- the x-files -

i think i could be in a lavender marriage with mulder. like he's not gay. but if he needed to be married for some reason

okay so obviously i am not the target audience for the david duchovny shirtless moments in the x files like. i dont care lol but the one thing that gets me is that mulder would not have abs. he sleeps on his couch with the tv on & spends all day lounging around his office reading files & flying across the country at the drop of a hat & staying up all night investigating shit like he is not getting the exercise or eating well enough to be buff.

like i understand why they cast conventionally attractive people in tv but its still funny to me. like there was no need for us to see mulder in the pool they just did that so they could but david duchovny in swim boxers on television. when will i see scully in her underw[COMICALLY LOUD EXPLOSION SOUND EFFECT]

the brainworms. theyre coming i am fucking obsessed with this show & i havent even finished season one like. holy shit. damn. theres a lot going on in there. like aside from the nightmare fuel Situations they end up in every week theres the. the. the unresolved tension one might say. like fucking hellllllllllllllllllllllllḻlllllllḻlll JUST KISS ALREADY !!!!! scully you gotta climb that white boy. okay sorry. but yeagh. yeagh. THERES JUST SO MUCH !!! IN THERE !!!!!! LIKE !!!!!!!!!!!!! theyre so obviously obsessed with other to the degree that scully whos like. a logical reasonable person as is her whole thing is willing to lie to the fbi where she works to protect mulder & the x files like gott damn people who were just assigned that as a work project & no more dont do that about their coworkers. like. fuck man. like mulder obviously needs her carnally but being the blueprint pathetic wet cat man is never gonna say that but scully has something far more psychosexual going on. in a way they are like twelveclara i think. in which mulder is the doctor albiet more like ten & scully is clara in that she is pretending to have a normal life when she would obviously be far far happier hunting down aliens & freaky shit with her mutually obsessed coworker forever & neither of them want to say anything about it but YOu Know. yeagh. yeagg. something going on with those two. anyways look at the real vintage 90s gif collected by yours truly. particularly obsessed with the two single character ones like..... whoever made those should have been making video edits of with sparkles to chappel roan yknow

i swear to god i was watching x files & at the end of the last s1 ep mulder calls scully to say theyve been shut down at 11.22pm & i swear that was like. within a minute either directon pf 11.22pm real time for me. spooky

anyways im finished season one now (watched the last three eps last night)(17th november) & AUGHHHAGAHGAHHHHHHHUUAUAUAUUAUUAUUUUUUUUUUUUU THEM !! the last episode was great lots of good character moments hnnrrmrmrgrhgrhrghgrhgrhghhrhhhhmhmhhm IM SO HAPPY !! THAT SCULY GOT TO SEE AN ALIEN !! like how she got that thing out of the wherever she was is beyond me but GOOD FOR HERRRRRRRRRR like Of Course when mulder goes to show her the tanks theyre all gone b/c thats how thw show works - mulder Always has to be the sole witness b/c he's already convinced & no one will ever really believe his judgement even when he is right and scully never gets to see it b/c she has to remain skeptical & level headed they even !! someone i think one of the yknow, 'nutters who think the government is tracking them' guys say to mulder 'is this your skeptical sidekick' or someything.OBSESSEDDDDDDDDDDDD with when one of them calls scully hot & afterward she's like well theyre crazy & mulder goes what you think its unrealistic for someone to find you hot? LIKE. OKAY BUDDY. AND THEN !!!!!! when theyre in the car in tooms & shes calls him fox & he does that little laugh and yOU CAN TELL BY THE LOOK ON HIS FACE HE WAS SO CLOSE TO SAYING SOMETHING THERE. AND THEN. when she's brought him food & he's like haha if youve brought me lemonade it must be love LIKE INSANE THING TO SAY TO HER??????? RIGHT THEN????? & she's like haha no luck its ginger beer or whatever KNHAUISHAOIAUOAIuSOIauMMSHAMIO(AH)&(UOYI@#&(UYI@#()U@IO#OUIQMWOUUûüùúū SOMETHING GOING ON. WIT HTHEM. & then mulder fucking kills a guy with an esclator. okay

something about how the way very episodic shows work with each episode mostly being a whole story us that there is often very very little processing time for the characters. like they could be going through life shatteringly bad events every other week that would seriously mess them up and it will just be. never mentioned. doctor who has started dealing with the implications of that now especially with the rapidly increasing stakes, with fourteen, & with fifteen being like 'well thats just the way this is', but i was watching x files yesterday & like. theres some pretty messed up stuff in there. like in the span of like four episodes, scully's dad dies, she gets kind of manipulated by the psychic guy, she kills someone, she gets hyponotised & is very close to being sexually assaulted, gets kidnapped & sees another guy (who she was like. friends with) die in front of her too - and none of this is ever dealt with!! like damn girl take a day off. you have like 25 episodes a season go to the beach or something please.

