One Hundred Things - #2
LOL, I nearly forgot about this challenge. But I am back with another entry for it!
My theme for the 100 Things challenge is "Favourite Scenes Of All Time" - from movies/books/etc. This entry is kiiind of cheating a bit - because I'm going to focus on an aspect of a show, rather than a specific scene - but...it involves a lot of my favourite scenes all at once? To go through each one would be madness.
Anyhow. My 100 Favourite Scenes of All Time, #2: Any Scene of The X-Files where Mulder and Scully are snarking at each other.
The X-Files was my very first major fandom (as a kid I was a geek for comics/The Twilight Zone/etc - and...well, "My Little Ponies" before that XD) - I started watching it when I was 12, and I hung in there until the end of Season 6, when the entire show got FUBAR. I remember I used to tape it (on VHS!) every week, because there was no TV on DVD back then - and I'd watch my tapes over and over until they literally wore out. I also used to buy all the TV magazines and scour them for X-Files articles, cutting out the ones I found and putting them in a scrapbook. Oh, for simpler times.
Anyhow: One of the aspects about the show that I loved even back then - and appreciate even more as an adult - was the constant banter between Mulder and Scully. I think The X-Files was one of the first modern shows to really challenge the tropes about men/women/male and female relationships that dominated TV. Neither Mulder nor Scully really played the woobie that much - and when there was woobification, it was usually Mulder who was portrayed as the emotional, sensitive one, and Scully who was like "OH COME ON SUCK IT UP", which was very refreshing in those days. Most of the time, though, the characters were pretty evenly matched and on the same level, which made for epic amounts of affectionate snarking/one-upping/etc.
Good X-Files videos are pretty sparse on the interwebs these days, but the following gives a good example of what I am talking about:
I also include this video as an example of the snark - and also of the fact that Mulder may be one of the only men on television to actually look at porn - as most men do IRL - which I think is a really cool/brave detail on the part of the actor/creators (and made for some amusing lines, also):
Oh, nostalgia.
My theme for the 100 Things challenge is "Favourite Scenes Of All Time" - from movies/books/etc. This entry is kiiind of cheating a bit - because I'm going to focus on an aspect of a show, rather than a specific scene - but...it involves a lot of my favourite scenes all at once? To go through each one would be madness.
Anyhow. My 100 Favourite Scenes of All Time, #2: Any Scene of The X-Files where Mulder and Scully are snarking at each other.
The X-Files was my very first major fandom (as a kid I was a geek for comics/The Twilight Zone/etc - and...well, "My Little Ponies" before that XD) - I started watching it when I was 12, and I hung in there until the end of Season 6, when the entire show got FUBAR. I remember I used to tape it (on VHS!) every week, because there was no TV on DVD back then - and I'd watch my tapes over and over until they literally wore out. I also used to buy all the TV magazines and scour them for X-Files articles, cutting out the ones I found and putting them in a scrapbook. Oh, for simpler times.
Anyhow: One of the aspects about the show that I loved even back then - and appreciate even more as an adult - was the constant banter between Mulder and Scully. I think The X-Files was one of the first modern shows to really challenge the tropes about men/women/male and female relationships that dominated TV. Neither Mulder nor Scully really played the woobie that much - and when there was woobification, it was usually Mulder who was portrayed as the emotional, sensitive one, and Scully who was like "OH COME ON SUCK IT UP", which was very refreshing in those days. Most of the time, though, the characters were pretty evenly matched and on the same level, which made for epic amounts of affectionate snarking/one-upping/etc.
Good X-Files videos are pretty sparse on the interwebs these days, but the following gives a good example of what I am talking about:
Click to viewI also include this video as an example of the snark - and also of the fact that Mulder may be one of the only men on television to actually look at porn - as most men do IRL - which I think is a really cool/brave detail on the part of the actor/creators (and made for some amusing lines, also):
Oh, nostalgia.