The Safest Psychotic Bitch In Town

the problem with mulder’s brain disease isn’t inherently that it’s a retcon (that’s tv) or that he “would have told scully” or whatever. it’s just that the writers weren’t interested in making me believe it. it feels like chris carter started from the image of mulder’s gravestone and worked backwards from there. many such cases

This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.