That is true, Mulder did have an empathy with some of those 'monsters of the week' that was touching. I've been watching the X-files from the beginning too. I remember that well. Mulder was always the more sensitive one at first, who looked at all sides of things. Who could see the good and bad in these monsters that they chased down. I've seen him defend monsters better than he ever gave Krycek benefit of the doubt.
That did always bother me. Krycek was either the punching bag Mulder let out his frustrations at the world on. Who just stood there and took it like some kind of abused spouse. Or he showed up to play exposition, 'Krycek explains it all'. The allowing himself to be beaten up thing just never clicked with me. I've heard mention of Nick asking CC, 'Can't I hit him back?' CC's answer, no Mulder was the hero. So fucking what? Mulder gets pounded all the time. By everybody. Each week was like, 'Hmmm...This week will he lose his gun or get a head injury?' It was a toss up, sometimes he managed to do both. It's like Jim on the Sentinel until like the fourth season every damn episode Jim dropped his gun. Usually, during the final chase scene with the killer. I have jokingly called Jim Mulder for his ability to do that so often and vice versa.
It never made sense to me how Mulder could be so compassionate towards these monsters who had murdered people and he knew it. Yet, when it came to Krycek he had no leeway or doubt. For god's sake the first time he accused Krycek of it he was under the influence of some kind of hallucinagenic drug they had been pumping into his water. For what reason I have no idea, since they had no idea he would come into possession of the DAT tape several Day later. He never saw Krycek kill him, he wasn't in the room and Krycek was long gone. They never mentioned if the gun they got from Krycek was the one used to kill his father. So what evidence do they have? I mean we figure Krycek probably killed him because he was in the room with him right before the gun shot. Mulder didn't see that though. So how the hell does he know. His intuition. His intuition is wrong sometimes. Just dead wrong.
Mulder's beating up Krycek right and left was annoying as hell to me. Inconsistent also. He never really hits anyone unless they hit him first. He was intentionally cruel to Krycek. If he had left him in that car it would have gotten him into deep shit for cruel and unusual punishment. Mistreatment of a witness, who was informing to them. The beatings were excessive force. It just didn't seem true to character to me. To make assumptions is like Mulder, to never question whether his is right with no evidence to back him up.
That night Krycek might have been going to plant the gun at Mulder's place to frame him. Krycek wasn't wearing gloves though and personally I would have gotten rid of the gun to begin with. I don't think he would have been stupid enough to carry the damn thing around, out in the open. What was he going to do, shoot someone else with it. Maybe Mulder. That makes no sense. Just the fact that he wasn't wearing gloves and they didn't really need much more to frame Mulder than he was there alone with his father and hopped up on drugs, it seems over kill to plant the gun. If he wasn't planting the gun I have no idea what he was doing there, except getting his ass kicked. Receiving his punishment in a pound of flesh?
Hell, Krycek beat up Skinner once, Cardinale was holding him, but he can hit hard obviously. He isn't adverse to hitting Mulder. Yet, he never did. That was stupid on CC's part, that Krycek wouldn't fight back.
Also, did anyone else notice NL played Krycek nearly breaking down and crying in frustration during RatB when Mulder wasn't listening to him and instead making fun of him. RatB was a point where Krycek could have been redeemed, also where Mulder seemed to be realizing there was more to the man. They killed it there though. So many story lines that would have been interesting, just died in mid-stream.
There was mention by Scully in the movie that she would have liked to work on a cure to the alien virus. Never happened.
So much more interesting crap could have occurred. Better story lines could have been explored. They just stuck with the pathetic tried and true and everyone stayed so cookie-cutter it was unnerving.
TPTB have such a propensity to fuck things up, it's almost comical. Expected as well.
Clio
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