Foam, welcome to the Manifold under new management.
X-files agreeing with you about the Mulder (David Duchovony) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) dynamic. Do you share the opinion that having Mulder and Scully ultimately get together, was part of what put X-files onto the skids? And feel free to speculate away about anything you want about the X-files, I'm sure just about everyone would like to hear it.
IMO, one of the most pointed and touching Mulder/Scully scenes is a scene that does not even have Mulder in it. This scene occurs in an episode after Scully was sick, and she is talking to a like a therapist type, and she tells how much it meant to have Mulder's strength and courage to pull her through her illness. (No, I do not remember episode name or even what season it was in. I am real bad about that kind of stuff, even with Buffy and Angel) And another one around that same time, when Scully is still in the hospital and Mulder comes to see her and she's laying there asleep and he comes to the bedside gently takes her hand and lays his head on the sheet beside her. (big sap I am, these two scenes get to me just writing about them)
But ultimately, does not all this stuff (Books, movies, TV shows, relie on how we as the participating consumers) come down to stories about relationships among people. Joss Whedon has said 'My shows are about relationships and emotions, and love is the most dangerous emotion'. Looking back on other things, in LotR would we feel the same way if we did not care about the hobbits and their life in the Shire, or if we care nothing about if Aragorn would claim his birthright. And I do not think I am saying everything is reduced to soap opera melodrama. taraswizard
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