since you asked for drawing requests, scully in the outfit she wears in jersey devil at the birthday party? it's always been one of my favorite looks of hers <3
She's soo Dana in that outfit <3 thanks for sending!
Just. The way Mulder looked at Scully in fight the future, when she was covered in goo and spitting up god knows what, like she was the best thing he had ever seen? yeah. yeah. I need to go lie down
"The day we shot the scene where the ship was coming apart and Mulder had to get Scully out of the pod, David's wife Téa Leoni was on set," said Rob Bowman. "Téa saw us doing the shot where he's carrying Scully away and she suggested a moment where we actually see Mulder take her out of the pod, a very gentle, tender moment between the two of them, sort of in the tone of the kiss. I thought it was a very good idea and we shot it, quickly and simply, but it was a nice moment to add into the movie."
I think Scully's jealous streak probably comes from feeling overshadowed by her sister? I can see Melissa being tall and beautiful from a young age while Dana was an awkward late bloomer so she leaned into being the smart one. She doesn't seem to perceive herself as being hot especially in the early seasons. When she's feeling insecure about leggy brunettes encroaching on her territory she asserts her brains/competence at them
i dont understand this new wave of txf fans acting like the show is a glee-level trainwreck and refering to it almost as a guilty pleasure.
its a good show.
it has won awards.
critics and fans have in the present and in the past overwhelmingly liked it.
its got good great character building, thrilling even if sometimes clunky world building, amazing cinematography, award winning writing and actor chemistry that literally created words in the vocabulary.
so whats with this whole
"omg guys i just rewatched that shitshow we like and......its actually not that bad??"
dont get me wrong it has a world of issues namely incosistent lore and misogyny abound but what is this frankly lame perfomance of acting like watching your favorite show is cringey.
and yet you, and you alone, is able to overcome its many flaws to find something decent about it?
anyways im kind of tired of consuming things ironically.
October 26 1997, Memento Mori:
Duchovny asks to make changes in script or emotional content when a scene seems wrong. When Scully first tells Mulder in last season’s “Memento Mori” episode that she has brain cancer, the writers wanted him to cry. He objected.
“That’s not interesting to me,” Duchovny says. “It may be true, some people may react that way. But in my life, most people try not to feel. I see actors trying to feel. To me that’s unreal. We go through life trying not to cry.”
Instead of crying, Duchovny played composed but struggling. “Who cares if I’m crying. Are you crying watching?”
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July 30, 1998:
VOX: Did you implant that mythical level into the show?
Duchovny: When you start to do a show, when Chris starts to write the show, really what exists is that first script and in that first script all that exists about Mulder is that he´s interested in aliens. Life began when he went under hypnotic regression and came to believe that his sister was abducted by aliens when he was 12. This is really all we had. The rest of all the stuff we had to create because we had to make more shows. Chris never had it in his mind, certainly I never assumed that anything like that existed. Just like in “Twin Peaks", the first show is “Who killed Laura Palmer?" - David Lynch didn´t know who killed Laura Palmer, that just happend. He had to say as he went on. So, we had to do more shows, we had to explain the past, we had to dramatize the past in certain ways. I wanted to be involved in that because it was my character and I wanted to be able to play interesting things. So there were certain kind of moves and certain kinds of movements mythological that I like in other stories like starwars, Joseph Campbell´s writings or pick and choose from anywhere wich is what we do. The idea I had was in that movie, Sophie´s Choice, they are taking Sofie´s boy and just impulsively she gives them the girl. So I thought what if that happened to Mulder - if they came to abduct him and his mother as they were taking Mulder away gave them the girl. We haven´t seen that episode yet, but I would like to have that play and all these little things that we steal. There is stuff we still haven´t done, that I enjoyed like being involved and figuring out how it all happened.
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Originally, Darren McGavin was set to reprise his role as Arthur Dales; the character had previously appeared in the fifth-season episode "Travelers" and the sixth-season episode "Agua Mala". Unfortunately, two days into filming, McGavin suffered a stroke, forcing Duchovny and the producers to scrap the few scenes he had shot, rewrite the script to explain his absence, and replace his character with M. Emmet Walsh.
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What part of the mythology didn't David Duchovny contribute to??
