I DON'T KNOW?!?! Re: being grown up and hot, this picture has completely erased by (silent) concerns about them being too old? I think some of the promo photos were at angles, and I should have knownnnn after they were so pretty at Wondercon, but my sister kept leaning over my shoulder and saying things about David having an old man sag/Gillian's chin poking out of her skin and I was AFRAID. And now, after this, I am not. Because they aaaaaaaare grown up and hot. AND THEIR PICTURES. I cannot deal.
in my book THIS IS THE ONLY SHOW THAT EVER GOT IT RIGHT. I agree COMPLETELY. There are so many television shows that initially set up their UST couple -- and they simply cannot maintain it. In a vast majority of cases, after two or three seasons, the fact that they're still not together gets ridiculous -- and a lot of them cave even before that?? But Mulder and Scully -- I don't know how, but they did it. You're so right about the electricity -- it's so funny and wonderful how there's basically no sex at alllllll for most of the show and yet it's still got this incredibly, incredibly hot current. IT SIZZLES.
It almost makes it wrong for us to even ever see these two be more intimate than touching foreheads (or the occasional kiss) because it's something so private and personal for them and OH MY GOD I'M TALKING ABOUT THESE GUYS AS IF THEY ARE REAL. Even in the few moments we do get to see of them I still feel like an interloper? Like, oh god, the scene at the end of Per Manum? LORD, it's so desperately intimate it's almost hard to watch. And like, the hallway scene in Memento Mori? It's so sweet and sad and HOPEFUL and it's theirs??! It's so looooooovely that they reach this high note of intimacy that so many people never ever get to experience long before they ever do the naked pretzel. It's funny how for them, sex is both nothing and everything?
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Date: 2008-04-26 06:18 pm (UTC)in my book THIS IS THE ONLY SHOW THAT EVER GOT IT RIGHT.
I agree COMPLETELY. There are so many television shows that initially set up their UST couple -- and they simply cannot maintain it. In a vast majority of cases, after two or three seasons, the fact that they're still not together gets ridiculous -- and a lot of them cave even before that?? But Mulder and Scully -- I don't know how, but they did it. You're so right about the electricity -- it's so funny and wonderful how there's basically no sex at alllllll for most of the show and yet it's still got this incredibly, incredibly hot current. IT SIZZLES.
It almost makes it wrong for us to even ever see these two be more intimate than touching foreheads (or the occasional kiss) because it's something so private and personal for them and OH MY GOD I'M TALKING ABOUT THESE GUYS AS IF THEY ARE REAL.
Even in the few moments we do get to see of them I still feel like an interloper? Like, oh god, the scene at the end of Per Manum? LORD, it's so desperately intimate it's almost hard to watch. And like, the hallway scene in Memento Mori? It's so sweet and sad and HOPEFUL and it's theirs??! It's so looooooovely that they reach this high note of intimacy that so many people never ever get to experience long before they ever do the naked pretzel. It's funny how for them, sex is both nothing and everything?
ANYWAY: I love how they only ever implied it.