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No rhyme nor reason

RAMBLING 1

Everything that happened in season 11 was a repeat of something that had happened before. MSIV is the continuation and repeat of Two Fathers/One Son

MSIII - Gethsemane/Redux I & II

This - Kill Switch/Ghost in the Machine

Plus One - IWTB/Requiem - Mulder can go to mental hospitals now? - See Max

The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat - Jose Chung From Outer Space/Alone

Ghouli - Emily

Kitten - Blood/Sleepless/Unrequited/Avatar

Followers - Kill Switch/Ghost in the Machine/War of the Coprophages - killer machines, killer roaches

Familiar - Die Hand die Verletz

Nothing Lasts Forever - Revelations/Hungry/Tooms - organs to survive

MSIV - Two Fathers/One Son

People are jumping to conclusions, if any other season of the X-Files, baring season 8 had been the supposed series finale, people would have been just as upset.

Season 1 - Deep Throat dead, Mulder kidnapped, The X-Files closed down and Mulder and Scully separated

Season 2 - Bill Mulder dead, Mulder dead

Season 3 - Mulder gone, Scully alone with the Alien Bounty Hunter

Season 4 - Mulder dead, Scully dying to make Mulder believe

Season 5 - Diana shot, Gibson gone, The X-Files burned down

Season 6 - Mulder locked up in a hospital. Scully finding a crashed UFO in Africa. Implied rape of Mulder.

Season 7 - Mulder abducted, Scully pregnant, Cigarette Smoking Man dead

Season 8 - Happy Ending

Season 9 - Mulder sentenced to death, Mulder and Scully on the run, Cigarette Smoking Man dead

Season 10 - Mulder dying on the bridge, Scully looking at a UFO

Season 11 - Jackson/William presumed dead, or not, Cigarette Smoking Man dead, Skinner dead, Monica dead, Scully pregnant

RAMBLING 2

Spraying the fields in Kitten being mentioned on the radio by Tad O’Malley in the car in the beginning of Nothing Last Forever ”they are dosing us folks, and now I know what you’re asking why would they dose us, why would they use these planes it’s the same reason chemtrails…”

Mulder about choices being right - referring to William and Scully giving him up for adoption?

Writers and directors being inspired by CW and its superhero TV shows, James Wong explaining that he chose Miles Robbins because he was a heartthrob but not in the CW way.

Carlena Britch’s Juliet’s way of moving and costume is reminiscent of Arrow,

The parkour in My Struggle IV

Mulder sees the missing parts of the gate, presumedly they go back into the church and speak to the priest who tells them about the family, that is why they come to speak to them. She didn’t say anything in confession, so he can tell them without breaking any confidence.

Should the scene have been shown, e.g. Mulder and Scully talking to the priest?

Same with the explanation as to how they found the organs. Scully mentioning the tracker and explaining how they let the organs be stolen. Instead of allowing us to see them do it.

Scully knowing Barbara Beaumont’s age based on a wikipedia with no birth date. Or does she know what year she was a child actress?

Making smoothies out of organs feels like a modern twist on one of the Dracula legends. The one about the Countess who supposedly drank the blood of young virgins.

How come only one of the attached seems to receive any benefit. The Dr. said that he had drained the body of nutrients, is it less like a flow and more like a pump, pumping the blood from the aorta into his body?

Barbara Beaumont so obviously flirting with Mulder in front of Scully, similar to Judy in Plus One. To the extent that she only addresses Mulder at times, the line about women having a little bit of mystery.

Jack Webb

Sunset Boulevard, but with aging, obsession with the past and fighting to reclaim and perserve.

The obsession with age and ageing, usefulness and obscurity. My Struggle III - Children, usefulness, Mulder being recruited by Mr. Y, The Cigarette Smoking Man intending to control William though Scully, and Scully through William, Scully intending to use William to save Mulder, the child’s safety is of a less concern than Mulder’s life, Scully being attacked because she is not useful to Mr. Y, This - Eternal life in cyberspace, Plus One - Children, ageing, fertility, The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat - the past, the malleability of memories, the unreliability of memories, loss of innocence, Ghouli - Children, experiments, fertility, you see what I want you to see, underestimation of women - send them to meet a monster and they… try to kill it, hacking the DoD again, Kitten - Experiments, small town mystery, military men, veterans and disgruntlement, revenge, Rm9sbG93XJz (Followers) - The age of technology, the birth of an AI and our destruction of its core personality, Familiar - Children, death, being replaced, the simplest solution, protection of police when they commit crimes, Nothing Lasts Forever - attempt at reversing ageing, the running joke with Mulder’s glasses, Barbara Beaumont’s comment to Scully about her skin, the sun and whether it is too late, MS IV - Children, fertility, massacre, Tad O’Malley being used, unrealiability of information, lies, deceit, the young will inherit Earth, the Cigarette Smoking Man needing William to put his plan into work.

