Rewatched milagro yesterday and I still find it intriguing that Padgett basically tells Scully that he rented the apt next to Mulder because there wasn’t anything in her building and besides she’s hardly ever home anyways. And now I’m just considering all the times she visits Mulder’s apt that we never get to see and the fact that Padgett believes he can study her enough for his characterization by living next to Mulder.
The pilot ep gifs you posted, in the last one i see Mulder put his lips together like for a kiss but Scully is turned away, so he legit puts a kiss on her head. I never noticed that before. I made the gif bigger and its legit clear is day.
WHOA. HE DOES PUCKER HIS LIPS. HOW DID WE EVER MISS THIS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS?! Perhaps it’s his way of getting her to smile, to make it through her lines? In the mud…in the rain Lol WHAT IS GOING ON.
spiralling thinking about how the idea that mulder is the believer and scully is the sceptic is literally what they want you to think of themselves. like there’s a reason his whole thing is “i want to believe” and it’s because it doesn’t naturally come to him. he is actually filled with doubt but he desperately clings to these ideas of the unexplained and the paranormal in hope that it’ll end up being real. and belief does come naturally to scully but it terrifies her so she puts up this guard, she only allows herself to believe in what she can prove and explain and she’s willing to believe in the extraordinary so long as she can scientifically rule out the ordinary and. and hguhhhgg.