Rewatch Extra: 3x22 Quagmire
This episode was one I continually went back to during the dark and terrible late seasons of my rewatch. It's like my comfort food episode.
The trees, the water, the overall wetness! Vancouver, I love you.
The Big Blue billboards are gorgeous Americana. I love painted billboards like that, advertising strange little things instead of nationwide ( Read more... )
They're the Postal Service of intellectual courtship. Inclement weather will not stop them.
*uses appropriate icon* Seriously though, ace description; they so are!
Also, I love how Duchov says “embarrassed.”
Haha, me too! I thought I was the only one! It's one of the few times in which you hear the New Yorker in him. (I also love how he says "stuuuupid" to Crump in "Drive".)
This episode makes my heart ache a little for Mulder.
Yeah, same here. Especially that incredibly bittersweet scene at the end near the lake!
“I know the difference between expectation and hope. Seek and ye shall find, Scully.”
One of my favorite Mulder lines. Seriously.
But she wants to figure it out, and that's what this whole conversation means to me. Apart from the content of the actual conversation, the fact that Scully feels comfortable enough to broach the subject with Mulder is huge.
Very true! Especially since for most of S3, they seem oddly distant with one another (and it gets worse heading into S4).
I honestly get his peg leg argument, and have thought similar things about the weight of expectations.
I do too, which is why I love the conversation so damn much. It just makes complete sense to me, on so many levels.
It also occurs to me that he's thinking, not necessarily seriously, but thinking nonetheless, that it would probably in some ways be easier to have a visible disability. He looks like perfection, you know? He is, as Modell says, an "all-around bright young man." That's what the world sees. They don't see the fucked-up stuff inside, so they expect him to carry on as if those "disabilities" weren't there.
I love it when you talk Mulder to me. Honestly, please never stop?
Mulder just wanted to tell her she looked hot after losing some weight, but he couldn’t figure out a better way than to bring up the idea of cannibalizing her on an island. Sweet talker.
HOW ARE THEY MADE OF SO MUCH WIN? I still do not fully understand.
But he's still nervous about opening up and offering this piece of himself to Scully, and he breaks out in a stutter again: "So-so-so."
Mulder stuttering in frustration and/or nervousness: another one of my favorite things!
Look at how delighted they both are when Scully can finish his favorite line!
It's such a naturally perfect moment, I almost can't believe it exists.
One of the many things I love about him is the fact that he doesn't ever seem to mind when Scully takes care of him like that. It's not emasculating that she intervenes for him, it's just getting his back like he gets hers.
Yes! I think that's why I love him letting her hold her own in the autopsy bay in, what is it, D.P.O.? He's almost delighted to watch her stand her ground against that bossy dude who doesn't want them there.
In short: LOVE. Must dash! *cries*
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You're really surprised we feel the same way? (See also: "married," as in "Mad About You was about a married couple.")
I love it when you talk Mulder to me. Honestly, please never stop?
I'll never stop! As long as you promise to continue leaving me long, multiple comments.
In short: LOVE. Must dash! *cries*
Don't cry! I hope you're having SUCH a wonderful time in LA this week! You went to the Queen Mary today, right??
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Heh, I really shouldn't be anymore, should I? We are constantly sharing the same brain! (Yes, you hear it there, too! Hee.)
As long as you promise to continue leaving me long, multiple comments.
As soon as I get home, I'll be home and spamming you in my usual way. Enjoy your Zellie vacation, lol!
We did go to the Queen Mary yesterday, yes! It was very cool, even though I turned half my arm and neck into mild lobster (because I'm an idiot like that).
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