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This summer has given me “Love you 3000” and “keep the door open 3 inches”. Both projects directed by brothers. All these...feelings. This counts as being “out of that cave”, right? Because I definitely hurt.

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Original episodes vs. My Struggle prints

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@nbcblacklist returns tonight with the season 4 premiere! Hats off to the one and only Concierge of Crime, Raymond Reddington.

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Body language [X]

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I can hear it. Can you?

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Okay, in your opinion, when did Mulder and Scully have sex for the first time?

Hooo boy Anon, that’s the biggest x-file of them all, isn’t it! I change my mind on this a lot (I am a relatively new fan to the series, I feel like that should be mentioned). Lately I’ve been leaning towards Millennium. After Millennium they were more openly flirty and seemed closer to each other, in my opinion. I mean, look at this telling face!

But sometimes I think the first time happened later in the season and that their flirting wasn’t because they were currently sleeping together but because they had only had their first kiss and the flirting was leading up to the inevitable. In that case I’d go with the more popular theory, All Things, simply because the evidence is quite obvious. But! If it wasn’t All Things, then hmm… I wish I knew when the Per Manum flashbacks fit on the season 7 timeline, maybe right before Requiem? I think that they slept together on the failed IVF night, but whether or not it was their first time I don’t know. I also believe that night is when she got pregnant, even though I obviously can’t be certain.

I’m sorry that this turned into a long-winded non-answer! I can’t make up my mind and I could always be swayed by a more convincing theory. I definitely think the first time was in season 7 and not in an earlier season and I doubt anyone could convince me otherwise - to me the Millennium kiss was a genuine first kiss!

Thanks for the question btw ;)If anyone else wants to weigh in, please go for it, I’d love to read your opinions!

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Agent Pierce <3

“I promise you will see That I will be, I will be your remedy”

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My sleepwear is most like the first one. But one day I want it to be IWTB sleepwear.

Scully + pajamas (x)

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Cross section of a human artery

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The real ongoing X-Files of the series: the floor plans of Mulder’s and Scully’s apartments. There’s hardly a time where their residences aren’t shape-shifting in some way, if not outright defying the laws of physics. (I really shouldn’t worry about Scully’s apartment moving from the first floor to the third floor when half the time Mulder doesn’t even have a bathroom.) Since I started this blog two months ago, though, I’ve already had a handful of comments about the floor plans— so at least I’m not the only one who’s always trying to figure them out. Finally I just sat down, sorted through my screenshots of all the variations, and tried to find the geometric mean.

So here’s what I consider to be the canonical layouts. Where there’s a conflict, I’ve generally gone with the later episode trumping the former. Like with Mulder’s kitchen: his refrigerator in Chinga, S5, trumps its S1 layout in Deep Throat. However, for something like Scully’s couch, I went with the most well-known arrangement. It’s angled facing her fireplace for most of the show; it’s not until S8-9 that it’s centered in the room, facing the bay windows. Or Mulder’s aforementioned phantom bathroom: in All Things, its position with a window does not make sense, so I’ve used its appearance in Orison, earlier in S7, as the canonical one.

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Aipoly Vision App helps visually impaired see the world through their smartphone

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a short description of dana scully’s life

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Don’t worry, Jack treats everyone this way. Though if I hadn’t seen the show, I’d say he were a misogynist....

Jack’s really good with the ladies.

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X-Files Episodes Organized by Philosophical Topic

Metaphysics

Fatalism: Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (3.4), Monday (6.14)  Interactionism: Shadows (1.5), Fire (1.11), Excelsis Dei (2.11) Determinism, compatibalism, and/or human freedom: Aubrey (2.12) , Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (3.4), Syzygy (3.13), Wetwired (3.23), Talitha Cumi (3.24), Synchrony (4.19) Disembodied existence: Shadows (1.5), Beyond the Sea (1.12), End Game (2.17), Elegy (4.22) Personal agency/autonomy: Ice (1.8), Pusher (3.17), Hell Money (3.19), Kitsunegari (5.8), Empedocles (8.17) Personal identity: Lazarus (1.15), Born Again (1.21), End Game (2.17), The List (3.05), Apocrypha (3.16), Herrenvolk (4.1), The Field Where I Died (4.5), Dreamland (6.4), Dreamland II (6.5) Psychological continuity: End Game (2.17), Herrenvolk (4.1), The Field Where I Died (4.5) Reincarnation: Lazarus (1.14), Born Again (1.21), The List (3.5), The Field Where I Died (4.5) Time travel (see David Lewis): Synchrony (4.19) Parallel universes: 4-D (9.4)

