The Definitive Top Shipper Moments
This post by arielle_san got me thinking about all the great MSR moments from the series and first movie. That, in turn, got me thinking about how the John and Aeryn Site of the Farscape fandom put together the 25 top scenes of that ship.
I want to do something similar with Mulder and Scully. I think, not only would it be a fun project for fandom, it might also help drum-up some grassroots interest for the new movie.
Here's what I need from you:
1) Take my poll about what should be considered a "Mulder/Scully moment" so we're all on the same page.
Poll Great 'Shipper Moments
2) Review this list. I combed through arielle_san's post and complied the scenes in chronological order. I want this to be a comprehensive list, so please comment if I've left something out. Unless the poll says differently, multiple scenes from the same episode can be nominated.
1x00 "Pilot" (The first handshake. The first slide-show. The first wild sex.)
1x00 "Pilot" (Candle-lit bare-skin checking. Scully gets cozy on a bed while Mulder spills his guts and she listens and tells him, "I'm not a part of any agenda. You've got to trust me. I'm here just like you, to solve this.")
1x03 "Squeeze" (Mulder possessively plays with Scully’s necklace while explaining why he is territorial about her. Scully wants "to see what it is" Mulder has. Ehem… On Tooms, that is.)
1x04 "Conduit" (Scully stops Mulder from unearthing the grave and they share an intense gaze.)
1x07 "Ice" (Neck love/"I don't trust them. I WANT to trust you.")
1x12 "Beyond the Sea" (Cheek-touching and "Dana")
1x12 "Beyond the Sea" ("If he dies because of what you’ve done, four days from now, no one will be able to stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!")
1x12 "Beyond the Sea" (End. Arm touching. *sigh*)
1x16 "E.B.E. " ("I have never met anyone so passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It’s so intense that sometimes it’s blinding. But there are others who are watching you, who know what I know and whereas I can respect and admire your passion, they will use it against you.")
1x20 "Tooms" ("I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you."/"If there's an iced tea in that bag, it could be love.")
2x01 "Little Green Men" (Mulder dictates a love note to Scully: "Before, I could only trust myself. Now, I can only trust you... and they’ve taken you away from me.")
2x01 "Little Green Men" (End/ "I still have you."/ Hand touching.)
2x05 "Duane Barry" (Scully takes the shrapnel piece removed from Duane Barry. Last time Mulder sees her for MONTHS. *sob*)
2x06 "Ascension" (Mulder plays back Scully's message and hears her abduction. He goes to her apartment and walks like a ghost through the crime scene, even touching his hand to her own bloody handprint.)
2x06 "Ascension" (Mulder interrogates Duane Barry. "Did you hurt her?" "No." "Did you HURT HER?!")
2x06 "Ascension" (The story about the necklace.)
2x06 "Ascension" (End/ Mulder stands on the lonely, starlight covered mountain top. Alone and so lonely without his Scully.)
2x07 "3" (Mulder wears Scully's cross. His love makes the chain grow. Or something. But it's still quiet sweet.)
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder arrives at the hospital and goes a bit insane: "Listen, if you’re hiding anything, I swear, I will do anything, whatever it takes, I will find out what they did to her!")
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder asks CSM, "Why her and not me?!"
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder sits with Scully. "I don’t know if my being here... will help bring you back. But I’m here." Then he goes back to his wrecked apartment and cries.)
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder gets the call that Scully is awake and his face breaks out into radiant, peaceful happiness.)
2x08 "One Breath" (Super Stars of the Superbowls! Oh, and your necklace but I'm totally casual. "I had the strength of your beliefs." Thank you, Scully.)
2x09 "Firewalker" (Mulder touches Scully's face to check she's okay after she has saved herself from the Silicon-based life-form spore monster)
2x13 "Irresistible" (Mulder holding Scully after saving her from Pfaster.)
2x17 "End Game" (Mulder trades SAMANTHA for Scully. This is how much he loves her, okay doubters?!)