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The Official Guide to The X-Files, Vol 1:
Part of Duchovny's goal has been to flesh out the character of Fox Mulder-which, he points out, was understandably vague when the show began-in order to make the part more enticing for him as a performer. "It's definitely been exciting, just something added to my experience, in terms of being able to guide the destiny of the character," he explains. "Because the character had no destiny. Like any TV show, you're forced to eventually create a history for the character that it never had."
Once The X-Files had survived the initial Nielsen weeding-out process and he and Carter realized the show was going to be around for a while, Duchovny offers, "it became important to me as an actor to make that history as interesting as I could."
The second-season finale, entitled "Anasazi," and revelations about Mulder's family played out in the two opening episodes of the third season, offer such mythic highlights, exploring Mulder's character and family history, down to his father's role in alien experimentation. Those episodes also shed light on the abduction of Mulder's sister, Samantha, which figured prominently in the character's motivation. From Duchovny's perspective, those mythic qualities can be found as well in movies ranging from Star Wars to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Those episodes, he maintains, coupled with earlier story arcs have "created a unique mythology for television in the character, and I'm really proud of that fact-that I was conscious enough to say to Chris, 'Look, I have some ideas, I want to be involved with the creation of this myth."
Duchovny contends that Anderson's pregnancy and brief absence unwittingly contributed to that emotional resonance. Having Mulder search for her echoed the loss he felt in losing his sister, while Scully's abduction gave her an experience to draw upon-all of which, in Duchovny's eyes, provided "raw material to use in the future."
According to the actor, the depth of those episodes stands above "a kind of formula that we were drifting into in the middle of last year" with stand-alone installments dealing with whatever monsters and/or paranormal phenomena the writers could dream up. In terms of producing those hours, he contends, The X-Files was "maybe an interesting show, maybe better than most shows...but as an actor, not so interesting to play."
Now the show can go back and forth, delving into it mythology, then pulling back to do more standard and self-contained episodes. "The intensity's too much, and it can get melodramatic," Duchovny says regarding the need to break up the mythology segments, adding that the producers have achieved a "nice balance now" between the two.
Seeming as much of a perfectionist as Carter, Duchovny acknowledges that he occasionally bristles when he's presented with a deluge of gobbledygook dialogue-those sequences where Mulder launches into remarkably detailed explanations about some event or series of events from the past. "At first it was almost impossible-it's kind of a muscular thing," he says. "You try and make it interesting from an acting point of view...[But] sometimes it's just like you memorize...and spit it out."
At times, Duchovny admits, he worries that the longer narrative exercises can become "the Fox Mulder bedtime story," and he'll occasionally ask the writers, "Can we tell the story a little better?" He also concedes that it's not easy crafting the equivalent of a movie each week in the time available, and that he realizes there are times when such exposition becomes necessary. As a result, Duchovny has served notice to the writers that he'll wrestle with those speeches, "but you better give me a nice scene later on to pay me back," he says.
it's raining. you're on the couch under a blanket. the x-files is on. mulder, wearing a tie from the clearance bin, quixotically explains how bigfoot and nessy are entirely misunderstood. scully, exasperated, one eye half closed, launches into a rebuttle. she knows he already knows what she thinks but it's the dance they do. he asks what she thinks of nowheresville new york this time of year. she tells him he can't be serious. he informs her that their flight leaves in an hour. thinly-veiled eye fucking masquerading as indignant outrage. he's insane and she'll follow him anywhere. she's infuriating and she makes him whole. they're turned on. you're turned on. the rain continues.
i was gonna write a lowkey little post but when i actually started thinking about it it’s craaaaazy how diana fowley is characterized in fanworks as like. an annoying harpy whose only goal is to drive mulder and scully apart when her actual onscreen, offscreen actions are soooo much more interesting. she was infiltrating support groups to report on women who’d been used as guinea pigs in a global conspiracy in order to secure her place in the world to come!!!! she was a player and a pawn in the same game! she hedged her bets against humanity and then gives it up in a last act of kindness?? that’s crazy thats insane what happened there!
Dana Scully I love you Dana Scully I love your obsession with science I love your curly red hair I love your suits and your little Pomeranian I love the smiles that you hide and your road rage and your whip smart humor
Mulder and Scully make a bunch of horror movie references in S1. I like to think that was one of the things they originally bonded over. He loves the spooky stuff, she's scientifically fascinated by the gore
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