Take me to see the voodoo queen, let her put a spell on me...
Click to viewCan't say I've ever had an affinity for Country music but I can't get this song (skip to 2:45 to hear it) that I saw last week on the Late Show out of my head. There's something about this guy's voice...
ETA: In other news, I'm in the middle of S4 in my X-Files viewing.
First things first: POOR KRYCEK. I mean, sure, he's a bad guy but. They totally cut off his arm! Srsly wtf. XD It's definitely karma but damn. That was painful to watch. Even more painful than seeing him locked up in an abandoned missile silo with only an alien ship for company and not knowing if anyone was going to come get him out. ;___;
Krycek is so the punching bag of this show. He gets shit all over so he tries to inflict that pain back. So instead of trying to do better and improve his karma he keeps fucking up and making it worse. *sigh* He'll probably never learn.
And even though I feel bad for him... I kind of enjoy all the Krycek!whumpage. When Mulder was dragging him around like a rag doll in 'Tunguska' (Ep 4.08)...
(If you can't tell, that's a screencap of Mulder dragging him around by his collar like a pet or something. ;3)
...it made my mind go to... well, to some very badwrong places. DON'T EVEN ASK, OKAY. IDEFK BUT IT WAS PROBABLY THE HANDCUFFS *FACEPALM*
I... should be ashamed of this. I should.
MOVING ON. Scully? Is a babe and I totes have a girlcrush on her. :3 It's just. She's, like, stunningly pretty and yeah. She's damn gorgeous. Whenever she's onscreen I kind of bask in her beauty or something, I'm not even kidding. She distracts me from the rest of the show sometimes! lol
Mulder and Scully are so badass together but I lovelovelove (lovelove) the episodes where they have conversations about seemingly insignificant things because that's where we learn all the interesting details. 'Quagmire' (Ep 3.22) was one of these such episodes. Mostly I love this ep because of the below conversation (down with the quotes) but some of it is because I also managed to get this hilarious screencap of Scully glaring at Mulder:
I don't remember exactly what he said to earn that glare but whatever. I lol'd.
And because I am a creature of habit here are just a few of my fav quotes and other snippets of conversation so far (They're all from S3 b/c I didn't think to save any until then...):
3.04, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Clyde Bruckman: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.
Mulder: Why are you telling me that?
Clyde Bruckman: Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business.
3.12, War of the Coprophages
Aside from giving me the heebie jeebies because of all the cockroaches (seriously, ICK), this ep makes me laugh because of how much Mulder and Scully are in each other's back pockets. Even when they're not together they're constantly calling each other (or, at least, Mulder is constantly calling Scully) and that is kind of adorably awesome.
Mulder: Scully, can I confess something to you?
Scully: Yeah, sure, okay.
Mulder: I hate insects
Scully: You know lots of people are afraid of insects, Mulder. It's just a... it's a natural instinctive--
Mulder: No, no, no, I'm not afraid of them. I hate them. One day back when I was a kid, I was, uh... was climbing this tree when I noticed this leaf walking towards me--It took forever for me to realize that it was no leaf.
Scully: A praying mantis?
Mulder: Yeah, I had a praying mantis epiphany and, as a result, I screamed. No, not... not a girlie scream, but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited. Did you ever notice how a praying mantis' head resembles an alien's head? I mean, the mysteries of the natural world were revealed to me that day, but instead of being astounded, I was... repulsed.
Scully: Mulder... are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream?
3.22, Quagmire
Scully: Poor Queequeg.
Mulder: Why did you name your dog Queequeg?
Scully: It was the name of the harpoonist in Moby Dick. My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl, I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.
Mulder: It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
Scully: No, how much you're like Ahab. You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or mysteries, everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology.
Mulder: Scully, are you coming on to me?
Scully: It's the truth or a white whale. What difference does it make? I mean, both obsessions are impossible to capture, and trying to do so will only leave you dead along with everyone else you bring with you. You know Mulder, you are Ahab.
Mulder: You know, it's interesting you should say that, because I've always wanted a peg leg. It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of. I'm not being flippant, I've given this a lot of thought. I mean. If you have a peg leg or hooks for hands then maybe its enough to simply keep on living. You know, braving facing life with your disability. But without these things you're actually meant to make something of your life, achieve something, earn a raise, wear a necktie. So if anything I'm actually the antithesis of Ahab, because if I did have a peg leg I'd quite possibly be more happy and more content not to be chasing after these creatures of the unknown.
Scully: And that's not flippant?
Mulder: No, flippant is my favourite line from Moby Dick. 'Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling', huh?