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Hm. I've got an annoying lack of words right now, but not a lack of random WIPs.
If I edited up some of my Five's Time In The Apocalypse Fic (that was originally supposed to be like. a 10k piece about Five's relationship with Delores but is now over 30k words and only in the first year, still) and threw it up on AO3 with no plan or schedule for further updates except "Eventually" - would that be something you guys would be interested in?
#it feels redundant and self-interested to ask#because i know the answer is yes#if someone was offering this to me my answer would be Yes#but it's also a wip i haven't really worked on in... like two years#and i've never put a work on ao3 that i wasn't finished with or in the active process of finishing it#and this is a piece... i don't know if i'll finish it or not#i want to! i like thinking about it!#but i can't promise i will. unfortunately.#which feels a bit bad to me#but some fic is better than no fic! and i do really love the bits I've written so far!#if i think about it too hard i feel like i should do a rewrite like i did for the early chapters of jt#but that also feels like brain worms and an unnecessary extra thing to make myself do#anyway. if you have opinions for my self interested question feel free to indulge me#ficblogging#dl
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Seems I'm wearing grumpy pants again... sorry
(LOL OOPS I get notifications for asks and messages but not submissions for some reason, so Iâm just seeing this. Sorry if itâs been sitting since last week...)
Thanks for the review. I needed that laugh!! But I had questions, oh so many questions. So I watched the Jamko bits on instagram. I tried to send an ask but not enough characters (do you wanna punch me yet)?
1. Why does arsehole Janko have Jamie's mobile number? Do they have a relationship independent of Eddie? Maybe it's just me being stupid for assuming, but wouldn't Jamie's number be unlisted to avoid dealing with BS from those he arrests?
Iâm sure Jamieâs actual cell number is not public knowledge - Maybe Armin knew which precinct Jamieâs at, and went through Police Channels to contact him? Like maybe thatâs his duty phone as a sergeant or something? Or maybe Lena had passed on an NYPD courtesy card to him in jail lol. Hooray for plot holes. Who knows.
2. Did Lena know more about her husbands shady dealings than she lets on/Eddie is aware of? To me that would explain why never divorced. Or she may just be the marriage is forever no matter what type. Given the strained relationship between Eddie and her mother and also the way Lena seems to have treated her, I'm not so sure Lena was totally clueless. She may have moved a bit because people give her grief but she sure is not struggling financially so maybe her husband in jail is worth the high life.
It wouldnât surprise me. When I wrote (and named, yo) Lena Janko I characterized her as a petty, materialistic person who was a knowing bystander at least, if not actually complicit in Arminâs crimes. But lol I also wrote Armin as a reformed, sympathetic, Good Guy out of prison so what do I know? But we saw that Eddie does not have contact with her father so I do assume Lena still has contact with him at this point - how else did he know Eddieâs engaged, which precinct to find her fiancĂ©, etc?
3. Does Eddie still drive her Porsche? Given that it came from a dubious money source, it seems odd to me that she would still be driving it. The fanfare of the wedding will invite media attention so why make it so easy to make nasty comments? You know Garrett is all about OPTICS and she is about to be a REAGAN aka NYPD ROYALTY. What if Frank is asked about their relationship at a press conference? OPTICS PEOPLE! OPTICS!Â
No idea dude. Whenâs the last time we actually saw that car? I donât know but previously I accepted the headcanon that she kept it at her parentsâ suburban McMansion most of the time, with rare times sheâll bring it to the city for a few days. Parking in NYC is expensive af, yo. Like an actual assigned space costs as much as a second rent in some places. But now we know Lenaâs been moving around the city for the last 5 years, not up in Westchester babysitting Eddieâs car, so your guess is as good as mine. As far as the optics, Iâm not sure how theyâll play it. Lena has brought up the Irony of Eddie, daughter of a criminal, marrying the PCâs son but nobody else has said very much. Maybe the show will address it in a typical Who Cares way and itâll just be a non-issue.
