![]() ![]() I am not going to whine about how, um, when the show left off, Doggett had the X-Files. I am not going to get into fangirl details. Yes, they end up in a tropical idyll once the credits have rolled – but do you think he’d keep hanging out in a cabana with her if someone told him there was a sea monster off shore? Nooo. She’s the Bert, he’s the Ernie, and while he says over and over that he can’t do the job without her (and she and Skinner do save his life in the end), Mulder never even considers a speck of compromise. A woman who fell in love with the most inappropriate partner ever – someone who will never stop tilting at windmills – and knows it.Īnnnnd, unfortunately, I Want to Believe reduces her to a shrill (and I use that word deliberately) character whose entire job is to drag Mulder down, man. A committed Catholic who survives a terminal disease. A woman committed to being the rational foil to her whackadoodle partner, despite being whacked upside the head most episodes with a whole lotta supernatural stuff. Scully is, to my way of thinking, one of the most complex characters in sci-fi television: a medical doctor who heals, an agent who kills. I watched the show for Skinner, and the Lone Gunmen, and the cool monster-of-the-week plots.Īnd, of course, Scully. The character actually irritated me in a deep and abiding way, the same way I’m usually irritated at overconfident men who assume they’re always right and that their worldview is the perfectly correct one. ![]() It wasn’t a wretched movie, but it was a movie that coasted on the series’ long-dwindled relevance and brought nothing new to the table. But the X-Files are the only bit of pop culture I’ve ever been enthralled enough with – as a fictional world – to call a “fandom,” so I figured I should finally give it a shot. Well, not “possibly.” I could have scratched it altogether. I held off on watching the new X-Files movie, I Want to Believe, as long as I possibly could. ![]()
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