#Xfile quotes

[jtt-033-1613]

"I heard a phrase once, somebody was talking about their wife. This was a person who was very inept socially - not the wife, but the man. There were many things said about him that weren't kind, and he said,

‘My wife - who is lovely and social and everything like that - is my human credential.’

It, like, makes him a human being, because people think, ‘If, well, if she can stand him, he must have some humanity within him.’ And sometimes I think about Scully as Mulder's human credential."

- David Duchovny, Inside The X-Files

[silent-idea]

Favorite Relationships (no particular order) ↴ Mulder & Scully ⇢ The X-Files

[the1totrust]

xfiles quotes [1/?]

[gingerteaonthetardis]

NICK & JESS in New Girl S01E03: Wedding

[randomfoggytiger]

Chris Carter: Mulder Did Not Lie about His Brain Disease

(Credit to: ?)

November 06, 2000:

Ana Pinto, Lisboa, Portugal After all these years, HOW do you expect us to believe that Mulder has been lying to Scully about a possible brain illness?

Chris Carter He hadn’t lied to her. The only thing that he did was withhold information last year…that he had been undergoing treatment. But it was the same illness that we saw him suffer from at the end of Season 6 and the beginning of Season 7.

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

Jonathan: My brother was abducted.

Nancy: Your brother was abducted? Oh my God!

Jonathan: It's fine. I mean, I've had time to adjust.

Nancy: Did it happen when you were kids?

Jonathan: No, like half an hour ago.

[enterprise420patriots]

"There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth" - The X Files: The Blessing Way (Albert Hosteen Quote)

[grlbutnotwood]

Why did we leave the sea, for what better life? For government establishments? If so we'd already lost as an intelligent species.

- probably mulder at some point

(me bitching to my friend bc I had to wake up at 6 am for a doctor's appointment)

[layzeal]

OBSESSED with her delivery in this scene

[mountainsatdaybreak]

“… so these houses have shadows strange across their faces,and I could not go up to the door and knock and say: Let me come in and suck your life and sorrow from you as a leech sucks blood; let me gorge myself on your sensations and ideas and dreams; let me crawl inside your guts and your cranium and live like a tapeworm for a while, draining your life substance into myself...”

-Sylvia Plath, 1951 journal entry

[jtt-033-1613]

“Scully has a great day every day, but Mulder only has a great day if Scully looks at him.”

[silent-idea]

Favorite Characters (no particular order) ↴ Fox Mulder ⇢ The X-Files

[the1totrust]

[41319kbex]

I will always reblog this line from one of my favorite shows with gifs from another of my favorite shows.

Insp X

[randomfoggytiger]

Mitch Pileggi, Nic Lea, and Kim Manners Were Happy about Krycek's Death

On a merry drive down Season 8 Interview Lane (boy, does that trip deserve a dedicated post all its own), I came across this:

According to director Kim Manners, the most difficult scene to shoot was in the elevator with Mitch Pileggi and Nicholas Lea. Conversely, Manners' favorite scene was the one in which Skinner kills Krycek. Manners himself proposed the uniqueness of the shot, which features a CGI bullet going straight through Krycek's head. Extra money was budgeted for Krycek's death. Mitch Pileggi was very happy when he was told he would be killing Krycek; he explained, "when they came to me and told me that I was the one that was going to kill Krycek, I was elated. Not because I wanted Nick to go away or anything, it was just from a character stand-point; Skinner just wanted to kill Krycek so bad." Manners later called it one of his "favorite scenes [he'd] ever directed" and one of the "best scenes [he's] seen in a long time on television."

Reportedly, Lea had become tired of the role and was growing weary of the ambiguous nature of the character. When Lea learned that his character was to be killed off in "Existence", he reportedly welcomed the news. The night the episode aired, Lea wrote on his personal website: "I felt that [Krycek] wasn't getting a fair shake anyway. [...] I wanted more in-depth ideas about the character and it never came to pass. It kind of stopped being fun to play."

-Existence, Wikipedia

[scullysflannel]

ok i was feeling crazy bc i kept seeing the "like a switch has been flicked" quote on here and then i get to that episode and scully says the speech and i'm like scully wtf are you talking about!!!! shes saying all this stuff about suddenly realizing youre in love with your best friend and i'm like scully my love that has not been your experience at all though. but i liked your post about it maybe being scully lying to herself a little as she processes her feelings for mulder. i liked "the rain king" and i thought all the ship baiting was fun but there was something kind of off about it too, like the in-your-face-ness of it all was jarring and i wasn't sure if that was intentional or if it just happened to land oddly for me. i think iconicscullyoutfits said smth about how in mistaking scully & mulder for a married couple, the townspeople flatten the relationship and fail to understand everything scully & mulder are to each other, and i liked that. i liked your point about how putting scully & mulder in typical domestic situations always showcases the ways they chafe against them, i think that's so crucial too.

all that aside though it was still a gorgeous episode i liked the heart shaped hail and i loved seeing scully & mulder in the rain because of course it evokes them in the pouring rain in the pilot!!! and the score is particularly lovely in this episode, there's like a repeated love theme mark snow does for sheila and her weatherman which surprised me because that's not really typical of xfiles episode scores and it made it feel almost like a film. i kept turning up my volume so i could hear the music better ^_^

right! and thanks! I said this in that post, but it's hard to tell in season 6 when the writers are leaning into rom-com conventions to make a point about how mulder and scully don't fit those roles and when they're just squeezing them into those roles for fun. but it is fun! and either way, the intentions behind "the rain king" don't really change its effect, which is that the truth of mulder and scully is too interesting and too private to be flattened into something traditional.

but at the same time one of my favorite x-files things is the "both and"-ness of the truth: it's both complicated and simple. mulder and scully don't fit the rom-com friends-to-lovers template, but there is something true about "the rain king" essentially saying "just kiss, it's not that hard." it's the benefit of being just one episode in a procedural that can go anywhere: painting them as small-town marrieds can't remotely sum them up, but the fact that scully fantasizes a little about making their relationship fit that mold means the emotion of it still means something to her.

she and mulder are both obsessed with telling themselves there are still lines they have to cross. if they can pretend that friendship is something that happens before the big commitment instead of the biggest commitment the two of them could make, the other milestones have more meaning. which is not entirely wrong, in a darin morgan "we create our own meaning" fiji mermaid sense. they still have to decide when to define the same things they've been doing this whole time as romantic. I love season 6 because everything they're anxious about is both so easy and so hard. it gives the storytelling more leeway to be unsubtle, because what is obvious can still be difficult to accept. which is kind of the essence of "I want to believe." it's hard to let yourself be loved.

anyway, it's a cute episode, and the stylized elements like the music really help. (so funny that mark snow sometimes sleeps through the big episodes and then something like "rain king" or "soft light" comes along and he's inspired.) love that "the rain king" also carries on the season 6 wizard of oz motif. it's such a grand adventure to get home, but all you have to do is click your heels.