4. REDACTED because I have some Thoughts about this topic that I hope to address in this fic Iâm hoping to finish soon. đ
5. Why do you hate Anthony? I personally enjoy his sarcasm. Â But then I also enjoy Gormley's putting the mouth in gear before the brain so frequently.Â
WHY DO I HATE ANTHONY? OH HEREâS A CAN OF WORMS, AUSSIE. But Iâll be succinct. Anthonyâs entire existence bothers me. Heâs only here to make Erinâs lawyer-y storylines into detective-y storylines. How often do we see Erin actually act as a lawyer? We usually see her and Anthony Investigating or maybe arguing/discussing a case. We rarely see her actually going her job (except when her ADA position conflicts with Frankâs NYPD agenda). Itâs like the show runners have no faith in their audience, and think the viewers only want to see detective/police storylines - as if lawyer storylines, and that whole branch of the justice system, would be too Boring for tv. So I hate Anthony because he takes away any opportunities for Erin - a supposedly powerful and successful woman - to do her actual job, and her entire position as ADA is minimized in the show. Itâs insulting to the audience and insulting to Erin too. Anthonyâs entire existence is unnecessary for the show to go on. Let us see Erin actually be a lawyer in a context other than being the Reagan Family Bad Guy (and maybe that would humanize her a little bit! We all know she gets some pretty shit writing/characterization lately) and drop this whole charade that investigative, action-packed storylines are the only interesting or relevant storylines.
The whole Jamko and the precinct secret is still BULLSHIT. There is no way there is no push back if their coworkers do in fact know. Does anybody know if this is actually allowed in the NYPD? A superior can date a direct subordinate? Seems ridiculous if that is actually true. Corruption allegations would be made daily. (Agreed yo. We all know itâs ridiculous. And like, does the precinct know? Are they still in the dark? Jamie and Eddie can discuss wedding plans in front of everyone, but itâs still a secret? Coooolcoolcool.)
Jamie not understanding Eddie's messy family situation is BULLSHIT for someone about to be married. If Eddie can't talk to Jamie about this because she fears being judged/not supported then really they should not be getting married. I'm not saying spouses have to share absolutely everything, but what you go through in life often does shape how you see the world generally, so the fact both Eddie and Jamie have chosen to not discuss important aspects of their lives with each other should be a massive red flag. (AGREED AGREED AGREED. I have so many issues all the time. If theyâd dated like normal people before jumping into rings and vows, theyâd have worked out the majority of this Big Stuff before deciding to commit to one another for life. Like, you typically want to know these things as relevant info when making that decision to get engaged - not after. This âget engaged and figure everything else out laterâ shit was/is terrible. If the show insisted on doing it this way, they AT LEAST should have moved the Armin situation and the Baby Discussion to the first few episodes of the season. Donât talk to me about the weird time lapses and inconsistencies in this show, I donât care if a month of ~actual time~ passes in one week between back to back episodes... they should not be introducing these topics for the first time in the two episodes leading up to the wedding. GOD I HATE EVERYTHING.) There's a reason divorce is so prevalent. I wonder if Eddie feels she should reconcile with her parents because of the closeness of the Reagan family. Or is it something Eddie herself actually wants? Family or not, sometimes people are just toxic and you need to cut them off for your own sanity. (I hope the Reagans donât put pressure on Eddie to fix things with her parents, ugh. That would be overstepping in a major way and yeah, your relationship to someone shouldnât trump their toxicity - like Eddie doesnât have to forgive her parents just because theyâre her parents.)
We've already discussed my thoughts on the Reagan siblings getting arsehole sprung from jail before the show aired (spoiler: they were not nice thoughts folks), but as for the  BB continuity, consider this: the only consistency is the inconsistency!
@kwannemacher and I have kinda discussed the whole prison fiasco and I think arsehole lost his temper one night after watching a TV show that drove him insane so he started a prison riot and got extra time. He didn't just throw things at TV, he tore TV off wall, set fire to his mattress and started an all in brawl. So 5 years extra for totally losing his shit. Â BB has the capacity to ignite tempers here so it's feasible arsehole Janko totally lost it. Probably watched one of those dating shows where they pick the so called love of their lives and he couldn't believe who the guy picked. We all have bad days!! (đđđđđ omg I can be on board with this)
In closing I hope @ontherockswithsalt has insurance because I am wondering if her TV can withstand the wedding viewing party if you will be enjoying with her (lol I think I will be, and I plan to wrap myself in whole body bubble wrap for the protection of myself and everyone/everything around me). I'm already emotional đ€źđ€źđ€ź if they go with their own vows. I may be wrong, but I think Will  shows Jamie's soft side next week. He won't be dead face or whatever it is you call him. (Dude I am ALL IN on those ridiculous vows. If theyâd only said them once, Iâd be rolling my eyes @ the grossness, but it would be whatever. BUT THEY MADE A POINT OF SAYING THEM TWICE so theyâre committed at this point. Make Jamie recite those ridiculous words for the third time. I want to see the pain on his terrible face as he suffers through that again. If we donât get those vows Iâll riot.)
