REVIEW: Autumn's "Never Again" Review

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"Never Again" Review
By Autumn Tysko

"This isn't about you. Well maybe it is indirectly."

This episode, while definitely not focusing on Mulder, still does have
everything to do with him - indirectly of course. This isn't an easy
episode to watch, but it is fascinating. It isn't a happy episode. Mulder
and Scully do not behave in the way that in our perfect world we want them
to behave towards each other, but guess what? The world isn't perfect.
Relationships aren't perfect. Mulder and Scully aren't perfect, and angst
abounds. This doesn't, in my opinion, make their behavior in this episode
the least bit out of character. This isn't a "Syzygy" with no planets to
blame. It was instead an intriguing look into a rough spot in this
relationship, their motivations, and both the characters. What writers
Morgan and Wong have given us is two characters that we care about and who
care about each other avoiding talking about the real problems that they
have and what happens because of it. The bloom is off the rose for Scully.

Actually, it has been a long time coming. We've seen hints at this
frustration on her part for a while now - the conversation on the rock
from "Quagmire", her edgy "what are you going to do?" replies when Mulder
orders her around, and her frustration at being continually ditched by her
partner. This is about a lot more than desk or a nameplate, it is about
control. Scully has always had an interesting history of rebellion against
authority from the "Beyond the Sea" cigarette story that she retells here,
to joining the FBI against her family's wishes, to the way she has stood
up to both Skinner and the OPC folks in the past. It is as if she feels
the need to do something out of character to get out of the rut - to keep
from swallowing her own tail - to define herself differently from whom
that authority figure - that she needs and wants - would have her be.

The Mulder and Scully scenes in this episode were the most painful we've
ever had to watch. We open with Scully wandering off after she has been
drug out in the middle of the night to listen to yet another one of
Mulder's farfetched cases - this one - as she points out later - a "poorly
veiled synopsis of an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle". How appropriate
that the "Moose and Squirrel" nickname for Our Heroes shows up at this
time because Mulder has never been more the bumbling Moose than he is here
- constantly stumbling and saying all the wrong things. As a contemplative
Scully ponders her life Mulder blows in like a hurricane telling her all
about a vacation he must take and doling out assignments for her. David
Duchovny is wonderful in this scene as Mulder moves from accusing Scully
of "abandoning" him (like *he* can even begin to talk) to defensive when
Scully hits him with "That makes it sound like you're my superior" to
petulant as he starts his "you were just assigned" (oooo, cold Mulder)
"this work is my life" speech to bewildered hurt when as he asks "You
don't want it to be?". Moose is clearly very very confused in his selfish
little world as to what to give Scully here. He's stuck on the desk thing.

And why doesn't she have a desk? Why does she have "an area" in the back?
I'm surprised it took her this long to start in on Mulder about this.
Oops. Sorry, just the Scullyist in me getting worked up there.

So where does an Elvis obsessed investigator go for vacation? Why
Graceland of course, but in his attempt to hurt Scully back a little more
for his feelings of rejection he won't even tell her where he is going
when she asks with resigned emotion in her voice. Spiritual journey
indeed. At least the guilt appeared to set in somewhat as he did a cell
phone reception dance trying to call just to see how she was doing -
though I doubt that was all he was calling for as his next call continues
to rub Scully the wrong way. Poor clueless Mulder is at "that special
place" complete with a new winner in the scary shades category and wants
to share - oh, and check up on her. Bad move Moose.

Above all this is clearly Gillian Anderson's show as she is given the
chance to explore a much more personal side to Dana rather than Scully. As
usual she gives us work filled with hundreds of tiny moments of brilliance
with which she paints this character. So what is Scully looking for here?
I don't think that she even knows. She tells Ed "Sometimes I wish I were
that impulsive" and his reply "Careful what you wish for" couldn't have
been more apt. Somewhat surprised at Ed's initial overture she manages an
"I'd like that" answer to his date before her Scully filter kicks in and
she thinks it wiser to lie about leaving town. It is only when Mulder
sends her over the edge again as he easily tracks her down due to her
predictable nature, questions her decisions on the case, and then mocks
her about a date that she decides to retaliate against herself and Mulder.
"I did as told. As always." isn't the answer for her here - taking a risk
is. In the scene where Scully paces and asks Ed out Anderson gives us a
great moment of nervous insecurity - unfortunately for her, Ed celebrates
the moment by self mutilation.