2x17 "End Game" (Mulder wakes in the hospital/Scully smile, how you slay me.)
2x25 "Anasazi" (Scully caring for Mulder after shooting him in the shoulder)
3x02 "Paper Clip" (End/ Mulder comforts Scully after Melissa’s death. Fade out on the hug.)
3x12 "War of the Coprophages" ("Her name is Bambi?")
3x13 "Syzygy" (Scully interrupts White trying to solve the mystery of the horny beast and is visibly shaken. Mulder remarks on her "little feet". Sexy, snarky time.)
3x13 "Syzygy" (Scully is obviously jealous of Mulder’s interest in White: "Well, you two seem to have a certain…simpatico. " Mulder slumps to the wall and gazes longingly (and frustrated-ly) after her as she walks away.)
3x17 "Pusher" (Staking out the phone. Scully sleeping on Mulder while he adoringly wipes the drool from her mouth. "You and your pretty partner seem awfully close. Do you work well together?")
3x17 "Pusher" (Russian roulette)
3x17 "Pusher" (At Modell's bedside, hand-holding)
3x22 "Quagmire" (Conversation on the rock.)
3x23 "Wetwired" ("Scully, you are the only one I trust.")
4x01 "Herrenvolk" (Near end/ "She'll never know." Mulder cries on Scully's shoulder.)
4x05 "The Field Where I Died" ("Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn’t change day. ")
4x05 "The Field Where I Died" (Mulder recalls his past lives and how Scully has been in every single one. FATE! *waveshands*soulmate*waveshands*)
4x09 "Terma" (Mulder enters the hearing. Hug! Skinner is uncomfortable.)
4x09 "Terma" (Scully watches the refinery explode and carries away Mulder.)
4x10 "Paper Hearts" (Scully tries to stop Mulder, but then helps him dig up the grave when he asks, all desperate like.)
4x10 "Paper Hearts" (End/ Hug and hair ruffle.)
4x14 "Memento Mori" (Hallway huggles)
4x20 "Small Potatoes" (Scully opens up to Faux!Mulder and almost lets him go for a kiss before Mulder bursts in to "save the day." Gee, thanks Mulder.)
4x23 "Deamons" (End. Scully comforting Mulder.)
5x02 "Redux II" (Mulder bursts into the hospital demanding to see Scully because he’s "only half dead." Think about it.)
5x02 "Redux II" (Mulder comes to Scully to check that he's doing the right thing. "Hail Mulders")
5x02 "Redux II" (Mulder breaks down at Scully's bedside)
5x04 "Detour" (Conversation by the log/"Chorus." "Joy. To the World.")
5x05 "Post-Modern Prometheus" (Final Scene/Hand! Dance! Smile!)
5x08 "Kitsunegari" (Sullycide)
5x10 "Chinga" (Scully technoparanormalbabbles. "Marry me, Scully.")
5x11 "Kill Switch" (Dr. Scully to the rescue)
5x14 "The Red and the Black" ("I didn't believe you, but I followed you, on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there.")
5x14 "The Red and the Black" (Scully reaches out for Mulder’s hand unconsciously, during the hypnotic regression.)
5x14 "The Red and the Black" (Mulder visits Scully in the hospital and gives a huge grin when she wakes up.)
5x12 "Bad Blood" ("I do it all for you, Mulder. ")
5x18 "The Pine Bluff Variant" (Scully takes care of Mulder’s ‘boo-boo’ and he confesses to her.)
5x19 "Folie a Deux" ("You're my one in five million.")
5x20 "The End" (Embracing while the office burns.)
Fight the Future (On the roof-top, Scully and Mulder banter, introducing their characters and showing us Mulder’s ‘panic’ face.)
Fight the Future (Hallway Scene/damned bees!)
Fight the Future (Mulder saves Scully from the alien pod, but then she can’t breathe and he gives her mouth-to-mouth only to have her say, "Had you big time. ")
Fight the Future (Near end/ Scully has left the hearing. "I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now." Hand-holding.)
