THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLOR THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLOR THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLOR THERES MORE TO WHITEWASHING THAN JUST SKIN COLORRRRRRRRRR
“Skeptic” this, “believer” that: no, the biggest difference between Mulder and Scully is that both are weirdo freaks but Mulder knows it and Scully thinks she’s normal
Listening to Damn These Vampires and Steal Smoked Fish back to back will have you thinking such thoughts as, "I have no idea how John Darnielle feels about vampires"
On the note of season 7/season of secret sex, why does everyone seem so sure that scully was playing with mulder’s tie in rush? I still can’t see this
Rush's Tie Twirl and Timeline
I can understand that, anon. So, here's the clip!
To prove the tie twirl, I must explain the slight shift from Position A to B.
At the beginning of the clip, Scully is at rest in Position A: parallel to Mulder, shoulders straight across, distance between them.
The shift to Position B begins after she looks down and says, "Mulder...": her right arm moves forward, angling her body towards him, closer in.
While she continues, there is a distinctive rustling of either material-on-material friction or her fingers rubbing material between them.
Her attention remains fixed where her hand is.
Position A is regained after she says, "Please? Just..." and pouts:
her arm snaps abruptly back to her side, leveling her shoulders (and dropping whatever she was fondling.)
When she finishes, "...for me?" we get a glimpse of Mulder's face before Scully switches gears and becomes serious again.
Now, granted, Scully could have been fiddling with Mulder's coat or a button hole or a bunch in his shirt or his hand or her hand (though there isn't an audible skin-on-skin noise) if not his tie, but she was fiddling with something. Otherwise moving her hand forward, keeping it in empty air, then pulling it back only after pleading her case wouldn't make sense.
So, the most plausible explanation would be....
-Timeline: Production Drafts-
Here's a fun little aside I've thought up.
One of the quirks in Rush is its timetable, specifically a date printed on one of the teenager's exam papers (here.) If taken at face value, this would place the episode around Thanksgiving, before New Year's 2000.
After investigating the production dates, I discovered (and will prove) the episode was crafted after Millennium.
Millennium, September 13, 1999:
Rush, September 17, 1999 and Rush, September 24, 1999 respectively:
Which means Millennium's kiss (courtesy of John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz) was written no later than September 17.
Which means Rush was written after the kiss was penned.
Which means Rush was created off in the "after" era.
Couldn't find filming dates of either episode (probably wouldn't matter, regardless), but the on-screen goof can probably be explained by an oversight: Rush was aired December 5, which means a lot of its production was taking place during November (leading up to Thanksgiving.) Some exhausted or misinformed crew member must have accidentally included the wrong detail.
(Besides, timelines were never clear in The X-Files, anyway.)
-Bonus-
Want more content?
You can find a gifset of Scully's insane levels of flirtation (and territoriality) here. And this gifset. And this one. And this. And that.
And Mulder's crack here.
@agent-troi's Rush meta here (including a line from Mulder) and here.
My entrance meta here. @fringephile's thoughts/screenshots here. @scullysbagelbites's thoughts here. @unremarkablehouse's thoughts on Scully's turtleneck (hickies) here and etc. here.
My season of secret sex meta here.
Lastly, this is an open invitation to everyone: include your Rush thoughts in the reblogs or tags below. It's open season. Have at!
the mark of a real actor is if they did theater before they hit it big and continue doing theater after. if they didn’t do theater before, then they are hacks and if they stop doing theater after, then they are dilettantes who lucked out. obviously this applies to all actors ever and there are no exceptions.
I don't like it when people say "if you say you can't cook what you really can't do is read instructions" because that really does not apply to something like cooking where most recipes are filled with instructions like "add a pinch" "boil until done" "cook at medium heat", which are things that require experience to understand correctly
Okay, the architecture is crazy wrong but that's to be expected.
There's so many white people here
A character mentions growing up in a connected shopping district, which is only technically not part of the city so they can do things like sell weed, with a little housing as though it is an entirely separate city and she wouldn't have gone to the same high school as everyone from the initial city
There's a cornfield that is both thematically relevant and is featured in a chase scene, to which i say: No. Wrong. I have seen exactly One property growing corn here and that is in somebody's backyard two streets away from downtown. They should be running through an apple orchard or hops. They correctly identified the area as having a lot of agricultural land but it's all for actual people food, not ethanol or animal feed.
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