Enjoy your week
Aussie
P.S. Yes I realise his name is Armin, but that guy is a narcissistic ARSEHOLE
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Word to the wise, donât fall asleep watching Supernatural otherwise this might happen to you. Ha ha
I had this most horrific, apocalyptic dream where zombies ran around at night who wanted to kill me, my brother and my father.
We are trapped in the darkest of houses without weapons and without food. It was a broken down colonial type of house. It was the strong kind of house where the only thing that would ever remain is the foundation if it were destroyed in some manner or another.
Itâs all about the roots you see. If a root is good then it can mature and be good. If the foundation is good then it will last forever. So the house in a sense no matter the darkness of it, was still good. It was still good enough to offer cover and shelter from the monsters outside.
I didnât have time to pay attention to the art work on the walls or the fact there were leaky pipes dripping water everywhere. I didnât notice the holes in the walls or itâs flooring.
It was a lonely, discarded old place where around every turn you would be lucky enough not to die of asbestos or lead poisoning. Where around every other corner, if you didnât watch your step you could fall to the basement. No, I didnât pay attention because I was running for my life. I was doing the only thing a human could do at time like that. I was trying to stay alive in the most simplest ways I could.
See fear will make you do things you otherwise wouldnât do if you wasnât afraid of something. If I was not as terrified of these undead creatures, I would have popped a cap in their asses and drove away in a sweet car as if I was Dean Winchester himself.
But I was afraid. I wasnât afraid of dying, I was afraid of becoming something so dark and hungry.
It seemed after several hours being cooped up in a room that I would describe as Jodie Fosters âPanic Roomâ I was ready to leave. I was hungry after all but I wasnât alone.Â
I hadnât been alone the entire time because I had my little brother there and my father like I said in the beginning. They were against leaving the room, a place they described as being untouchable by them, meaning the zombies.
But no, I had to poke the bear more or less and I left them, alone. It all felt like something out of Resident Evil or perhaps the Walking Dead. But I assure you, I havenât played Resident Evil in years and I didnât watch the movies either. Iâve only ever watched two episodes from the series The Walking Dead and that was three years or more ago. So that said, I donât know where the zombies came from or why they were infesting my dreams and making me fear them.
Moving on. In the dream, I ventured out of that safe place to find food and water. Like it or not we needed both otherwise we wouldnât survive.Â
So you see, I had to leave them just so I could help them.
As I found my way through creaky rooms with the sounds of wailing and longing beckoning my ears from the outside. I came across a door that was left ajar. As I stepped closer, my hands began to tremble as involuntary jolts raced over my body, forcing me to tremble from within. Â
I reached out slowly, knowing full well what could be on the other side.
I looked around, scanning the broken objects on the floor that I could use as a weapon should I need one. Unfortunately, I wasnât able to find anything to help. But, I knew how important that door is and I knew it had to be shut and locked from the inside to keep whatâs outside from getting in.
I had no idea what awaited me when I tugged on the door handle. Just as I did a hand reached out and made contact with mine. In that first moment I felt as if my soul momentarily left my body and I was frozen there in that space still tugging toward the door to keep whoever it was or is from getting inside. Â
When I was able to fully control myself, despite the soreness of my throat from the constant screaming, I locked the door.
I felt a sense of consciousness come over me. It was as if a part of me was telling the other half of myself that I was dreaming and that I should wake up. But the stubborn part of me denied my existence and continued on.Â
What happened? Why was I dreaming about Zombies when the episode of Supernatural itself had nothing to do with Zombies? It was strange but in the dream it carried me on to a more frightening experience.
It felt real, as if I was really there and my mission was to find food and water no matter what hideous creature laid around the next corner. So I moved slowly and as quietly as I could. I didnât want to attract unnecessary attention because I refused to let myself become someoneâs late night snack.
Like I said, I wasnât afraid of dying. I was afraid of becoming like those mindless zombies scavenging for food on the nearest meet stick I could find. Â
So many thoughts crossed my mind of my brother and my father who in the beginning told me not to go out. But I didnât listen because I had to follow my path no matter where it led me. No matter what happens or the consequences I had to do what I felt was the right thing even if it meant, it could be the end of me.
For a moment I thought I was Dean Winchester. The brave older sibling that despite the bravado of being strong, that I was actually a sensitive, vulnerable person.
But, reality has a funny way of showing itself when you least expect it. The real Dean and Sam Winchester, the two boys who beat death and all the odds that go with leading a bloody hunters life showed up in my dream with guns blazing.
They were destructive when they broke in through the window. The glass shattering around them and under them. They took two shots each and I stood there frozen with my hands up.
Why were they shooting at me? And why was I unaffected by fear? It was my body's way trying to tell my brain that they meant me no harm so I should have faith in them because they knew what they were doing.
