#redux ii

[bakedbakermom]

txf + text posts (9/?)

#i make no apologies for the last one #txf #txf gifset #txfedit #txf edit #txf + text posts #liwl makes a gif #our town #how the ghosts stole christmas #bad blood #jersey devil #kill switch #mulder and scully meet the weremonster #chinga #redux ii #txf s1 #txf s2 #txf s5 #txf 6 #txf s10

[alexa-crowe]

“dr. scully the pathologist, death’s best girl, who sees people long after they’re gone. she often is resigned to her own impending death, and grieves the inherent loss in others connecting to her; something that won’t last when you’re bound to leave them. [...] she has so little left here. her sister is gone. i think she knows, on some level, what that chip in her neck means. and her worst nightmare is that it would all be for nothing, that she would be in it alone. that mulder wouldn’t be there with her.”

 — kae @waiting-for-the-day / Incrementum by @lepus-arcticus

#txfedit #dailytxf #xfilesnet #userveronika #userars #tusersahar #dana scully #mine #txf #the x-files #the x files #xf #xfiles #x-files #x files #thexfiles #thex-files #paper clip #redux ii #emily

[bisexualfbiagents]

Can I see her?

THE X FILES | Redux II (5.02) and Requiem (7.22)

#dana scully #walter skinner #the x files #txf #txfedit #xfilesnet #redux II #requiem #5x02 #7x22 #was fully planning on using these for something else but then i saw the parallel lol #i thought may as well! #anyway my girl is always in a hospital bed #death always knockin at her door you know the USUAL #the coloring on these is definitely outside of my comfort zone but these scenes are all dark af so i gotta do somethin! #mine

[carefulfears]

situations mulder understands

#rewatching paper clip #and teared up bad at his face when scully said she just needs to see missy #he really gave it all up in that moment #for her to be able to see her sister #paper clip #redux ii

[randomfoggytiger]

Dana Scully: a Fear of Death Rooted in Eternal Judgment

I think Scully's fear of death is rooted in a fear of judgment.

According to her faith, one either gets into Heaven or Hell (with a pit stop here or there to atone for their sins.) One would think that would be a comfort to the morally unbreakable Dana Scully.

But it isn't.

During her atheistic arc (Season 1 through early Season 2), Scully was determined to do her job and do it well. The paranoia of death didn't cling to her as it does in later seasons.... until Beyond the Sea. Her father's ghost visiting her right after his death and being channeled later through Luthor Lee Boggs, twice-- it takes its toll, unwinding the foundational principles of her life: that Death is final; and that there are no ghosts or psychics or even angels or demons, just sick men and women who abuse others through their superstitions. Scully chooses ignorance, reverting away from this new territory because "I'm afraid... I'm afraid to believe." The rest of Season 1, she didn't want to die, panicked in the face of it; but wasn't as paranoid as, again, later seasons.

Then One Breath happens: Scully experienced something she "couldn't find the words" to explain, even when facing death alongside Mulder in Dod Kalm. It's Scully who is fearless as their end approaches, reassuring Mulder he has nothing to fear based on that experience. Thus, One Breath began her agnostic arc-- where she believed, deep down, but was afraid to fully accept that belief (i.e., her shaken projections on Pfaster in Irresistible and her activated voodoo curse in Fresh Bones.) Death is a place of peace, hence why she denies it to Pfaster (we later learn in Orison.)

When we reach Season 3's Revelations, Scully's agnosticism turns to religious terror. "God is speaking, and no one is listening", she confesses to the priest-- what she means is, that God has been speaking to and judging me, and I've been failing. Thus, her paranoia of Death: not because of its finality (Season 1) or promise of peace (Season 2), but because it could find her at fault and deny her a blessed eternal life.

In Season 4, Scully doesn't want to "run back to God" in Gethsemane; but faces her fears once Death is inescapable in Redux II.

In Season 5, she battles with her religious fragility, struggling for peace after her daughter is stolen before her Christian burial (Emily) and after her spirit returns during a case with angels and demons. Scully may be more vulnerable to religious manipulation, but she is also more secure in her beliefs of a peaceful afterlife.

By Season 6, Scully continues to look upon Death as God's judgment: eternal reward or eternal torment. But then Tithonus happens: Fellig shakes Scully's convictions that eternity is a good thing, showing her the soul of an eternally tormented man... making her wonder if she is guaranteed a happy ending, after all.