The last conversation in the church doesn’t make much sense, and it is interesting to see the way most have ignored the pain Scully has caused Mulder. One of the worst things about her leaving him, which I can ignore with just a couple of adjustments in every episode, is that she becomes yet another person who abandons him. It makes her no different, than his mother, father, Phoebe and Diana. You might even argue that Jerry Lamana did the same. Everyone also seem to return only when they need something from him and he never says no. The way David plays it when Scully asks if they are together. His attempt to find words, to compose himself, the hurt that flashes over his face as she seemingly dismisses him.

Mulder’s last line about how he always wondered how this was going to end, also doesn’t make much sense. What has ended?

Would be interesting to know if that was in the script.

Everything’s going so fast, where are the slow moments, the thoughtful shots, the establishing of atmosphere. And the thing I miss the most is Kim Manners favorite thing. Those extreme close ups of David and Gillian’s face being arranged in different ways close together in a scene.

It is difficult to say what has been lost through different directors. Kim wasn’t the only one who put their faces terribly close together. Rob Bowman did the same in The Field Where I Died, and both Kim and Rob did it for the mythology two-parter Terma-Tunguska, they each directed one episode.

They still look way too much at each other’s lips though. That might just be an actor thing.

They divide of the characters in Ghouli. Scully walking closer to the detective than Mulder. Compare to the Pilot where they walk close to each other while the detective is further from them. Was that deliberate to create the idea that even if they have recently met they have known each other longer than this small town detective? They can’t trust each other, but they certainly cannot trust him either.

Technology how proficient they are compared to season 10. Mulder managing to turn a phone into a receiver of Langely’s message in This, despite not having the full instructions. Searching the DarkWeb on his phone.

No summarising or actual paperwork for X-files solved.

Everything looking more expensive. Cars, phones, clothes. Who gave the FBI a bigger budget?

Lack of theorising from Mulder, and lack of banter.

No autopsies.

Season 10 and 11 making up one season of 16 episodes.

RAMBLING 3

William B Davis was right about one thing when he wrote En Ami, he hadn’t gotten to act with Gillian, but there is a more interesting side effect of that and that is that Scully generally doesn’t get confronted with the mythology. She doesn’t make the choice because it is never presented to her with some exceptions in the Erlenmeyer Flask she bluffs her way into a facility and steals an alien embryo to give in exchange for Mulder - she was willing to steal and give away evidence of the truth they had been seeking and that people had already died for.

in Nisei and 731 she is confronted and led to believe that there are experiments but they are human in nature, leprosy colony and in Gethsemane she is told that the government gave her cancer to control Mulder. However, she is not given an option to save herself, Mulder asks Skinner to get him in contact with the Cigarette Smoking Man, but no one thinks to ask Scully if she would like to make a deal. Redux compounds this but once again making offers to Mulder, but never to Scully.

In Emily they once again have an opportunity to make a deal with her, but they don’t. They never offer to help her find Melissa’s killer either. In fact the only confrontation she had was with the Well-Manicured Man was when he explained that she was in danger. X refused to talk to her at all, and Deep Throat only did when there was no other option.

It is not that she is more honest than Mulder and Skinner, it is not that she is incorruptible but that she is seldom placed in a position where her corruptibility is questioned. In En Ami she shows herself being susceptible to what the Cigarette Smoking Man is offering, that is why she leaves with him. If she had been offered Melissa’s killer, a cure for her cancer, a cure for Emily who is to say she wouldn’t have accepted. She did it for Mulder. A biologist that she involved in the case died and she still exchanged the evidence for Mulder. In Paper Clip she asks Mulder to hand in the DAT-tape so that she can see Melissa again.

