6x09 Tithonus

[wendelah1]

Thematically speaking, the sixth season episode "Tithonus" picks up where "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" leaves off. As you may recall, when Scully asks Clyde Bruckman, the man who can foretell everyone's death, how she dies, he replies "You don't."

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[tree]

fun facts about this episode. richard ruccio, who plays peyton ritter, starred in the sitcom 'two guys, a girl and a pizza place' with ryan reynolds, who was an XF guest star in 'syzygy'; 'two guys and a girl' also featured nathan fillion (who was in 'firefly' with another XF guest star, jewel staite), who now stars in 'castle' where they make quite a few XF references.

[idella]

I finally recognised buddy from TG&aG about halfway through! Then I felt better about that & had more brain-space for being disturbed about everything else. Yay?

The guy who played Fellig was really good. Gillian Anderson was really good.

I'm going to go change my vote for the 23rd to the happiest Scully episode that has a chance of winning.

[wendelah1]

I'm going to go change my vote for the 23rd to the happiest Scully episode that has a chance of winning.

Didn't you already vote for that? EC nominated "Clyde Bruckman." Although I don't think of it as a Scully-centric episode, at least nothing terrible happens to her in it.

The guy that played Fellig was good. They have a great casting director. Gillian Anderson was, as always, excellent.

[idella]

Yeah, I had voted for "Clyde Bruckman" so I just left my vote as it was.

[badforthefish]

Aarrgghhhh! Curse Real Life and work related obligations. I'm so behind on EVERYTHING!!! I missed the Redux and Xmas Carol rewatches and I had plenty of things to say about those *wails*. Gonna try very hard not to fall asleep head first on the sofa tonight - watch the ep and try to make half sentient comments.

[badforthefish]

Half Awake Fish Presents: Tithonus: A Musing of Teh Randomness

[tri_sbr]

16) I think it's because she actually does believe him and because of how much that jars her internal framework.

18) this.

[estella_c]

Agreed.

[tri_sbr]

I like the list format

[wendelah1]

Like everything she's done, "Speechless" is line by line, very well-written, and I'm fond of it too. But the overall concept needed work. I liked that the story doesn't ignore the time required to recuperate from a gunshot wound, but I also think the basic plot strains credibility. I don't think a field agent would be cleared for anything but desk duty until she could, say, tie and untie her own shoes!

I noticed the lack of two agents on the stake-out too. 1013 is inconsistent. And yes, these are definitely Mulder-ish type risks, not the sort of thing Scully would go for at all. The ride-along was particularly disturbing.

[estella_c]

Wow, great fanfic. I haven't read the idella, but assume it's good, and Fata Morgana is a total chiller. But my rewatch discovery is that I see so clearly the connection between Tithonus and Fathoms Five. The one leads directly to the other: Scully is now immortal, and it is the thing she dreaded. Sorry if I'm spoiling someone, but you should READ IT ANYHOW. FF is one of our authentic classics.

The episode maintains an eerie and dreamlike feeling, saturated with an emotion somewhere between wonder and despair. The dark photography is fine (although I can't forget my husband commenting during the teaser, "why doesn't someone turn the damn lights on?") Geoffrey Lewis is great, a real go-to character actor. Hard to believe he fathered ditsy Juliette.

Mulder was endearing in this (jealous!) but he seemed almost too relaxed and jocular to support the theme. Maybe they thought we needed comic relief.

[wendelah1]

I haven't read the idella, but assume it's good, and Fata Morgana is a total chiller. But my rewatch discovery is that I see so clearly the connection between Tithonus and Fathoms Five. The one leads directly to the other: Scully is now immortal, and it is the thing she dreaded. Sorry if I'm spoiling someone, but you should READ IT ANYHOW. FF is one of our authentic classics.

Yes, you have already read this: How a Resurrection Really Feels. We discussed all three at book club at various times, too. I am sure the connection to "Tithonus" must have come up. You must have forgotten it until now.

I'm not sure I see Scully dreading immortality here, not in her arguments with Fellig anyway. Maybe what you're saying is that she should? But that's not present here in canon. And at the end she actually rejects the idea that Fellig was immortal--after all he's now dead.

Mulder was endearing in this (jealous!) but he seemed almost too relaxed and jocular to support the theme. Maybe they thought we needed comic relief.You should go reread

[estella_c]

The humiliation of a bad memory never ends. Apologies to idella. (Did I like it?)

Don't you see a fear/repulsion in Anderson's acting that isn't in the dialogue? I do. But maybe I'm projecting.

Basketball Therapy sounds like the right therapy about now.