This brings up to Season 7's Orison, where Scully stands in judgment of Pfaster and the "Reverend" Orison. When she murders Pfaster in cold blood, her doubts and criticisms rise up against her, brandishing her with the same immoral code-- thus, making her fear eternal condemnation from God: the end meted out to both convicts, or an immortal torment ala Alfred Fellig. This was an extremely crucial moment for her development as a character... and would have been given no resolution if not for Gillian's all things.

all things is the resolution to Scully's paranoia: "God talks back", she comes to terms with herself, and makes a final decision out of principle and not panic, out of assuredness and not anguish. Scully is secure; and she finds the stability to embrace her beliefs, religion, and faith as it should be: a source of rest, a refuge from fear.

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!

#txf #xf meta #meta #xfiles #x-files #the x files #Scully #S1 #S2 #S3 #S4 #S5 #S6 #S7 #Beyond the Sea #One Breath #Irresistible #Fresh Bones #Revelations #Never Again #Gethsemane #Redux II #Emily #All Souls #Tithonus #Orison #all things #Mulder #Bill Scully Sr. #Emily Sims

[soufflegirl]

(repeat until death)

#the x-files #txf #dana scully #fox mulder #mulder x scully #msr #cancer arc #memento mori #elegy #redux ii #novo amor #msr web weaving #web weaving

[backintimeforstuff]

that scene in redux ii where mulder comes back into scully's hospital room after he's just spent the night sobbing by her bedside trying to contemplate living without her and he says 'good morning' like he's just walked into a business meeting

#sir that is the love of your life #i think you can affford to be a little less FORMAL #fox mulder #redux ii #5x02 #txf

[loubetcha]

sorry i’ve been making so many posts but i just finished the gethsemane and redux episodes of the x-files and let me just say. bill scully shut your trap.

“well where is [mulder] dana?” ??? where have you been? you didn’t show up until this episode. “where is he through all this?” as opposed to scully saying “he’s been supportive through this time.” hmmm maybe you just don’t know your sister and don’t understand she can make her own decisions hmmm maybe you don’t actually know mulder and you therefore have no right to cruelly blame and guilt him and put him down?

he told mulder that he was “the reason for [her cancer]”, the very idea that would have driven mulder to suicide if it were true. but it’s not. if anyone has blind convictions it’s bill. i understand that he’s bitter and grieving but he doesn’t know mulder and clearly he doesn’t know his sister if he thinks she’s just been a marionette to mulder’s ambition. send tweet.

#txf #the x files #redux ii #redux #gethsemane #txf s4 #txf s5

[lifewithaview]

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files (1993) Redux II

S5E2

With Scully in a hospital ICU, the FBI hierarchy learns that Mulder is alive. So do the conspirators but the Cigarette Smoking Man continues to argue that Mulder is worth far more to them alive than dead. He points Mulder in the direction of a cure for Scully's cancer but apparently pays a heavy price for doing so. He tells Mulder that the alien conspiracy is real and offers to prove it to him. His proof however doesn't quite satisfy Mulder who appears before the FBI review committee to reveal the identity of the conspirator inside the FBI.

*Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz and Gillian Anderson are all big fans of how this episode turned out.

#The X-Files #tv series #1997 #Redux II #S5E2 #Dana Scully #Fox Mulder #Gillian Anderson #Davis Duchovny #Cigarette Smoking Man #conspiracy #alien conspiracy #crime #drama #mystery #scifi #legendary series #just watched

[freckleslikestars]

The X Files: Redux II

Living Polaroid Project: 99/219

#Oh my god I've nearly done 100 of these! #Also season five babey!! #want an episode that kills me? this one will do the trick nicely #the way her cheek pulls up in a smile in that last gif! She loves him and she's dying and its so unfair! #also when he tells skinner he's only half dead #and his look of devestation when he asks skinner what happened #his weird ugly crying cracks me up every time though #living polaroid project #living polaroid project season five #my gifs #xf gifs #txf #the x files #x files #msr #redux #redux II

[deathsbestgirl]

gethsemane coming literally DIRECTLY after demons makes me so ill…for the audience, it reinforces mulder’s suicidality more explicitly than usual, both very obvious and high-tension back to back. but also scully had to tell a room full of people that mulder had shot himself in the head like a week after she stood behind him afraid he was going shoot himself in the head

i almost never watch these episodes together so i forget they're back to back, and the fact that it's during the cancer arc is A Lot to process. if scully wasn't already terrified of leaving mulder alone, demons made it her #1 fear from the moment he called her.

and before this, elegy was already so fraught. "i fear the same thing" and in a way yes, but scully wanted to continue working with him. she didn't get what she wanted in/after never again, then she gets a death sentence, and the only way she was able to go one was to convince herself she could live with cancer and stay by his side.

they both try to hold a strong facade for the other through her cancer, but they're both so fragile & nothing can hide the cracks, the way they're struggling.

in memento mori, scully wants forgiveness so much. she wants to know mulder will go on without her, not self destruct, that he'll take care with his life so that he can find the answers & not a martyr or another victim.