A heavy thud dropped to my ankles and the gun fire stopped. It was a dead zombie laying at my feet with her face full of holes making her unrecognizable.
This was someoneâs child, someoneâs sister or mother but now she was dead and I didnât even know her name.
Sam and Dean did what they did best. They fought monsters and they saved people. They saved my brother and father but wasnât able to save me.
The truth being, I was wrong about the foundation being strong, and a part of the top floor collapsed. When it did, it separated me from the boys. But it also it sent down a few dozen zombies from the attic. They surrounded me and I knew... This was it. This was the end. My life was over.
I could hear Sam and Dean trying to get back inside. How did they end up outside? I didnât know but I could hear them.
I could see the glare cross the blade of an ax that Dean held in his hands as Sam tried to push passed all the extra wood. Dean never once neared Sams hands with the ax and it only amazed me how good they were as a team.
This was my dream, I pulled them in and they saved my family and they were desperately trying to save me. They didnât know me but it didnât matter because I was still a life worth saving.Â
They do what they do so that people like me donât have to fear what I feared. So in a sense, they made the world a better place and even did so in my dream.
However, despite how they tried to get inside... They too are surrounded from the outside by zombies so they had to take up weapons and kill them to prevent them from killing someone else. I think I accepted their choice by the looks in their eyes. If my death meant saving others then I was okay with it even if they truly were not.
I was ready, to become worm food and be what I didnât want to become. But I had faith because I knew Sam and Dean were out there kicking asses and not bothering to take names. They too would find a way inside and finish me before I could hurt someone else. And for that I was grateful.
Before the first bite, an enormous bright and blinding light appeared in the room. The force of itâs light was like a superhuman force sending the zombies far away from me. I turned my head down and covered the side of my face with my arm.
I didnât know what was happening now or know why but the feel of that light felt like a sense of peace Iâve never known.
It felt like when youâre kid and how the world seemed bigger than it actually is. When youâre home alone babysitting your little brother and despite what youâve been told, you watch a horror movie anyway. Only later be traumatized by it. But when the parents come home, a sense of relief and safety falls over your entire being and youâre no longer lost or afraid.
Thatâs how I felt with this light. It was the most wonderful light. It was the kind of light you would see at the end of a dark and terrible tunnel leading you out of a bad place and into a good one
When the light faded, Castiel appeared there before me in the dark.
My eyes were barely able to focus. It felt as if someone held me down, taking my picture with old flash bulbs over and over. Or when youâve got razor blade migraines. Either way I was partially blinded.
I know he helped me, that was obvious but what I wasnât sure of was if he was there at the call of the Winchesters or if he was there to offer me comfort and protection. Either way I was thankful because I trusted him and I felt safe with him.
But the dream shifted, as if I am being lulled off to another part of my dream space but then I felt these strong, gripping hands tugging and turning at me. Pushing and leading me back to that broken down house with the zombies outside.
What was he teaching me? That an angel will go out of his way to save you once but then drop you back off in the middle of hell all over again? Was there a lesson to that?
It was strange, the hours it took waiting in this room alone with an angel who might have easily passed as an alien from another planet. He seemed rigid as if his only duty was to stand guard and keep me safe.
Once more my dream shifted as I was still trapped to the same type of panic room with this man but something was different. The house was different. The smell of blood and war around us outside was different.
He was different. He wasnât an angel anymore but there was something more. It felt like Iâve known Castiel for years, as if he too knew me on a level that no one else did. Â itâs strange but... I do recall kissing him and then he in turn kissed me.
His big beautiful lips forced my heart to rush and rage against my rib cage as my head hung back. We made out. Lots of times and lots of different ways then it turns out it wasnât Castiel at all. It was Misha Collins and his sock puppet.
Ha ha! I awoke after that which led me to share this horrific nightmare with the world.
This dream told me many things.
1. Iâm secretly scared of being attacked by Zombies and becoming one of them.
2. I like run down colonial houses with good foundations because of the history in them.
3. Â Iâm parallel to Dean when it comes to family.
4. I believe in angels. I believe in Castiel and I know how good he is, even when heâs playing at being bad, cold or rigid..
