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[freckleslikestars]

Favourite X-FILES Episode Countdown {19/24} | Darkness Falls

[alexa-crowe]

THE X-FILES 2.17 | “End Game” 5.02 | “Redux II”

[mindibindi]

[syntax6]

Happy birthday, X-Files! I discovered to my horror after 15 years of marriage that my husband had never seen you. I am fixing that now and we're partway into the sixth season. I'm impressed at how modern the storytelling is; clunker episodes occasionally, sure, but no dead time on the screen. Every bit of story counts.

What is emotional about rewatches is that you can see everything at once. You see their beginning in the basement office and know everything that is to come, even if they don't yet grasp the impact of that first handshake. Mulder and Scully surf a tidal wave of stories, both canon and not, rising and falling and being reborn from the sea of collective imagination over and over again.

Mulder and Scully live on the way that any of us lives on, in the stories told about us. So, as we give thanks today to CC and the boys of 1013, to David and Gillian and the rest of the cast and crew for bringing these marvelous characters to life, let's also say happy birthday XF fandom. XF is 30 today, but we keep the flame burning, and in our stories, Mulder and Scully are eternal.

[randomfoggytiger]

David's subtle acting when Home Mulder considers joining Scully in her broken motel room:

[well-and-true]

[greekowl87]

Ficlet: Changing of Shifts

A/N: I wrote something, albeit short. I have a longer fic that I have been trying to dedicate most of my time and energy to that I hope to have finished in the next few months, but here's a longish drabble in the meantime. Post ep: "One Breath." Added to my drabble collection here. @today-in-fic @improlificinsarcasm

How could this happen? Mulder watched Scully’s comatose body lying perfectly still; it reminded him of the first time he saw a dead body when he was 15 years old at his grandmother’s funeral. But she wasn’t dead. 

“She’s alive,” he whispered. 

Mulder brushed back a stray lock of her red hair instinctively. He had suffered two tragedies in his life: when his sister had been taken and only for it to happen again with Scully. Both times, he could not stop it, either from his own will or larger forces at work stopping him. But this time, like a miracle, she had been returned to him. And for the first time, he found his faith and beliefs challenged. The circumstances were still largely unknown, but she had reappeared as suddenly as she vanished.

“Scully, you just have to wake up,” he told her. “Just open your eyes and call me crazy.”

There was only the dim beeping of the support machines to answer him.

“Fox.” 

He looked up. Mrs. Scully, like a passing ship in the night, came to relieve him. “It’s dawn now. Why don’t you go home, and I’ll take up watch.”

“I can’t,” he told the weary mother. “I need to be here…”

“I’ll call you if she wakes up. But you staying up at all hours isn’t doing anyone good.”

He was too tired to fight her. “If anything changes…”

“You’ll be the first person I call.”

He nodded and gathered up his jacket. As the hospital staff changed their shifts, Mulder watched Mrs. Scully take up his post. He glanced at his partner before leaving, praying to whoever listened for one more small miracle.

[lilydalexf]

Sometimes you just need to watch one of the best X-Files fanvids. “To Build A Home” by RequiemX.

[beachbunnymp4]

Scully in 6x06 "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"

[mulderscully]

giffing a creepy x files moment and remembering when the revival was airing ppl were complaining that some of the episodes were too scary. girl this is a horror show

[freckleslikestars]

Favourite X-FILES Episode Countdown {14/24} 5.10 | Chinga

[mlobsters]

supernatural s1e19 provenance

hey i know you, it's bree! who was also Five in dark matter

jodelle ferland as bree in twilight eclipse / five in dark matter

[gilligould]

WHAT, I HAD NO IDEA THE WOMAN FROM MONDAY WAS CAROL BURNETT’S DAUGHTER,

[adobecult]

sometimes you just gotta skip an x-files episode. sometimes you push through it hoping it will get better, maybe have an interesting twist or at least include good banter or character moments, and at the end you tell yourself no. you gotta skip this one next time. and then the next time comes and you get halfway thru the episode before you remember

[randomfoggytiger]

One Breath Walked So Firewalker (and Episodes Proceeding It) Could Run

Baller of The X-Files to follow up One Breath with a story about a man so obsessed with his work that he leads the woman he loves into darkness and death.

It not only serves as a warning to Mulder himself-- following truth into madness ala Grotesque-- but as a parallel and a differentiator: Mulder might lose sight of the dangers (even potentially the human costs) in his hunt for the truth; but he never gives up like Trepkos did. Trepkos, content to count Jesse as a lost cause, withdrew to wait until the fungi had killed the rest of his crew. Mulder, meanwhile, runs back, jeopardizing his own safety to save-- or be with-- his partner, no matter how dire the conclusion may be.

Bold of The X-Files to be absolutely over the top with parallels, too.

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XF rewatch with my husband

We finally made it through the end of the original series. I haven't seen most of these episodes in years–and Seasons 8 & 9 only once at their original airing–so I am surprised to find my opinions really haven't changed. Episodes I loved, I still love. The final three seasons don't do a lot for me, with rare exceptions.

I asked my husband for the episodes he liked best. He named checked the Flukeworm, Squeeze, Pusher, and everything by Darin Morgan. There's a reason we're married. He favors to the MOTW eps over the mytharc, which he never really warmed to. I defended it mutliple times because I still think the early mytharc is pretty fabulous. The Anasazi trilogy is amazing. Scully's abduction. The Samantha clones. Anytime the characters are having to make agonzing choices about their love for each other or the pursuit of the truth, it's story-telling gold.

As a GenXer, my husband likes "Sunshine Days," and I agree it's one of the better episodes from the post-Mulder days. One of the lessons of the XF is indeed about the importance of found family. But this is why it really didn't work very well without Mulder, whose quest for family really drove the series. I liked Doggett and Reyes, but they didn't have the same skin in the game that Mulder and Scully did. Fox kept GA around for Season Nine, but 1013 didn't seem to know what to do with her. The better MOTW eps from this season pretty much ignored her entirely. And I still can't believe they brought Mulder back for the finale only to have a boring two-hour recitation of the series. WTH???

My husband is a completionist, so we'll probably move onto the reunion episodes, most of which I have never seen. To me, though, the XF still ends at "Je Souhaite," with Mulder and Scully having a beer on the couch, the alien invasion still waiting in the wings, but for the moment, both of them fairly happy.