The other day we were talking about The Field Where I died and some inconsistencies with the timeline. Well, I started wondering exactly how old CSM was supposed to be. So I hopped on over to the Deep Background site (
http://www.xfdeepbackground.com/ ) to look up some things.
The other day we were talking about how Mulder remembered CSM in another lifetime during WW 2. In Musing of a Cigarette Smoking Man it says he was born in 1940, which I buy. That is about how old William B. Davis looks and I think around his actual age. So he was roughly 61 when they killed him off.
Everybody remember Apocrypha. Duh! A Krycek episode, of course you do. I thought that ep took place sometime around WW 2, turns out it takes place around 1953, during the Korean War. We see a man that is supposed to be CSM in that, along with a young Bill Mulder. (The guy who played CSM in that ep by the way, gorgeous. Most amazing blue eyes.) If that character had been born in 1940 he would have been 13 years old. For god sake's, they weren't even trying. His character in 1953 looked to be in his early 30's.
I mean do they not even look over notes and scripts to see if this shit fits. Talk about inconsistencies. Forget that he was born about the time that WW 2 started. So therefore he couldn't have been alive for Mulder's past life remembrances of him in TFWID. He shouldn't have been old enough to have been involved in the conspiracy in 1953.
The writers just do not care. They have no idea what the concept of canon is. I was on a list one day and someone was talking about liking X-files stories to follow canon. What canon? Where the hell is any consistent time line. Nothing makes sense on the damn show. CC and company have never care about that. Like I have said I am picturing little boys here who are just making up shit or someone smoking too much dope and thinking 'that's cool, we'll do that'. Whether it made sense or not. CC was so not capable of doing a show of the magnitude he attempted. It is almost laughable.
Hell, while I was browsing a timeline page over there I was almost laughing at how screwed up it was. I mean why bother really. Hell, Mulder's birthday was even changed. First listed as 10-11-60 and then 10-13-61. Samantha's birthday was changed from 1-22-64 to 11-21-65.
Oh, I mentioned in another post that Bill Mulder had to know about the colonist coming. On the Deep Background site they give the time line for deciding which family member they were giving up to be a little over a month. Start date 10-13-73, abduction date 11-27-73. You tell me if you knew this was coming would you leave your children alone just a little over a month from the time aliens demanded members of your family for testing. No fucking way. I'd stick near my damn kids so close, I'd be afraid to let them go to school alone. Please, the old fucker did let them take one. Who just might have been a mystery. Just let them decide since he couldn't, surprise him.
Also Scully apparently graduated Medical School in 1986 when she was 22. It takes 8 years to become a doctor. She would have had to have been 26 at the least. They later say Scully graduated Medical School in 1990 and was recruited right into the FBI.
Mulder was supposed to have graduated from Oxford between 83-86. Which would fit. Except from the research they did at the site, they found for Mulder to be a profiler he would have to have a Doctorate in psychology. Which would have taken longer, unless he entered college earlier than 18.
Also, about Mulder being color blind from some things they said at Deep Background he had identified colors in the red and green spectrum in other episodes.
Getting my point here. The timeline and canon events suck and make absolutely no sense. Even on the Deep Background site, which is for fanfic writers, they say just use whatever events make sense for your story and forget the rest. Use what works for you and leave the rest out. Forget canon. Hell, actually forgetting about canon is exactly what CC and company do. They set the precedent. If they can do it so can we. Tossing canon aside is basically what they do on the show. So therefore it's really canon. I agree with only using which events don't contradict your stories. Just use what works for your story and leave anything that doesn't fit out. There are so many contradictions in canon it isn't even funny. Use what you will. That's the best advice any of us could get regarding this fucked up show.
I think Scully said it best, "Sure, fine, whatever."
Clio