5. I want to play with Mishaâs sock puppet. In a general PG kind of way. Get your head out of the gutter. ha ha come on.
6. I secretly want to kiss Mishaâs big lips! Â
Wow. That sounds bad but itâs innocent so laugh at my insane bad dreams and have an awesome day. Ha ha lol)
#spn#spn dream#supernatural#supernatural nightmare#supernatural monsters#spn zombies#castiel#dean winchester#sam winchester#misha collins#misha collins sock puppet#my fucked up nightmares#funnycasfamily
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ROSE REVIEWS⊠THE X-FILES - S1.E8:  ICE
<< 1.6 The Ghost in the Machine âââââââââ 1.9 Space >>
What a week it has been! What a month in fact (because thatâs how long ago I started this recap). Ice is one of my favourite early episodes which explains why this is longer than the combined beards of ZZ Top. Someone teach me self control? Please?
Go under the cut at your own peril, here there be worms.
The Plot
Some dudes playing with ice have gone radio silent and left a creepy message, Mulder and Scully get sent up to investigate with a ragtag team of socially inept scientists and then cut off by bad weather with some seriously suspect wormlike organisms, and more sexual tension than you can shake an oversized drillbit at.
My Stream of Semi-Consciousness
YAY! ICE!
Iâm glad they start out with the dog just nommin on something spilled instead of one of the dead people. It makes it easier to root for him later which is good coz itâs a cute dog. Apparently itâs also Blueâs dad!
Then thereâs what appears to be a disembodied limb in a box. Why I have no idea. but I am soon distracted by the entry of this dude who appears to have been scorched, stripped and then attacked in an incredibly symmetrical fashion by a pair of clawed ketchup bottles.
Like c'mon prop monkeys! Blood is NOT that colour and when did you last see someone with matching pectoral wounds (given itâs not sex related⊠probably). Also now Iâve been looking at it for too long and I feel like he has one nipple that is significantly bigger than the other and Iâm having trouble moving past it.
And WHY is he shirtless. At what point in the whole fighting to the death in the ARCTIC was he like⊠wait mate⊠I need to take off this shirt off because #aesthetic.
Though to be fair I probably would.
Aaaaanyway
His radio makes more noises than the tardis.
Weâre not who we are. Okay. We get it. But on a serious note do they ever actually discuss why he says this. Because I feel like grammatically itâs questionable and the space worms seem more into murdering each other than making dramatic speeches.
His assailant looks very heeeeereâs jack" and is wearing a shirt. Iâm rooting  for him until they get into the worst duel ever. Donât put your guns so close. This whole bit tbh. The worms seem to have very complicated motivations and choreography, Maybe theyâre abstract prehistoric space worms. Am I making sense. I donât think Iâm making sense.
Itâs okay though I can compose myself during the CREDITS.
This video from the dead science dudes is the dorkiest thing I have ever seen. There are quilted body warmers, pasted on smiles and overenthusiastic high fives. You can see why these guys are extras and not the series stars. But at least they were all having fun before they brutally killed one another.
Mulder and Scully are watching this video in a room with both a blackboard and a window. Where are they? Is the basement being cleaned? Is this Scullyâs office? If so why does she have so many damn tables!
Why do people insist on digging into old ice/trenches/under the sea. It always ends badly. EVERY DAMN TIME. Cthulu is down there people. Or godzilla or some shit. Just leave it alone and make nachos. Much better.
Not to be pedantic (okay who am I kidding) but pretty sure the background here doesnât match what was behind him in the scene.
Itâs only 1993 goddamn and Gillian Anderson is already learning how to ruin us all with her exquisite face. We were all screwed from the first time someone pointed a camera at her. All her tiny facial nuances remind me of the queens of old Hollywood and the things they could do with a quirk of the lip.
Then Mulder squats down and grins at her and though heâs basically implying theyâre being sent as sacrificial lambs he doesnât seem too sad about the concept of being trapped in an igloo full of corpses with his partner. He goes from amused to gleeful when he tells his teeny partner to bring her mittens and Iâm thinking Scully seems excessively perturbed at this stage⊠is she having a moment of forboding? Or does she just really hate Alaska? I mean this is pre Palin so thereâs no good reason to be quite so down on itâŠ
And heeeeereâs Denny
Not content with really loving rocks (geologist) and being called Denny he also likes to do this in public places.
Denny is not getting any.
I do miss cassettes though.
Enter small winterwear troll AKA Dana Scully in a jacket so big she may be wider than she is tall. Mulder in contrast appears to be wearing jammies, jeans and a jacket, which are - incidentally - my three style essentials. Well those three and a resting bitch face.
Mulder makes awkward chat about San Diego while Scully pulls a face like she didnât used to live there and then the other scientists arrive and they engage in a charade worth of the Chuckle Brothers with IDs, âItâs me! Itâs You!â Mulder even checks Scully in case, one assumes, somebody else was hiding in her coat and has leaped out to replace her since he introduced her to Denny less than 30 seconds ago. Possibly he just uses it as an opportunity to sniff her. Heâs only human and I would⊠I also feel like at this point  the writers were overly concerned with linking back to âweâre not who we areâ from earlier. Every single combination of the words âweâ, âwhoâ  and âareâ is well and truly thrust in. And weâre only at 7.12.
