I finally started the X-Files (2 episodes in) and wow. These two are fucking insane. Scully just kidnapped a Military Base Guard or something AT GUNPOINT to go save Mulder from his own need to know. What the fuck. I was so prepared for her to be boring and rigid but her grasp on reality is actually so good in a way that isn’t ’boo-hoo that’s not how physics work’ and it doesn’t make her feel like a boring stick-in-the-mud at all, which is amazing! Like yeah, she doesn’t believe in aliens or the supernatural but it’s much more that there have been other, more likely explanations, and that take on the ‘logic character vs emotion character’ trope works really well for me (I’m aware they probably originated or popularized that trope, just go with me here because the only other time I’ve seen it actually work for me was Warehouse 13 and that was a slight twist anyway being intuition vs observation). The other thing I like is that so far they aren’t being obviously painted as romantic, like, they’re obviously insane about each other (again, Scully kidnapped someone at gunpoint to get Mulder back [and that scene is just super intense, you should watch it if you don’t understand why I’m harping on it a bit] and it seems to never take Mulder very long to realize he’s been separated from Scully or that she might be in danger [keep in mind, I’ve literally only seen two episodes but I’m also aware that monster of the week shows tend to keep certain things consistent] and also that anytime someone points out to him that he’s putting himself in danger they’re also like ‘you’re putting Scully in danger too’), but it’s not really framed as romantic (in episode one where Scully freaks out about maybe having the marks that all the dead or crazy people had and she takes off her robe to get him to check it wasn’t romantic in anyway, it was very intimate but no one was playing that romantically and I appreciate that), like just what the fuck, they’re actually making me a bit insane.
(I’m also aware that this show ran for a long ass time which means they had a long time to botch it, this is just how I feel after the pilot and literally one other episode)
AAAAA I ALSO JUST STARTED X FILES on oct 31st
