Blood and Sleepless? Are AWESOME. I don't know any other qualificative adjectives. Sorry.
(I know I've already spazzed about this phenomenon, but bear with me.) I haven't seen those eps for so long (7 years? 8?) that it was seriously thrilling to watch them now!!! I had NO idea I'd forgot so much from those early years. To those of you who actually have been watching oldschool XF during the last 10 or so years: YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. It truly is amazing.
When the X-Files were closed and they were separated? Those are the things about that period I forgot about: What good friends they continued to be (if you choose to disregard some still existing trust issues, of course). How they missed each other and how they enjoyed and seeked each other's company on those rare occassions. "In all honesty, Scully, I've never had a more difficult time developing a profile." How she was always there to help him, how they emailed their reports to each other and how he addressed her by name in his reports and notes. How their friendship and their devotion towards each other kept growing even more when they were forced apart... If this is not OTP, I don't know what is. Right?
On a lighter note, I totally loved this conversation:
SPENCER: He was one of those nice guys... couldn't play and didn't bitch about being stuck in right field.
MULDER: What's wrong with right field?
SPENCER: Always the first one to shake hands at the end of the game . Didn't matter whether they won or lost.
MULDER: Got to have an arm to play right field.
SPENCER: Bought a round of beers afterwards, even though he didn't drink.
MULDER: I played right field.
Also, David's acting is HORRIBLE in those two. I could read a VCR manual aloud with more emotion. After a lobotomy. While asleep. In a coffin.
1. Yes plz, but after you lose the cowlick.
2. Hey, Mulder, I thought you hated bugs. Oh, right; that doesn't come up until mid-s3. Sorry.
3. NEEDS MOAR GUNMEN
4. "She wouldn't come. She's afraid of her love for you." Mulder, you total douche, you sold your innocent little Scully to a pervert for a toy! It is a neat toy, though, I have to admit.
5. Mulder seems to get all the cute lighting in early s2 maybe because you can show his silhouette without raising embarassing personal questions about bellies.
6. DUN DUN DUN DUNNN
7. "You mean I don't get MP3 in this until 1999?" Mulder looked at his cell phone for a long time, but it never got any less huge and ugly.
8. Nothing says early 90's like this outfit. NOTHING. Amirite or amirite?
9. Another thing I totally forgot about: There were more pictures like
this one! Oh my God, so cute!
10. BEHOLD! THE ULTIMATE PARAMECIUM TIE (zellie!)
11. "Spleen or pancreas?" "Stomach." "LOL, let me shrug adorably as obviously anatomy is just another thing I suck at! Also, meet the guy who is gonna co-shoot your sis!" BFF!!
12. Urgently whispered conversations over a corpse with a pugilistic attitude? Yes plz, SMART IS SEXY.
13. "Must be nice not having someone question your every move, poking holes in all your theories..." "Oh yeah, it’s- it’s great. I’m surprised I put up with you so long... OH SCULLY YOU KNOW I DON'T MEAN THAT CAN I HAVE YOU BACK LIKE RIGHT NOW" Sheepish Mulder Is Sheepish.
14. "Oh, Mulder, you can have me anytime as soon as I have the baby come back from outer space, 'kay?"
15. Mulder's ties may metaphorically burn your brain with the ugly, but at least they don't physically burn your retinas with CONTRASTING COLOR PAIRS! Srsly, Krycek, what is wrong with you (beside all those things that are wrong with you)?
16. Can we agree to forever pretend it's Science Girl there instead of Rat Boy? Yes? Thanks.