Also hello Felicity Huffman.
âTwo federal agents, a geologist, a medical doctor and a toxicologistâ sounds like the beginning of the worst walked into a bar joke ever. It would have some incredibly scientific punchline probably involving the word ampule. Iâd try and write it but⊠we I canât be bothered!
Everyone is so weird and cagey. The script must have been full of side-eye instructions. A word to the wise - if youâre ever asked to go on a business trip where people are behaving like this, donât go. Itâs the start of a horror film and you will die.
Especially if someone else there is called Bear.
Bear could be Steven Tylerâs brother. Or maybe they just have the same surgeon. His car is the only car in the universe dirtier than mine.
And after Scully standing weirdly close to Huffman (I forget her character name) for way too long (like seriously? SO strange), Mulder trying to reassert his Scully monopoly with some unnecessary touching (DRINK!) we see some stock footage which can only mean weâre up, up and away.
Icy Point and the powerâs off. Of course. Do they ever investigate why the second they arrive anywhere the lights stop working? Thatâs a damn X-File.
For guys who blew their on brains out these dudes are artfully arranged. And pretty sure one of them is tensing. Youâre dead man. Nobody cares about your abs anymore.
Scully says âflashingâ.  She means the camera. Epileptics on set can thank her but I canât help being disappointed. Imagine if she meant her boobsâŠ
Mulder comforts Felicity Huffman with his intimate knowledge of arctic research generator noises. Who knew Oxford university offered so many eclectic courses. Unfortunately they didnât offer one in dog combat because Mulder goes down. Pretty sure Huffman falls over too but only out of shock or being knocked off balance by her coat.
Poor Bear is bleeding ketchup so we know heâs fucked. Itâs fine though, Scully is a medical doctor and she finds some super gross disease beans in the doggoâs armpit which means she will also save the day. Standard.
Worm under skin, WORM UNDER SKIN! Ths grosses me out every time so drink every time we see unnecessary subdermal wriggling. *drinks*
Scully has completed five autopsies before anyone else has done more than get their coat off and get infected with a space worm, but ruins the effect by brandishing a used and  uncovered needle with gusto whilst doing her jargon spiel. She may just be trying work out how to rescue her hair from itâs current anti-gravity state, her fringe is levitating at a sweet 120 degrees from her forehead which has got to be upsetting when youâre as put together as Scully is. Regardless, Â
Mulder seems unperturbed but may just be distracted by Bear wigging out about his own personal armpit beans.
There are some high quality knitwear/ winter neutrals going on in this episode. Maybe they were sponsored by fruits of the loom or some shit.
Mulder and Denny get all excited about satellite pics, apparently Mulderâs interpreting skills around some sort of bizarre geological scanning are rusty. TRY NON-EXISTENT MULDER. YOU DONâT KNOW SCHIST ABOUT GEOLOGY! Sorry. For the pun and the yelling. But seriously. If I made a list of all the things Mulder and Scully know that they shouldnâtâŠ
DINOSPERM! Dinosperm. Does whatever a dinosperm does.
The second Mr Bodywarmer (I can never remember anyoneâs names so tis is what Iâm calling him) disses Scullyâs autopsy skills you know that Mulderâs gonna disagree with him. Contagion be damned, suggesting Sculy has missed something is a no no - even in Season 1 - and especially when sheâs pouting like this.
Oh no! Mulder says they have to stay (my favourite trope), Scully pulls the doctor card to seal the deal and now there is no way theyâre not having arctic sex right? Everyone gets some⊠well except Denny who kills the mood by opening up way too easily about his bowel movements. Poor Denny. High school canât have been easy for you.
But itâs fine because Bear flips his shit, or more specifically flips out about a shit, and everyone has other things to worry about. After some arctic democracy which really draws a solid line between Mulder/Scully and Huffman/MrBodywarmer (in case youâd missed all the other clues) and emphasises the disposability of poor Denny, they pull a gun and shit gets real.
Down goes Mulder!
Down goes Scully!
Turns out big man Bear is no match for Macho Moose and Flying Squirrel. The others prove once again to be utterly useless, standing about and watching. Honestly, given how much Mulds and Sculls know about other science they should absolutely not know, the the rest of the cast seem kinda superfluous other than as human coathangers for knitted beige monstrosities.
WORM UNDER FLESH, DRINK.