Scully has, as we've all speculated, been living the life of a nun since
joining the X-Files. For those who don't know "Glengarry Glen Ross" came
out in 1992. From what we know her last and perhaps only long term
relationship was with an older authority figure which falls in with her
"there are other fathers" comment along with Mulder. So, Scully opts for
the crummy bar as it is a good place to go when you're feeling down, has a
few drinks (though is not drunk), waxes philosophic about her choices, and
then decides to act impulsively - not by sleeping with Ed, but by getting
the tattoo she deserves - in what turns out to be a scene with
surprisingly sexual overtones. When they go back to Ed's place and she
tries to play Doctor the episode cops out in ambiguity - I'm not saying
that Scully should have slept with him, but for some reason they were
afraid to even do more than imply a kiss despite all those serious looks
and heavy breathing.

Now we reach "the morning after" and despite not getting any that's not
how it looks to the other detectives much to her chagrin. We learn about
hallucinogenic ergotism and Action! Scully gets another workout. She
wasn't too successful despite fighting pretty darn dirty - you'd think
Scully of all people would know better than to run into the bathroom on
The X-Files - she is rewarded by being tossed into a door. Thwap.

As if we didn't have enough pain on the show we have that chilling final
scene as Scully returns to her still deskless office even more depressed
than when she left. In an astoundingly insensitive move fueled by his
confusion over her behavior Mulder jokes about her second appearance in
the X-Files. "All this because I didn't get you a desk?" No, Mulder all
this because you didn't have a clue.

Random Musings
-------------------------
-This again was one of those times when all that brouhaha over an episode
before it airs seems just so silly to me in perspective. How folks can
continue to judge things that they haven't seen themselves on obviously
exaggerated hearsay always amuses me. The "reshoots" rumor among others
was false, and frankly I didn't need cancer as a motivation for Scully.

-The "stunt" casting of the show with Jodie Foster playing "Winky" the
wonder tattoo worked for me - it was clear that Foster relished her chance
to lend her voice - her maniacal laugh as Ed prepared to make Scully
flambe' combined with that music and the fire lit cinematography was
really quite eerie. How dare that tattoo call Scully a "cheap redhead"
though.

-What *COOL* music choices. The Pretenders "Tattooed Love Boys": "I get
tattoos because I need it.". The Partridge Family singing about wanting to
be wanted (frankly if my neighbor was playing this that loud and then I
had to face Jehovah's Witnesses I might be tempted to kick her door down
without Jodie Foster's help), and in the last bar scene a song by the
group X.

-The bird cage liner for the Partridge Family girl was *too* funny. A mock
Entertainment Weekly featuring a picture of Co-Executive Producer Bob
Goodwin with the headline "The Wisest Man in Hollywood".

-I spotted a time line reference on the report Mulder hands to Scully. The
case was opened January 13, 1997.

-Anyone else get a kick out of the names Mulder handed her? I caught
references to various vodkas including Smirnoff and Popov.

-Who can blame her for not wanting to go to Philly. Not only was the case
weak, but the ever sensitive Mulder booked her a middle seat.

-So the "Batphone" in The X-Files office is complete with a big "X" on
their special hotline.

-Talk about your "red light" district that tattoo shop at night just
glowed.

-I don't know about you folks, but I think there is *plenty* of room in
that office for another desk. If Mulder knew what was good for him he
would have at least had her name on the door by the time she returned, but
nooooo.

-Did we really need to have a permanent reminder of Millennium indelibly
marked on Scully's back?

-For the people out there who will insist that Scully slept with Ed (and
you know they are out there) I offer the following evidence: not only does
he wake up on the couch and she in the bed, but in the morning she still
has on her pantyhose when you see her bare feet. What woman would have sex
and then put pantyhose back on - I rest my case.

-You'll find this URL for the Forensic Information Database in Scully's
bookmark file: http://fbi.lab.rl.fns.gov/FORENSICS/chem/haluc.drugs.html

Autumn
"I've always gone around in this circle."

Autumn Tysko
"Are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream?"
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Alyssa Fernandez

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> -The bird cage liner for the Partridge Family girl was *too* funny. A mock
> Entertainment Weekly featuring a picture of Co-Executive Producer Bob Goodwin
> with the headline "The Wisest Man in Hollywood".

After discussing the bird cage liner with a fellow COGster, I realized
it was even better insult than I'd first thought. The girl had just
been visited by Jehovah's Witnesses, and could have used some of the
tracts that they were handing out. Instead she decided that EW was more
deserving of bird droppings.

