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thelittlespy

Rewatch Extra: 2x13 Irresistible

Jul 07, 2008 20:41

I’m sorry to speak ill of the entirely fictional dead, but that girl is weird-looking and fish-lipped.

The guy at the mortuary is eating a popsicle when he comes in and discovers Donnie. I love little touches like that.

I wish they would’ve dropped the demon visions. They add nothing.I guess the format demands that there be a hint of the supernatural ( Read more... )

tv: the x-files, television, rewatch 08-09, xf: s2

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leucocrystal July 8 2008, 02:25:18 UTC

Awww, yeah, Mulder busts out his mad violent crimes skills! I wish we got to see more of this.
Me too. I seriously love me some profiling Mulder. Grotesque is pretty damn awesome in this respect (and many others).

It’s awesome, but she looks a little less than thrilled, probably because he flew her across the country and made her look at a desecrated corpse. He's a romantic, Scully. Get used to it.
Hee, yeah. Not only that, but I really do sympathize with Mulder here; in theory, desecrated corpses really shouldn't bother Scully the way they do. That's always been a snag for me in this episode; all of the pathologists I know wouldn't bat an eyelash at this. Necrophelia is icky, yes, but if anyone should be more bothered, it's Mulder; he's the one who's meant to get into the psychology of the thing. (And another thing that bothers me; we get profiling!Scully in this episode, which drives me nuts every time as it's nowhere near her job description or duty to do. But I'm getting tangent-y now...)

Why does Scully lose her shit over this ( ... )

leucocrystal July 8 2008, 02:25:36 UTC

He seems like a criminal who would want to experience it viscerally, rather than from a few feet away.
Ack, get out of my head! I've always thought the gun was an odd choice for his character, too. He relishes too much about the pain he inflicts on the women, pre and post-mortem, so a gun just does not fit with that psychological profile. Anyone who takes the time and "care" to slice a woman's fingers off and store them in his freezer isn't going to be that impersonal about anything else.

She tells him she's fine, of course, and doesn't allow herself to get upset until he forces her to look him in the eye.
So, so much love. I cannot even. It speaks to the power of this scene that I have an easy enough time ignoring all the things about this episode that bother me, in the face of getting this at the end.

And, my friends, what a hug it is. Look at his big hand on her head! Look at the way she starts out with her arms tightly between them, but then wraps her arms around him! Look at the way he pulls her in tighter and murmurs "It's all ( ... )

thelittlespy July 8 2008, 14:53:36 UTC

*sighs with you* And both halves get it so right! Scully doesn't want to go for it at first, but then she just does! And then she really goes for it, and lets go. And Mulder, at first, looks (understandably) stunned, but then just holds her, wishing he could do more. Oh, THEM. Also, the whispering-into-the-hair KILLS me.

It's kind of amazing. My favorite part really is how she just leans against him at first, with her arms drawn up, the same way she does in the Pilot. Keeping a little barrier between them. But then she's the one who takes that barrier down by throwing her arms around him, and that's pretty huge for her.

leucocrystal July 8 2008, 22:30:12 UTC

I know! Does Scully ever let herself be that vulnerable around him again? I can't think of another time, which sort of breaks my heart (a lot). Mulder just wants to love you, dammit! But you have to LET him, Scully! D:

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truemyth July 8 2008, 02:58:51 UTC

I like the deamon vision when it's a corner-of-the-eye thing. Not the morphy stuff they do with Scully later on... but it's like, our fears come to life, oh, wait, it's just DONNIE PFASTER. You know, like, if the guy is lurking and gives you the creeps, don't let down your guard just because he's not as scary as you first thought. It about like the metaphysical Gift of Fear. I almost wish they'd run further with that.

“Ten Necrophiliacs. Ten Corpses. One Chance for Love. This Summer on Fox!”
You should pitch shows for a living.

Moe Bocks might be my favorite one-off character.
Totally! Whenever I watch this episode, I'm POSITIVE that he's come back, that I've seen him more than this one episode. He's just wonderfully matter-of-fact and earnest and yet a bit dopey. I want "Call Moe Bocks" on a icon or something.

“Oh, no biggie. I mentally prepared myself on the plane while you were eating peanuts and reading Skymall."Snerk ( ... )

thelittlespy July 8 2008, 15:32:10 UTC

He's just wonderfully matter-of-fact and earnest and yet a bit dopey. I want "Call Moe Bocks" on a icon or something.
Hee! That would be awesome. I especially love the moment when Scully's missing and Mulder's trying to listen to someone on the phone, and Moe's just rambling along cluelessly as Mulder jams his hand over his free ear.

