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sorry toxic msr is kind of compelling to me 😳

#will leave this here so people know what i’m about #x files is a beautiful love story #but also it’s two freaks building a giant mental saw trap around themselves for no reason #i love you syzygy and arcadia and never again and bad blood and how the ghosts stole christmas #txf

horror-aesthete

She's so happy for her stupid dork boyfriend

#a single photo can inflict immeasurable emotional damage #baby smiley gumdrop scully #txf

scullysflannel

was there some interview vince gilligan did (recently??) where he said something along the lines of "every show that treats tv as a visual storytelling medium owes a debt to the x-files" or did I hallucinate it

lilydalexf

There's a 2013 Huffington Post article where Vince Gilligan talks about visual storytelling. Here's a small part of what he says:

Now, I’m not the finest student of the history of TV, so there may be examples that predate “The X-Files," but to the best of my knowledge, that was the first show that truly approached the look of the TV show itself in terms of cinema, in terms of, "How much of the story can we tell visually?"

#txf

sophsun1

The X-Files – 3.15: Piper Maru

#won’t someone stop them #txf

rosenkranz-isnt-dead

another thing about Mulder and Scully is that they rent apartments. FBI's most unwanted are Not house owners. excellent representation for 30+ year olds who don't have their life together

#and mulder goes the ‘no lightbulbs or bed’ route #while scully does the ‘vegetable posters for aesthetic (?) and nice pajamas’#different but the same #house owners dni #txf

sophsun1

+ bonus:

The X-Files – 1.05: Jersey Devil

#his little face in the first one #someone looks far too excited to make his new coworker come bail him out of jail #txf

psychicpinenut

mulder + his hands on scully's back

#hot #wattepad boyfriend mulder??#txf

mekammin

x files: 2 fight 2 future

#a classic for sure #ftf #txf

david-duchovnybeliever

— 1.17. «E.B.E.»

#licking my screen #txf

rosenkranz-does-things

powerpoint presentations about aliens for the bestie

#oh god so gorgeous i’m going to eat the art like that s3 hannibal guy #YES to paintings of msr painted with crime scene details #fanart #txf

for all its faults, small potatoes gave us the gem that is Scully writing niche scientific research papers just for fun on the side of her main job of searching for aliens and exposing government conspiracies

#scully in a casual cardigan and reading dense science journals you will always be famous #this is her idea of a chill and relaxing friday night i love her #txf

blvckphilip

#two headed calf #txf

rylandgraces

iconic

#her face journeys are the secret sauce that hold this whole show together #txf

katebeckets

how to say "I love you" in x-files [344/?] ⤷ 7.10 — “Sein und Zeit”

#the way she’s also clearly near tears at his pain #the way he defaults to that hunched-inward self-soothing position until she gently reminds him he can accept comfort from her #the way he tries to curl into her and kind of ends up engulfing her #txf

assiraphales

I am in love w the way pre 2000s films have that hazy feel to them. hd honestly kills the vibe

assiraphales

I think that’s one of the reasons why “period” media that’s marketed off the Aesthetic sometimes bothers me.......like they get the music, the clothing, the cars......and yet it always feels like something is missing

like,

vs

or even compare the early x files to the reboot

something is just lost with the crispness

assiraphales

someone in the tags said early spn vs new supernatural and tbh 100% yes !!

vs

I never realized how much I missed the grainy undersaturated filing ...... “good lighting” and sharpness strike again

aphony-cree

Seasons 1-3 were shot on 35mm film

4-15 were all shot on digital cameras, a change that the network insisted on

thedustycrow

Yeah the exact thing that changed is that all the old stuff was recorded on film and all the new stuff was recorded on digital media.

jmtorres

i was going to say the film thing and the someone brought up supernatural and i was like "nah" and then @aphony-cree out here dropping that bomb.... in *2005,* to *2008?* there was a show shooting on film???? god you guys MOST shows went though this transition in the 90s how the fuck was SPN on FILM

aphony-cree

In the 2000s dramatic shows had a good shot of convincing networks to let them use film. The network still had film cameras they’d bought and maybe hadn’t gotten enough use out of before the switch to digital. Most dramas can’t be shot entirely in the studio, they need to go on location, so it made sense to let them use the older cameras while the new expensive digital cameras stayed in the studio where they were safer

Supernatural wanted the 35mm film aesthetic and hated when they were forced to switch to digital