For me, this episode was a great showing of Mulder's sacrifices, also reminding us the sacrifices the others have made throughout the story. The hallucinations, or dreams, show Mulder that it is a joy to live a beautiful life, having all a man can ever hope for, and once again Scully has to come to be the key of Mulder's realizing that he must keep fighting, for only he can fight the future that needs to be fought to prevent the possibility of the ending of Mulder's dreamed life, the apocalypse that he could've, or should have prevented ...
I'm surprised there is no mention of the last scene in the reviews written before mine. it had a great meaning to me, especially after remembering the sentence "The child is the father to the man." - the last scene, where Mulder comes back to the boy and helps him build the spaceship, it is a great way to tell us that Mulder is back on his quest, reconnecting with the child, reconnecting with his old self, beliefs, sacrifices
I'm surprised there is no mention of the last scene in the reviews written before mine. it had a great meaning to me, especially after remembering the sentence "The child is the father to the man." - the last scene, where Mulder comes back to the boy and helps him build the spaceship, it is a great way to tell us that Mulder is back on his quest, reconnecting with the child, reconnecting with his old self, beliefs, sacrifices