Alyssa,
Who was terrorized for two solid months this summer by Witnesses and
still shudders when someone rings the doorbell.

Rufie710

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Once again ,Autumn, you astound me -excellent piece. By the way , do you
write professionally??
Ruth , impressed.

--
rufie710
"I tried Reality once, I found it too confining"

Bernardine

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>-For the people out there who will insist that Scully slept with Ed (and
>you know they are out there) I offer the following evidence: not only does
>he wake up on the couch and she in the bed, but in the morning she still
>has on her pantyhose when you see her bare feet. What woman would have sex
>and then put pantyhose back on - I rest my case.

Now who's in denial? <tsking> Maybe they were anklets or knee-highs
and she put them BACK on as she was getting dressed in the morning --
more typical choice for pants anyway. Would you walk around that
apartment in bare feet?

Sorry, but the preponderance of the evidence (including Ed's glowing
little face the next day -- I thought he was going to propose)
suggests otherwise, the pantyhose evidence is shaky and open to
different interpretations.

*If the shirt didn't fit -- you MUST convict!*

- Bernardine

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aut...@aol.com wrote:
>
> "Never Again" Review
> By Autumn Tysko
>
> "This isn't about you. Well maybe it is indirectly."
>
> This episode, while definitely not focusing on Mulder, still does have
> everything to do with him - indirectly of course. This isn't an easy
> episode to watch, but it is fascinating. It isn't a happy episode.

Quite. Scully of course is the more unhappy of the two. And instead
of _telling_ us how lost and lonely she feels, Dana tells us with her
expressions. Now if only that boneheaded Moose of a partner of hers
could see that something is not quite right with her.

> What writers Morgan and Wong have given us is two characters that we > care about and who care about each other avoiding talking about the
> real problems that they have and what happens because of it. The bloom > is off the rose for Scully.
>
> Actually, it has been a long time coming. We've seen hints at this
> frustration on her part for a while now - the conversation on the rock
> from "Quagmire", her edgy "what are you going to do?" replies when
> Mulder orders her around, and her frustration at being continually
> ditched by her partner.

No doubt about it, Mulder was more of an ass here than in most outings.
I'm sure we'll be debating as to why he acts the way he does. I have
two thoughts on that. First, he's a man on a mission. What matters to
him is "The Truth," or at least the truth he wants to find. What if,
after all his searching, he found that history had not unfolded as he
had imagined, that he had deluded himself? Or that his whole career
with the X-Files was merely a dream, or that he was actually an agent of
The Conspiracy, brainwashed into thinking that he was on a sacred quest,
having been given the memories of his sister's abduction as motivation,
and set loose to test the security of the secrets that CSM and his
healthier (and more well-manicured) cronies hold? I know you're out
there, Nowhere Man fans!
Another possibility is that he doesn't want to get too close to
anyone,and uses his brand of humor and his... uhhh... abrasiveness to
keep people away. Of course he pushes Scully away the most. She's
taken the place in his life that his sister used to occupy. He's given
up the chance to Have Samantha back in order to save Scully. Ahhh,
saving Scully, that wondrous pasttime. "Scully in jeoapardy. Must
save." And yes, she has the "Mulder in jeoapardy. Must save" mantra in
her head. And of course there's "David's on Jeoapardy. But no one can
save him now."

> Scully has always had an interesting history of rebellion against
> authority from the "Beyond the Sea" cigarette story that she retells > here, to joining the FBI against her family's wishes, to the way she > has stood up to both Skinner and the OPC folks in the past.

She rebels against authority, but what is he for? We know what Mulder
is for, but what about Scully? We know that, as opposed to Fox who's
mainly interested in "The Big Picture," Dana shows more concern for the
victims of the cases they investigate. This is indeed noble, but what
underlying vision motivates Scully? Does she have a life-goal, an
achievement she wants to accomplish? Or is this whole goal-oriented
behavior just a guy thing?

> The Mulder and Scully scenes in this episode were the most painful
> we've ever had to watch. We open with Scully wandering off after she
> has been drug out in the middle of the night to listen to yet another >one of Mulder's farfetched cases - this one - as she points out later - > a "poorly veiled synopsis of an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle". How > appropriate that the "Moose and Squirrel" nickname for Our Heroes
> shows up at this time because Mulder has never been more the bumbling > Moose than he is here - constantly stumbling and saying all the wrong > things. As a contemplative Scully ponders her life Mulder blows in
> like a hurricane telling her all about a vacation he must take and
> doling out assignments for her. David Duchovny is wonderful in this
> scene as Mulder moves from accusing Scully of "abandoning" him (like
> *he* can even begin to talk) to defensive when Scully hits him with
> "That makes it sound like you're my superior" to petulant as he starts > his "you were just assigned" (oooo, cold Mulder) "this work is my
> life" speech to bewildered hurt when as he asks "You don't want it to > be?". Moose is clearly very very confused in his selfish little world > as to what to give Scully here. He's stuck on the desk thing.

