I absolutely ADORE “Mulder & Scully meet the Were Monster” and here is why:
- truly a monster of the week episode which I love
- the comedy of it (reminds me of Bad Blood)
- the existential dread Mulder is facing
- Mulder having the theme song as his ring tone
- the subversion of the were-wolf trope
- the whole “actually the way society is going sucks” and everything that Guy was saying about these “urges” that humans have
- the dedications on the tombstones to the real people we lost
- Scully mentioning Queequeg and stealing adopting another dog
- Scully mentioning she is immortal
- “The internet is not good for you” and the whole smartphone thing is just… so good and feels accurate and silly at the same time
- the trans representation (i don’t think it aged exceptionally well but it’s there and it could be so much worse)
- “that’s how i like my mulder”
- Scully so obviously enjoying herself
- “I think my phone is not working correctly because guys don’t send me pictures of their junk” (I’m paraphrasing i think but yeah, all of this)
- Scully.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk
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Mulder and Scully meet the Were-Monster is everything I have ever wanted oh my GOD it’s so stupid. Darin Morgan episode. References to literally every other Darin Morgan episode. Rhys Darby jumpscare. Mulder doesn’t know how to use a phone. Scully is leading the investigation. The greatest lines of dialogue I’ve ever heard.
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X-Files casting director: Mr Darby, we want you to be in The X-Files playing a cryptid, but can you lose the moustache? We don’t think it fits with the character.
Rhys Darby: yeah, I can lose the moustache! I can lose the shirt if you want!
X-Files casting director: …
X-Files casting director: ok.
X-Files casting director: you can keep the moustache.
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OMG Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster is one of my fav x files episodes of all time!!
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This episode is great all around, but I genuinely think what makes Were Monster one of the, if not the absolute, best of the revival is just the fact it's Mulder at his most Middle Aged Dad™️...
Well, that and the cunty trans woman. I mean, the one that isn't Mulder.
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OK, sorry, but in “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster” Mulder being like “i’m not going to report you for being a peeping tom” is so OOC, like this gross dude could have been ogling his girl in her sleep, NOBODY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF MULDER’S GIRL
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Watching the X-Files is such a wild ride. You have the disappointment that is season 9, which did give the whole show a pretty good ending tho, then you have IWTB, which is truly a piece of shit movie if I've ever seen one, then you have the first two episodes of season 10 which give you more disappointment and then – then you finally get to see 'Mulder and Scully meet the Were-Monster' and it's SO rewarding. It's like coming home. It's so incredibly funny, it doesn't take itself serious one bit. Fucking fantastic.
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Visitor & The All The Choices We've Made-verse
I don't think I've actually ever made a post of all of the Visitor-related fics, so here it is, inspired by the anon from the other day. All links are AO3 links, although all fics can also be found on my blog with a little digging.
Visitor
At least he's guaranteed to see her once a year. (30K, written pre-revival, angst & PTSD to happily reunited)
Resident
They have missed every other date they might have held significant - birthdays, anniversaries, days of mourning, days of celebration - but they will keep this appointment. (34K, the Scully-POV companion to Visitor)
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Tad O'Malley makes Mulder and Scully an offer they can't refuse. (12K, Visitor-compliant rewrite of My Struggle I)
Home Again
Mulder and Scully investigate a mysterious murder in Philadelphia as Scully deals with her mother's failing health. (18K, Visitor-compliant rewrite of Home Again)
A Mann's World
"When was the last time we had a lizard monster, anyway?" (17K, Visitor-compliant rewrite of Mulder & Scully Meet The Were-Monster)
Bonus materials (revival era):
Taurus Season
Surely she could find some worthier trigger for her nostalgia than a mid-size American sedan with roughly the same design scheme as a dentist’s waiting room. (700 words, sometime during S11, a meditation on the road)
Mrs. & Mr. Spooky
Spurred by an encounter with Tom Colton, Scully buys a birthday gift for Mulder. (1.5K, unrelenting fluff)
Bonus materials (pre-revival):
A Cabin In The Woods
Mulder and Scully, on the run, stay for a while in a cabin in the mountains in Montana. A series of interlacing vignettes. (14K, a few months of respite and the Montana Mountain Woman)
Housewarming
A walk in the woods near the unremarkable house; a fall night; a fire in the fireplace. (1.4K, what if the unremarkable house felt like the cabin?)
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