#dod kalm

[waxwork-daughter]

i've said this before, but if you ignore the "special effects" in dod kalm, it's really one of the very sweetest episodes between mulder and scully. they're alone and dying and trapped on a leaking boat in a very cold sea, and they're not panicking and outraged, they just concerned about the fact that they're together and want the other one to be comfortable and maybe somehow be the one to survive. It's a remarkable level of selflessness and attachment 🥺

[cecilysass]

Happy 30th Anniversary Of Me Watching My 1st Episode of TXF (I’m pretty sure)

I didn’t watch TXF regularly until season 5 or so, and for my own reasons, I’ve always tried to remember what the literal actual first ep I ever saw was.

Although I was in high school when it started, for four seasons of the show I was in college (yes, yes, yes, very old, yes), and I know I watched it for the first time at home with my parents, not in the dorms. My parents have never met a police procedural show they didn’t want to watch (then and now), so they’d been watching it while I was away at college. And I vaguely remember being at home on a break and my mom describing the concept and saying they liked the characters, but that it was a little supernatural for them—that she thought it was more my kind of thing.

I watched an episode with my parents and remember immediately being taken with the MSR—like, immediately. (I remember asking my mom: sooooo are the two leads going to get together? Yes, right? What’s their deal?)

But I’ve had trouble remembering what episode that first one was. I thought it might have been Dod Kalm for some reason, but I’m not sure why.

Just now I was looking at season 2 air dates and noticed Dod Kalm aired in March 1995, which was spring my freshman year. So I researched when my college was on spring break that semester— and lo and behold, it was the week Dod Kalm aired.

So it seems pretty likely that WAS the episode. I know that is really nerdy, but it makes me happy to know. Happy 30th anniversary of me watching the show for the first time.

(actual footage of those of us who were in college during the show’s original run)

[renegadesstuff]

PERSONAL SPACE? WHAT'S THAT?! ❤️

[x-files-polls]

Who's the better one-off character? (Loser's Bracket)

The Conundrum (played by The Enigma in "Humbug")

Olafsson (played by Vladimir Kulich in "Død Kalm")

Voting ended onJul 7, 2025

The Conundrum: He ate.

Olafsson: Idk I just love his vibes

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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

Humbug: Mulder and Scully must find the paranormal among the abnormal when they are sent to investigate a long standing series of ritualistic killings which match no known patterns. The latest of which was the death of the "Alligator Man", just one of many sideshow acts around which the town of Gibsonton, Florida, is built.

Død Kalm: Mulder and Scully are called in when a boatload of survivors from a U.S. Navy destroyer escort are found. What particularly catches Agent Mulder's attention is that all of these Sailors appear to have aged many decades in the course of a few days. Mulder and Scully travel to Norway where they find a civilian fisherman who is willing to take them to the ship's last known position.

[agent-troi]

How has it never occurred to me that at the beginning of Dod Kalm, Mulder explains what wormholes are to Scully, a literal physics major

[x-files-scripts]

The X-Files - “Dod Kalm”

Story by Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa

Teleplay by Howard Gordon

February 3, 1995 (WHITE)

Deleted scene: The Lone Gunmen kick off the case...

“You look good with a few wrinkles.”

Mulder and Scully mock-eulogizing each other:

[freckleslikestars]

The X Files: Død Kalm

Living Polaroid Project: 43/219

[leonardbetts]

Dr. Dana Scully, M.D.