I juuust watched this last night while I was ironing! But I feel like I should read your other entries first that I am like eleven million years behind on. I AM A BAD FRIEND. So I'll be back to comment properly later!
What meatfight said. Except not the ironing part. I SO WASN'T EXPECTING TO SEE THIS TONIGHT! It's like everyone on my flist decided to bring their A game the one night I can't pay them proper attention. THANKS A LOT.
JAY KAY. I'll be back when things settle down and I wasn't lying when I said I'd catch up on the recaps I missed. I will!
First of all... even a recap of this episode gets me choked up. And you cover everything so well. Augh, the cancer arc is seriously so good I can't take it. Although for me the Anasazi-Blessing Way-Paper Clip arc shares Top Favorite status with this, there's something a little bit campy about it that, while it really enhances it and makes it so lovable and good, in a certain way, does restrain it from being as balls-out stunningly excellent as the best episodes of the cancer arc. (But A, B, *and* C are all superb, whereas parts of Gethsemane and Redux get a little boring. But since I also include Memento Mori in the cancer arc
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Although for me the Anasazi-Blessing Way-Paper Clip arc shares Top Favorite status with this Oh, yes. I actually think those might win for me, just because they're so succinct, everything in those three, tight episodes. There's nothing better than CSM spitting out "Burn it!" as he stands above the boxcar in the desert.
Your feelings about Samantha will make me watch it differently next time, I think, but...man. I always get really disappointed when that chunk of the episode starts. I can't explain what it is about her or about them together that makes me just stop caring altogether.
I'm with you on Samantha and Mulder in the diner scene, actually! I have a tougher time with fake!grown!Samantha in Colony/End Game than I do here, actually. Plus I always just kind of loved how closely David and Megan resemble one another; I think I once did a side-by-side comparison for Naraht, but they have the same strong chin, the same slightly large nose, and very emotive eyes. Seeing them both struggling with emotions at the same table is pretty intense, actually.
Okay, I had started a nice long comment, in my usual fashion, and then LJ decided to EAT IT, and after about a minute of rage, I realized I'm too tired to try and compose it again. In short: how did I manage to miss this post? I LOVE REDUX 2 SO MUCH IT HURTS MY VERY SOUL. Ahem. So, I'll just... sort of pick up where I left off before LJ decided to be a douche.
Look at how he looks at her. Can you imagine being on the receiving end of a look like that? I should just point people to this episode, specifically this scene, when I'm trying to explain why Fox Mulder has basically ruined me for men.
Handkissing on this show is hotter than sex. Handkissing on this show makes me squee like an idiot, too.
I remember gasping out loud the first time I heard that line. For Mulder, that's kind of the equivalent to being stabbed in the heart (again), isn't it? Goddamn.
And my Lord, Mulder’s FACE. I don’t know, there’s some magical combination of the lighting and something Duchovny did, but he’s never looked more vulnerable and washed clean of
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“We all have our faith, and mine is in the truth.” I'm crying now, if you were wondering. Oh, me too. God dammit, this episode.
Seriously, chaste handkisses and talk about integrity. This show does weird things to me. People who don't get it just... DO NOT GET IT. I'll never understand how, but we know better.
Mulder in rolled-up shirtsleeves. Give me a minute. Oh, me too. Oh, those forearms.
I personally prefer the young Mulder of "Demons," even though he's not perfect and he only shows up that once. But his gangliness works. This kid's a brick LMAO how you are making me laugh right now is beyond me. But I totally agree! Demons!young!Mulder was perfect; he had the lips and the nose and the earnest eyes (and yes, he was lanky). Pity they only used him that one time, I loved him.
His weird crying noise/seal bark when he bites his lip actually works for me. It works for me too (unsurprisingly)! But I just barked out a laugh like you wouldn't believe at your description of it, oh my god
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People who don't get it just... DO NOT GET IT. I'll never understand how, but we know better. I could not have said it better. And those people who don't get it...I don't want them to get it. Because if they don't, then they don't deserve to.
It works for me too (unsurprisingly)! I've seen people make fun of it, but I find it moving. It's like he's SO HAPPY about Scully, but at the same time, he's sort of fighting back this consuming grief about the whole Samantha situation. And he doesn't let it go until he's alone in the hall, while Scully's in there, surrounded by her family. She's been his only family for a long time, but it'll be awhile before he completely becomes hers, if that makes sense.
