You’ve just proven my point. Look at how long it took them to find good ol’ Ted.
William is still at risk, but his chances are much better now, especially given that his powers are now gone and that Mulder’s still alive. It’s always been a “Either Mulder or William has to die” scenario. Now that they know for sure Mulder is still alive, they’re more likely to go after him. Yet another reason for William not to see the sights with Mom and Pop. It’s just logical, from any way you look at it that Scully did the right thing.
Actually, given the implied future in the series, Scully saved him. Everything points to William living happily ever after, especially since CC & Co. have said he won’t be in the movies. They, after all, wrote the adoption storyline as a safe way to get rid of the character.
So don’t kill William before the aliens/super soliders do. He has enough ppl after him.
"You’ve just proven my point. Look at how long it took them to find good ol’ Ted. "
No, I did not. Ted was found regardless of the fact that he did everything possible to avoid detection, including dropping out of society. The people in WY are not doing a single thing to hide William, so finding him will be a piece of cake.
No kidding. The super soldiers/replicants could trace Scully to some ghost town in GA, but they can’t find a little boy with unsuspecting adoptive parents who are taking zero precautions because have no idea what danger lurks out there? We know the shot didn’t change anything, since as Spender pointed out, powers or no, William will always be a reminder to them of what he could have been. (and still could be IMO, since the shot destroying his powers is too easy a fix to believe.) All Scully managed to accomplish was set up two nice folks as cannon fodder, without reducing the danger to her baby one bit.
Yes, you did, because you have nothing upon which to base your assumption that finding him will be a piece of cake, but there is proof from the series that Reyes and Scully did the background checking on the adoption agency. Since Scully and Reyes have William’s best interest at heart, their criteria for allowing William to be adopted would include making sure the the couple chosen would be someone the bad guys wouldn’t be likely to find right off (hence Wyoming and hence people far removed from the bad guys’ knowledge).
Believe what you want, but everything from the series points to the fact that Scully did what’s right by taking the chance that William can have a possibly normal life for at least a little while, than keeping him with Mom and have the probable certainty that he’d be dead in a very short time.
And since the kid is not going to be in the film franchise unless CC changes his mind, it really doesn’t matter now, does it?
Tesa - who’s awaiting the next XF series 20 years from now starring William Mulder
You’re forgetting that William’s safety has been decreed by the creator. CC doesn’t want Scully and Mulder worrying about their son while they’re searching for the truth, so William is perfectly safe with his adoptive parents. Ultimately, logic doesn’t matter. If it’s inconvenient, it’s wrapped up in a tidy (or not so tidy) package and put away in the attic or basement. Problem solved.
Not to say they couldn’t trot out the whole William’s-in-danger-we-have-to-save-him-and-his-adoptive-parents thing, but that would be more of an episodic storyline, not part of the movie. Did the series end?
“Yes, you did, because you have nothing upon which to base your assumption that finding him will be a piece of cake, but there is proof from the series that Reyes and Scully did the background checking on the adoption agency. Since Scully and Reyes have William’s best interest at heart, their criteria for allowing William to be adopted would include making sure the the couple chosen would be someone the bad guys wouldn’t be likely to find right off (hence Wyoming and hence people far removed from the bad guys’ knowledge).”
Tesa, adoption agencies LEAVE RECORDS! :rolleyes: Who care’s if they’re careful about them - we are talking about a conspiracy spanning the globe and extending beyond it, where people can even dictate who wins/loses the Super Bowl at a whim, where entire governments are suborned to assist the invasion. You think that people and institutions with trillions of dollars of assets and YEARS of practice in skullduggery can’t find out where William is? Tis enough to make me laugh.
“You’re forgetting that William’s safety has been decreed by the creator. CC doesn’t want Scully and Mulder worrying about their son while they’re searching for the truth, so William is perfectly safe with his adoptive parents.”
:rolleyes: Chris Carter’s plotting abilities are a joke. If the man had any sense, he wouldn’t have written himself into this hole to begin with. Sorry, but invoking the name of CC does not carry any weight here.
And you’re forgetting that Scully’s spent 10 years with Mulder. You think nothing of him hasn’t rubbed off on her? You really think those adoption records are correct and truthful, especially when Scully & Co. are trying to hide one of the most important babies on the planet? Now it’s my turn to roll my eyes.
Yeah, but whether it carries weight with you isn’t the point. You can’t change history. CC specifically wrote the kid out in a manner to show that he’s safe (for ppl who’d worry about him. As if he were real. :P). If CC did anything stupid, it was that.
I think they should have killed the kid off, and in a definitive manner so everyone would know he’s outta there. owever, I’m not one of those who hated the “Scully is preggers” storyline. I loved those last two words uttered by Scully in “Requiem.” It was great, and the bonus was hearing the agitated moaning and whining from those who hated it. ;
Yes, CC has said ‘Willy is safe and out of the series.’. He just didn’t bother to actually write it that way.
The various aliens, super soldiers, and remaining human conspirators have access to vast resources. William has unique footprints(They’re on his birth certificate. Even if Scully somehow managed to destroy or alter all copies of this before chucking Willy from the frying pan to the woodchipper, they sat around as public information for months.), fingerprints, retinal patterns, and DNA. The adoptive parents will get the baby various vaccinations. They will enroll him in school. They will take photos of him and have the film processed. They may even post his face on a family website.
Scully, Mulder, Dogget and Reyes knew how to avoid detection and how to protect themselves. The adoptive parents don't even know that William is in danger.
You’re talking about the same writer who declared Samantha’s date of death to be both in the mid-70s and the late 80s(“closure” vs “the truth”). And that Gibson Praise was 12 years old from the last episode of season 5 until the first one in season eight, despite everyone else aging. And that Scully got her cross for her birthday(in Feb) and for Christmas. And… :rolleyes:
It occurs to me that since he was effectively “killing off” William and the Lone Gunmen anyway, maybe Carter should have just let the LGMs escape with William, like they were going to do in the episode “Provenance.” It would have worked for the series, and sure have been good for the morale of the fans. (And probably have lessened Carter’s time to spend in TV writer’s Purgatory)
…And think of the potential series spin-off in 20 years from now, starring the adult William-who now has buck teeth, coke bottle glasses, a “rabbit nose” twitch, and a +7 throw against aliens.
