#txf s7

[limnsaber]

Look at this fuckin guy

[agent-troi]

god the flirting in rush is something else. the way scully lightly smacks mulder on the shoulder with the police report to announce her presence. the way he’s so fucking happy to see her.

later when she plays with his tie and says “please? for me?” with that little pout and those big doe eyes.

boggles my mind that some people don’t believe in the season of secret sex bc look at them. they’re finally giving in to their feelings and they’re having the time of their lives

[agathabridgerton]

THE X-FILES 7.17 | “all things”

[waxworkdaughter]

Anyway, I think a lot of people frame Mulder's quest for Samantha as him believing he is or that he is in a Christian style redemption arc, as atoning for the 'crime' of not loving and protecting her well enough, and that finding her would earn him a happy life/salvation. But that actually he is in a Jewish style redemption quest, to find where she is hidden and pay whatever sacrifice he must to redeem her (in the old sense of slaves and prisoners being freed and returned) from suffering and captivity.

I think his belief that he deserves to suffer, or is cursed in some way that fate and misfortune keeps picking on him or is drawn to him, is a whole separate issue that built up from being on that path for Samantha's redemption for so long and finding anything but her. It's connected to what he's experienced, which has in fact been very focused on making him specifically and those around him deal with trauma and attempts at controlling him.

The quest itself isn't about making himself suffer in order to earn goodness and happiness points, it's about the fact that a little girl was taken and no one else will look for her but him so he's going to do the work to bring her home, and not stop until he's done it.

This is why I find the ending from Closure so unsatisfying verging on unconscionable. Saying she Turned Into Starlight means that there will never even be a body to return and bury, so the quest is over but it's not because what he set out to do can never be done, and what's more, it turns out that his parents had to have known all along who had taken her and therefore roughly what happened to her when she was never returned, and they never told him anything about it except to stop. For 28 years of his life. And after everything, all he gets is a visit with a ghost, which is touching but... I also feel like it dehumanizes Samantha herself in many ways, and leaves Mulder in an even more uncertain and impossible place.

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “The Goldberg Variation”

Written by Jeffrey Bell

August 9, 1999 (WHITE)

Deleted scene: Scully’s freezing motel room...

In this early draft, Scully is “amazed at how wonderfully different” she and Mulder are...

Alternate ending:

[azure-firecracker]

More TXF Science: What am I in for?

[nachosncheezies]

AU wherein Scully drunk-emails an itemized expense list to Skinner from Hollywood and then marks the lapse in sanity with a tattoo of a fox

[loubetcha]

yk i’m at the point that i literally don’t accept s7e11 “closure” as canon. it makes me ANGRY now because the more i look at all the past seasons and everything they’ve done with the samantha arc and how important it’s been to mulder’s character, it just defaces and denies all of it. it just- it’s not fair. after all mulder has been through to continue to believe that samantha was abducted just for it to be thrown out the window? for him to accept it finally in a way which was supposed to be meaningful and big but altogether uncharacteristic and hollow? it’s like they tried to abide by paper hearts ideologies but through a seemingly unnessary dark meandering of new paranormalities. it also creates so much more inconsistency along with what we started to see from s5 and beyond in the samantha plot, it doesn’t explain it. for instance, in the colony arc, the samantha-looking clones say “how could we know so much about her” and WHO if not samantha is this woman they were modeled after??? did the clones just grow old from the little samantha’s on that bee farm thing so they knew what she’d age like?? IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE!!! IT’S NOT ENOUGH!! CC YOU CANT GET AWAY THAT EASY!!

[urmom973729]

GUYS IT HAPPENED OMG IT HAPPENED THEY OMG THE WAY MUKDER LOOKED AT HER WHY THIS EPISDOE ITS SO RANDOM OMG IT HAPPENED THOOO😭😭😭😭😭

[limnsaber]

Also very funny how s6/7 keep prodding Mulder with foreshadowing of what happens if he doesn’t pay attention. Hey here’s this guy that gets stuck in the car and is cursed to keep driving. Hey here’s this guy who can’t ever see his family and is stuck in a mental hospital because he got too caught up with conspiracy and endangered his daughter. Here’s a guy who never got to meet his kid after being put away and dies by his own actions before he gets another chance. Here’s a guys whose repressed emotions & desires control his life. Here’s a guy who lost his son and who can’t ever confront his grief. They’re trying to hit him over the head with it and he doesn’t figure it out until it’s a story about aliens and baseball

[agent-troi]

i now think that mulder and scully started sleeping together after amor fati, but i don’t have a specific first time headcanon bc i don’t think there was any pomp and circumstance surrounding the act. i think that one day they just started doing it as if they had been doing it all along, and never talked about or discussed it or acknowledged it publicly in any way until millennium. the millennium kiss was their nonverbal way of acknowledging that there is a Thing happening between them, and that it’s going to keep happening❤️❤️❤️

[mulderrrrrrr]

fave xfiles episode go

ok i genuinely had to take like an hour to think about this because there’s no way i can pick just one 😭

i’ve narrowed it down to top 5 in no particular order

- post modern prometheus. the ending was so perfect i just have to include it

- i adored hollywood A.D.

- the unnatural

- bad blood

- all things

[agathabridgerton]

Top 19 Episodes of THE X-FILES 6. “Hungry” | 7.03

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati”

Written by David Duchovny & Chris Carter

September 20, 1999 (SALMON)

Alternate ending before it was rewritten by Chris Carter shortly before broadcast...

[crowwithacomputer]

The X Files - S7 - EP15

Mulder CANNOT leave this woman alone or he'll die. "I'm gone for a couple days" Oh yeah? I've talked to your whole family and friends and no one knows anything, I've also registered your apartment and located every place you've been the past two weeks, along with hacking your devices to see all the recent activity.

[ragnarockz]

When Jade Blue Afterglow makes that comment about the metal detector and goes to cross her legs and BOTH Mulder AND Scully look....why did I never clue in on that SOONER