listen i will defend dana scully to the last but what was the thought process exactly behind scanning a nano-barcode on a mystery chip implanted in someone on a grocery store scanner
OK BUT NO
Actually YES
THIS is what made Scully— Scully. Her innate curiosity. it’s what made her check the watch in the pilot episode. Do we all remember that? Has she not checked the watch Mulder would not have known that there was a time lapse.
 It’s what made her stick around for so long. Scully is curious. Scully needs to know. It’s what made her a forensic pathologist. It’s what made her the match for Mulder that she was. it had nothing to do with proving him right or wrong. Dana Katherine Scully needed to know. Mulder had his instinct. But Dana needed to know. She needed the proof. A lot of people talk about him dragging her by some imaginary nose ring. But no one drug her anywhere! She is a curious individual. And the questions that her work with Mulder proposed, needed answers. It’s why she said that the work that she did with him with some of the most important of her life. Please understand that she was a slave to her curiosity. And we love her for that. And Mulder benefited from that but the same respect for nature that made her grief stricken over her brothers killing of a snake, Made her the same life and science respecting individual that made Mulder an entire person.
Her reasons for staying with Mulder, have very little to do with him. It was the discovery of a science that she could not quantify that made her stay.
I admire her so much for this. Facing the fear of looking head on to events that laughed in the face of everything she’d been taught.
If you look into every instance of her life that we blame Mulder for, if you really dig deep, it’s because of her own insatiable curiosity.