6x03 "Triangle" ("In case I never see you again." Kiss! Punch!)
6x03 "Triangle" ("I love you." "Oh, brother.")
6x05 "Dreamland II" ("I'd kiss you if you weren't so damn ugly. " Sunflower seeds of love.)
6x06 "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" (Gift exchanging glee!)
6x08 "The Rain King" ("I do not GAZE at Scully.")
6x08 "The Rain King" (Bathroom scene.)
6x10 "Tithonus" (Near end/Hand holding)
6x11 "Two Fathers" (Basketball scene.)
6x12 "One Son" (Decon shower. They both totally look.)
6x12 "One Son" ("I think that woman is a... well, I think you know what I think that woman is. " We all do, Scully. SkankHoeBitchPoohead Foully.)
6x14 "Monday" ("I just want everybody to live... that's all.")
6x15 "Arcadia" ("You just want to play house.")
6x15 "Arcadia" ("We just spooned up and fell asleep like little baby cats. Isn't that right, Honeybunch?" "That's right, Poopyhead.")
6x15 "Arcadia" ("Come on, Laura, you know... we're married now." "Scully, Mulder. Good night." "The thrill is gone.")
6x18 "Milagro" ("Agent Scully is already in love.")
6x18 "Milagro" (Mulder finds Scully, bloody and unconscious, and she wakes and CLINGS to him.)
6x19 "The Unnatural" (Non-fat tofruitti rice dreamcicle)
6x19 "The Unnatural" (End scene/"Hips before hands")
6x21 "Field Trip" (End. Dirty and half-dead, Mulder and Scully hold hands and maintain eye contact for a long, long time.)
7x02 "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" (Scully begs Mulder to wake up.)
7x02 "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" ("The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same. You were my friend and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart you were my constant, my touchstone.")
7x04 "Millennium" (New Year's kiss)
7x06 "The Goldberg Variation" (Scully: "I like baseball, too."
7x10 "Sein Und Zeit" (Scully comforts Mulder after his mother dies and then spends the night. More comforting?)
7x16 "Chimera" ("Significant other?" "Um, not in the widely understood definition of that term...")
7x17 "all things" (Beginning/ zOMG! It’s a naked, post-coital Mulder!)
7x17 "all things" (End scene/sleepy Scully/tender Mulder)
7x19 "Hollywood A.D." (End scene/Hand-holding in the graveyard.)
7x21 "Je Souhaite" (End scene/Beer on the couch.)
7x22 "Requiem" (Scully collapses and Mulder rushes to her side and holds her.)
7x22 "Requiem" (Cuddling on bed)
7x22 "Requiem" ("I won't let you go alone." *sniff* This could have been the last goodbye.)
8x13 "Per Manum" (Mulder says "yes")
8x13 "Per Manum" ("Never give up on a miracle.")
8x14 "This is Not Happening" (Scully finds Mulder's body)
8x15 "Deadalive" (Doggett watches Scully cry on Mulder's chest in the hospital and realizes he "can't touch this," as the saying goes.)
8x15 "Deadalive" (Mulder wakes up.)
8x17 "Empedocles" (Mulder visits Scully in hospital and touches her pregnant belly.)
8x19 "Alone" (Getting ready for Lamaze class)
8x19 "Alone" (End. "...and you were frozen and I remember I hugged you until you were not frozen any more...")
8x21 "Existence" (End/ Family kiss)
9x06 "Trust No 1" (The Perfect Opposite voice over.)
9x06 "Trust No 1" (Dearest Dana e-mail.)
9x19 "The Truth I" (Nothing says loving like a big, ol' sloppy kiss.)
9x19 "The Truth I" (A hug when Scully is upset about giving up William.)
9x20 "The Truth II" (Bed snuggle/thumb kiss)
3) Please pimp this post/project!
If you don't have an LJ account, make your opinion known here.