The Cigarette Smoking Man believes that he can control her through William, or the boy, as he calls him. However, Skinner thought he underestimated her devotion to Mulder. In Season 8 and 9 we are presented with the dilemma of choosing Mulder or William. She never makes the choice but she is at least presented with it. Krychek tries to force Skiner to make the choice, and Jeffrey gives the magnetite to William to stop the Cigarette Smoking Man’s plans.

William is not necessary to make a vaccine, Scully and Einstein use Scully’s blood to create one in My Struggle II, however, he appears to be necessary to save Mulder. When asked whether Mulder is immune we get a scene change before an answer is provided. The paternity issue presented by the Cigarette Smoking Man is for Skinner’s benefit. To lure him into working with him. Monica has already left by then. Mulder and Scully doesn’t seem to suspect anything, and so far they have not been presented with the possibility. (Ignore My Struggle IV at this time)

During the original run, in mythology episodes, the presence of cigarettes and cigarette smoke always indicated the Cigarette Smoking Man. The first time we see Skinner make a stand he has placed a non-smoking sign on his desk. Mulder finds cigarette butts in Krychek’s car after Scully’s abduction. In Wetwired, after Scully has become paranoid she checks the ashtray in the car to see if there are any cigarettes. Mulder assuming that something has happened and smelling the smoke off Skinner thus makes sense in the larger context of the show. Besides, Scully got attacked, Mulder feared that something was wrong and tried to contact Skinner.

One fraction is trying to kill Mulder, he will kill me, says the Cigarette Smoking Man the other Scully, the assassin was the same man Mulder followed to South Carolina, and who was sent away by Mr. Y. We don’t know if Mulder’s words about Scully being able to save everyone led to the attempted murder or if they always intended to get rid of her. They only offer William a seat together with Mulder. Which is odd because generally Mulder always gets offered something that in some way involves Scully: getting her back, being allowed to kill the men responsible for her abduction, the cure for her cancer, her life - the Cigarette Smoking Man expects Mulder to be grateful when he reveals Scully’s immunity in My Struggle II. Mr. Y and Erika Price seem to have another agenda when it comes to Mulder and Scully which makes them different from all the other people from the conspiracy that we have dealt with. The Original Syndicate kept Mulder alive to avoid him becoming a martyr.

RAMBLING 4

The X-Files, and its writes reluctance to portray Mulder as anything but an incidental father.

Scully confers paternity on Mulder at the end of Existence, not for the sake of Mulder, but for the audience. However, paternity is only established when she is willing, see Mulder’s line to Skinner about how it is up to Scully to reveal the father of the baby. The actors play as if though the characters have talked about Mulder being the father, see Scully telling Mulder about the people outside the house when she was giving birth, and his response that leads to him saying that they feared the possibilities. Implying that they’ve spoken about this, off-screen before. The difference between scenes in front of the camera, what they say and how they act and scenes off camera, that are later implied to establish a moment. David’s adlib about telling the kid he went down swinging.

Mulder’s paternity being revoked when he left, and cancelled upon William’s adoption. Scully continuing to be a mother, but Mulder no longer being a father. David’s absence necessitating a removal of Mulder from the story, highlighting Scully’s single parenthood, as well as life as a single mother that is available to be pursued, rather than one who is in a long distance relationship, or as her own mother a woman with an absent boyfriend/lover/significant other/partner.

The underlining of Mulder’s paternity existing only in relation to Scully by James Wong, through the episode Ghouli and in the interview he did about the episode, while undermining him as a father. Focusing on Scully as a mother, highlighting her choices and desires relating to motherhood while ignoring that such would exist for Mulder in terms of fatherhood.

Glen Morgan’s conversation at the end of Home Again detailing Scully’s fears, questions, regrets while ignoring that despite not being present when the baby was given away for adoption, not having a say if such a thing should be done, not needing to sign anything to make it happen, Mulder possessing those things as well.

The consistent undermining of Mulder as a father, the consistent underling of Mulder as an incidental father of Scully’s children, starting with The Jersey Devil in season 1, continuing in Home, Emily, Existence, Founder’s Mutation, Home Again and Ghouli.

