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In the early seasons, Mulder had lost someone (his sister.) That absence marked the highs and lows of his arc. That loss impacted Scully, too (though her own journey was one of self-actualization.)
Then Season 7 resolved matters in Closure and all things, in the hopes that the show would kick off into movies.
It did not.
Season 8 was scrambled together and created to be the conclusion to the original series, to kick off into the movies.
It did not.
Season 9 was turned over to Doggett and Reyes, mainly, in the hopes that DD and GA would then be transferred into a movie franchise.
They did not.
CC decided over Christmas that the plug needed to be pulled. Then he decided to adopt out William.
Why?
William became the new Samantha for both characters: the someone "out there" to long for, the wound Mulder and Scully would therefore build their arcs off of (as seen in Season 9.)
...Then CC backtracked Mulder all the way back to Samantha (and aliens) and kept him there instead of progressing (which erased his growth in Season 7-8, as well as the glimpses in Season 9.)
Although CC didn't backtrack Scully, he also gave her no fresh material. So, technically, her arc had advanced more than Mulder's... but was no less boxed in, restrictive, or one note.
I've been thinking about Mulder and clutter, how he hangs on to things, and the psychology behind that. Perhaps he's prone to hoarding because of the loss he's experienced in life? Or is he just an ADHD trash panda?
tl;dr: Mulder isn't hoarding, he's trying to fit.
It's interesting because Mulder lives a very simple life: by necessity, on the couch, in the basement. Even Scully agrees he chooses a Spartan existence in pursuit of his aims.
However, I'd make the case that he's also a very nostalgic man-- celebrating a launch at NASA (a childhood dream), pouring memories of happier times into Scully's ear (ala Aubrey, Home, etc.), watching old movies (preferably in black and white), struggling with modern technology and preferring to live off the grid (even in the original series), the list goes on.
Yet when his apartment was hollowed out and renovated (and his boxed and boarded pieces probably dumped somewhere) in Dreamland II, Mulder just... moved on. In a way, his bedroom was cluttered up by an existence he didn't live-- papers and gear and a four-poster bed-- and, once emptied, provided him another habitable (if still simple) space to exist in. A proper pillow, a proper sink. And he chose to live there, which is interesting.
Season 6 in general was Mulder's year of domestication: forcing him to ground, pair bond tighter with Scully, confess his love to her, sneak case files or hack emails or drag her to Florida or invite her on a date-- in short, to reinforce how important she was, not just their partnership. And while some cosmic force, fate, or freewill gave him this choice, bam!, along came a bedroom. One he simply moved into.
This post has escaped your original question, so I'll reel it back: why is Mulder prone to hoarding?
The one place we see Mulder's true hoarding tendency manifest is where he actually lives: the basement. Mounds and stacks and pockets and spaces and jammed crannies and crammed histories.
There is his passion.
And in a way-- I suspect-- Mulder's not really a hoarder so much as a man who's forced a lifetime, with all its incumbents, into a small office tucked away in the bowels of a basement. Same with his study in I Want to Believe. Same, if I recall, with their house in the Revival (or S10, at least.) What we're witnessing is a man boxing himself into the safest, most intimate corner he can-- away from prying eyes-- and filling that space to the brim and overflowing. Until Scully expands him, frankly.
That, and he's messy.
My analysis is that Mulder isn't hoarding: he's trying to fit into (and slipping out of) constraints placed by himself, for himself.
Not dissimilar to Scully, in her own way.
Mulder's clutter in canon is often research for his work. For example, the items stuffed into his bedroom weren't nostalgic because he neither complained nor commented on their disappearance. A clear, intentional parallel was drawn between his advantaged surprise in Dreamland II - Monday and his devastation in The End.
We know Mulder's a nostalgic man (Samantha fuels his quest and is passed on to Scully in stories.) He watches and tapes old media.
We also know he's a messy man, spending more time away from home than in it (i.e. compare his crammed office to his tidy kitchen and dusty living room.) Mulder keeps his video tapes in the basement, for heaven's sake-- along with some trophies, a picture or two, a basketball-- while at home he has a photo album (as seen in Fight the Future), his fish (probably by necessity), and a place to lay his head. And that's it.
In canon, Mulder rarely acquires new items (other than, again, research); but if he does, it's usually light and easy to carry (Max Fenig's hat, Scully's keychain.) Even then, he generally doesn't engage in acquisition (of anything other than evidence.)
The pattern repeats for IWTB and S10: the house mostly uninhabited, the study crammed with research for work. You could make the case that S11 changes this slightly, since his mess begins pouring into the main areas-- but again, they're mainly items he hasn't put away properly, with a glimpse of nostalgic iconography here and there.
If I were to take a guess, I'd say Mulder fits everything in his head, but what can't be contained spills over into manageable piles. (He's nostalgic, certainly; but, again, his nostalgic items are few-- the rest is research). The piles created then compound because he's messy and doesn't organize.
Everyone is welcome to contribute their own opinion, though!
Please do-- the floor is open!
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You know Mulder is going to make Scully watch the finals tonight, his beloved Knicks. And he’s going to convince Scully that their daughter can stay up pass her bedtime ( Scully will give in too).
"Scully, I want you to... put aside your scientific bias for a moment. Because what I'm about to tell you is going to change your life forever. Your life, my life the life of everybody on this planet."
Fight the Future is an intensely passionate, romantic movie if you peel back the layers of two lonely, frightened, and devoted yet cryptic communicators.
Let's take a peek at Scully's arc, shall we?
"BUT YOU SAVED ME"
During their professional review, Scully takes the fall, insisting she'd hindered her partner, led Mulder astray-- a belief that has been haunting her since his loss of faith (post here.)
Their office is burned, their lives have become passionless grunt work.
But on her way out, she leaves the door metaphorically open for Mulder:
"Maybe you should ask yourself if your heart's still in it, too."
An invitation to join her, come with her, if he chooses.
When Mulder doesn't respond, she lingers in the hall, alone.
That night, Scully lies in a two-person bed, the camera panning slowly over to the empty side where a pillow remains.
Alone. Perhaps ready.
When Mulder knocks, she lets him in; when he slurs over his words, she asks,
"Are you drunk, Mulder?"
Perhaps ready.
When he deflects with a joke (a half joke, but she doesn't know), as always--
"What exactly are you implying?"
--Scully drops her head: another gentle rebuff, she believes. Mulder wants her for the work... and nothing more.
"Go home, Mulder. it's late," she says, weary.
Still, she comes along. She stays.
Until they fail.
She failed him (Scully believes.)
If she could have helped, at least it would justify staying. Instead, it's yet another sign she holds him back. Now, his one devotion might never be returned to him.
Now, she believes, he'll have lost it all.
Perhaps if she leaves-- takes full blame-- at least he will be no worse off. Mulder might even be able to crawl back to the basement someday.
When Scully announces her departure and begs him not to make this
hard-- don't fall apart, don't give him fuel to talk you down, help him let you go or else he won't--she suspects he will follow.
When he does, she prepares for a fight.
Mulder has never let go easily.
What she doesn't expect, what she hadn't hoped for, is his all-consuming devotion--
"But you saved me! You've kept me honest ... you've made me a whole person. I owe you everything ... Scully, and you owe me nothing."
She is what he needs. She is his salvation.
So, she believes.
And he proves her beliefs by going to the ends of the earth for her.
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As a revival disliker, this book isn’t too bad. It does its best to fix My Stuggle IV. Worth at least a skim through if you consider the revival as canon.
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