This icon reminds me I don't think I ever finished reading your "Je Souhaite" post from, like, April. I AM THE WORST FRIEND BRENDA. It's still open in a tab on the other computer!
COULD NOT HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME. Mr. Virgata just went back to synagogue and I was all, "You! Kids! Go play in the yard!" because I'm starving and cranky and have been torturing myself by cooking all damn day.
Anyhow.
Teasers are so boring. I'm pretty sure the only person who likes teasers is Chris Carter. He probably has specials versions of every episode with Mulder and Scully edited out, so he can just watch his precious bone-chilling stories.
It disturbs me that this is probably true.
I feel like he’s going to assign me the first half of “Leaves of Grass” for homework over the weekend and then go to his after school job as yearbook advisor.
I would have thrown myself at him if he were my teacher, no doubt. Not even for the A. Just because.
We immediately cut to Mulder looking vaguely crazed, walking through the woods by himself. That’s the recurring motif in this episode: quick cuts to Mulder being an obsessive weirdo.I like how they show via dates/Ellen that Scully fails at having a normal life and is therefore
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Awesome! I'm so glad I posted at an opportune time! Your mention of needing non-food distraction on Saturday totally made me get it in gear to post it. So thank you!
I would have thrown myself at him if he were my teacher, no doubt. Not even for the A. Just because. Oh god, can you imagine? I want a time machine so mid-nineties Duchovny could somehow play an English teacher in something.
I like how they show via dates/Ellen that Scully fails at having a normal life and is therefore destined to be with Mulder in some capacity, yet they also reassure us that he is batshit crazy and will suck her pert little suits into his madness. Thanks for the heads up, 1013. I'm assuming at some point she ritually burned her pile of vests and lace bodysuits to signify that she'd capitulated completely.
Gah, can you even imagine what that was like? It's really amazing they didn't kill each other.It's seriously amazing. And I don't want to pick on Mulder or anything, but I have to imagine he was the main problem. You'd never know if he'd wake up
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I'm pretty sure the only person who likes teasers is Chris Carter. He probably has specials versions of every episode with Mulder and Scully edited out, so he can just watch his precious bone-chilling stories. Well, you know that would sell way better than our old-man-free version of FTF. He knows what the people want!
Mulder’s looking at pornography at work, as you do. OH WAIT. NO, YOU DON’T. Somebody needs to retake the sexual harassment training course. It was the '90s! Boys will be boys! (SORRY.)
The episode squeaks by with Scully and the ME talking briefly about the dead body. But isn't the dead body still a man?
Mulder is wearing, like, Dockers and a plaid/houndstooth jacket and a polka dot tie.Right? I've always been distracted by Scully's eye-searingly awful outfits in this episode, but looking at that screencap above I discovered it's NOT JUST HER. Although maybe this is what inspired the Scottie Dog outfit. She was like, "Okay, phew, he won't judge my all-plaid impulse buys." What was wrong with the wardrobe person in
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I can't wait til we're eccentric billionaires and we can make our old-man-free version of FTF a reality. Though really, since we'll be eccentric billionaires, we should just have everyone but the old men come and re-enact it for us. (It goes without saying that we'll already have used our money to fund horrible science experiments that will restore DD and GA to their 1998 beauty.) I can't wait to hear such classic lines as "No way, buttwipe, this is mine" and "What about mah meeeeen?" performed live!
But isn't the dead body still a man? You're right, it is. But does that count? I'll still let it squeak by, since they're talking about it as a scientific specimen, rather than as, you know, someone to date.
She was like, "Okay, phew, he won't judge my all-plaid impulse buys." This just made me laugh out loud again, two weeks later. I love that "all-plaid impulse buys" was a sub-category of Scully's early nineties wardrobe.
Every time I see the words "big fat fraud" I want to puke.
Six years later, IF you give enough feedback.HA HA HA
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(It goes without saying that we'll already have used our money to fund horrible science experiments that will restore DD and GA to their 1998 beauty.) I can't wait to hear such classic lines as "No way, buttwipe, this is mine" and "What about mah meeeeen?" performed live! HA HA HA HA.