The Jersey Devil - Scully wants kids, Mulder is suggested as their father

Home - Scully implying Mulder as a candidate for future children and he seemingly volunteering upon the subject being broached

Emily - Scully being a biological mother making Mulder the father. No paternity is ever established or explored, similar to Memento Mori when they say these are our mother’s but never talk about the fathers. Scully not conferring paternity on Mulder when the opportunity is given. Mulder not assuming parenthood when opportunity is given. Mulder written as a vengeful father, treatment of Scanlon, desperation of his actions. Mulder written as a father but only when Scully allows him, carrying Emily to the car, offering to stay at the hospital with her, bringing flowers to the funeral, staying beside her as she opens the coffin.

Alone - Scully excluding Mulder from knowing the sex of the child. The implication that there is something weird about him wanting to take her to lamaze class.

Existence - Scully naming William after Bill Mulder to establish Mulder as the father. Firstborn sons being given the name of their paternal grandfather.

Founder’s Mutation - Mulder denying missing William. Mulder comforting Scully when her maternity is being questioned and assuring her that it isn’t true. Mulder being at fault for not being a father, left William and Scully, didn’t need to sign adoption papers, denying missing William, shutting down the conversation on their son. His loneliness is his own fault.

Home Again - Scully talking about William, seeing William’s name. Children, creations being discarded by the one who created them. Scully being likened to them. Mulder not being a creator. Mulder not being a contributor, baring Maggie telling him she also has a son named William. The conversation on the log that is mostly Scully voicing her fears and regrets. The implication that answers pertaining to William, his life, his safety only belong to her.

Ghouli - Scully confessing to Jackson/William in the morgue. Establishing Jackson as their child through looking at her DNA. Paternity not needed to be established, see Emily. Mulder being allowed to comfort Scully, Mulder being allowed to stay with Scully in the hospital room, at the gas station. Messages meant for her being delivered to him when she desires. Messages only meant for her. Scully letting him in unlike in Emily. Not pushing him away at the crime scene, Jackson’s house. Jackson talking about his biological mother.

Nothing Lasts Forever - Scully assuming full responsibility over William, his being given up for adoption. Her fears.

Chris and others exploring Mulder as a father. Underlining Mulder as a father, baring who is your baby daddy storyline moments.

Per Manum - Establishing that Mulder and Scully tried IVF.

Three Words - The Lone Gunmen’s implication that Mulder needs to explain his partaking in a certain blessed event.

Empedocles - Mulder brining a gift. Conversation about being like a married couple. Guarding the door to Scully’s hospital room.

Vienen - Tell the kid I went down swinging - admittedly an adlib by David but still

Essence - Mulder not denying being the father but emphasising Scully’s right to tell. Krychek trying to get Skinner to kill the baby or Mulder. The father or the son have to die.

Existence - Scully naming William, Mulder holding the baby in her bedroom.

The entire season nine consistently establishing Mulder’s absence as being due to the father or the son needing to die. The super solidiers showing equal interest in Mulder and William.

Which means that entire storyline, possibly created to explain David Duchovny’s absence being made irrelevant if what the Cigarette Smoking Man said is true. Which for the record I don’t believe, he likes taking credit for other people’s work. I think Jackson’s belief is founded upon the mental connection the two have that I think is dependant on the brain matter stolen from Mulder in the Sixth Extinction episodes.

The End - Mulder talking about his son. The prosecution tormenting Scully with the existence of their love child undermining her as a witness.

I Want to Believe - Mulder talking about their son’s William’s absence causing them both pain.

MS I - Sveta telling Scully that she knows that the two of them have a child together.

MS II - Scully telling Miller that she and Mulder have a son, after establishing that Mulder cannot be saved with the vaccine.

MS III - Scully begging Jeffrey Spender to tell her where William is so they can save Mulder. Scully telling Mulder that they need to find William in order to save him, You need him and I need you. Mulder talking about his son with Mr. Y and Erica Price.

Plus One - Mulder and Scully talking about having another baby. Scully wanting to know if Mulder wants to have a child.

Ghouli - Mulder’s moment with Skinner saying that Jackson was his and Scully’s son William.

Familiar - Mulder telling Emily’s mother that he has a son but he’s grown now.