Being new here, I never heard the Rocky & Bullwinkle references, but I
laughed my ass off anyway!! It's great when TV characters talk about TV
shows. It's so spooky. Like some weird meta-fiction gone terribly
right.
What's up with Fox? I know we're supposed to not like him a little
more right now, but still, he's more caustic than necessary here. Maybe
chasing the Consortium and their alien allies around is taking its toll.
Wasn't it Nietschze or one of those dour philosopher guys who said
something like, 'Be careful when you stare into the void, that it does
not stare into you,' or something as equally pithy and depressing? I
think it fits. My personal favorite line of philosophy is, "We demand
rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" :-p

> Above all this is clearly Gillian Anderson's show as she is given the
> chance to explore a much more personal side to Dana rather than
> Scully. As usual she gives us work filled with hundreds of tiny
> moments of brilliance with which she paints this character. So what is > Scully looking for here? I don't think that she even knows. She tells > Ed "Sometimes I wish I were that impulsive" and his reply "Careful
> what you wish for" couldn't have been more apt. Somewhat surprised at
> Ed's initial overture she manages an "I'd like that" answer to his
> date before her Scully filter kicks in and she thinks it wiser to lie
> about leaving town. It is only when Mulder sends her over the edge
> again as he easily tracks her down due to her predictable nature,
> questions her decisions on the case, and then mocks her about a date
> that she decides to retaliate against herself and Mulder. "I did as
> told. As always." isn't the answer for her here - taking a risk is.
> In the scene where Scully paces and asks Ed out Anderson gives us a
> great moment of nervous insecurity - unfortunately for her, Ed
> celebrates the moment by self mutilation.
>
> Scully has, as we've all speculated, been living the life of a nun
> since joining the X-Files. For those who don't know "Glengarry Glen
> Ross" came out in 1992. From what we know her last and perhaps only
> long term relationship was with an older authority figure which falls > in with her "there are other fathers" comment along with Mulder. So,
> Scully opts for the crummy bar as it is a good place to go when you're > feeling down, has a few drinks (though is not drunk), waxes
> philosophic about her choices, and then decides to act impulsively -
> not by sleeping with Ed, but by getting the tattoo she deserves - in
> what turns out to be a scene with surprisingly sexual overtones.

Pleasantly surprising sexual overtones. Is there anything this woman
cannot do? I was talking to my girlfriend about Giliian (we have a
mature realationship, so we can talk in an objective manner about
beautiful actresses with pouty lips, alluring eyes, great... oh, ahhh,
never mind), and she couldn't believe that she's not even thirty yet,
given the way she plays the character

> As if we didn't have enough pain on the show we have that chilling
> final scene as Scully returns to her still deskless office even more
> depressed than when she left. In an astoundingly insensitive move
> fueled by his confusion over her behavior Mulder jokes about her
> second appearance in the X-Files. "All this because I didn't get you a > desk?" No, Mulder all this because you didn't have a clue.

Isn't it weird that Gillian's personal life (vis a vis Clyde and Piper)
has been in the news again, the same time that the show is revisiting
parts of Scully's life that were explored last time Gillian's life was
so public? nothing profound to say, I just think its weird.

>
> Random Musings
> -------------------------
> -This again was one of those times when all that brouhaha over an
> episode before it airs seems just so silly to me in perspective. How
> folks can continue to judge things that they haven't seen themselves
> on obviously exaggerated hearsay always amuses me. The "reshoots"
> rumor among others was false, and frankly I didn't need cancer as a
> motivation for Scully.

Right on, sister. I thought we left baseless speculation and name
calling to Congressmen and journalists.

> -What *COOL* music choices. The Pretenders "Tattooed Love Boys":
> "I get tattoos because I need it.". The Partridge Family singing about > wanting to be wanted (frankly if my neighbor was playing this that
> loud and then I had to face Jehovah's Witnesses I might be tempted to
> kick her door down without Jodie Foster's help), and in the last bar
> scene a song by the group X.

