#arwen.text

[benoitblanc]

catherine tate rocking up to doctor who with a background in sketch comedy and knowing literally nothing about the show; giving one of the most nuanced, tragic performances in the entirety of sci-fi history; and then dipping after one season with an absolutely horrifically devastating character ending is icon behavior i don’t make the rules

#thinking about donna again on this fine wednesday... #arwen.text #doctor who #donna noble

[martinelli]

that’s a much better looking header, isn’t it?

#arwen.text

[alphonsomackenzie]

thank you guys for 100 followers!!! <3

#about me #arwen.text

[benoitblanc]

dana scully character of all time. she's five foot two. her two day jobs are cutting up dead people and professional ghostbuster. she's got daddy issues. she owns a fluffy little dog. she's held multiple different government officials hostage multiple times. she kissed her boss on the mouth. she accuses said boss of trying to kill her like once a year with literally no foundation. she's catholic but her favorite movie is the exorcist. she shot her best friend. she was abducted by aliens and still refuses to believe in them. she dresses like an underpaid arts teacher. she met god in a parking garage. out of the two times the man she's been blisteringly in love with for years confessed his feelings to her, the first time she got so overwhelmed she started crying and the second time she thought he was high on painkillers. she can't park a car. she once had an existential crisis, got a tattoo, and slept with a serial killer. she wears socks on the beach. she might be immortal

#she's actually insane i love her so much #arwen.text #the x files #dana scully

[benoitblanc]

blink is an absolutely insane episode of tv because the two protagonists of the show have fewer than 10 minutes of screentime and the entire story is about a nosy 21yo whom we have never seen before in our lives and her best friend’s weird brother, but it fucking slaps to the point that is critically viewed as one of the objectively best episodes of all television. do you have any idea how much this shouldn’t work

#arwen.text #doctor who #series 3 #blink

[benoitblanc]

can we just talk about the doctor’s love life for a second. they’re married. they’re widowed. they’re divorced. they’re a slut. they’re in a throuple with a shopgirl from london and an immortal con man. they met their wife a hundred years before she met them. they’re in a qpr with a woman who accidentally impregnated their severed hand. their relationship with a lancashirean english teacher became so codependent they had to wipe their own memory so it didn’t endanger the universe. they married queen elizabeth the first. they kiss their mortal enemy on the mouth. they’re in lesbian love with a teenager from yorkshire. they’re in another throuple with their own parents-in-law

#arwen.text #doctor who

[benoitblanc]

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

#the writers also- and this is going to be a very unpopular opinion i'm sure- did themselves HUGE favors #by keeping mulder & scully still SO emotionally uptight and miscommunicative even though it would be so easy not to #because it feels REAL. this is how these characters would really react to these circumstances #they wouldn't suddenly become all sappy. they wouldn't talk to each other. they wouldn't know HOW #mulder would always just grieve and grieve and grieve and throw his life away to save her #wail silently into her bedclothes so his anguish doesn't burden her further #and scully would always insist that she's fine. she wouldn't leave him for anything not even her own health #she would never be able to tell him that she's scared of what he'd do when she was gone. she loves him far too much #anyway. is this coherent #arwen.text #the x files

[benoitblanc]

the x-files in 3.17: what if the antagonist of this episode was a megalomaniac who was actively killing himself in order to feel a modicum of importance by literally stealing the free will of others to the extent that they end up killing themselves on his orders. what if mulder more or less explicitly said onscreen that he believes scully's life is worth more than his own and then proceeded to put his money where his mouth was by pulling the trigger on a gun to his own head without hesitation but managing to fight off mind control to avoid doing the same thing to her. what if the most dangerous monsters of all are, at their cores, nothing more than little men trying to feel big

the x-files in literally the next episode: what if cat eat people

#the duality of man (the man is the txf writers' room) #arwen.text #the x files #txf liveblog

[benoitblanc]

no offense but i think that the one-two-three-four punch of vince gilligan/rob bowman/gillian anderson/david duchovny should have been in charge of literally every decision ever made on the x-files, because no one has ever understood the mulder and scully dynamic better than the four of them did in the last ten minutes of pusher. the audience can SEE that scully clearly knows that her death is the worst-case scenario in the russian roulette game not because she would die, but because it would destroy mulder. her own death terrifies her not because it's death, but because it would mean leaving him alone with his guilt. which boils their relationship down to its absolute barest essentials in about thirty seconds of screentime. fucking bonkers artistic choices all around

#yeah it's been 24 hours no i'm not done thinking about it #arwen.text #the x files #txf liveblog

[benoitblanc]

this is the face of a man who needs a raise and some advil

#walter “dad who stepped up” skinner everyone #arwen.text #the x files #walter skinner

[benoitblanc]

*and all you had was half a cream cheese bagel, and it wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese!

