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Short from YT

#david duchovny #podcast

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Only the parts I enjoyed actually happened😍😍😍

The X Files is proof that you can have any kind of deranged, inconsistent, confusing, over complicated storyline you want, as long as you place 3-5 monster of the week episodes between that carry the character building. I sat through the Struggles once and that was one time too many, but I can’t fucking wait for my rewatch of “Mulder and Scully Meet the Weremonster” and “RM9sb…etc” so the revival seasons succeed for me. Die on whatever hill you want, Chris Carter, because in the rewatch I’m doing, only the parts I enjoyed actually happened.

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Guess The Ep (07/05)

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Started watching X-Files recently and the whole show is basically:

Scully: Everything can be explained by either science or an act of God, and anything that doesn't fit either of those categories is a lie or delusion.

Mulder: Bigfoot exists and is actually an ALIEN and the government is covering it all up!!! And it's all connected to my sister's disappearance!!!

Scully: ...yeah...this weirdo is mine...

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Wild that I happened to have a coffee date scheduled with a crew member the day after CC spouts off at Avi and Gillian yet again refusing to admit maybe his writing wasn’t that great.

Listen, I think CC is a pretty typical white guy who likes to try to manufacture edginess and doesn’t like to admit he’s wrong. He blames fans for being sad about something happening to a character they don’t like because he doesn’t want to admit that he wrote some bad plot points off the cuff and it showed.

I think he is generally a decent person and I’m grateful that he created the show that I know and love but I am mystified by his actions and find him endlessly frustrating.

I feel for Avi having this shit thrown at her out of nowhere years afterwards. She certainly doesn’t deserve that.

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Guess The Ep (06/05)

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My thoughts on the Chris Carter discourse.

I think I sit on the fence regarding the gendered violence issue in The X-Files. Yet, I also recognize CC's shortcomings-- pouring his energy into being a provocateur rather than a coherent show writer.

**Note**: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This is mine.

The show's violence against women isn't skewered in a sexist, one-way direction to me: gendered violence is perpetrated against both sexes equally; and the male cast and crew even joked about Mulder constantly getting beat up or tortured during CC's mytharc episodes. Not only that, but children and men as well as women are kidnapped or abducted and raped (or mind raped) and tortured and killed in equal measure.

The problem begins and ends, I believe, with Chris's ego. He views his show as a SHOW, not a beloved series cherished by fans. To him, Mulder and Scully and their children are literal paper dolls he created and played (plays) with like the Sims-- lighting them on fire, putting them through insane or ridiculous scenarios, and always resetting them back to normal at the end.

The "problem" is, the fans do not see Mulder and Scully as Sims models (pardon the references, got into the game lately) but as living, breathing characters with blood, sweat, and tears poured into their portrayal. Gillian took the role seriously and wanted it to make sense; and fans felt her passion and dedication, and honored the years she put in at her own inconvenience (over and over.)

David doesn't mind following CC's creative vision-- he views art differently than GA, and that's just fine, too. The difference is (I believe): Chris Carter honors David's viewpoint because it aligns with his own; but sloughs off, ignores, or discredits Gillian's because it opposes his.

Chris Carter has an ego (he does, it is what it is); and that rubs audiences the wrong way when they contrast his actions towards DD (letting him read scripts earlier than Gillian, likely knowing David'll give a "wow, interesting" rather than outright criticism) and GA (who sacrificed a lot to come back and was pretty much ignored every step of the way, even now.) David shrugs off what Chris writes for his character-- which is fine, that's his prerogative-- while Gillian does not-- which is also fine, that's her prerogative. Chris, however, does not treat them equally.

I say this not to hate on Chris. I dislike him, but I respect the characters, show, and world of The X-Files. All things being fair, it was his brainchild.

However: every person that will ever exist has their own perspective, feelings, and emotions regarding what they do or don't love. Fans and Gillian wanted The X-Files to make sense, to honor its characters, to craft an unforgettable journey between two unforgettable characters. Chris Carter did not-- which, again, is fine. But where he continues to fail is by throwing jabs at perspectives other than his own.

Because when you create a timeline that makes no logical sense (powered by plot twists that also make no logical sense) and expect your lead actress and fans who have spent time and energy and money on your franchise not to give you criticism or express their disappointment (and even anger)-- and, further, imply they "don't get it" or aren't "real fans" because of said criticisms-- then...

That's where you (Chris Carter) have a problem.

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😯🙄🤦🏾‍♀️😂😂😂😂😂ok, some of y'all philes are F-ing nuts!!!

Did you actually believe Chris Carter was working the counter?!?!

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🔥🤩

Don't forget the bigger picture.

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#the sympathiser #david duchovny

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🥺😢OH NOOO!!

People should visit the museum anyway.

There is no need to wait for a fan fest.

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The second time I got covid I decided to binge the x-files for the first time and I watched the episode where the hibernating monster wakes up every quarter century to like eat people’s livers or whatever (I think he was boneless too?) and I got so scared I cried myself to sleep

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David Duchovny as Fox Mulder in The X-Files 2x12

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most people watch the x files because they either want to see aliens or watch mulder and scully kiss. coincidentally the x files is a show that is well known for avoiding showing us aliens at all costs and also not letting mulder and scully kiss.

#aliens #or not #txf

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i love 90s television all these high quality fabrics got me so turned on i almost passed out

#mulder's belt #mulder

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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE FLATMATE LIKES TXF

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I think we have to consider that the if one of the attached-at-the-hip FBI’s-most-unwanted superstar duo gets sick then the other IMMEDIATELY gets sick too. One feels sniffly and then they both show up at the office the next day hazy and feverish (out of dogged determination on Scully’s part and a small amount of shittiness-healed-by-Scully on Mulder’s) and then Skinner walks in like “what the hell happened to you two. why are you both here go home”. They spend every waking moment together if one of them gets ill then it will obviously be mutually so

i agree 100% and i need a fic where this happens immediately