#were-monster

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I mean If I were a vegetarian lizard living my life peacefully and suddenly I got bitten by a man and transformed into a British man forced to work I would also be pretty terrified.

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✖️✖️✖️ 10x03 Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster

The one where... as advertised Mulder & Scully meet… the Were-Monster.

Best: Mulder standing in a motel room in the middle of the night doing both sides of their argument because they’ve been doing this for over 20 years. Scully: Yeah, this is how I like my Mulder. Mulder: So you’re agreeing with me? Scully: No! You’re batcrap crazy! 🥰

Worst: So they’ll show a guy’s fantasy of fucking Scully against a wall, topless, but no Mulder and Scully kiss in the revival?? Of the very few times we see Scully in a sexual situation TWO (see also: 6x18 Milagro) are male fantasies - it’s ridiculous how blatantly she’s only allowed to be sexual when it’s serving a man’s story (exception: 4x13 Never Again; exception that proves the rule: the show only acknowledging Mulder and Scully sleeping together for pregnancy plot lines - see next season 😑). Ugh.

✔️ Flashlights

✔️ Woods

❌ Slideshow

✔️ Autopsy

✔️ Evidence Disappears

✔️ Scully Misses It

✔️ Mulder Ditch

❌ Sunflower Seeds

❌ Voiceover

✔️ Catch Phrase: Mulder (IWTB)

❌ Scully is a Medical Doctor

❌ Mulder is Spooky

✔️ Scuuullllaaaaayy! Muullllderrrr!

❌ Fox/Dana

✔️ Inappropriate Touching (that I am here for)

✔️ Casual Scully

✔️ Casual Mulder

❌ Trench Coats

❌ Bad Tie Watch

❌ Glasses Watch

✔️ Taking! It! Personally!: Mulder

50 States: Oregon x3 (44/50)

Investigate: Together & Apart

Solve Rate: 67%

❌ Bechdel Test: Witness is unnamed and all they talk about is the suspect.

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽👽👽

Creepiness: 👽👽

Humor: 👽👽👽👽

Rewatch Thoughts:

William check-in: No mention.

Break-up check-in: So why did we do this again? Literally nothing about this episode would need to change if they were together except maybe they’d be sharing a motel room. He’s hanging out in her motel room in the middle of the night anyways!

This is only the third episode set in Oregon - after the pilot and Requiem. First time back here since Mulder was abducted…

Hey stoner couple! Their third appearance on the show - first seen getting high in 3x12 War of the Coprophages, then licking frogs in 3x22 Quagmire. 20 years later and they’re still in pursuit of old highs, just like Mulder and Scully.

Their office looks so empty - feather that nest Mulder!

Mulder: I’m a middle aged man, Scully. No, I am, I am. She wasn’t disagreeing, Mulder 😂

Even more than during the original run you question what they’re doing back in the FBI if they’re not investigating the conspiracies that they need answers about. But this episode at least makes the case that Scully took this case for Mulder’s sake, to try to cheer him up. She’s being so encouraging - she just wants to investigate a monster case with her Mulder!

Darin Morgan loves making fun of Mulder 😂 - of course he would try to take a photo of the monster now that we carry cameras around in our pocket, of course middle aged Mulder would be completely inept at using said phone camera, and of course he would bug Scully with his blurry photos while she’s trying to do an autopsy and actually solve this case, it’s perfect. Meanwhile Scully is hyper competent the whole episode.

Scully: Mulder, the internet is not good for you.

That motel animal head peep corridor is so creepy 😬 - WTF, you’re not going to report him, Mulder?

Red speedo! Lol

I do wish we’d gotten Scully in Mulder’s Knick’s shirt though.

Rhys Darby is really good - the whole Guy Man backstory sequence wouldn’t work as well as it does without him.

Dagoo! So cute.

How do people feel about Mulder’s awkward conversation trying to explain what it means to be transgender?

I appreciate that Mulder didn’t for a second think Scully would sleep with that guy like that. No need for jealousy.

The Kim Manners grave stone - let’s kick it in the ass!

We barely ever see Mulder drink (in his motel room in 3x13 Syzygy, at the bar in FTF, a beer with Scully in 7x21 Je Souhaite are the ones that come to mind) let alone in the middle of the day, on a case. Guess he’s really going through it…

Of course Scully misses having a dog to love 🥺

Make a habit of stealing dogs from crime scenes Scully?

Scully flirtily tapping Mulder’s chest as she reminds him cheekily that she’s immortal.

The Were-Monster’s little skip as he runs off!

The comedy and callbacks in this episode feel a little forced and effort-full in a way that the comedy in the best original run episodes - in Darin Morgan’s episodes - did not. But I really do enjoy the episode, it’s fun and I’m glad for the levity in a season that’s otherwise a pretty big bummer - it’s the only episode I ever really want to rewatch from this season.

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THE X-FILES: MULDER & SCULLY MEET THE WERE-MONSTER

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the autopsy scene in the were-monster except mulder smiles and stares at scully because she’s a pathologist again and she quietly says “that’s enough from you” and he quietly says “that’s not what you said this morning” and then the scene just continues.  THIS could have been our x-files, so reblog if you agree.

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The X-Files : Mulder and Scully meet the Were-Monster

The X-Files : Mulder and Scully meet the Were-Monster

Now this felt a lot more like the earlier seasons of the X-Files. I really enjoyed this episode. I love when a drama brings the funny and this was, in a knowing, meta-ish, kind of way. Gillian and David still have great comedic timing and still  play off each other’s strengths  wonderfully. Their snarkiness didn’t feel forced or unnatural. The events they were involved in were unexpectedly funny…

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