#arwen.text #the x files

[benoitblanc]

not to who meta on main but i think one of my absolute favorite things about ten and donna’s dynamic (and there’s many favorite things) is their strange dichotomy of being codependent to what is just shy of being a wildly unhealthy degree while also being probably the most individual doctor-companion teamup in possibly the entire revival. sure, the other companions all have storylines where they’re fairly separate from the doctor, but if memory serves, donna is the only companion who actually gets a bottle episode. this episode aired a week after ten’s own bottle episode, and both midnight and turn left contain two of the objectively best, most unsettling stories in the entire show. they’re two very independent and equal characters, yet at the same time donna would rather die than lose ten and when donna’s memory is wiped ten actually goes insane. it’s fascinating. where do i find a friend like this

#arwen.text #doctor who #tenth doctor #donna noble

[benoitblanc]

is this even a thing people do anymore? it's been a hectic year. i've been on this hellsite a lot less than usual in recent months but rest assured i'm not going anywhere.

anyway... that Sure Was A Year. after three years, i finally managed to shake my agent carter hyperfixation in exchange for a 30-year-old sci-fi show where no one really knows when the two main characters actually got together. neil patrick harris sang "spice up your life" on the bbc's doctor who. another neil committed felonies (the ending of good omens season 2). succession ended? was that this year? i don't actually watch succession and that also feels like ten years ago. what even is time anymore.

as we all buckle up for 2024, which is a terrifying-sounding year, i wanted to take a moment to thank all my lovely mutuals. too bad if no one does these anymore. the internet should know how much i love you all.

apparently dumblr will Not let me tag more than 50 people at once so! this will be a several-part post, because there are a lot of you and i want to express my love for more than 50 of you. why, dumblr, why.

a-c:

@aarondir ❃ @aemondtargaryenn ❃ @ahskatano ❃ @ajcrowleys ❃ @alexander-turners ❃ @aliecenthightower ❃ @aliceblakeart ❃ @amitasumann ❃ @anakinobiwans ❃ @anakinskyiwalker ❃ @andormeddows ❃ @anthonybrxdgerton ❃ @arachnidfellow ❃ @astaerion ❃ @augustsjanes ❃ @avaasilva ❃ @barrykeohgan ❃ @bellamysgriffin ❃ @belloves ❃ @beyondalarmed ❃ @bilbos ❃ @billhaders ❃ @binickmiller ❃ @binicknelson ❃ @bisexualperseus ❃ @bitchinlyras ❃ @bitterblued ❃ @bladesrunner ❃ @bluetack ❃ @bobbiamorse ❃ @bodybetters ❃ @cameliarosa ❃ @calkestis ❃ @camila-morrones ❃ @captsaavik ❃ @carricfisher ❃ @cassielang ❃ @cervelli ❃ @charles-beckendorf ❃ @chrrispine ❃ @cindymoon ❃ @clayfaced ❃ @cobbbvanth ❃ @cottgewhorfairy ❃ @crowleyaj ❃ @crowley-anthony

#arwen.text #*mutuals #2023ff

[benoitblanc]

obsessed with the fact that almost every single man scully ever shows interest in is boring as shit with a very uptight personality... and then there’s mulder, a conspiracy theorist who tells the government to go fuck itself at least once an episode and has been known to eat evidence off the floor

#and he's her soulmate #arwen.text #the x files #txf liveblog #scully x mulder

[benoitblanc]

skinner getting suspected of murder and immediately calling for help not from the violent crimes unit but from the idiot ghostbusters in the basement is so fucking funny to me... he is not beating the favoritism allegations

#those are his kids #arwen.text #txf liveblog

[benoitblanc]

about to watch memento mori send thoughts and prayers

#i am fully aware that this ep is going to WRECK me #arwen.text #txf liveblog