You're right, it is. But does that count? I'll still let it squeak by, since they're talking about it as a scientific specimen, rather than as, you know, someone to date. Ah-ha, buuuut could this not be one of those cases where a character/body is male just by default unless it has a reason to be a woman? But then it's the dad in a family, right? Or am I confused? Was the dad like 50 years ago?
“No. I have a date.” Her prim sip of coffee and shifty eyes make this a classic. But oh no, now Mulder’s going to have to reassure everyone in an author’s note that even though it starts out as Scully/Other, it ends up as MSR in the end!
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This icon reminds me I don't think I ever finished reading your "Je Souhaite" post from, like, April. I AM THE WORST FRIEND BRENDA. It's still open in a tab on the other computer!
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Anyhow.
Teasers are so boring. I'm pretty sure the only person who likes teasers is Chris Carter. He probably has specials versions of every episode with Mulder and Scully edited out, so he can just watch his precious bone-chilling stories.
It disturbs me that this is probably true.
I feel like he’s going to assign me the first half of “Leaves of Grass” for homework over the weekend and then go to his after school job as yearbook advisor.
I would have thrown myself at him if he were my teacher, no doubt. Not even for the A. Just because.
We immediately cut to Mulder looking vaguely crazed, walking through the woods by himself. That’s the recurring motif in this episode: quick cuts to Mulder being an obsessive weirdo.I like how they show via dates/Ellen that Scully fails at having a normal life and is therefore ( ... )
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I would have thrown myself at him if he were my teacher, no doubt. Not even for the A. Just because.
Oh god, can you imagine? I want a time machine so mid-nineties Duchovny could somehow play an English teacher in something.
I like how they show via dates/Ellen that Scully fails at having a normal life and is therefore destined to be with Mulder in some capacity, yet they also reassure us that he is batshit crazy and will suck her pert little suits into his madness. Thanks for the heads up, 1013.
I'm assuming at some point she ritually burned her pile of vests and lace bodysuits to signify that she'd capitulated completely.
Gah, can you even imagine what that was like? It's really amazing they didn't kill each other.It's seriously amazing. And I don't want to pick on Mulder or anything, but I have to imagine he was the main problem. You'd never know if he'd wake up ( ... )
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Your discussion of Mulder's vacillations may be one of the most spot-on assessments I have ever read. And also hilarious. ♥
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Well, you know that would sell way better than our old-man-free version of FTF. He knows what the people want!
Mulder’s looking at pornography at work, as you do. OH WAIT. NO, YOU DON’T. Somebody needs to retake the sexual harassment training course.
It was the '90s! Boys will be boys! (SORRY.)
The episode squeaks by with Scully and the ME talking briefly about the dead body.
But isn't the dead body still a man?
Mulder is wearing, like, Dockers and a plaid/houndstooth jacket and a polka dot tie.Right? I've always been distracted by Scully's eye-searingly awful outfits in this episode, but looking at that screencap above I discovered it's NOT JUST HER. Although maybe this is what inspired the Scottie Dog outfit. She was like, "Okay, phew, he won't judge my all-plaid impulse buys." What was wrong with the wardrobe person in ( ... )
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But isn't the dead body still a man?
You're right, it is. But does that count? I'll still let it squeak by, since they're talking about it as a scientific specimen, rather than as, you know, someone to date.
She was like, "Okay, phew, he won't judge my all-plaid impulse buys."
This just made me laugh out loud again, two weeks later. I love that "all-plaid impulse buys" was a sub-category of Scully's early nineties wardrobe.
Every time I see the words "big fat fraud" I want to puke.
Six years later, IF you give enough feedback.HA HA HA ( ... )
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HA HA HA HA.
You're right, it is. But does that count? I'll still let it squeak by, since they're talking about it as a scientific specimen, rather than as, you know, someone to date.
Ah-ha, buuuut could this not be one of those cases where a character/body is male just by default unless it has a reason to be a woman? But then it's the dad in a family, right? Or am I confused? Was the dad like 50 years ago?
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Literal LOL! I love your rewatches! Never stop.
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