The Stargate metaphor kind of came naturally, because a lot of former XF people got *very worried* around the time it was announecd that RDA was retiring. I had *nightmares* about that actually happening. But yes, XF is a canon with a very natural stopping point.
...I do have a whole spiel about how S8 and S9 are still worth watching eventually, but it's probably best if you wait a year or so until emotions are cooled and you're ready to try just being friends again. Being still semi-active in XF I keep coming across old-time fans who've come back to it, started watching 8 and 9, and say, "Hey, wait, now that I'm no longer having canon rape flashbacks, this is pretty good!" And the very last ep ends the whole series in a satisfying way that creates lots of fic openings. But every time they attempted to use something from earlier in the series, it SUCKED.
I *think* the idea with the movie was that they'd make it stand-alone by using it to wrap up most of the way-too-many dangling threads from the mytharc, and then in S6 they'd come back to it with a clean slate and a chance to go deeper. The ep before the movie was titled "The End" and the one after it "The Beginning". Only it quickly became clear that the truth was *not* out there, CC had no idea what he was doing, and the movie was full of internal plot-holes even if you ignored the show canon it was messing up. So they came to S6 with an even murkier plot than before, and a bunch of writers who were sick and tired of dealing with it, and things did not go well. (The movie was very pretty, though; it's neat to see them with a location and effects budget; and it's the last time that mytharc stuff has reasonably good characterization with it, so it's worth watching if you get that far.)
If you want to know (spoilery!) what's up with the mytharc, I attempted to summarize it a few years back, here (http://community.livejournal.com/xfiles/653046.html), for my own benefit in fic-reading. (Somewhere down in the comments I also summarize the movie by way of "The Perilous Gard," which has fairies!)
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...I do have a whole spiel about how S8 and S9 are still worth watching eventually, but it's probably best if you wait a year or so until emotions are cooled and you're ready to try just being friends again. Being still semi-active in XF I keep coming across old-time fans who've come back to it, started watching 8 and 9, and say, "Hey, wait, now that I'm no longer having canon rape flashbacks, this is pretty good!" And the very last ep ends the whole series in a satisfying way that creates lots of fic openings. But every time they attempted to use something from earlier in the series, it SUCKED.
I *think* the idea with the movie was that they'd make it stand-alone by using it to wrap up most of the way-too-many dangling threads from the mytharc, and then in S6 they'd come back to it with a clean slate and a chance to go deeper. The ep before the movie was titled "The End" and the one after it "The Beginning". Only it quickly became clear that the truth was *not* out there, CC had no idea what he was doing, and the movie was full of internal plot-holes even if you ignored the show canon it was messing up. So they came to S6 with an even murkier plot than before, and a bunch of writers who were sick and tired of dealing with it, and things did not go well. (The movie was very pretty, though; it's neat to see them with a location and effects budget; and it's the last time that mytharc stuff has reasonably good characterization with it, so it's worth watching if you get that far.)
If you want to know (spoilery!) what's up with the mytharc, I attempted to summarize it a few years back, here (http://community.livejournal.com/xfiles/653046.html), for my own benefit in fic-reading. (Somewhere down in the comments I also summarize the movie by way of "The Perilous Gard," which has fairies!)