3x23 Wetwired

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Another after school special! This one's about how television rots your brain. Think Blood but with TVs. Okay, I joke because I love it. This is an amazing Scully episode that's all about trust and the breakdown of that trust.

Comments

[maidenjedi]

How is there not fanfiction about this one?! Travesty!

Meanwhile, watching now. Amazing episode all around; a superior play on the trust issues between Mulder and Scully. I think I'll have more to say later but for now - love love love.

[tree]

oh, there's fanfiction. it's just not good. in my not humble opinion.

[wendelah1]

in my not humble opinion. ♥

[maidenjedi]

Fair enough!

[tree]

this episode hits my trust kink so hard. scully's greatest fear is being betrayed by mulder. and then she goes to her mother's place because she's afraid. and her mother talks her down! and it's just epic and beautiful and i love it.

the psychology/psychiatry makes no sense, but let's pretend like it does. it's easier that way.

scully's hair is pretty. (still shallow)

[wendelah1]

Belief and trust. The two big themes of TXF. This episode just nails it. It is epic and beautiful and I love it too.

[lilydale]

Here are some Wetwired fics that I had noted as being good. The notes are over 10 years old, and I have not read any of these stories anytime recently (maybe not since the list was made), but maybe there's a gem in here. *g*

Shibboleth by RivkaT

Reprieve by Shalimar

Fall From Grace by Nicole Perry

Comparing Betrayals by Ten

Rubies and Emeralds by eponin119

[wendelah1]

Thank you so much for these. I remember liking "Shibboleth," too.

Ha ha! I just saw that your icon is a gif! Very cool!

[badforthefish]

Oooh, I remember loving that one back in the days. *cracks knuckles

[wendelah1]

7) Even in her paranoia it looked like Scully wasn't shooting to kill. Her shots were aimed way too high and we know she is a good shot.

I was thinking it was her vision being affected. She sure sounded like she was out for blood.

11) The downstairs neighbors must love Fox Mulder and his bouncing Basket ball.

I'd say the basketball is the least of their worries with Mulder living there. Wasn't it early in this season or late last season that someone was pumping hallucinogens into the building water supply?

12) Mulder is colour blind. It saddens me that he must see Scully's hair as some shade of army green.

Not exactly army green, though I guess it depends on the type and degree of impairment? I read about it on this website: http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/ I'm still confused.

15) Scully's worst nightmare is being betrayed by Mulder. So interesting to see the partnership'

[estella_c]

Truthfully my first rewatch, and it made my heart happy! What a super show it was in its prime. I agree with Autumn's review; WW brings together all the good things that made X unique: the mysterious monster, the paranoia, the ship, the ACTING, the LG, in a tightly wound story that actually plays out and resolves with perfectly maintain tension. By the special effects guy

[estella_c]

Oh--forgot to say--what the hell is Scully doing sloshing down soda in a power suit while Mulder is sensibly down to his undeshirt. She couldn't get into something more comfortable?

[wendelah1]

Yeah, it's a funny contrast. Mulder is walking around half-dressed and she's still dressed to the nines, right down to her high-heeled shoes.

[wendelah1]

I always like saying what everyone probably knows, that Scully's trash freakout is a homage to Gene Hackman's in "The Conversation." Likewise Mulder doing something similar though somewhat saner in EBE.

Everyone? You betray your cinephile roots. I never would have thought that but then I've never seen or even heard of "The Conversation."

It is a great episode, one of the best of the season. And I love the third season.

I like how Duchovny underplayed the scene with the Gunmen and at the morgue.

Do we believe Mulder is colorblind? He says he's colorblind. Are we supposed to think he's lying about it? What I believe is that the writers didn't do their homework on that one. What a surprise.