& the other thing is with x files is like. well its not copaganda & they do have their 'government bad' moments but scully very much does shoot & kill a guy. & isnt shown to be remorseful or upset or anything about that. zero repercussions. and no one is bothered. like idk its just weird are we supposed to overlook that or are we supposed to think she was in the right for doing that or ?? & like mulder gives his hotel key to a homeless guy & i cant picture him doing police violence but he also very much does wave a gun around. and every other character think's he's overly emotional soft & a bit of a nutter. idk. i think a lot of scully's character is supposed to be Professional Detachment as well as her personality just not being on the touchy feely side but like. yay feminism the female character has gun too??

& its hasnt escaped me that a lotttttttt of these episodes could not be made today like. the gender bender one was. it was pretty close to saying something wacky its like 'uhhh beware of BISEXUAL TRANSGENDERS they KILL you with SEX' whichis. hmm. & the roland one like what if this high needs autistic guy was being POSESSED by his GENIUS DEAD BROTHER which is also. hmm. there were others as well. the episode with the native americans i think they just about managed to avert it becuase the werewolf virus or whatever could be passed to anyone & two of the main three in the ep were white guys so they werent making it a 'mystical native powers' thing but yeagh. do we think there were indigenous writers working on that episode.

& its weird because they are trying to show compassion mulder and scully are shown to really care about the victims of whatever nightmare scnerio it is this week, roland the autistic guy, the two eve girls, all that but like. idk it sure was the 90s in the 90s. aside from the episode plots quite hilariously checking every conspiracy theory / unexplained phenomena off the list its still rooted in the prejudices of the era. even if for the time it was nothing to note.

thinking about the episode where phoebe green who is mulder's old friend / ex girlfriend is there and it was so so funny to me b/c aside from her literally being like 'mulder youre so pathetic i want you scared & afraid & remember that time we had graveyard sex', mulder seemes like he's worried what scully will think, & phoebe is vaugley aware that scully might not like her fllirting with her coworker. like she does it anyways but she's not doing it To Make Scully Jealous she just wants mulder that badly lol

and scully is just unbothered!! like she mighty be a little bit jealous/annoyed about it on a personal level but doesnt realllyyyyy show it like when she has to tell him something & walks in on him making out with phoebe she's just like okay whatever we're literally on a case rn and fully runs over to interrupt them when she realises the building is on fire. i reckon she's probably like 'oh thank god he has kissed a girl before i was starting to wonder' while also probably, if you will excuse my use of gen z slang, be astounded that he has/had rizz

like scully & phoebe are both captivated by his pathetic demeanor & vaugley sad & guilty swag but while phoebe falls into the trope of like, super-hot-&-flirty-but-still-competent-ex-girlfriend scully is doing the whole Career Woman thing (very 90s of her which. is b/c its the 90s) but also we saw her on her one awkward date in the what is bigfoot was a woman episode & she didnt seem to be enjoying it!! like she would rather be vaugley attracted to mulder's sad tboy energy than even contemplate getting married

however. in the episode with the genetically modified girls at the end im sure mulder & scully were both painfully aware that they looked like a family. scully was probably trying to ignore it in a rational logical way but i'm sure mulder was imagining they were married withtwo kids & they were a normal family getting sodas yknow.

like the girl says to the woman at the counter 'my dad will pay for it' because she Knows what they look like but im sure if she had said that in front of mulder & scully, scully might have tried to contain her surprise, not say anything, but internally be kind of pleased and mulder would play into it 100%. & probably touch scully more. like he's quite touchy feely anyways but i dont think he wuld mind the excuse lol

kind related to what i was talking baout before but obviously A Lot of thought has been put into writing mulder & scully's dynamic & even more into analysing it but how they fit into character archetypes is so interesting to me like mulder is the kind of guy who, had his show been made ten years later would probably have gone into a tumblr sexyman adjacent category cos he's a sad white man with big brown eyes & vaugely bisexual energy but Scully seems so so rooted in the 90s & in 90s perceptions of women - like she is always perfectly put together & wears acceptably feminine suits & skirts even though she's like. one of very very few women agents we see not too much emphasis is placed on her being A Woman In A Man's World though scully herself would probably be Very aware of this. but they cant write her as vapid nor would they want to so she has to always be the most Logical & Rational person in the scenario, even when she has accepted it's aliens or whatver the problem of the week is she has to maintain professional skepticism. they Cant write her as a Stupid Woman or they'd have no show But they seem to keep her in a state of not being quiiiite accepting enough of whatever unexplained phenomena it is - which also makes it so that mulder is The Only One to witness the Thing, but of course no one would take his word for it cos everyone already knows he's convinced about aliens & lowkey thinks he's lost his marbles anyways.

If scully were to See The Aliens then there would be more chance she would break free from this character restriction bUt mulder always has to see them & scully always has to be skeptical even if only for professional reasons. it always has to be 'scully youre not gonna believe this'