Mods, I plan to keep this project to a minimum of posts here, but let me know if you'd prefer that I take this elsewhere.
I want to do something similar with Mulder and Scully. I think, not only would it be a fun project for fandom, it might also help drum-up some grassroots interest for the new movie.
Here's what I need from you:
1) Take my poll about what should be considered a "Mulder/Scully moment" so we're all on the same page.
Poll Great 'Shipper Moments
2) Review this list. I combed through arielle_san's post and complied the scenes in chronological order. I want this to be a comprehensive list, so please comment if I've left something out. Unless the poll says differently, multiple scenes from the same episode can be nominated.
1x00 "Pilot" (The first handshake. The first slide-show. The first wild sex.)
1x00 "Pilot" (Candle-lit bare-skin checking. Scully gets cozy on a bed while Mulder spills his guts and she listens and tells him, "I'm not a part of any agenda. You've got to trust me. I'm here just like you, to solve this.")
1x03 "Squeeze" (Mulder possessively plays with Scully’s necklace while explaining why he is territorial about her. Scully wants "to see what it is" Mulder has. Ehem… On Tooms, that is.)
1x04 "Conduit" (Scully stops Mulder from unearthing the grave and they share an intense gaze.)
1x07 "Ice" (Neck love/"I don't trust them. I WANT to trust you.")
1x12 "Beyond the Sea" (Cheek-touching and "Dana")
1x12 "Beyond the Sea" ("If he dies because of what you’ve done, four days from now, no one will be able to stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!")
1x12 "Beyond the Sea" (End. Arm touching. *sigh*)
1x16 "E.B.E. " ("I have never met anyone so passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It’s so intense that sometimes it’s blinding. But there are others who are watching you, who know what I know and whereas I can respect and admire your passion, they will use it against you.")
1x20 "Tooms" ("I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you."/"If there's an iced tea in that bag, it could be love.")
2x01 "Little Green Men" (Mulder dictates a love note to Scully: "Before, I could only trust myself. Now, I can only trust you... and they’ve taken you away from me.")
2x01 "Little Green Men" (End/ "I still have you."/ Hand touching.)
2x05 "Duane Barry" (Scully takes the shrapnel piece removed from Duane Barry. Last time Mulder sees her for MONTHS. *sob*)
2x06 "Ascension" (Mulder plays back Scully's message and hears her abduction. He goes to her apartment and walks like a ghost through the crime scene, even touching his hand to her own bloody handprint.)
2x06 "Ascension" (Mulder interrogates Duane Barry. "Did you hurt her?" "No." "Did you HURT HER?!")
2x06 "Ascension" (The story about the necklace.)
2x06 "Ascension" (End/ Mulder stands on the lonely, starlight covered mountain top. Alone and so lonely without his Scully.)
2x07 "3" (Mulder wears Scully's cross. His love makes the chain grow. Or something. But it's still quiet sweet.)
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder arrives at the hospital and goes a bit insane: "Listen, if you’re hiding anything, I swear, I will do anything, whatever it takes, I will find out what they did to her!")
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder asks CSM, "Why her and not me?!"
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder sits with Scully. "I don’t know if my being here... will help bring you back. But I’m here." Then he goes back to his wrecked apartment and cries.)
2x08 "One Breath" (Mulder gets the call that Scully is awake and his face breaks out into radiant, peaceful happiness.)
2x08 "One Breath" (Super Stars of the Superbowls! Oh, and your necklace but I'm totally casual. "I had the strength of your beliefs." Thank you, Scully.)
2x09 "Firewalker" (Mulder touches Scully's face to check she's okay after she has saved herself from the Silicon-based life-form spore monster)
2x13 "Irresistible" (Mulder holding Scully after saving her from Pfaster.)
2x17 "End Game" (Mulder trades SAMANTHA for Scully. This is how much he loves her, okay doubters?!)
2x17 "End Game" (Mulder wakes in the hospital/Scully smile, how you slay me.)