Impromptu surgery always makes me squeamish so lets not talk about this. Suffice to say its gory and ends poorly for Bear. RIP buddy, you were kinda a douche and your hat was stupid but nobody likes a neck worm.
Just keep drinking till itâs over.
The woman on the radio is semi-peppy given sheâs just told them theyâre stuck. Maybe sheâs drinking whatever Sarah Palin is on.
Sculyâs OCD hand washing is adorable and I want to pet her. And the others are all still just standing there though now with a corpse centrepiece. React people! Do something!
Top quality CGI right here! Wormeo is looking fine and definitely three dimensional.
The worm theory is all very plausible, except that the last bit makes no sense. The worm doesnât want to kill itâs host, just the hosts with its pals in⊠so what is the wormâs end game? Last worm standing? Any thoughts?
I am all about the aesthetic of this next scene The half light the corrugated metal with shadows and the height difference all in silhouette. Itâs even added to by Mulderâs signature monotone rant. But the problem is, Iâm so MSR thirsty that when this happensâŠ
I just want them to throw down and get it on on the floor. KISS! NOW! Corpses be damned. See, This is what this show has done to me. I used to have standards.
Denny is not down with all the tension so he retreats to baseball while Huffman and Bodywarmer, who bicker like Mulder and Scully but lack ANY sort of chemistry (this is the show we might have gotten if the Gillian/David alchemy  hadnât happened) conspire like a pair of whiner babies. Bodywarmer is as paranoid as Muder, but heâs also an assclown.
Then Mulder and Scully take their coats off in a dramatic way and once again my mind is in the gutter. Which is actually appropriate as itâs naked spot check time and things are about to get a little homoerotic. Pretty sure Mulder lost some sort of bet when Scully was the one to suggest a naked group activity. Also pretty sure he was disappointed that it was just another spot check and that he wasnât invited.
Leaving this here for science.
There are multiple documentations of the exceptionally sapphic encounter between Scully and Huffman, whoever decided to light them in red while the dudes got to strip off in a normally lit room was certainly only aided by the fact that Scully's jabby doctor hands from later series have not yet developed.Â
My main takeaway other than this being basically the only scene in which Huffman doesn't irritate me (and I think I quite liked her in DH though I can't remember a damn thing that happened on that show), is that Gillian Anderson has more chemistry in a fraction of her lower lip than most people have in their whole body. I mean seriously: authority, vulnerability, comfort and a little sex all in one move. This little thing?Â
She would probably have chemistry with a rock if she needed to. How is it so effective? How does one scene that lasts less than a minute have more relationship in it than all of Huffman and Bodywarmer's interactions combined? How is the entire world not worshipping at her tiny feet?
And the award for least comforting bedtime sendoff goes to Mulder, for both bringing up bugs biting (as if they're not already freaking over dinosperms getting all up in their spines) and then shooting down Scully's attempt to normalise things. "The spots on the dog went away". Really? She's lingering outside her room, and instead of being nice, or comforting, or taking her mind off things with some vigorous shagging you give her puppy eyes  and a shortcut to nightmare town?
Go to bed and think about what you've done Mulder. Leave Scully alone with your comforting words, ominous lighting and a dead man's half naked lady posters.Â
Cue montage of nobody coping in different ways with Mark Snow blinky-blonkiness to up the tension.
As a an unapologetic Scully fangirl I do sometimes forget that at this stage, Duchovny was very much the star and focus. Scenes like this remind me, where we watch him get dressed (I am fine with lots of shirtless Mulder), wander about, do reacting, hang out a little with this cabinet that definitely looks like it has a face and could just have eaten Denny on it's own...
Anyway my point was that as much as Gillybean is growing as an actor and making herself felt in the episodes, studio intentions be damned, this is all DD, prowling about with drama and he does it well. Also you can see his nipples through his shirt. Clearly my priorities are straight. Well... mostly.
That said. Mulder is an idiot. When a cabinet is bleeding, what sensible person opens it while squatting in front of the spot where clearly a corpse is going to fall out. He didn't learn that brand of idiocy at the VCU.
Speaking of Scully asserting herself, Bodywarmer (I think his name is Hodge?) and Mulder get in to a sweaty macho shout off and teeny Sculls gets in the midde. Huffman just kinda floats about.
And we have a series first! Mulder and Scully hold each other at gunpoint! Loud noises! Angst! Betrayal! Delivery of the episodes motto which STILL makes no sense."You may not be who you are?"" Well no he is him, he just might have a worm in his brain But points for consistency. Shame it doesn't apply to the series overall plot arc!
