#txf rewatch

[tvmilfs]

Me when I platonically go into my missing co-worker’s apartment and platonically cuddle with his shirt in his bed

[birdletss]

chasing shadows

[harmonicabisexuals]

dying at scully calling mulder from her stakeout to complain like “i’m cold” 🥺 “this is boring” 🥺🥺 “i’m gonna die from malnutrition” 🥺🥺🥺 girl you are not subtle

[missblomfield]

«Apocrypha» (3x16)

— I think the dead are speaking to us, Mulder, demanding justice. Maybe that man was right. Maybe we bury the dead alive.

[marlenapinsandneedles]

I want to punch Walter Skinner a lot in seasons 1 through 3 for being mean to Scully and Mulder so much but seeing all he goes through in season 4 to try and save Scully is so sad. He loved them so much.

[thebetterluthor]

Re-watching the X-Files and remembering 1993 baby agent Dana Scully, abducting, and holding a military base security officer at gunpoint in order to rescue himbo partner of 2 days.

[doobs]

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE X-FILES

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! YOU ARE THE BEST SHOW I'VE EVER WATCHED AND I'M SO GLAD THAT I WAS ALIVE TO WATCH YOU.

Thank you to Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny for bringing my beloved characters to life. I wasn't even born when the show came out, I can't imagine how lucky I am to have actually witnessed it if my dad hadn't watched it with me. 💗

So happy 30th anniversary, X-Files.

@gillianaofficial

Wouldn't it be funny if Gillian actually saw this? (I would actually cry. No kidding. I would be gobsmacked and the luckiest girl I know).

[muldxr]

there’s something about the atmosphere in ‘gethsemane’ that really strikes an emotional chord. the tension clearly builds up between mulder and scully the entire season and more so since ‘memento mori’ and it’s all coming to a head because THEYRE NOT TALKING!!! oof

[patwrites]

Something about the way Duchovny over-enunciates the word “Oregon” really adds to Mulder’s appeal

[yennefer]

THE X-FILES 2.02 | "The Host"

[gaylicense]

His middle part and peggable personality have captivated me

[tvmilfs]

[mulderscully]

You saved the world, Scully. The Queen Anne-- I found it. You were there with Thor's Hammer. I told you you had to turn the ship around and then I jumped overboard. You and I were on that ship, Scully. In 1939. I would've never seen you again. But you believed me.

[harmonicabisexuals]

the funniest part about scully being jealous/territorial over women being interested in mulder is that she’s literally almost always right about them being shady or up to no good but because she acts SO crazy about it we’re just like girl.....

[missblomfield]

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Part two: Red

[thursdayinspace]

Doing an X-Files rewatch again, and I'm having so many thoughts about the pilot. It's so incredibly well done. And having just done a (very fast) rewatch recently with the last episodes fresh in mind, it's amazing to me to see how well these characters were formed right from the beginning. Their whole dynamic.

One thing I find interesting is how we're set up to believe that Mulder is the one who doesn't really give a crap about authority, but it's really Scully in the first episode who goes against everything they expect from her. She is supposed to invalidate Mulder's work. Instead she goes off with him to fight crime, sees things she can't explain, and decides that yes this guy is crazy, but she really wants to know what's going on.

I love how she isn't for a second intimidated or even put off by his initial attitude. She stands her ground at their first meeting, he immediately puts her to the test by showing her slides of weird marks on victims and asking her opinion, and then goes on about aliens, challenging her to tell him he's insane. And the really beautiful thing? When she argues her point, Mulder argues back, but from the start, there is respect between them. He knows she's been sent to spy on him. But there is no hostility there, not from either of them. We get such a clear idea of those two are right from the start. They're basically really nice people.

And then there is the motel, Scully finding those marks on her back... They took that moment that could have been used to merely objectify her while giving him reasons to exploit her fear and treat it as weakness -- and instead they used it to establish even further the respect and the first sparks of trust between them. He laughs initially until he realises that she was actually afraid, and then his laugh fades right away and he takes her seriously. More than that, she stays and they talk, and he tells her his story, in more personal detail than he probably needed to. And she listens. Trust is met with trust.

They work *together* throughout the whole episode and manage to use their individual beliefs to challenge each other. Not to be right on principle, but to get to the truth. I love how that's a thing right from the first episode. Their partnership develops so naturally. Through respect and through their willingness to listen. Not to agree, but to argue their points and push each other closer to the truth.

The chemistry between them is so off the charts, and to a large extent that's really due to all of this. They are willing to find a common ground, and they find each other fascinating enough to want to know more. I love that so much. It's such a good episode.