The music caught me by surprise. For awhile, i thought I was watching
MTV. I think it made the episode seem more surreal, like things were
not quite as they usually are, even on this show.

> -I don't know about you folks, but I think there is *plenty* of room
> in that office for another desk. If Mulder knew what was good for him
> he would have at least had her name on the door by the time she
> returned, but nooooo.

When all this is over, he had better get her _something_.

> Autumn
> "I've always gone around in this circle."
>
> Autumn Tysko
> "Are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream?"
> My episode reviews now available at:
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1411/main_rev.html
> or email me for mailing list information

--
"Open yourself to extreme possibilities."

Richard K Lingenfelter

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Some selective snipping follows.

aut...@aol.com wrote:
>
> "Never Again" Review
> By Autumn Tysko
>
> "This isn't about you. Well maybe it is indirectly."
>
> This episode, while definitely not focusing on Mulder, still does have
> everything to do with him - indirectly of course. This isn't an easy
> episode to watch, but it is fascinating. It isn't a happy episode.

Quite. Scully of course is the more unhappy of the two. And instead

of _telling_ us how lost and lonely she feels, Dana tells us with her
expressions. Now if only that boneheaded Moose of a partner of hers
could see that something is not quite right with her.

> What writers Morgan and Wong have given us is two characters that we > care about and who care about each other avoiding talking about the

> real problems that they have and what happens because of it. The bloom > is off the rose for Scully.
>
> Actually, it has been a long time coming. We've seen hints at this
> frustration on her part for a while now - the conversation on the rock
> from "Quagmire", her edgy "what are you going to do?" replies when
> Mulder orders her around, and her frustration at being continually
> ditched by her partner.

No doubt about it, Mulder was more of an ass here than in most outings.

I'm sure we'll be debating as to why he acts the way he does. I have
two thoughts on that. First, he's a man on a mission. What matters to
him is "The Truth," or at least the truth he wants to find. What if,
after all his searching, he found that history had not unfolded as he
had imagined, that he had deluded himself? Or that his whole career
with the X-Files was merely a dream, or that he was actually an agent of
The Conspiracy, brainwashed into thinking that he was on a sacred quest,
having been given the memories of his sister's abduction as motivation,
and set loose to test the security of the secrets that CSM and his
healthier (and more well-manicured) cronies hold? I know you're out
there, Nowhere Man fans!
Another possibility is that he doesn't want to get too close to
anyone,and uses his brand of humor and his... uhhh... abrasiveness to
keep people away. Of course he pushes Scully away the most. She's
taken the place in his life that his sister used to occupy. He's given
up the chance to Have Samantha back in order to save Scully. Ahhh,
saving Scully, that wondrous pasttime. "Scully in jeoapardy. Must
save." And yes, she has the "Mulder in jeoapardy. Must save" mantra in
her head. And of course there's "David's on Jeoapardy. But no one can
save him now."

> Scully has always had an interesting history of rebellion against
> authority from the "Beyond the Sea" cigarette story that she retells > here, to joining the FBI against her family's wishes, to the way she > has stood up to both Skinner and the OPC folks in the past.

She rebels against authority, but what is he for? We know what Mulder

is for, but what about Scully? We know that, as opposed to Fox who's
mainly interested in "The Big Picture," Dana shows more concern for the
victims of the cases they investigate. This is indeed noble, but what
underlying vision motivates Scully? Does she have a life-goal, an
achievement she wants to accomplish? Or is this whole goal-oriented
behavior just a guy thing?

> The Mulder and Scully scenes in this episode were the most painful
> we've ever had to watch. We open with Scully wandering off after she
> has been drug out in the middle of the night to listen to yet another >one of Mulder's farfetched cases - this one - as she points out later - > a "poorly veiled synopsis of an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle". How > appropriate that the "Moose and Squirrel" nickname for Our Heroes
> shows up at this time because Mulder has never been more the bumbling > Moose than he is here - constantly stumbling and saying all the wrong > things. As a contemplative Scully ponders her life Mulder blows in
> like a hurricane telling her all about a vacation he must take and
> doling out assignments for her. David Duchovny is wonderful in this
> scene as Mulder moves from accusing Scully of "abandoning" him (like
> *he* can even begin to talk) to defensive when Scully hits him with
> "That makes it sound like you're my superior" to petulant as he starts > his "you were just assigned" (oooo, cold Mulder) "this work is my
> life" speech to bewildered hurt when as he asks "You don't want it to > be?". Moose is clearly very very confused in his selfish little world > as to what to give Scully here. He's stuck on the desk thing.