MS IV - Mulder telling William he is his father. William questioning this, because he doesn’t receive any visions from Mulder and doesn’t appear to be able to send to him either. William protecting Mulder from the goons and the Cigarette Smoking Man. Mulder lamenting not being a father. Scully putting Mulder’s hand on her stomach and telling him he’s a father because she is pregnant. William being necessary for the Cigarette Smoking Man’s plan, the man who has been established since MS III as prioritising killing Mulder. Not hearing whether Mulder is immune or not when Skinner asks the Cigarette Smoking Man in MS III.

Who renamed Jackson, Chris Carter or James Wong? Does the renaming mean something? Is it a hint that we should question Mulder’s paternity, William being named after his father, Fox Mulder’s father, William Mulder to ascertain paternity in Existence.

Paternity of William being an issue due to the implication of lack of consent. Would you be okay if Mulder wasn’t William’s biological father because Scully slept with another man while dating Mulder, tried IVF with someone different - someone else that she knew or an anonymous donor? Which method is preferred? What is more important Mulder being Jackson’s biological father or his creation being consensual?

RAMBLING 5

Not complete lists works in progress.

Ignoring male abductees.

Duane Barry

Max Fenig

Billy Miles

Theresa Nemman’s husband

Mulder

(Jeffrey Spender?)

Scully is a woman and got abducted, focusing on female abductees.

Focusing on maternity while ignoring paternity.

Eve - The children having no fathers, all being women. Killing the adoptive fathers. Fertility clinics like in Small Potatoes?

Memento Mori - The clones telling Mulder these women are our mothers while saying nothing about who the father’s are or if there are any.

Focusing on women’s rights to children while ignoring and sometimes outright denying men the same.

The Jersey Devil - Rob’s enmity towards his ex-wife’s new boyfriend, her being implied to have primary custody.

Aubrey - The implication that BJ does not intend to the sheriff that she’s pregnant.

Never Again - Ed Jerse losing custody of his children.

Terms of Endearment - A man wanting children but a woman wanting a specific type of child and the destruction of those that don’t fit the criteria.

William - Scully giving up William for adoption.

Implied single men with kids, absent or invisible mothers

The Pilot - Billy Miles’s Father, Theresa Nemman’s father

Single women with kids

Conduit - Ruby’s mother

Paternity only being interesting as a crime.

Killing off Scully’s father in season 1 and Mulder’s father in season 2.

Aubrey - BJ’s grandfather being a rapist leading to her committing crimes.

Bill Mulder’s paternity being explored through losing a daughter, a crime in Colony/End Game. Acting like a proper father to Mulder minutes before being killed in Anazazi. His name being given to William.

Home - Not particularly who, but establishing that one of the Peacock brother’s is the father due to the multiple genetic deformities that the dead baby suffers from. Scully having nephewes implying Charlie has kids.

Small Potatoes - Eddie van Blunt impersonating Luke Skywalker and the husbands to impregnate the women and his paternity only being focused on because he is committing a crime.

Christmas Carol/Emily - Marshall Sims, Emily’s adoptive father being implied to work with the conspiracy.

Post Modern Prometheus - Dr. Pomodori being a neglectful father of the great mutato. His own father impregnating the women with methods similar to animal husbandry to create a being that resembles his grandchild.

Luke’s death, being a crime. Doggett’s paternity existing and being explored due to this crime.

Trevor - Paternity being established as reason for a crime.

Paternity on the basis of conferring from women.

Aubrey - The sheriff fathering BJ’s child being a plot point.

Terms of Endearment - The fathering taking place to satisfy a woman’s desires.

The mythology dealing with Mulder’s paternity, conferring Bill Mulder paternity through Teena Mulder while establishing that his biological father is C.G.B. Spender.

Talith Cumi - Establishing a connection between Teena Mulder and C.G.B. Spender to throw doubt on the paternity of her children.

Demons - Continuing to explore that connection, as well as implying that Bill Mulder did not father his children. (Never established if neither Fox nor Samantha was his. If Samantha was Bill Mulder’s that would make her Mulder’s half sister.)

Gethsemane - The government official helping Mulder and Scully being established as a father because they hurt his son in order to get to him.

Christmas Carol/Emily - Bill Scully Jr. being a father through Tara Scully being pregnant.

All Souls - Paternity being implied to explain the girls needing to die.

The Red and the Black/Patient X - C.G.B. Spender being Jeffrey Spender’s father through Cassandra Spender’s conferring.

Two Fathers/One Son - Mulder’s paternity being directly questioned in connection with the mythology.

