wait are the “send me an episode” asks still open. can you do ascension my best friend ascension. ignore this if you don’t wanna. this is mikey silo1013 btw
HEYYYY you guys can ALWAYS send me an episode lol y’all know i love to talk
this is prob gonna be all over the place this episode makes me feel deranged i'm literally incapable of formulating a coherent thought about it
this is my favorite shot from ascension. mulder on top of the broken cable car, the sun setting behind him. he's so close to making it, and he's running out of time.
ascension is arguably the most poignant and effective portrayal of the show's core themes, and of what drives mulder, as it makes a point of placing him back in the one night that he never truly left.
once again, he's listening as the person closest to him screams his name for help. he's been trying to rewrite this moment, to walk back into this room, every day of his life, and he's not a child unable to respond anymore. he's not frozen in the corner.
he jumps up and rushes to the scene before the message even finishes, and he's still too late.
this is the reigning theme of the episode, as mulder obsessively searches for scully, unrelenting for a moment or a breath.
ascension is heavily visible, driven largely in its symbols, and this theme is referenced continuously in skyland mountain's tagline "ascend to the stars"
alluded to in the testimony that duane barry gave mulder in the previous episode
and hinted at again in the images of mountains behind duane and mulder in the interrogation
and so both mulder and duane keep ascending, racing against the trauma of their respective pasts, both trying to change their fate, to avoid reliving their worst nights over and over.
duane in his attempts to be spared as the person taken, and mulder in his desperation to not be the person left behind.
but in the end, at the very top, there is once again nothing to see but bright lights
i love this moment between mulder and maggie, back on the ground, when all is said and done. when she tells him that she's still having dreams about her daughter being taken away, and how much it scares her. and mulder responds, "it's probably scarier when you stop having the dream, don't you think?"
isn't it worth it, to be haunted, if it keeps someone close?
so the episode concludes with mulder returning to the top of the mountain, walking back into that room, into that loss, over and over. still left behind.
ascension is the mythology as its very best, in that it understood where the real danger lies. the fear in uncertainty.
the real danger lies in the man without a name in the corner, always visible and surrounded by smoke signals, but still impossible to find. shrouded in that same cloud that makes him so identifiable.
it lies in questions without answers, and the easiest explanation not necessarily being the most plausible. did duane barry find scully through the chip, or did someone give him her address? are the lights in the sky alien, or something closer to home?
as the audience, we are left just as in the dark as mulder is, never having anything to go on other than what is discarded in rental cars. cigarette butts, cross necklaces, lights in the sky, and nothing else to find when you reach the end of the road.
finally, you and i are both union-based krycek-girlies, so we must discuss his big moment.
(boys trip)
following his introduction and the reveal that he's working for CSM earlier in the season, ascension solidifies krycek's place in the game when he is given orders to slow mulder down at any cost
in an episode so defined by rush and the demand to make it to the top
krycek halts mulder in the air, finishing the race when only one of them knows the rules
and then disappears, another missing person leaving his partner behind, with a trail of crumbs behind him
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hii!! i love your writing style so much and i was wondering whether you ever write original work? or whether you want to be a writer/author one day? i was just wondering because your fics are a lot better than quite a few books i've read and if you ever did become a professional author i would read literally anything you wrote
also just asking this since i'm generally curious about whether fanfic writers have aspirations to be published authors or not
oh my GOD. this is literally so sweet it made my whole day when i saw it😭 thank you SO much <33 unfortunately, i am just a hs student who's trying to get through ap classes :/ i am also, rather unconventionally (from what i've seen) a complete math nerd. the college thingy i mentioned earlier is actually two weeks of college compsci courses! so as much as i dream of writing (and i do, i genuinely think if publishing and financial stability weren't such huge worries of mine, i'd be an author), i'll likely be going to college next year to study computer science and then work in that field :/ (however, being completely transparent, i do genuinely enjoy math and computer science! i don't think i'll be extremely sad with that careerpath at all, which i know is something to feel very lucky about)
this is really funny though bc i had to fill out this questionnaire for my college counselors the other day, and it was like, what would you like to do without worrying about money, and what are you planning to do? and i wrote being an author. bc i genuinely think that would be so fulfilling, and i really do love writing. maybe one day i'll pick up writing original works, but for now i barely have enough time to keep up with the fanfics i write😭 it would be so incredible if i managed to someday publish something - but as of now, no </3
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What's one of your favorite bylergates??
yay! anon, i love you
okay, so i'm a lettergate girlie forever, it just makes too much sense to me for it not to be true ngl, and it would literally perfectly encapsulate byler and how hard it contrasts milkvan.
thoughts on other byler gates
-> birthday gate
ngl, i feel like it would have been subtly hinted at as something will was bitter about, or at least joyce and jonathon would have remembered. so i actually do think that it was a collective accident.
however! it is a possibility to me that the duffers will maybe retcon it into the script. i am not against that right now, but it depends on how well they pull it off.
-> flickergate
i don't know much about this one but it seems so sweet to me like i want to know!! if anyone's passionate about flickergate, lmk?? it's just that the lights flickered right? i think it does provide ample opportunity to do a flashback in s5
-> my most hot take - will powers gate
will won't have powers in s5, or at least i hope he won't. i think it's so important that will and el are different in fundamental ways, and i think from a byler standpoint it doesn't make sense to mix up such a defining part of mileven's relationship (not a good thing!) with byler's relationship.
as for the sci-fi lore, i'm not too aware of how it would impact the story, but i don't think it makes sense. will is a victim, yes, he has been a victim. but i don't think he needs superpowers to break himself out of it, and i think it would tell a better story if he doesn't have superpowers when he finally reclaims his role as not a victim.
again, i come from a storytelling and byler perspective NOT the sci fi lore. maybe will having powers ties up every thread, and will make sense.
-> phonegate
faves!!!! its so cute and i do think it makes enough sense for it to be real. mike was also really defensive in the roller rink fight but not in a damn i SHOULD have called, but in a this isn't just my fault but i don't want to let you know why way.
-> new coke gate
this makes a lot of sense when you explain it to me, but i was 80 percent sure that it was just a sponsorship (a very long one) when i watched the lucas mike scene originally. i did my research once and i believe that no one really knows, but they have partnered. i don't know that partnering with a brand, (aka NO MONEY) warrants the excessive use of coke, so i do see this being just one of those things that the duffers would do to us.
on the other hand, it is strange to use coke as such a huge part of byler symbolism.
-> any sort of number gate
i'm obsessed with number gates because they always come back to seven and i love seven symbolism with byler. (mainly because of seven by taylor swift and HOW MUCH IT FITS THEM but still)
-> my babies, mikhailgate and localvillagegate
faves 🤞🤞 too good
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Tomorrow is my birthday! I had quite literally the worst week of my career hours wise last week, and am really struggling to pay all my bills for the week.
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