I think if it hadn't aired after this, I wouldn't mind "Unusual Suspects." I do remember my friends and I getting a lot of play out of the line about tinfoil making an attractive hat and keeping out the government's mind control rays, or whatever it is. But it was just so disappointing to sit down after the high of "Redux II" and be
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I just realized, your icon is an almost perfect illustration of how great the casting for young!Mulder from Demons was -- the colors bring it out even more! Random!
Because if they don't, then they don't deserve to. Word. I don't even care how snobby that sounds; it's something special, dammit.
It's like he's SO HAPPY about Scully, but at the same time, he's sort of fighting back this consuming grief about the whole Samantha situation. Yes! That moment, for me, is a perfect illustration of too much going on at once; the happiness mixed in with all the sadness and helplessness and confusion, and when you've got that much tumbling around inside you, some of it is just going to literally bubble up out of you, whether you want to or not (but then he literally tries to hold it back).
She's been his only family for a long time, but it'll be awhile before he completely becomes hers, if that makes sense.Oh, it totally does. As sad as it is how much they lose to get there, I do still love that at the end of the day (and, inevitably, the
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JAY KAY. I'll be back when things settle down and I wasn't lying when I said I'd catch up on the recaps I missed. I will!
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Yeah, me too! I'm like a month and a half behind but I can totally do it!
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Just a warning: the next one I'm watching is "Detour."
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Oh, yes. I actually think those might win for me, just because they're so succinct, everything in those three, tight episodes. There's nothing better than CSM spitting out "Burn it!" as he stands above the boxcar in the desert.
Your feelings about Samantha will make me watch it differently next time, I think, but...man. I always get really disappointed when that chunk of the episode starts. I can't explain what it is about her or about them together that makes me just stop caring altogether.
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Look at how he looks at her. Can you imagine being on the receiving end of a look like that?
I should just point people to this episode, specifically this scene, when I'm trying to explain why Fox Mulder has basically ruined me for men.
Handkissing on this show is hotter than sex.
Handkissing on this show makes me squee like an idiot, too.
I remember gasping out loud the first time I heard that line.
For Mulder, that's kind of the equivalent to being stabbed in the heart (again), isn't it? Goddamn.
And my Lord, Mulder’s FACE. I don’t know, there’s some magical combination of the lighting and something Duchovny did, but he’s never looked more vulnerable and washed clean of ( ... )
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Oh, me too. God dammit, this episode.
Seriously, chaste handkisses and talk about integrity. This show does weird things to me.
People who don't get it just... DO NOT GET IT. I'll never understand how, but we know better.
Mulder in rolled-up shirtsleeves. Give me a minute.
Oh, me too. Oh, those forearms.
I personally prefer the young Mulder of "Demons," even though he's not perfect and he only shows up that once. But his gangliness works. This kid's a brick
LMAO how you are making me laugh right now is beyond me. But I totally agree! Demons!young!Mulder was perfect; he had the lips and the nose and the earnest eyes (and yes, he was lanky). Pity they only used him that one time, I loved him.
His weird crying noise/seal bark when he bites his lip actually works for me.
It works for me too (unsurprisingly)! But I just barked out a laugh like you wouldn't believe at your description of it, oh my god ( ... )
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I could not have said it better. And those people who don't get it...I don't want them to get it. Because if they don't, then they don't deserve to.
It works for me too (unsurprisingly)!
I've seen people make fun of it, but I find it moving. It's like he's SO HAPPY about Scully, but at the same time, he's sort of fighting back this consuming grief about the whole Samantha situation. And he doesn't let it go until he's alone in the hall, while Scully's in there, surrounded by her family. She's been his only family for a long time, but it'll be awhile before he completely becomes hers, if that makes sense.
I think if it hadn't aired after this, I wouldn't mind "Unusual Suspects." I do remember my friends and I getting a lot of play out of the line about tinfoil making an attractive hat and keeping out the government's mind control rays, or whatever it is. But it was just so disappointing to sit down after the high of "Redux II" and be ( ... )
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Because if they don't, then they don't deserve to.
Word. I don't even care how snobby that sounds; it's something special, dammit.
It's like he's SO HAPPY about Scully, but at the same time, he's sort of fighting back this consuming grief about the whole Samantha situation.
Yes! That moment, for me, is a perfect illustration of too much going on at once; the happiness mixed in with all the sadness and helplessness and confusion, and when you've got that much tumbling around inside you, some of it is just going to literally bubble up out of you, whether you want to or not (but then he literally tries to hold it back).
She's been his only family for a long time, but it'll be awhile before he completely becomes hers, if that makes sense.Oh, it totally does. As sad as it is how much they lose to get there, I do still love that at the end of the day (and, inevitably, the ( ... )
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