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thelittlespy

Rewatch Extra: 3x04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Jul 09, 2008 10:16

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... )

tv: the x-files, xf: s3, television, rewatch 08-09

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i foresee a rocky romance between superstar madonna and super witness kato kaelin adinfinitum July 9 2008, 19:41:08 UTC

OH OH OH I LOVE THIS EPISODE SO VERY MUCH!

“Now, if you don't mind, I have to get an A.P.B. out on a white male, age seventeen to thirty-four, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo... who's impotent. Let's go.” 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."
HEE, YES!

Scully's looks of skepticism! Someone needs to a retrospective picspam that charts them through the seasons! I would but I've got the daunting task of doing the same for Mulder's wonderful head of hair. (GOD THE PICSPAM POSSIBILITIES FOR THIS SHOW ARE ENDLESS. If I had known that this is what our fandom future was ten years ago, I probably would have SHAT MYSELF.)

"I can't take you anywhere" never gets old! And the Great Eyebrow Off! Loves it!

Now look at her disgusted look when Mulder says “pinch me.” “Oh, so now you’re psychic?” Seriously, Scully took her sass vitamins this morning! She’s on a roll and I love it!HAHAH! I LOVE IT I LOVE IT! (I absolutely CANNOT WAIT ( ... )

Re: i foresee a rocky romance between superstar madonna and super witness kato kaelin thelittlespy July 10 2008, 04:15:05 UTC

Scully's looks of skepticism! Someone needs to a retrospective picspam that charts them through the seasons!
Do it! Put it on your list!

Okay, the Mulder Scully family car trip scenario? :( :( :( in the best possible way!
I know! I don't know why I torture myself. But then it makes me kind of happy, because I find it really easy to go into a trance and pretend like 8 and 9 never happened.

made up entirely of random caps and scenes in which one, without any prior knowledge, would naturally assume that these two are totally having sex. CONSTANTLY.
Dude, YES. This is the most excellent idea I've heard in a long time.

And stupid looking dog, indeed, but I still love Queequeg??? I DON'T KNOW.
Do you think Bruckman's gift extended to animals and he knew the gruesome fate Queequeg would meet? AND HE DIDN'T CARE?

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT OTHER SEASON THREE EPISODES YOU DO!!!!
It's SO HARD to decide! I'm anxious to get to season four, but then there are tons of S3 eps I want to do. Decisions!

if the future is written, why bother to do anything? adinfinitum July 9 2008, 19:42:01 UTC

RE: fate versus free will ( ... )

Re: if the future is written, why bother to do anything? thelittlespy July 10 2008, 04:19:37 UTC

And that whole notion really ties into his whole quest for truth and to unearth this vast government conspiracy where a bunch of old dudes sit in a smoky room and dictate the fate of millions of people, millions of people who live their lives thinking they have the power to shape their future, but really they DON'T. He wants to take that power back from these men and place it where it rightfully belongs: back with the individual.
Ooh, I like that!

I feel like I didn't completely do it justice, because there's just SO MUCH MORE that I didn't have the time or the space or the memory to touch on. I would loooove to come back and try to do that, but I just don't know.

I love rambling! It makes me feel better about my rambling posts.

Re: if the future is written, why bother to do anything? leucocrystal July 10 2008, 06:03:12 UTC

He wants to take that power back from these men and place it where it rightfully belongs: back with the individual.
Word sister, word.

mushfromnewsies July 9 2008, 20:18:11 UTC

At one point, several years ago, I was thinking of making up a list of all the ways fate vs. free will/working against fate came up in the series and particularly how Mulder or Scully viewed them. But I never did, so I can't offer you my theories. :D But I do have to say: I was kind of surprised you picked those three quotes. To me they mean something different.

-The Field Where I Died: "Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day."
-The Truth: "It's what made me follow you ... why I'd do it all over again."
-all things: "What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to."I think the first thing I noticed is that in all three of them, she's expressing not despair or bitterness at the world -- which is what Mulder sometimes does when confronted with the possibility of "fate" -- but rather love for Mulder. In the TFWID quote, she's actually countering Mulder's hypothesis about fated lives by saying that, even in a world seemingly not governed by ( ... )

mushfromnewsies July 9 2008, 20:18:33 UTC

P.S. And just to reiterate -- I know Frank, at least, sees the "solution" in The Truth being their mutual love. I don't consider TXF or its writers explicitly Christian in outlook. But I do think it falls into a Christian worldview whether it realizes it or not... in this instance at least. I think TXF is ultimately too cosmic to simply sit with human solutions. The horror of the mytharc is not that we're "not alone", but that the "others" are evil and cruel and inhuman. But neither is TXF simply and naively humanistic... the hope, I think, is that there is some great good beyond us, and that through belief and hope those of us still human enough to know [love, truth, justice] can achieve some kind of redemption.

Sorry for the excessive comment, lol. Sometimes it just all falls out. :)

thelittlespy July 10 2008, 04:35:42 UTC

At one point, several years ago, I was thinking of making up a list of all the ways fate vs. free will/working against fate came up in the series and particularly how Mulder or Scully viewed them.
I contemplated saving this for another post where I could really do that, but it seemed the chances of that actually happening were slim to slimmer, so I just went ahead and threw down what I had.

I think the first thing I noticed is that in all three of them, she's expressing not despair or bitterness at the world -- which is what Mulder sometimes does when confronted with the possibility of "fate" -- but rather love for Mulder.
For me, it's the fact that she's not expressing despair that makes her outlook clear to me. In all of these cases, especially from Mulder's POV, there is reason for her to be sad or bitter. Terrible things have come to pass. But when I say or hear "everything happens for a reason," I tend to view that reason as some future good that will eventually be revealed. (Maybe that's ultimately too greedy and goal-oriented ( ... )

dashakay July 10 2008, 01:27:41 UTC

Because you know William would’ve turned out just like this, all inquisitive, asking a million questions while Mulder told him weird stories about the local folklore of wherever they were driving. Scully would be kind of ready to jump out of the car, but then would be compelled to jump in and correct Mulder and give William the scientific explanation.

For the most part I dislike kidfic, but if you wrote this scenario I'd faint with happiness!