The Sixth Extinction Amor Fati - Mulder being conferred as a father in the Last Temptation of Christ’s dream by Diana Fowley.

Per Manum - Implying something is wrong with the baby, leading to flashbacks of Mulder and Scully having tried IVF. Mulder as a father though Scully’s conferring.

MS III - The Cigarette Smoking Man implying involvement in the creation of William.

MS IV - Jackson calling the Cigarette Smoking Man his father. The Cigarette Smoking Man killing Mulder while talking about being his father and claiming responsibility of his conception.

Paternity being determined to establish the existence of powers.

Aubrey - BJ being a criminal being due to her grandfather being one.

Small Potatoes - The children fathered by Van Blunt being identified as such through having a tail. (Have these children inherited Eddie Van Blunt’s ability to assume another’s identity?)

All Souls - Angel/human hybrids.

MS IV - Jackson’s ability to receive visions from the Cigarette Smoking Man. (Implication more than establishment, Mulder was able to read minds in Biogenesis. His elevated brain activity due to this resembles Scully’s in MS III.)

Paternity to establish connection to authority.

The Pilot - Theresa Nemman’s dad

Red Museum - One of the tormentor’s being established as the sheriff’s son

RAMBLING 6

Carlena Britch’s character acting as if Mulder and Scully should feel sad that she will go to prison for her crimes by reassuring them that it was worth it. While they pretty much ignore and don’t look too bothered by the consequences of her actions. No personal relationship or sympathy having ever been established with either Mulder or Scully, but still being assumed in the scene.

No true connecting with the victim’s baring Familiar, losing a child, Emily Sims, William.

Playing favourites. Glen Morgan and James Wong’s favouritism of Scully, preferring to write her over Mulder. Glen Morgan’s exclusion of Mulder on the log, being mitigated by David and Gillian’s bond and his ability to act and connect with her while silent. James Wong’s exclusion of Mulder in Ghouli, being mitigated by David and Gillian’s bond and his ability to act while not being given any specific material and connect with her while silent.

Vince Gilligan being able to write for both as well as introducing a new character whose focus doesn’t take away from the established story with Brian Cranston’s character in Drive. Unlike Glen Morgan with Kristin Cloke’s Melissa Ephesian in The Field Where I Died. Vince Gilligan not playing favourites.

Darin Morgan’s reluctance to deal with the characters at all, ignoring most established facts to deconstruct the show while making fun of David Duchovny.

Glen Morgan’s need to torment David Duchovny in his scripts, making Mulder an Elvis fan, Home, Never Again.

Chris Carter not playing favourites, but sometimes letting his fatigue with the characters influence his script in Fight Club and his anger with David leading to him trying to kill Mulder through a brain disease.

RAMBLING 7

Real life and circumstances as well as limits influencing and limiting the episodes. A small budget leading to dark rooms, to avoid the bad CGI being seen and using the format of scaring through implication rather than seeing.

Using up the budget on Ice leading to Space being stock footage from NASA. Several rewrites and scenes being cut due to standards and practices.

Gillian being pregnant leading to Mulder and Scully’s separation and the closing of the X-Files to get Scully back to Quantico. Gillian being pregnant limiting her screen time in the beginning of season 2. Gillian getting pregnant leading to Scully’s abduction. Scully being shown pregnant during the abduction because Gillian was. Perry Reeves being hired for 3 due to being David’s real life girl friend and Chris hoping this would mean she would have chemistry with him since Gillian wasn’t available due to giving birth.

Mulder getting injured because David had twisted his ankle playing squash with Chris. X being changed to a male actor as the female actress they wanted wasn’t available. Truman Capote not playing the role of Jose Chung due to having been dead for 12 years when the episode was recorded. Mulder being an Elvis fan because David is not a fan. Glen Morgan’s wooing of Kristin Cloke leading to her prominent part in The Field Where I Died and his divorce informing Ed Jerse’s situation in Never Again.

Glen Morgan and James Wong choosing to have the Cigarette Smoking Man kill Frohike in their original script for Musing of a Cigarette Smoking Man because Tom Braidwood already had a job on the show as an associate producer. Memento Mori coming about due to Daring Morgan being unable to fulfil his obligations.

The implication that Scully got cancer and would die because Gillian wanted to leave the show, but when she changed her mind a cure was found.

