Rewatch Extra: 3x04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Both Darin Morgan and Peter Boyle won the Emmy for this. Deservedly so.
I love when I love the teaser! This happens so rarely, especially now, when I’m watching episodes I’ve seen a ridiculous number of times.
“What the hell is Lalapalazzo?”
“So what do they say about the entrails?” “Yuck.”
The fake-out is great, when Cline and Havez are talking about ( Read more... )
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SRSLY.
Hot nerds are the best.
Totally. And people wonder why they're nearly universally loved!
This is in the running for the funniest line of the whole series. He's just so serious when he says it! Especially the determined, "Let's go."
AHAHA, I KNOW. The law enforcement major in me doesn't want to laugh at my brothers in uniform, but I seriously cannot help it in this case.
“Oooh, I just got a chill down my spine.”
Gets me every time. We rarely hear Mulder THAT sarcastic, but I love it.
“I’m supposed to believe that’s a real name?” Poor Mulder.
I love that he gets shit for it, yet I don't, yet I still love the name. I never thought I'd give my heart to fictional character named Fox, but there you go.
You know, people act like Mulder will believe in anything just because, but he's really something of a St. Thomas, you know? He would absolutely need to stick his hand in those wounds. Just hearing from Bruckman what the gift is like isn't enough. He believes ( ... )
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SO MUCH LOVE. Seriously, I just... MULDER. He gets to me, you know? Yet another one of the reasons (on my laundry list of about 80,000) as to why I am ridiculously in love with Paper Hearts (and Mulder).
Mulder through the round window. A lovely shot.
One of my favorites. I also love how the entire sequence in the kitchen (both in Bruckman's initial "vision" and when it actually happens later) is edited. And I cannot even tell you how much I love that Puppet comes up from behind Mulder, whether he's prepared or not. I LOVE shit like that. And the pie!
Mulder, on the other hand, seems to view life as an endlessly unfolding Choose Your Own Adventure book, where you have to aggressively look forward and choose and make the world bend to your will. And that makes sense. The event that most shaped him was Samantha's abduction. As a child, how ( ... )
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I agree!
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I'm so impatient to get through my season 3 eps so I can write and write about "Paper Hearts."
And I cannot even tell you how much I love that Puppet comes up from behind Mulder, whether he's prepared or not. I LOVE shit like that.
Exactly! He thinks he can change the outcome by turning around to make sure the Puppet isn't behind him, not realizing that that allows the Puppet to...be behind him.
I cannot even tell you how much I love it when you write about Mulder. Seriously, there are no words. But you're so right! And that conversation in Monday is more telling than people give it credit for, I think. As to Mulder's belief (or non-belief) in God, I've always considered him an Agnostic. I also think my favorite quote of his on the subject is, "God just reads the box scores, Scully."Aww, thank you! I feel like there's so much more to say on the subject, and I barely scratched the surface, so I'm ( ... )
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But also euphemistically, right?
I bet she practices all of her different skeptical looks in the mirror on the weekends.
I kind of love this idea.
I hate to break hearts, but can you imagine the Mulder-Scully family on a car trip?
SIGH.
“Yes. Yes, we do.” I love how Scully says that line
Me too. I think it might be my favourite from this episode.
And I like your points about fate, especially this:
He can't accept that, the idea that all of his work might be done in vain, for any given outcome to be the same no matter what he did. It's not necessarily about self-importance, but rather about giving his life and his work meaning.
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OBVIOUSLY. Do you think we can get that started as a new slang phrase? "He was totally reading her tea leaves."
I kind of love this idea.
I feel like she would have to, because while they sometimes come naturally, other times her instinct is probably to smile goofily at his cuteness, and she needs to be able to keep up her stern, skeptical, disapproving facade so Mulder doesn't get too cocky.
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I'll start working it into my everyday conversation. With both of us on it, I'm sure it'll catch on in no time!
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OMG I literally just spat soup out laughing.
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“Do you want to know how you're going to die?” “Yes, I would.” “No, you don’t.” NO SHIT.
I think a more appropriate response would have been "Which time?"
I hate to break hearts, but can you imagine the Mulder-Scully family on a car trip?Ah! You're exactly right-- I can't picture William any way but inquisitive, to Mulder's occasionally annoying (but completely adorable) degree ( ... )
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Totally. Especially since he'd already been kind of dead and brought back to life a few weeks earlier.
Scully is not only the ONLY person who will ever understand that and actually have the balls to say that to him, but the fact that she knows him that well so early on, and that he can handle hearing that without hating her or thinking she's a bitch really speaks to their relationship.
YES. That's perfectly said. That whole conversation on the rock is amazing.
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