Being new here, I never heard the Rocky & Bullwinkle references, but I

laughed my ass off anyway!! It's great when TV characters talk about TV
shows. It's so spooky. Like some weird meta-fiction gone terribly
right.
What's up with Fox? I know we're supposed to not like him a little
more right now, but still, he's more caustic than necessary here. Maybe
chasing the Consortium and their alien allies around is taking its toll.
Wasn't it Nietschze or one of those dour philosopher guys who said
something like, 'Be careful when you stare into the void, that it does
not stare into you,' or something as equally pithy and depressing? I
think it fits. My personal favorite line of philosophy is, "We demand
rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" :-p

> Above all this is clearly Gillian Anderson's show as she is given the
> chance to explore a much more personal side to Dana rather than
> Scully. As usual she gives us work filled with hundreds of tiny
> moments of brilliance with which she paints this character. So what is > Scully looking for here? I don't think that she even knows. She tells > Ed "Sometimes I wish I were that impulsive" and his reply "Careful
> what you wish for" couldn't have been more apt. Somewhat surprised at
> Ed's initial overture she manages an "I'd like that" answer to his
> date before her Scully filter kicks in and she thinks it wiser to lie
> about leaving town. It is only when Mulder sends her over the edge
> again as he easily tracks her down due to her predictable nature,
> questions her decisions on the case, and then mocks her about a date
> that she decides to retaliate against herself and Mulder. "I did as
> told. As always." isn't the answer for her here - taking a risk is.
> In the scene where Scully paces and asks Ed out Anderson gives us a
> great moment of nervous insecurity - unfortunately for her, Ed
> celebrates the moment by self mutilation.
>
> Scully has, as we've all speculated, been living the life of a nun
> since joining the X-Files. For those who don't know "Glengarry Glen
> Ross" came out in 1992. From what we know her last and perhaps only
> long term relationship was with an older authority figure which falls > in with her "there are other fathers" comment along with Mulder. So,
> Scully opts for the crummy bar as it is a good place to go when you're > feeling down, has a few drinks (though is not drunk), waxes
> philosophic about her choices, and then decides to act impulsively -
> not by sleeping with Ed, but by getting the tattoo she deserves - in
> what turns out to be a scene with surprisingly sexual overtones.

Pleasantly surprising sexual overtones. Is there anything this woman

cannot do? I was talking to my girlfriend about Giliian (we have a
mature realationship, so we can talk in an objective manner about
beautiful actresses with pouty lips, alluring eyes, great... oh, ahhh,
never mind), and she couldn't believe that she's not even thirty yet,
given the way she plays the character

> As if we didn't have enough pain on the show we have that chilling

> final scene as Scully returns to her still deskless office even more
> depressed than when she left. In an astoundingly insensitive move
> fueled by his confusion over her behavior Mulder jokes about her
> second appearance in the X-Files. "All this because I didn't get you a > desk?" No, Mulder all this because you didn't have a clue.

Isn't it weird that Gillian's personal life (vis a vis Clyde and Piper)

has been in the news again, the same time that the show is revisiting
parts of Scully's life that were explored last time Gillian's life was
so public? nothing profound to say, I just think its weird.

>

> Random Musings
> -------------------------
> -This again was one of those times when all that brouhaha over an
> episode before it airs seems just so silly to me in perspective. How
> folks can continue to judge things that they haven't seen themselves
> on obviously exaggerated hearsay always amuses me. The "reshoots"
> rumor among others was false, and frankly I didn't need cancer as a
> motivation for Scully.

Right on, sister. I thought we left baseless speculation and name

calling to Congressmen and journalists.

> -What *COOL* music choices. The Pretenders "Tattooed Love Boys":

> "I get tattoos because I need it.". The Partridge Family singing about > wanting to be wanted (frankly if my neighbor was playing this that
> loud and then I had to face Jehovah's Witnesses I might be tempted to
> kick her door down without Jodie Foster's help), and in the last bar
> scene a song by the group X.

The music caught me by surprise. For awhile, i thought I was watching

MTV. I think it made the episode seem more surreal, like things were
not quite as they usually are, even on this show.

> -I don't know about you folks, but I think there is *plenty* of room

> in that office for another desk. If Mulder knew what was good for him
> he would have at least had her name on the door by the time she
> returned, but nooooo.

When all this is over, he had better get her _something_.

> Autumn
> "I've always gone around in this circle."
>
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> "Are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream?"
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