This rewatch - watching every episode in chronological order for the first time ever, plus the chaos of XF2 this summer - has affected me more than I realized. I literally almost cried when I heard the "Scully's Theme" music at the beginning, when Scully was standing in front of the mirror and then walking through the halls of the FBI. I know she's a fictional character and it's silly to feel this upset over a TV show, but... my Scully. :( In light of the, ahem, status of hers and Mulder's relationship in XF2, it's just so heartbreaking all over again that she had to go through all this heartache.
Scully and Doggett's first encounter is classic. I love that she throws a cup of water in his face! Did he really expect her to believe that Mulder "confides" in other women at the FBI?
Who was tapping Scully's phone and standing outside her window? The Alien Bounty Hunter? Why?
Scully's voice mail message to her mom is SO SAD. :(
Scully going to Mulder's apartment and curling up and falling asleep clutching his dress shirt is EVEN SADDER. :( :(
Whoever stole Mulder's computer took not only the tower/hard drive (the only part you'd actually need if you were just trying to gather/hide/destroy data), but also the MONITOR. lolz.
I was going to try to keep some kind of tally of how many times Doggett says some variation of, "I'm just tryna find Muldah," but he said it like 5+ times in this episode alone, so I gave up.
Okay, the gravestone. I can understand that if Mulder had some kind of terminal brain disease (thisisnothappeningthisisnothappening), he might've looked into a burial plot, headstone, etc. But to go ahead and put the death date on it? Seems a little extreme. I'm also confused that it had both of his parents on it. Since they were divorced, would they have been buried together? Scully confirms that Mulder was going to North Carolina every weekend to visit his *mother's* grave, but she makes no mention of his father being buried with her. I'm confused!
Also, obligatory shipper-in-denial-of-S8 comment: It bugs me that Mulder was sneaking around doing *anything* on weekends without Scully's knowledge. Isn't that when they had most of their sexytimes? Wouldn't she have noticed that he was gone every weekend?
While I'm at it, why is Teena Mulder buried in North Carolina? Didn't the Mulder family always live in the Massachusetts/Connecticut area?
Scully and Skinner and the Gunmen make a fun team, but the theory they come up with is pretty ridiculous. Scully actually uses the phrase "going around" when she's coming up with her explanation. Aliens are just "going around" gathering up evidence of their own existence, to hide it or destroy it. WHY?? What difference does any of this make at this point? (Maybe I'm just frustrated because I'm actually still insisting on trying to make this mesh with the old colonization mythology. I should just give up now, y/y?)
Anyway, whatever's going on, it has something to do with Gibson Praise. Who inexplicably lives at a school for the deaf in the middle of nowhere, Arizona. (It makes me sad that his parents probably never found out what happened to him after The End and most likely think he's dead.) Also, though he's clearly gone through puberty since we last saw him, he's still incredibly short and walks strangely. Does Jeff Gulka have some kind of physical handicap or something? Just curious.
And at the end... it's Mulder! Or is it? Stay tuned to find out. ;)
This rewatch - watching every episode in chronological order for the first time ever, plus the chaos of XF2 this summer - has affected me more than I realized.
I know what you mean. It's been really emotional for me, too. Following the schedule of watching an ep every two days, plus writing up all the back stories, plus going to Vancouver for a week, plus preparing for IWTB ... it's been an amazing (and draining) XF summer. This rewatch has become a huge part of my life, and like I indicated in my post below, I don't even know if I'd be able to make it through Seasons 8 & 9 were it not for this comm. It really is a support group for addicts. :)
I feel the same way about this comm and the last two seasons. I dragged my feet a *lot* to even watch Within; I was several weeks ahead of the group until yesterday, and even though I didn't want to start Season 8, I did it so I wouldn't be behind here, ha ha. If you think about it, this comm has been an almost daily part of our lives for nearly a year now - that's pretty amazing! I'd hate to get this close to watching the entire series in chronological order and quit now (if I quit now, they win?), so I'm glad you guys are here to help me through the bad times, lol.
Scully's voice mail message to her mom is SO SAD. :( Oh dear, yeah. GA kills me in that short scene. Poor Scully, she really doesn't have any friends, no one to talk to but her mom (and Mulder).
I agree, but oh man. There are so many lost opportunities for "scenes that would've been amazing but that for some reason we never got to see" in seasons 8 and 9...
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I know what you mean. It's been really emotional for me, too. Following the schedule of watching an ep every two days, plus writing up all the back stories, plus going to Vancouver for a week, plus preparing for IWTB ... it's been an amazing (and draining) XF summer. This rewatch has become a huge part of my life, and like I indicated in my post below, I don't even know if I'd be able to make it through Seasons 8 & 9 were it not for this comm. It really is a support group for addicts. :)
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Oh dear, yeah. GA kills me in that short scene. Poor Scully, she really doesn't have any friends, no one to talk to but her mom (and Mulder).
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