The Unusual Suspects being necessary to give David and Gillian time to film the movie as well as the show.

David needing time off to promote Playing God leading to Christmas Carol.

Michael Buble not appearing in Triangle due to being fired for eating a hot dog.

Mimi Rogers being unavailable for filming Triangle, thus Mulder not seeing her as a singer who betrays him on the Queen Ann.

Arthur Dales character being given a brother with the same name when the original actor suffered a stroke and thus couldn’t reprise his role for The Unnatural.

David wanting to leave the show leading to Mulder’s abduction.

Mitch’s reluctance to become lead leading to the character of John Doggett.

Chris’s reluctance to focus on anything but Doggett in season 8 leading to him nixing David’s idea of exploring Mulder’s trauma after his abduction.

David leaving the show leading to Mulder’s absence in season 9.

Gillian being a single mother because Fox refused to let her leave the show, insisting that she fulfil her contract.

Mulder becoming an absent Dad because Fox refused to let the show end after season 8.

William being given up for adoption due to the difficulty of children in films and the plan to film a second The X-Files movie in 2003.

The second movie being delayed due to a law suit. The second movie’s script being unedited due to the writer’s strike.

Season 10 having only six episodes due to Gillian refusing to do more. Scully finding a coin in her mother’s possessions due to something similar happening to the Morgan brother’s when their mother died an event that also influence The Field Where I Died. Scully saying said coins writing didn’t match any of her and her siblings’s birthday despite being engraved 1964 02 23.

Miles Robbins not looking anything like David and Gillian but still being hired due to James Wong looking for an actor that resembled David not in looks but as an actor.

Had Mulder been established as an Elvis fan before he complained in Irresistible that no one had seen when Scully was forced off the road but numerous people claimed Elvis sightings?

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“It’s been 17 weeks since our favourite show is back in production!! Let’s see what happened in this week. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. week summaries.

*Clicking on links will take you to the original posting of the video/article/tweet… X marks the posting of linked content on Tumblr. It takes you to the post of the Tumblrino who posted it here.*

This busy week started off with some great filming news; Someone walked thru the set and saw Gillian Anderson reading her script... (X) We got a video of Brick from the make-up trailer! And a picture of Brick from the same trailer.

And then, it happened. THE PICTURE of MULDER AND SCULLY IN BED, CUDDLING!!!! According to the new BTS video... The screenshot is not the best, but we have one, at least. It is exactly what we would expect from CC. Mulder’s face is weird, Scully is completely under the sheet. Like literally not a single inch of skin can be seen. But her head is on Mulder’s shoulder and they are sharing a romantic moment. On a sofa. That’s all that we saw and of course, it went how it always goes...we had more questions than we had answers. One thing is for certain, tho. Many many people are gonna go after CC in a very violent way, in case this turns out to be another cheap trick... 😄😄😄 Anyhow, here are some theories and summaries:

Looks like Mulder and Scully GET IT ON on Mulder’s sofa!! @youokay-mulder

msr 2018 @youreadarkwizard

Expectation vs Reailty/Or Fan Fiction vs The actual show @hekapolis

So, David says that “there are “definite intimations of hanky-panky” between the pair, beginning in the revival’s third episode” -->doppelganger episode

Chris Carter proved it again, that having no show bible, nor actual memories/knowledge of his show serves him well; “ We’re not used to Scully looking up at UFOs. We’re not used to looking at Mulder at death’s door.” Could someone email Chris and make him watch his show?! The subject of the email: Platonic Activity. 🙈🙈

Talking about continuity...One more thing has been revealed in the new video; Welcome back ‘Jeffrey completely perfect, no scar on his pretty face Spender’!!

Thursday arrived and with it, a new #tbt from @gillianaofficial “Looks like we found the upside down first…but in the future. #tbt #TheXFiles aaaaand we got lucky this time, as not only Gillian but David also shared one of his rare #tbt pics. “#TBT to the time when @marilynmanson and I played 🎸 together!”

