do you guys ever feel slightly traumatized by the x-files? I realize that I will talk about how great this show (1-7) is, quote it, tell people they gotta watch, remember moments like it was yesterday and yet…I haven’t sat down and actually watched more than a handful of episodes since the reboot ended because when I do I just sit there and think about how bad things got for them and how they sort of broke up and also maybe had a baby in their 50s after watching their other kid who they didn’t know probably drown and then I’m just not enjoying whatever I’m watching anymore
i have cultivated an approach to everything after je souhaite that allows me to, well, not make peace with how things went, but no longer allow the bad to drown out the good.
namely, i decide that chris carter was playing barbies wrong, and i have taken them away from him.
i sift through the post-s7 canon like a thieving squirrel, pillaging the good stuff out of the chaff and then sprinting back to my hidey hole. the thing is, it's all fiction. it's all made up anyway. so take what you like and make up better stuff around it.
do you guys ever feel slightly traumatized by the x-files? I realize that I will talk about how great this show (1-7) is, quote it, tell people they gotta watch, remember moments like it was yesterday and yet…I haven’t sat down and actually watched more than a handful of episodes since the reboot ended because when I do I just sit there and think about how bad things got for them and how they sort of broke up and also maybe had a baby in their 50s after watching their other kid who they didn’t know probably drown and then I’m just not enjoying whatever I’m watching anymore
Please Jesus. I need someone who can write Mulder and Scully in an adult relationship with adult words and adult feelings. And not shoehorning the ship into the last 3 minutes of an episdoe when you've spent 17 minutes on car chases.
I have CC PTSD.
The only issue I foresee with bringin back Mulder and Scully is that they may end up playing the exposition role to the new characters i.e. providing information, advice etc. That doesn't drive their characters forward. It's just servicing fans to have them show up but not in a meaningful way.
I’m having a hard time with this one because on the one hand, Ryan Coogler is a genius and god, how I want to see him write Mulder and Scully. the problem is, it will no longer be Mulder and Scully’s story or at least, David and Gillian’s versions of Mulder and Scully and that’s all I care about? I didn’t even watch S9 bc it wasn’t both of them and that felt wrong to me. So while I think it will be an amazing show, it’s hard for me to care about an XF universe beyond Mulder and Scully.
That being said, I have been waiting years, decades, sleepless nights for someone to “fix” their story. I thought surely second movie. Then, surely, reboot series. Then, surely, reboot season 2. But it never happened. So if Coogler brings them back in whatever capacity he brings them back, I want to see my loves with a proper ending so I will watch and just trust the process.
Have you kept contact with David in those years? Gillian: Erm… We emailed, and we had an occasional coffee.
"It is not like we do not get on,” David insists. “We are somehow joined, at some significant level, for ever, for as long as we are alive, not just in the public’s mind but our own. To have worked so long together at that intensity, to have gone through so many huge changes in our personal, professional and public lives, means that we have a very deep bond. We have never had a friendship of like minds, but we are soulmates in some senses. I love her and I think she loves me, but we do not have a huge interest in each other as people outside of this work connection.” The Times, 2003
In December, she married Julian Ozanne. They separated in April of 2006, whereupon she began a relationship with Mark Griffith. Although, Oscar Griffith was born on November 1, 2006, less then 7 months after her separation, Gillian insists "there was no overlap" between the relationships.
“We love each other now,” he says. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder. We actually had lunch last week, and it was really nice to be back together.” April 16, 2007
Filming for I Want To Believe takes place in the winter of 07/08. Best blooper goes to...
On February 23, 2008, they promote the film at the WonderCon panel in San Francisco.
David says he'd like to have Gillian cast if they did another Evolution movie Link. Reminiscing about the show Link
“We were running around doing crazy stuff and it didn’t really feel like The X-Files to me so much, but then when I started to work with Gillian it sunk in,” Duchovny says. Anderson says: “We’d seen each other in between and we did a week of rehearsals in LA before David started, so we got an opportunity to gauge where we were at. Fortunately, that dynamic was still alive, so that when we started shooting again, it showed up when we showed up.” Duchovny laughs and says: “We couldn’t keep our hands off each other.” May 2008
Gillian: “You know, it all kind of gets jumbled up in my mind, but just recently, during this shoot, someone pulled David and I aside to this computer and showed us some clips, on YouTube, that a fan had put together of us in various scenes. And there was an amazing amount of care and intimacy that I’d forgotten about. I mean, people always say we never kiss on the show — we kissed, like, thousands of times! There are kisses all over the place. There was a level of real intimacy between these two characters, the kind of care that you don’t see very much in the real world. I missed that — and when we saw it again that day, we were totally mesmerised by it.” David: "It was like a porno!"