2x25 "Anasazi" (Scully caring for Mulder after shooting him in the shoulder)
3x02 "Paper Clip" (End/ Mulder comforts Scully after Melissa’s death. Fade out on the hug.)
3x12 "War of the Coprophages" ("Her name is Bambi?")
3x13 "Syzygy" (Scully interrupts White trying to solve the mystery of the horny beast and is visibly shaken. Mulder remarks on her "little feet". Sexy, snarky time.)
3x13 "Syzygy" (Scully is obviously jealous of Mulder’s interest in White: "Well, you two seem to have a certain…simpatico. " Mulder slumps to the wall and gazes longingly (and frustrated-ly) after her as she walks away.)
3x17 "Pusher" (Staking out the phone. Scully sleeping on Mulder while he adoringly wipes the drool from her mouth. "You and your pretty partner seem awfully close. Do you work well together?")
3x17 "Pusher" (Russian roulette)
3x17 "Pusher" (At Modell's bedside, hand-holding)
3x22 "Quagmire" (Conversation on the rock.)
3x23 "Wetwired" ("Scully, you are the only one I trust.")
4x01 "Herrenvolk" (Near end/ "She'll never know." Mulder cries on Scully's shoulder.)
4x05 "The Field Where I Died" ("Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn’t change day. ")
4x05 "The Field Where I Died" (Mulder recalls his past lives and how Scully has been in every single one. FATE! *waveshands*soulmate*waveshands*)
4x09 "Terma" (Mulder enters the hearing. Hug! Skinner is uncomfortable.)
4x09 "Terma" (Scully watches the refinery explode and carries away Mulder.)
4x10 "Paper Hearts" (Scully tries to stop Mulder, but then helps him dig up the grave when he asks, all desperate like.)
4x10 "Paper Hearts" (End/ Hug and hair ruffle.)
4x14 "Memento Mori" (Hallway huggles)
4x20 "Small Potatoes" (Scully opens up to Faux!Mulder and almost lets him go for a kiss before Mulder bursts in to "save the day." Gee, thanks Mulder.)
4x23 "Deamons" (End. Scully comforting Mulder.)
5x02 "Redux II" (Mulder bursts into the hospital demanding to see Scully because he’s "only half dead." Think about it.)
5x02 "Redux II" (Mulder comes to Scully to check that he's doing the right thing. "Hail Mulders")
5x02 "Redux II" (Mulder breaks down at Scully's bedside)
5x04 "Detour" (Conversation by the log/"Chorus." "Joy. To the World.")
5x05 "Post-Modern Prometheus" (Final Scene/Hand! Dance! Smile!)
5x08 "Kitsunegari" (Sullycide)
5x10 "Chinga" (Scully technoparanormalbabbles. "Marry me, Scully.")
5x11 "Kill Switch" (Dr. Scully to the rescue)
5x14 "The Red and the Black" ("I didn't believe you, but I followed you, on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there.")
5x14 "The Red and the Black" (Scully reaches out for Mulder’s hand unconsciously, during the hypnotic regression.)
5x14 "The Red and the Black" (Mulder visits Scully in the hospital and gives a huge grin when she wakes up.)
5x12 "Bad Blood" ("I do it all for you, Mulder. ")
5x18 "The Pine Bluff Variant" (Scully takes care of Mulder’s ‘boo-boo’ and he confesses to her.)
5x19 "Folie a Deux" ("You're my one in five million.")
5x20 "The End" (Embracing while the office burns.)
Fight the Future (On the roof-top, Scully and Mulder banter, introducing their characters and showing us Mulder’s ‘panic’ face.)
Fight the Future (Hallway Scene/damned bees!)
Fight the Future (Mulder saves Scully from the alien pod, but then she can’t breathe and he gives her mouth-to-mouth only to have her say, "Had you big time. ")
Fight the Future (Near end/ Scully has left the hearing. "I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now." Hand-holding.)