Anyway, in the end it's fine because Mulder relents when it becomes exceptionally clear that for all that she's smol and mostly calm, Scully will shoot his ass, though she'll feel a bit bad about it. At this realisation Mulder goes full puppy and lets his owner put him in a pen. But he doesn't get shot. Yet. Little he knows...
So Mulder gets shut away. It's totes emosh. Like Celine Dion backing track emosh. Mark Snow step aside because this bish has spare time and windows moviemaker...
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Moving on...
Pretty sure that fluffy!Scully striding in a plaid shirt with a gun is my spirit animal.
It's super convenient that both members of team non-MSR are sleeping in ridiculously uncomfortable positions, despite the recent excitement, so Scully can be forced to surrender her weapon. But hey - we only have 10 mins left and the plot must go on.
Bodywarmer decides the time has come for him to be alpha male but unfortunately, everyone still hates him, Scully doesn't want in on his shitty duet, especially when it's clear that he'd toss his partner in a second. Huffman finally grows enough balls to suggest Scully might have a point about not turning on each other and looking for treatment but his ego is out of control.
I really wish Bodywarmer had gotten eaten instead of Denny, Denny and Huffman could have been useless fuzzballs together and the only thing I ship Bodywarmer with is my booted foot making hard contact with his testicles after his misogynistic asshole moves in the lab. I'm starting to understand why Huffman has no personality. Scully starts to realise she got preeeety lucky that Mulder's just an alien obsessed puppy and not an utter fuckboy, before snapping back in to science mode for wormageddon.
I'm gonna take a moment here to shout out Lila (@startwreck for the following graphic). Theses two animated worms even have more tension than Bodywarmer and Huffman. So when we did the group rewatch we may have turned it into a fix that the worms were in love...
Me and the space worms have one thing in common. We do not like company.
WORM IN DOGGY EAR! DRINK!
Not sure how a stethoscope would prove the worms inside the dog were dead but I'm not a medical doctor. Either way, Mr Woofty is okay and lets be honest, aside from Mulder and Scully he's the only one I care about at this stage.
Tfw bae may have a brain worm but you wanna be sure and one of your companions is an asshole and the other one is actually the neck worm's host.
Poor Mulder isn't even allowed to accustom his poor little molerat eyes to the light before having to defend himself. Which got me thinking... the light switch is inside the room. We saw him turn it on earlier. So he's sitting in the dark of his own choice, just to make himself more tragic. Precious baby.
This face could have been avoided.
This scene though, this could not, There is now a section in the FBI handbook called, "Protocol for the investigation of possible parasitic space worms", this inspection is the example of how not to do it. Ably assisted by D'Angelo and my amazing video skills once again I give you - "this would be sexual harassment if they weren't both so into it - so don't try this in the workplace kids"
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Scully comes out with Mulder in tow like the kid who came home from school with a friend who wasn't invited. "Mom I know you said no but look at him". After a quick round of, my partner is less infected than your partner, they get ambushed, Scully makes the squeakiest squeak of a no that is still audible to the human ear and finds herself in the sex cupboard.
Commence a struggle scene worthy of You've Been Framed, drink for Huffman's neck worms and also for this face.
In her struggle to escape a worming, Huffman pauses long enough to through some vials off a freezer shelf, that she has to open. Before she goes for the gun. Logical. And then they all have sex on the floor. I mean seriously.Â
But it's all good coz she gets to gnaw on Mulder's pec while the worms do battle royale in her pituitary gland and everyone makes it. Well except Bear and Denny. Huzzah! Scully gives Huffman (whose name I have just discovered is Silver or Da Silva which I'm sure I knew when I started this but honestly that was weeks ago so...) a celebratory belly rub.Â
I'd take it.
They finally escape, and Mulder of course wants another round trip to hell but hell has been torched. Scully does a good job of looking sympathetic in front of Bodywarmer, but as soon as they're alone she tells Mulder how she really feels. To paraphrase, no, she doesn't want to play with ice worms of death any more and yes she would rather be in Aruba. But she does wait for him. Maybe so they can finish what they started in the sex cupboard in the SUV.Â
I hope,
And so it ends..
Quick Score (Full Deets in the top pic)
Story: Original, bold and pacy - 9/10
Mulder: Broody, ballsy, sexy - 8/10
Scully: Smart, sceptic foil to the crazy - 8/10
UST: The first suspense episode, creepy original goodness 5/5
Other Cast: Solid ensemble of misfits delivers - 8/10
Bonus Points: Hot damn sexy moments, extra gazing, partner doubting, memorable, my fave 5/5
TOTAL - 42/50 - Grade A and new topspot sitter!
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