Epistemology

Belief [This is a major theme in the entire series, but it is especially prevalent in these episodes] (see James, Clifford): Beyond the Sea (1.12), E.B.E. (1.16), Colony (2.16), Quagmire (3.22), S.R. 819 (6.9) Cartesian skepticism: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas (6.6), Field Trip (6.21), Via Negativa (8.7) General epistemology: Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (3.4), Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (3.20), Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (4.7), Demons (4.23), Bad Blood (5.12) Pragmatism: The Erlenmeyer Flask (1.23), Little Green Men (2.1), all things (7.17) Fideism: all things (7.17)   

Ethics

Animal ethics: Red Museum (2.10), Fearful Symmetry (2.18) Biomedical ethics: Eve (1.10), Colony (2.16) Divine command theory ethics: Revelations (3.11) Environmental ethics: Darkness Falls (1.19), Quagmire (3.22) Ethical subjectivism: Home (4.3) Ethics of scientific research: Demons (4.23) Kantian ethics: Home (4.3), Small Potatoes (4.20) “Lifeboat” ethics: Død Kalm (2.19) Moral relativism: Excelsis Dei (2.11), Fresh Bones (2.15), Hell Money (3.19), Teso Dos Bichos (3.18), Kaddish (4.12) Moral responsibility: Irresistible (2.13) Virtue ethics: Apocrypha (3.16), Avatar (3.21), Zero-Sum (4.21) Moral education: Home (4.3)

Philosophy of mind

Artificial intelligence: Ghost in the Machine (1.6), Kill Switch (5.11)

Philosophy of religion

Faith and reason: Revelations (3.11), All Souls (5.17) Religious ambiguity: Essence (8.20), Improbable (9.13)

Philosophy of science

Abductive inference (see Peirce): Pilot (1.1) Axiological & normative issues in scientific research: Ice (1.7), Young at Heart (1.15), Soft Light (2.23)  Folk theories and scientific explanations: Teliko (4.4) The “Unexplanable”: Without (8.2), Invocation (8.5), Dæmonicus (9.3) Paradigm shifts (see Kuhn): The Erlenmeyer Flask (1.23)

Political philosophy

Government’s proper role in society: Blood (2.3), Musings of a Cigarette Man (4.7), The Pine Bluff Variant (5.18) Freedom of Religion: Roadrunners (8.4)

Existentialism

Beyond the Sea (1.12), Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (3.20), Talitha Cumi (3.24)

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Times Scully aimed her gun at Mulder (and faux Mulders)

Briefly in Squeeze as she is surprised by Mulder rounding the corner

During her standoff with Mulder in Ice after he is found near a dead body

Aimed at faux Mulder (Alien Bounty Hunter) in End Game

Briefly aimed at Mulder as she is surprised by him coming down the chute in the house of horrors in Humbug 

Aims and fires on a drugged Mulder as he is about to shoot Krycek in Anasazi 

Aimed at a suspicious Mulder in Grotesque

A brainwashed Scully fires at Mulder in Wetwired

“Dana, you’re not yourself. He’s telling you the truth.” Wetwired

Either aimed at Mulder or the faux Scully (Pusher’s sister, Linda Bowman) standing behind Mulder in Kitsunegari

“’Baby’ me, and you’ll be peeing through a cetheter!” – Aimed at faux Mulder (Morris Fletcher) in Dreamland II

A frightened Scully aims at faux Mulder (Lyda) who is firing at her in How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

Scully aims at real Mulder near the ending of How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

For more BAMF Scully, refer to my running count of times Scully holds her gun on my wordpress: thexfilesstatistics.wordpress.com

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