but he doesn't know how not to give himself fully and part of me has always thought that he couldn't bear to keep going without scully, to find the answers without her after all they've been through, only trusting each other. it made him more wreckless.

and every time i watch gethsemane, i think thank fucking god scully knew it wasn't real. but how easy it was to spin the story they did because it's completely believable. it had to be one of the hardest things she ever did because it was too real. she had almost been in that position not long before (days? weeks?) it was incredibly fresh for her, already an anxiety she was trying to deal with, and no one would even doubt it because he wears his pain on his sleeve. it's what drives him and anyone paying the littlest bit of attention to him & his career would know that.

on her deathbed scully is still trying to save him. from himself, from the world. and he won't let her because she's too important to him & she doesn't deserve that on her record. whether she was here to live with it or not. and !!!

this doesn't even scratch the surface of the depth of this series of episodes. what else can i even say

#do y'all get it !!!! #fox mulder #dana scully #txf txt #the x files #elegy #demons #gethsemane #redux #redux ii

[alexa-crowe]

THE X-FILES 2.17 | “End Game” 5.02 | “Redux II”

#txfedit #xfilesnet #dailytxf #userveronika #userars #tusersahar #mine #dana scully #fox mulder #redux ii #end game #not that i'm implying that he made a mistake in ''end game'' but the dialogue is similar #situations not exactly comparable lol #also quietly rewriting the title of the ep bc redux ii is cooler than redux part 2 #txf #the x-files #the x files #xf #xfiles #x-files #x files #thexfiles #thex-files #the xfiles #msr #mulder x scully #scully x mulder

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “Redux II”

Written by Chris Carter

September 4, 1997 (WHITE)

Mulder’s spirits leap when he sees Scully’s conscious...

Scully offers Mulder “all she has in dying...”

Deleted scene: Skinner investigates Roush...

Mulder will be in Scully’s prayers...

#the x files #x files #txf #season 5 #scripts #txf bts #redux ii #script #chris carter #david duchovny #gillian anderson #mulder #scully #msr #cancer arc #mythology #screenwriting #tvwriting #deleted scenes

[carefulfears]

mulder very shyly smiling at the floor, giving scully the superstars of the superbowl tape, squeezing her hand before turning and leaving after only a few moments, when she woke up after her abduction vs him sitting alone in the hallway crying while everyone celebrated in her hospital room when her cancer was cured. how inadequate anything we have to offer, is, in the end. the overwhelm of our ability to comprehend or express grief and love. the x-files #1 show about supernatural creatures that's actually about intricate and fundamental humanity.

#re-reading kelly's atlantic piece and crying at work #txf.txt #one breath #redux ii

[randomfoggytiger]

Ascension: the episode Mulder watches Maggie lose her own "Samantha"; and empathetically supports her, setting aside his own grief and anguish in her presence.

Ascension: the episode Maggie watches Mulder fall apart from guilt; and empathetically supports him, understanding his feeling of having failed to protect Scully (having ignored her own warning dream.)

Ascension: the episode that bonds Maggie and Mulder together in a way that is criminally lacking in canon. She goes with him alone to select her daughter's tombstone. While Mulder was running around trying to demand answers and solutions, Maggie silently supports him and always included him in every step of Scully's hospitalization.

Ascension knit these two souls so tightly it kept their relationship close even after Scully was found and healed: Mulder knew Maggie's phone number and drove to her house with familiar ease in Wetwired and Memento Mori; in Redux II, Mulder was nonplussed when Maggie saw him kissing Scully's hand, and Maggie took it for granted that Mulder was at ease in her presence. (An aside: that's why Bill shocked Mulder-- he took it for granted that the Scullys were an accepting, loving support system for him since One Breath brought them all together.)

Even in S8, Maggie was there to silently support her daughter (who, like usual, kept her mom in the dark on what was going on) during Mulder's funeral; and waited by Mulder's side in the hospital hallway when Scully had a pill scare. Not even death and resurrection and being kept on the outs dented Maggie's natural fondness for Mulder-- though she has a rough way of showing love and affection-- and Mulder, while tense and anguished over the whole affair (S8, amiright?) wasn't bothered to have Maggie by his side-- though we didn't see them interact verbally *ahem ahem*.

It is CRIMINAL their unique relationship wasn't explored more thoroughly on screen.

#txf #meta #Maggie #Mulder #relationship #Ascension #Wetwired #Redux II #Memento Mori #S2 #S3 #S4 #S5

[moiraiinesedai]

THE X-FILES | Redux II (5x02)

— he’d risk it all for her 🥺

#P watches #The X-Files #The X Files #TXF #5x02 #Redux II #MSR #Mulder x Scully #Fox Mulder #David Duchovny #Dana Scully #Gillian Anderson