Though, the details are not available, David checked himself into treatment for a sex addiction. In October, 2008, Tea separated from him. This lasted about a year before they reconciled. Felix Griffith is born this year too. I believe Gillian when she says Mark is the father, but I don't understand the intense level of flirting in these red carpet photos...
In November, 2010, Gillian flew to New York to see the debut of David's play.
Do you keep in touch over e-mail? Duchovny: A little bit, yeah. Anderson: A little bit of texting, a little bit of BlackBerry action. Duchovny: I don’t know if you know this, but Gillian’s an accomplished stage actor. She came all the way from London just to see this. I’m very touched by that. - Vulture, 2010
CableFAX: Do you and David Duchovny keep in touch during the down times? Anderson: Oh yeah. CableFAX: Great. I'm going to start a campaign to get you a guest spot on "Californication." Anderson: OK, please do because we're actually doing a question-and-answer thing tomorrow at a charity event, and that's one of the questions I have: Why haven't they offered me a guest spot on Californication? CableFAX: Seriously. Anderson: It's a no brainer! How funny would that be to be a completely, completely different character. CableFAX: Right. It can't be anything like Scully. Anderson: And it has to be sexual because how weird would that be? It would just be weird to see this person who was Scully, and anyway... we'll start the campaign.
In 2011, they reunite with Chris Carter at the IBG charity event.
Gillian fixated on Bob (video) Link
In 2011, David and Tea separate for good. Promptly, rumors began circulating about David's extra marital affairs. And, though they both denied it, the tabloids insisted our costars became a real life couple...
In 2012, as rumors circulate about them living together, Californication costar Evan Handler sends, and then promptly deletes this tweet.
Closing this messfest with this interview from 2012:
It absolutely pains me to say this but as far as most msr per minute, I don’t think there is an episode that beats my struggle iii. it’s not the best msr, I want to be clear. I am saying at final count, it has the most cumulative msr of any episode and it sucks so bad that it was such shit
I actually feel sooooo vindicated rn bc I always held that this godawful dialogue about him meeting someone else was Chris’ terrible way of having her regret her decision and trying to see if Mulder still loved her and wanted to be with her. It was so dumb and poorly written and I hated it but I wasn’t really confused by it because she’s so obviously wanting him to say “Scully there will never be anyone else” and he is dumb and didn’t get it really and either of them know how to communicate
I feel that because Season 10 was so wonky, we don’t really give the big msr moments their due so I want you for just a second to imagine Season 7! Mulder saying, “You’re never *just* anything to me, Scully,” and tell me how loud you scream.
ok so I am watching “this” ok - don’t ask why, I was just like you know what I want to watch an xf episode and I want to see the handcuff one, and it’s just so cute the way they are just casually dating here and I know they still wanted to make it really vague like are they dating but they’re so clearly dating in this episode like they’re trying again and it’s “agent mulder’s house” when she’s calling it in officially but it’s “our home” when talking to their frenemy and anyway, it just would have been so nice to see them just like this. To just be together comfortably and partners without the whole keep the audience wondering if they’re together thing, like it’s so nice and it’s so shitty we didn’t get that
ok so I am watching “this” ok - don’t ask why, I was just like you know what I want to watch an xf episode and I want to see the handcuff one, and it’s just so cute the way they are just casually dating here and I know they still wanted to make it really vague like are they dating but they’re so clearly dating in this episode like they’re trying again and it’s “agent mulder’s house” when she’s calling it in officially but it’s “our home” when talking to their frenemy and anyway, it just would have been so nice to see them just like this. To just be together comfortably and partners without the whole keep the audience wondering if they’re together thing, like it’s so nice and it’s so shitty we didn’t get that
don’t mind me, just thinking about how when scully was pregnant and she went to the hospital they wouldn’t let mulder in because he wasn’t her husband but then in the struggles when scully went to the hospital the doctor came out asking for mulder. makes you think.
ok so I have been watching xf clips on tiktok and I haven’t seen an xf episode in years. not that I don’t want to, I still love it, I think I just can’t think of the xfiles and not think about how it ended, which makes me sad. and anyway I’m watching these clips and I’m reciting every word and I’m feeling all the things I felt when I saw it the first time and then I’m also seeing a few clips of them older and I’m like damn they really coulda been such a cute flirty old married couple huh but then I see the clips of scully with her chris carter induced-singular-my-son! personality and I get so mad. he really took the greatest feminist hero of all time (I am biased) and made her completely and solely obsessed with motherhood and it sucked so bad and then, god what even happened to that kid, I don’t know. ruined my life just to have him disappear and scully to be like “ok well that happened” about it
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