6x03 "Triangle" ("In case I never see you again." Kiss! Punch!)
6x03 "Triangle" ("I love you." "Oh, brother.")
6x05 "Dreamland II" ("I'd kiss you if you weren't so damn ugly. " Sunflower seeds of love.)
6x06 "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" (Gift exchanging glee!)
6x08 "The Rain King" ("I do not GAZE at Scully.")
6x08 "The Rain King" (Bathroom scene.)
6x10 "Tithonus" (Near end/Hand holding)
6x11 "Two Fathers" (Basketball scene.)
6x12 "One Son" (Decon shower. They both totally look.)
6x12 "One Son" ("I think that woman is a... well, I think you know what I think that woman is. " We all do, Scully. SkankHoeBitchPoohead Foully.)
6x14 "Monday" ("I just want everybody to live... that's all.")
6x15 "Arcadia" ("You just want to play house.")
6x15 "Arcadia" ("We just spooned up and fell asleep like little baby cats. Isn't that right, Honeybunch?" "That's right, Poopyhead.")
6x15 "Arcadia" ("Come on, Laura, you know... we're married now." "Scully, Mulder. Good night." "The thrill is gone.")
6x18 "Milagro" ("Agent Scully is already in love.")
6x18 "Milagro" (Mulder finds Scully, bloody and unconscious, and she wakes and CLINGS to him.)
6x19 "The Unnatural" (Non-fat tofruitti rice dreamcicle)
6x19 "The Unnatural" (End scene/"Hips before hands")
6x21 "Field Trip" (End. Dirty and half-dead, Mulder and Scully hold hands and maintain eye contact for a long, long time.)
7x02 "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" (Scully begs Mulder to wake up.)
7x02 "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" ("The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same. You were my friend and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart you were my constant, my touchstone.")
7x04 "Millennium" (New Year's kiss)
7x06 "The Goldberg Variation" (Scully: "I like baseball, too."
7x10 "Sein Und Zeit" (Scully comforts Mulder after his mother dies and then spends the night. More comforting?)
7x16 "Chimera" ("Significant other?" "Um, not in the widely understood definition of that term...")
7x17 "all things" (Beginning/ zOMG! It’s a naked, post-coital Mulder!)
7x17 "all things" (End scene/sleepy Scully/tender Mulder)
7x19 "Hollywood A.D." (End scene/Hand-holding in the graveyard.)
7x21 "Je Souhaite" (End scene/Beer on the couch.)
7x22 "Requiem" (Scully collapses and Mulder rushes to her side and holds her.)
7x22 "Requiem" (Cuddling on bed)
7x22 "Requiem" ("I won't let you go alone." *sniff* This could have been the last goodbye.)
8x13 "Per Manum" (Mulder says "yes")
8x13 "Per Manum" ("Never give up on a miracle.")
8x14 "This is Not Happening" (Scully finds Mulder's body)
8x15 "Deadalive" (Doggett watches Scully cry on Mulder's chest in the hospital and realizes he "can't touch this," as the saying goes.)
8x15 "Deadalive" (Mulder wakes up.)
8x17 "Empedocles" (Mulder visits Scully in hospital and touches her pregnant belly.)
8x19 "Alone" (Getting ready for Lamaze class)
8x19 "Alone" (End. "...and you were frozen and I remember I hugged you until you were not frozen any more...")
8x21 "Existence" (End/ Family kiss)
9x06 "Trust No 1" (The Perfect Opposite voice over.)
9x06 "Trust No 1" (Dearest Dana e-mail.)
9x19 "The Truth I" (Nothing says loving like a big, ol' sloppy kiss.)
9x19 "The Truth I" (A hug when Scully is upset about giving up William.)
9x20 "The Truth II" (Bed snuggle/thumb kiss)
3) Please pimp this post/project!
If you don't have an LJ account, make your opinion known here.
Mods, I plan to keep this project to a minimum of posts here, but let me know if you'd prefer that I take this elsewhere.