#xf speculation

[agentelmo]

Theory time!

So... Mulder saying “I always wondered how this was gonna end.” is still a thing, something is coming to an end.  I wonder if Scully is telling Mulder that she’s quitting the FBI, going back to being a doctor, perhaps?

Or if all the rumours are true, that she’s quitting because she’s preggo again?

Thoughts!

[red2007]

I'm just waiting for the full on Gillian laugh after Skinner tells Scully that CSM is Williams father.

I imagine her response to be something like, "I'm a medical doctor who was abducted and left barren, you don't think I've checked that shit myself? Get your head out of your ass, Walter."

[theogfiles]

These Amazon Baby Registry ads are trolling my x files feed pretty hard right now. 

Bet that 2 days shipping will be helpful for the impromptu baby shower we’re all gonna throw next week...

[skinny-gillian]

Guys, I think I figured something out!

XF Speculations ahead:

I put three things together for this theory:

The first thing is the shot of Scully in the last promo saying “William...”  while seemingly lying on the floor:

Which I think go with the other shots and promo pics we’ve had of Scully grabbing her head and screaming:

The second thing is Gillian saying in the last promo: “this season we learn so much about William and his **abilities** to the degree that he is a wonderful mystery.”

And the third thing was something caught by @xfilesseason11spoilers​

This is William in the last promo (or at least this is definitely Miles Robbins) and he looks like he’s in pain or something to that degree. 

This shot made me think!

WHAT IF William is using his abilities to communicate with Scully somehow (maybe some kind of mother/son connection) and this is why she’s so hellbent in finding him?

p.s. I totally remember reading a fanfic like this!

[myassbrokethefall]

Hello, you beautiful mind! I'm keen to get your take on The Hair Situation Scully's got goin on this season. What do you make of the varying lengths we've seen? Or do you even care/think it matters?

I’ve been wondering too! I guess it could be some kind of a time jump, and I guess I’m leaning toward that, because I’m not sure what else they would need to signify. Or if not a time jump exactly, a flashback/something happening at some other time, whether before or after the main storyline. (I doubt they would bank on just cutting Scully’s hair making her look believably like original-series-era Scully, but it’s possible, I guess. Gillian certainly is aging beautifully, but she IS still 15 years older than when the original series ended.) 

To state the obvious, sometimes on TV when someone gets a noticeable haircut it’s because the actor wanted to get their hair cut, and they make up some in-universe throwaway excuse for it. CLEARLY, that can’t be the case here because the hair is a wig. It remains forever constant. Unless deliberately changed. So this is why it’s so intriguing, and why I do think it must mean SOMETHING, because why would they just randomly cut the wig’s hair (or change wigs) for no particular reason? (Unless Gillian accidentally set it on fire or something.)

So my guesses are: time jump/flashback/flash forward, or, maybe, I keep hearing about the possibility of doppelganger stuff? So maybe there’s a Scully doppelganger and the hair is to differentiate Real Scully from DoppelScully? I’m more leaning toward time jump though.

We DO have historical precedent for 1013 using Scully’s hair to differentiate timelines: in Per Manum when her hair is normal (for Season 8, not really for Season 7) in the flashbacks that took place during Season 7:

and randomly floofy in a way that it never was again during the present-day Season 8 stuff, as if, perhaps, the emotional distress of having flashbacks about her in vitro process caused her to briefly and minimally alter her hairstyling routine that week:

So, it’s definitely possible that they’re using Scully’s hair once again as a signifier of some time difference. But it’s also possible it’s a doppelganger thing, I guess. Or maybe that a bear was involved in some nefarious manner.

Also, when the first set pics came out and the S11 wig was longer than the S10 wig, I was inclined to feel that it was not an intentional difference -- or if it was intentional from a styling point of view, it wasn’t like, for a story reason any more than Scully easing up on the rollers between S3 and 4 was for a story reason. But now the OBVIOUSLY shorter wig in latter episodes is making me call that previous assumption into question. 🤔🤔🤔

[i-turn-to-stare]

After piecing together bits of info and guessing what I think the plot will be, I’m having a real hard time with the idea that all of the monster AND William storylines can fit in 42 minutes....

[he-will-putyoudown]

Dana Scully is in her 50s

In. Her. 50s.

She's not getting pregnant.

I hope.

But given CC's demonstrated understanding of women, she will probably get her first period as a plot device next week, so...

[fabulouspatsystone]

I know I’m late to the party but...Emily Van De Kamp? Are you serious CC? Dude you haven’t given a shit about the Emily story and what it did to Scully in 20 years, now you wanna bring her back? Please don’t... And if this ‘Emily’ is just a product of your lack of imagination when it comes to naming your characters...you peaked man Anyway, I gues noone really dies on The X Files