And just as awesome as this week started, it continued on when @gillianaofficial shared another intriguing #BTS “Praying to the Goddess Media. One. Last. Time.“ @BryanFuller #TheXFiles #bts @davidduchovny

Fox Mulder is standing in a church, wearing a black tuxedo!!! Other fandoms would be crazy happy, that a wedding is in sight, but here, at the X-files fandom we’ve been tortured, tricked and hurt so many times that this is us: IT IS A FUNERAL. SCULLY IS DEAD. WILLIAM IS DEAD. EVERYONE IS DEAD. So, yes. Chris Carter made sure that we are paranoid and we learnt our lesson. Believe nothing, doubt everything...and fix everything. So here is the MSR wedding picture, we all needed @justholdinghandsok

Next filming day, next pictures by Gillian and David. They shared the same pic of Gillian & her Gilly-box. David Duchovny: It’s official...longest Gillyboard in history! #TheXFiles #bts Gillian Anderson: “Awe look at that itsy red mark next to my platform! What wee little earthling is set to grovel at my feet?!” (X) Not much later, thanks to some Photoshop skills, came another post: Like father like son. @brick_duchovny davidduchovny

David gave an interview to the Australian press, where he talked about Season 11: “I was only going to watch one but I had to keep going, they are fantastic, I’m not bulls—ing you, I am not selling it,” he says. (X)

1 MONTH, 1 MONTH, 1 MONTH, 1 MONTH, 1MONTH, 1MONTH, 1MONTH

Filming continued at Garibaldi Park, which looks gorgeous at this time of the year. And so Gillian posted a video on Monday. “Smoothing out my bits” (X)

Filming news:

#TheXFiles already done on Vancouver's 500 block Hamilton Street today. That was fast.(X)

It is #TheXFiles filming inside of St. Andrew's Wesley Church today. (X)

The X-files filming, St. Andrews-Wesley United Church (X)

From Carlena Britch on the X-Files season 11 set

#Thischurchislit

#TheXFiles will be filming at & around Garibaldi Park in North Vancouver on Wednesday & Thursday. (X)

it’s looking great out there! They have created a fake playground, and the street is lined w “police”cars. (X)

The X-files filming, Lynn Canyon Park, night shoot

@thexfiles filming LynnCanyonPark (X)

Press of the week:

The X-Files' David Duchovny Hints at 'Hanky-Panky' for Mulder and Scully (and New Footage Backs Him Up) (X

No Government Agency has jurisdiction over The Truth - Deep State

AN X-FILES EPISODE SHIP GUIDE FOR FOX MULDER AND DANA SCULLY (X)

Gillian Anderson And David Duchovny Celebrate An 'X-Files' Anniversary Together On Twitter (X)

The 'X-Files' revival continues with a mobile game (X)

9 hit TV shows NO-ONE thought would be a success, from Game of Thrones to Doctor Who (X)

Disney's bid for Fox assets gains momentum: sources (X)

Videos/Photos this week:

Season 10 Cliffhanger | THE X-FILES

2 New Cast Promotional Photos & New Featurette (X)

Promo images for The X-Files Event Series: The Second Chapter

In other news this week;

Channel 5 to premiere new Agatha Christie movie adaptation starring Gillian Anderson and Glenn Close (X)

American Gods EPs Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Exit Ahead of Season 2 (X)

David Duchovny on why you should listen to singers with “bad voices” as he preps Australian tour (X)

Gillian Anderson to Headline New Agatha Christie Adaptation (X)

Some awesome gifsets, pictures, videos and fan arts:

Breaking News - Mulder and Scully are fucking @ccoble

Are you okay? I’m fine... @muld-r

What the fuck dude, do you even know what show this is? @fistful-of-fandom

We are not used to looking at Mulder at deaths door @platonic-activity

The bed sharing is out there @startwreck

Amazing, amazing December wallpaper from @a-january-girl

they know one (1) pose @youreadarkwizard

Seriously, what is with The Gillovnys and being accident prone?! 😂😂😂😂 @abbycorasmom

12/01/17 - “I won’t let you go alone.” Can you tell me the name of the episode featured at #33? @thexfilesbasement

NEW FANVID, ✘/ Believer BY @scullygrl9

History of the Gilly-Box & Kim Manners - ‘Rock from Mars’ Tribute, Season 10 by me

I think this is it for our 17th week! *Let me know if I missed something or if you have suggestions what to include in the next week summary, feel free to message me anytime*

Lots of love, fam! For another great week ahead! ❤️ 👽😄👽

#gillian anderson #david duchovny #season 11 #weekly summary #thexfiles #wooow this was one busy week

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