#something about seeing scully lie for mulder just made it click y'know
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dalesramblingsblog · 4 months ago
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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...
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