#⤷ file / samantha carter.

[pookie-mulder]

The X-Files mythology is like:

The plot thickens.

It thickens again.

Even thicker.

Now the plot is so thick, it’s a solid piece of matter, yet it still somehow gets even thicker.

Pretty soon it thickens so much that it becomes denser than a neutron star, then collapses under the weight of its own thickness and becomes a black hole, pulling the show’s viewers into it and never letting them escape.

Yet somehow it’s still full of holes?

[agent-troi]

toxic green alien blood!! just like on txf lmao

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “Miracle Man”

Written by Howard Gordon & Chris Carter

February 3, 1994 (YELLOW)

Mulder is anything but a disbeliever...

Mulder thinks he sees his sister...

Vance is visited by Samuel’s spirit...

[mulderscryptidbootyshorts]

They would have gotten Mulder and Scully together in two, three seasons tops. They were too powerful. To this day Chris Carter trembles in fear

Samantha Mulder and Melissa Scully had to be taken out because if they were alive they would’ve teamed up to tease, bully, and torture their siblings about their “cute little crush” on their FBI partner.

[mylittleredgirl]

did chris carter ever explain why mulder’s first name is fox. someone on here had got to know. i’ve been watching the x files for thirty years and i either never learned or can’t remember what that was about. even better that his younger sister has a normal name, like mrs mulder had a brief flirtation in the early 1960s with both [spoilers] and a hippie crystal friend group and then snapped out of it and named her second child samantha.

[scifi-women]

Still bored. Still curious.

[rjalker]

Very specific poll time because I know at least 3 people so far:

This is a poll.

It will last 1 week.

Question: Have you ever named an original character Samantha Carter?

Option 1: Yes

Option 2: No

1 of the yes votes is mine for the record

I had an OC in early middle school I named Samantha Carter after a whole week of debating over different first and last names and variations. She was gonna get bitten by a werewolf after walking home from a friend's house at night after losing track of the time. I never got any further than that though because then our dinosaur family computer died after a thunderstorm and deleted all the writing files. And we had no internet either. RIP.

I think I'd written maybe 500 words or so.

[captain-sassy-socks]

... um... are you sure?

Whenever I spot a stargate actor in The X Files I just imagine that that’s just their stargate role in an alternative universe

[mementox1013]

2024 Art Dump

I often do little warm-up sketches just for fun, or to test a new brush/technique. I'll often do non-Good Omens related stuff from my past fandoms. As we approach the end of the year, it's as good a time as any for an art dump.

Snape from Harry Potter

Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1

Gillian Anderson from The X-Files

10th Doctor from Doctor Who

I'll dump my Good Omens sketches/unfinished WIPS too if anyone wants 'em. Happy Holidays!

[deathsbestgirl]

Wish the the X files could be little bit more ABOUT Scully's trauma instead of constantly subjecting her to more of it and then never letting her process it (yes this is a problem with both characters but I do think it's undeniable that it's much worse with Scully, we spend seasons exploring Mulder's Samantha trauma and then they give Melissa and Emily an episode each) (also why the fuck doesn't she even have her name on the door, nevermind a fuckin desk, fuck you Chris Carter)

i think this is something that happens across tv shows in general. i do get bothered sometimes, too, about how muted it is with scully. but also...at least we see her go to therapy a few times lol but like. i would argue scully gets more than we think. with her dad, there's beyond the sea & one breath. with melissa, there's paper clip & piper maru & christmas carol. with emily, we have christmas carol + emily + all souls, and i think people have rightfully connected how the ghosts stole christmas to emily too.

i actually think they're fairly even, it's just that mulder's trauma with samantha is built into the foundation. scully's trauma becomes how they tell a lot of the story. firewalker & irresistible & our town are in the wake of her abduction. she's trying to get back into work, be strong and be there for mulder. what happened to scully in her abduction trails after them for the rest of their lives. her cancer, emily, william...the cancer arc is so much about both of their traumas.

his father's death is barely acknowledged in his life, but he does get an experience similar to scully's in one breath in the blessing way. his mother's is more significant, and connected to samantha. his grief is so painful & heavy in sein und zeit, but it leads to scully helping him find answers about samantha, and gaining some closure. mulder has no real reaction to diana's death, but that relationship is different than family (and with jack for scully, we only get that scene at the end of lazarus. so those line up) and scully is the one who matters. we get so much with samantha because she's the heart of the show, and in the end samantha & scully are connected and not just through mulder.

and as much as i want scully to have a desk & her name on the door...i feel like there's something to be said for why it doesn't happen. one day i'll write about it, if it ever becomes coherent & cohesive.

[agent-troi]

i was literally typing in all caps begging op to tell me which episode she’s in lmao before i realized i already saw someone mention it on here- it was avatar, the ep where skinner got framed for the murder of an escort, and she was the escort iirc😄

SAMANTHA CARTER IS IN THE X-FILES?!?!?!?

[agent-troi]

i think dana scully and sam carter would be friends

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “Colony”

Teleplay by Chris Carter

Story by David Duchovny & Chris Carter

January 2, 1995 (WHITE)

Introducing Mulder’s father as the family is reunited...

Deleted scene:

Mulder takes what he believes to be his sister in his arms...