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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Hunter"  wrote   
      
   > So....his memories are just a lie? A fabrication to cope?   
      
   It's been a long time since I watched these episodes, but the impression I   
   had was that they never really implied the abduction didn't happen. I think   
   the basic idea was that *after* she was abducted, Sam was experimented on by   
   the Syndicate dudes, and eventually taken away by those magical spirit   
   thingies to save her.   
      
   The question for me is, how does this story fit in with what we were told in   
   'Two Fathers'/'One Son' about her being given to the aliens as collateral   
   along with the rest of the Syndicate dudes' family members? Is one of these   
   two stories bullshit, or are they both somehow true, with her being with the   
   aliens and with the Syndicate experimenters at different times? And when she   
   was abducted from the house in Chilmark, was it actually the aliens coming   
   to get her, or was it the Syndicate, staging a UFO-type experience with   
   advanced technology to cover their tracks, like Mulder claims they did in   
   'EBE'?   
      
   Also, there was that line in 'End Game' where the Bounty Hunter tells   
   Mulder, 'She's alive.' Obviously, the simplest explanation for that is that   
   CC had no idea back in 1995 that he would end up resolving the Samantha   
   storyline the way he did. But in the context of the show's reality, can it   
   be interpreted in any other way that makes sense? Was the BH just plain   
   lying, to screw with Mulder's head? Or was what happened in 'Closure'   
   somehow faked, and Mulder's 'powerful feeling that this is the end of the   
   line' was artificially induced by some other power, either Syndicate-related   
   or supernatural, in order to manipulate him?   
      
   While the way they apparently tied up the Samantha story in these episodes   
   never really seemed very satisfying to me, I *do* remember being very   
   pleased at the way the experience of getting 'closure' freed Mulder up to be   
   a little less of a self-absorbed humourless jackass, at least for a little   
   while. In the next episode, 'X-COPS', he seemed playful and fun again, in a   
   way he hadn't really been in a long time (at least, not on as frequent a   
   basis as he used to be). So even if the story in SuZ/Closure doesn't make   
   much sense in the context of other episodes, on the whole I think it had a   
   positive effect on the show.   
      
   Which raises the question of whether the same sort of explanation might   
   apply within the show's universe: Maybe there are some supernatural forces   
   for good out there who created this whole scenario in order to free Mulder   
   emotionally from the weight that was preventing him from having any   
   perspective on his life? Could it all be a lie, but a lie ultimately created   
   for a good reason?   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
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