Rewatch Extra: 1x16 E.B.E.
This is one of those episodes that seems really long and meandering, but in a good way. As it went on, I kept thinking, Oh! THIS is in this episode! And this, too!
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I think I might love Byers the most, just because he's so clean-cut, straight arrow, always wearing a suit. He's just such an unlikely conspiracy theorist, it tickles me.
Don't even get me started on Morgan & Wong after they came back (and the fandom), and all the hoopla about that goddamn desk. Just... don't.
It's just SO DUMB, because...there's a desk there! There should never have been any hoopla in the first place!
BEST. EVER. The delivery is so casual, but he's totally serious! He's not even looking at her! If she wanted, she could totally get a nice view of his ass! ...What?
Oh, exactly! Like it sounds like one of his little flirty remarks, but he's not joking.
You feel the urgency and frustration not just through him, but how we're introduced to and carried through his frantic searching.
My favorite moment is when he's sliding underneath his table, looking beneath it. More than anything else in that scene, it just gives this feeling of desperation to find the thing that's been invading his home.
Matt and Mike have totally ruined this sequence (in the funny way) for me. This is what they had to say about it:
MATT: Yeah, that wasn't a totally unconvincing TWO MINUTE long pause in the audio recording or anything.
MIKE: Transcript says: "PROBABLY MAKING OUT NOW."
HILARIOUS! I love it, because that's SO TRUE. Wouldn't you love to be the person tasked with transcribing the tapes from Mulder's apartment? (Or, even better: video surveillance.)
So where are you guys in your rewatch? Somewhere in the wilds of season 8?
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It's just SO DUMB, because...there's a desk there! There should never have been any hoopla in the first place!
It's one of those things about the Fandom of Old that both annoys me and cracks me the hell up. This group of mostly female fans apparently got all uppity about it and started a campaign or something. Now, I love Scully, but I swear... every time a fan gets her panties in a bunch over Scully being "repressed" or some such thing, they're undermining Scully's character. Do they not see that?
More than anything else in that scene, it just gives this feeling of desperation to find the thing that's been invading his home.
Yes, exactly! I always feel crazy uncomfortable, on Mulder's behalf, any time the sanctity of his apartment is breached. E.B.E., Pine Bluff Variant, Milagro. I adore his apartment and something about it is just so homey... I hate to think of him having no safe place.
We're actually rounding the finish line very soon! Keep in mind, I'm picking out the "important" and best episodes so we can make it before the movie (they plan to go back and watch everything I skipped at their leisure afterward, which just makes me want to huggle them for getting so hooked, HEE). We just watched Provenance/Providence tonight. Sigh. I MISS MULDER.
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