#something about seeing scully lie for mulder just made it click y'know
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I know Morgan and Wong's take on Mulder and Scully's relationship is controversial within fandom, to put it mildly, but I do have a sneaking admiration for it. Because I mean, where else are you going to get a show about the weird hazily-defined self-destructive cycle of interactions between two witty leads encountering the paranormal and otherworldly, with a male partner who constantly demonstrates a blatant disregard for a lot of social norms and customs that make him a bit of an arrogant jerk to those he doesn't know, further drawing his female colleague/accomplice into lying and covering for him at the expense of her own ability to have a normal life and ah fuck lads they only went and wrote Clara and Twelve twenty years early...
#the x-files#s1e21: tooms#glen morgan#james wong#fox mulder#dana scully#clara oswald#twelfth doctor#“do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” is so mulder-coded#look me in the eyes and tell me i'm wrong#and i'll tell you that you're fucking lying#sorry i don't make the rules#something about seeing scully lie for mulder just made it click y'know#also let's not even talk about one breath#an episode where the male lead has to learn to accept his inability to wreak violent macho vengeance#on the people who disempowered and violated his female partner
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