that only serves to make everything messier.

Filed under: The X-Files Tagged: chris carter , cigarette-smoking man , david duchovny , endgame , jeffrey spender , mythology , spender , the x-files , william. What an asshole. There are all sorts of paranoid conspiracy theories about what exactly happened behind the scenes between the fifth and sixth seasons. You rightly point out a fair treatment would have been to allow Mulder and Scully and William to simply function as a family with the parents carrying on their jobs and lives as all parents must.

But the ret-conning in season 8 implied there was a great deal not revealed on camera. These are all problems the show struggled to get out of after NIHT, written mostly by Spotnitz, undermined Existence, which was written solely by Carter.

So send Mulder away with William, into hiding, with Scully staying for some mysterious reason. Make that mysterious reason the arc of the season. Bonus points for cleverly inverting the structure of S8. Of course, the hard part is figuring out why Scully would stay. There has to be something, though. That would have been a nice season 9 arc and also inverted the absent father problem. A promise to Doggett related to his investigation of Kersh? I loved those Wong comments. I am very interested to see what the revival does with these plot points.

Although I get the feeling that people would had complained about sending him with Mulder since he is kind of crazy. In any case this show has pulled BS before so I could totally see them having the lone gunmen creating some alternative way of communication so she can keep tabs on her baby. Farfetched but still work better than giving him up.

Heck even aging William faster so he can have agency would had been cliche but at least a cliche that would had kept him on the show. We would had bought that too. I hated the whole DeadbeddadMulder and givingawaymybabyScully. Specially since CC was planning to have Scully pregnant from a long time did he really never though what to do with the baby after it arrived? That sounds really stupid. He could have gotten a supersoldier nanny to protect him while Scully was working or have him Mulder take him with him…all of those are BS choices but emotionally more sound choices than what we got.

I do hope all this was a planed for a greater purpose. Maybe William is supposed to turn evil because of this choice and there is a redemption arc involved at some point in the revival. Time will tell. To be fair, I think the plan was that Scully would get pregnant and then Mulder and Scully and baby would live happily ever after.

Gillian Anderson being forced to sign a contract extension to get equal pay with Duchovny because Fox are just terrible sometimes, and b. He had written his way out of a similar problem in the eighth season.

But I do blame him for a lot of things that went wrong once the ninth season actually started, though, including this particular episode.

Which was by all accounts the idea of Carter and Duchovny against the counsel of pretty much everybody on staff. I honestly think William is the worst episode of the ninth season.

Jump the Shark is terrible and mean-spirited, but this is… just awful. Scully could had been given a great work while Mulder was absent but they choose not to for whatever reason.

Still I read that back in the day when the season comics were in development CC asked them not to use William because he had plans for him. One of the few direct notes that Joe Harris got from Carter was to drop William entirely from the comics. He ended up using a stopgap measure. As cruel as it was to do this to our couple and to the fans. I can forgive a lot of crap for the sake of the story.

Of course I wish CC will finally end the Mulder and Scully era or else he will keep finding ways to screw them just to keep us watching.

Or perhaps I ignore it because I rarely watch seasons Scully has been through a lot more than Mulder in my opinion , she has lost almost everything because she was caught in the middle of an unthinkable conspiracy with the highlight the death of her daughter so I can see why she wants to save William from a life of torture or a life of hiding.

Also, I completely agree with you that they should focus s9 to Scully and her reasons for staying and not to Mulder and why he left. That is a mistake that shows usually do because they want to cater to the fans of the absent character in hope to not loose them but that backfires in most cases. For all the complains about the s10 mythology I liked that they ditched the messiah sl and that the return of William is for a more intimate reason, to save his dad.

Give Scully agency! Make her more than just a conduit to Mulder! The idea of a mysterious man breaking into the x files is an interesting mystery on its own and could even include some wry self commentary possible having the episode focus on the burned man in a way like Hungry, hijacking the. X-Files literally or figuratively. Like much of the 9th season there are some truly interesting ideas that are just drowned out in odd story choices.

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Baby love…. Everything spins…. The agents have repeatedly referenced that they gave up custody of child in order to protect him, but if you're new to the series, your memory is rusty, or you chose to sit out Season 9 because, let's be honest, the show was not the same without Mulder , you're probably wondering exactly why Scully gave William up for adoption on The X-Files.

In "Founders Mutation," Scully tells Mulder that she sometimes hates herself because she "didn't have the courage to stand by [William]. Due to his parents' jobs and the fact that he possessed supernatural abilities, William was in grave danger before he was even born — and a number of traumatic events preceded Scully's painful decision to give him up for adoption.

Plus, although Agent Reyes was an ally and a close friend throughout the ordeal, Scully really had to make the judgement call on her own because Mulder was in hiding and therefore the pair's contact was extremely limited. I've never given birth, but I would imagine that having a baby delivered by your colleague while a room full of super-soldiers watches is not exactly the scenario any woman dreams of. Scully and Reyes traveled to a remote area of Georgia for the birth, but they were followed by super-soldiers who seemed determined to take the child.

They witnessed William's birth, but left without attempting to kidnap him. When Scully expressed confusion about this, Mulder suggested the baby wasn't what they thought it was — but that didn't make him any less of a miracle. Still, Scully remained unsettled and fearful that William would be targeted again. Both Scully and Reyes witnessed William's supernatural abilities on multiple occasions. Viewers and Scully saw him apparently use telekinesis to move the mobile above his crib several times.

Later, Agent Comer gave Scully an artifact from an alien spaceship, which she put in a drawer in her apartment. She and Reyes heard it rattling and moving on its own, and when they opened the drawer it flew directly to William's crib and hovered above him. Although she didn't exactly know what it all meant, it became clear to Scully fairly quickly that her baby wasn't ordinary.

William was targeted and put in grave physical danger multiple times throughout Season 9. Scully demands he confess his true name but Reyes appears and asks the man to step outside.

Soon after, Doggett notices Miller has escaped the home in Georgetown and he catches him. He says they will protect him now, calling him Mulder by name. After Miller is given sleeping pills, he turns in. Doggett and Reyes comfort Scully about what they believe is a disfigured Mulder, though Scully still doubts.

Reyes and Scully take the baby to the hospital while Doggett threatens Miller and finds the syringe and other equipment. The doctor reports that William is fine except for a puncture mark on his neck and an elevated amount of iron in his blood. In interrogation, Scully confronts Miller about his motives.

She reveals that Miller is none other than the son of the Cigarette Smoking Man and half-brother of Fox Mulder, : a man who all believed was shot and killed by CSM years ago.

She confirms that Spender never spoke with Mulder and planned everything to get to William and inject him with the unknown metal compound. He knew a non-comprehensive DNA test would make them think he was Mulder since they share half their alleles.

Spender admits to this and says the metal compound was magnetite and meant to make William normal. The aliens needed the child and now they have lost him through this change. However, he knows the conspirators will always pursue the child despite what he has done. He acted out of his hatred of his father since the new conspiracy was founded by the Cigarette-Smoking Man after the alien rebels burned the original group. The Van De Kamps tuck in their new son.

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