I don't think this would have effected her half as much if her emotions weren't as close to the surface after her abduction.
I guess, I just wish that we would've gotten an inkling of that. The only thing we get to tie her emotions here to her abduction is a slight mention in her therapy session.

Think Mulder and Scully ever read their reports to each other? For fact checking and stuff? Maybe that's why they are so dreamy/wordy/nature-of-many sometimes. They are trying to get the other one to drop everything and say, "OMG, YOUR BRAIN IS ENORMOUS! DO ME NOW!"I LOVE IT. You know Mulder, especially, would try to show off in his report writing. And then when he gets them, poor Skinman's probably like, WTF ( ... )

truemyth July 8 2008, 15:50:07 UTC

I guess, I just wish that we would've gotten an inkling of that. The only thing we get to tie her emotions here to her abduction is a slight mention in her therapy session.As I think you say above, it probably does say something wonderful for the quality of this episode that Scully's motivation doesn't have to be explicit (or even distinct) for it to still rank as one of the best episodes of the series. In some ways, I don't think it needs a direct connection. The fact that she is struck by this crisis without a hugely apparent trigger could add to her fear and confusion. She threw herself back into her work after the abduction because the work comforts her... and now she's having trouble doing it because her brain is throwing all these spooks and tingles at her and what would she do if she had to stop out of some emotional weakness (as she would see it)? I've personally been in situations where I'm over stressed and I start to feel like an outside observer as my body has typical stress reactions... it's very scary to have the ( ... )

meatfight July 8 2008, 09:33:08 UTC

I wish they would’ve dropped the demon visions. They add nothing.

Yeah, I agree. It's even worse in "Orison" when they make it 10 times as explicit and there's even less of a need for it because there already is a paranormal aspect.

Moe Bocks might be my favorite one-off character. Maybe because he reminds me of another awesome Moe, Moe Szyslak. I kept hoping he’d say “Whaaaaat?” to someone.

Hee! His voice is amazing. I want to hear him talk about cases all the time. And yeah, I enjoyed the Mulder parallels too.

After she holds the umbrella and he ducks to get under it with her

This makes me happy because, as I mentioned in your last post, if the umbrella is up as high as he is, she is getting rained on. So I'm glad to see that they compromise.

it also might have been nice of him to mention to Scully that he thought it might be corpse desecration, rather than aliens. He’s all, “Oh, no biggie. I mentally prepared myself on the plane while you were eating peanuts and reading Skymall."Yes. I think sometimes he doesn't think these ( ... )

thelittlespy July 8 2008, 15:38:25 UTC

Hee! His voice is amazing. I want to hear him talk about cases all the time.
Dude, they should've CALLED MOE BOCKS when Mulder was abducted! He could've teamed up with Scully to find Mulder! This is an entirely ridiculous idea, but I kind of love it.

This makes me happy because, as I mentioned in your last post, if the umbrella is up as high as he is, she is getting rained on. So I'm glad to see that they compromise.
I know! I think that's why I noticed it. I love when he has to crumple himself down to get closer to her size.

I also love it whenever they use buses on the show because they're totally recognizable as BC Transit buses, which I ride all the time. I'm a sad person.
That does not make you sad. I got extremely excited when, in the "Californication" pilot, Hank fought with the cell phone dude in a theater I used to go to ALL THE TIME.

And then he goes back for the season 7 hair? That's even worse.
You're so right. I didn't even stop to think about that.

You probably aren't even here anymore since you aren't updating wendelah1 February 25 2012, 17:41:12 UTC

Why does Scully lose her shit over this so badly? It makes for a good story, but it's not linked to her abduction enough to make it seem like that's why it's freaking her out. She's seen terrible things, she performs autopsies all the time. Why this?

I doubt the writers thought as hard about any of it as we do, but I don't think the desecration of a dead body by cutting off her fingers and the medical rape of a live body by removing her ova are as far apart as you think. PTSD doesn't have a one-one correspondence with the traumatic experience, and anyway, Scully doesn't remember what happened to her. Why shouldn't this upset her by triggering repressed anxiety, depression and grief?

We only see her talk to Scully here and during "Elegy." GOD, I wish we could’ve seen Mulder talk to her when Scully was dying of cancer. Obviously, he never would’ve gone on his own, since he was dealing with it in his own special way (denial, fisticuffs, handsome brooding), but what if Skinner forced him to, all, "You get your ass in there, Agent ( ... )