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elapsesSo remember how that night the first XF2 promo photo came out EVERY SINGLE PERSON who remotedly loved the show made a post that consisted of little more than !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the pictures themselves reuploaded to their image host of choice? We were so ridiculously spammy that it almost looped back around to charming again? AND IT WAS GREAT?
I have since been weirdly terrified that any repeat experience would ruin the first one. Indeeeed, I have refrained from bringing up any of the other promo pictures here (except for the Wondercon ones, which, SHUT UP, was totally important, as I had a grainy cell phone photo to show everyone, PLUS GILLIAN PICKED LINT OFF DAVID, ergo -- IMPORTANT EVENT), because after the second or third time it shows up on my friends list, my (wet blanket) reaction is "god, you guys, HOW MANY EXCLAMATION POINTS DO YOU WANT OUT OF ME?"
Well, no more, my friends. This picture (this picture!!!) DOES THINGS TO ME. When I first saw it, it literally took me a full minute to start processing words again. It's unbelivably intimate and intoxicating and perfect, and even though we've all got it set as our desktop background by now, you cannot deny it deserves to be crossposted across the internet as many times as possible.
AND HEY, GUYS: I am genuinely curious as to what the first thought that ran through your head when you saw this was? Was it even a thought?
Somewhat related question: are there other TV shows that have at least once exploited foreheads as a way to express affection? I thought there were -- I think I remember, on more than one occasion, telling someone two fictional people were "pulling a Mulder and Scully", but I cannot for the life of me remember who, when, and where?!
(I swear to god, in most of those intervening years, THEIR FOREHEADS saw more action than they did. Forehead kisses were their bizarro way of saying "I love you! And I want to share this INTIMATE MOMENT with you! But it's not... like that. Which is why we aren't kissing on the lips! [subtextual sexual tension]" I swear to god, no other show has ever put sex on that high of a pedestal. There is no way their first time measured up to the zillions and zillions of fantasties they must've been having about each other since season one, no matter how many fanfiction authors believe the contrary. Unresolved sexual tension as realized by the X-Files is simultaneously the very very best and most excruciating gift television has ever given me.)
I have since been weirdly terrified that any repeat experience would ruin the first one. Indeeeed, I have refrained from bringing up any of the other promo pictures here (except for the Wondercon ones, which, SHUT UP, was totally important, as I had a grainy cell phone photo to show everyone, PLUS GILLIAN PICKED LINT OFF DAVID, ergo -- IMPORTANT EVENT), because after the second or third time it shows up on my friends list, my (wet blanket) reaction is "god, you guys, HOW MANY EXCLAMATION POINTS DO YOU WANT OUT OF ME?"
Well, no more, my friends. This picture (this picture!!!) DOES THINGS TO ME. When I first saw it, it literally took me a full minute to start processing words again. It's unbelivably intimate and intoxicating and perfect, and even though we've all got it set as our desktop background by now, you cannot deny it deserves to be crossposted across the internet as many times as possible.
AND HEY, GUYS: I am genuinely curious as to what the first thought that ran through your head when you saw this was? Was it even a thought?
Somewhat related question: are there other TV shows that have at least once exploited foreheads as a way to express affection? I thought there were -- I think I remember, on more than one occasion, telling someone two fictional people were "pulling a Mulder and Scully", but I cannot for the life of me remember who, when, and where?!
(I swear to god, in most of those intervening years, THEIR FOREHEADS saw more action than they did. Forehead kisses were their bizarro way of saying "I love you! And I want to share this INTIMATE MOMENT with you! But it's not... like that. Which is why we aren't kissing on the lips! [subtextual sexual tension]" I swear to god, no other show has ever put sex on that high of a pedestal. There is no way their first time measured up to the zillions and zillions of fantasties they must've been having about each other since season one, no matter how many fanfiction authors believe the contrary. Unresolved sexual tension as realized by the X-Files is simultaneously the very very best and most excruciating gift television has ever given me.)
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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.
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Date: 2008-04-28 04:19 pm (UTC)I had the same silent concerns, so you're not alone! And yes! This photo definitely calmed all my fears. The angles in the other shots definitely weren't flattering, especially with respect to David. But their hotness came through in the clutch, so I think we've got nothing to worry about.
Also, RE: them being all grown up...
It makes it SO WEIRD to re-watch the wee-days of season 2 because they are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PEOPLE now. And yeah, it's weird to watch s2 with s7-9 in mind, but something about these photos just makes it infinitely stranger. It just reminds me even more how young they are how much they've yet to go through and how FUCKING INTENSE their relationship will become. THEY HAVE NO IDEA! ITS SO AWESOME! And it's so cool to see what a strong foundation they have to their friendship that yeah has those moments of I WANNA SEX YOU UP (more often than not? y/y?) but for the most part it's just such a great bond. OH MY GOD THEY MAKE ME RAMBLE SO MUCH.
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?
YES! TO EVERYTHING! And I was thinking about this as I was making coffee yesterday, that it's SO FUCKING AMAZING how these characters' private life is literally PRIVATE. We are not privy to 90% of the intimacy they share, and yet what we are privy to speaks VOLUMES. The "Per Manum" scene always gives me chills because it feels so wrong to intrude on such a private moment between these two, but also for me, that scene in the motel room in "Requiem." Not only does it break my heart (for obvious reasons) but it's such a deliberate and intimate display of affection that should be just there's but we're like these weird voyeurs watching their every move? OH YEAH BECAUSE ITS A SHOW AND THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF IT? UGH I TOLD YOU: RAMBLE RAMBLE RAMBLE. Words come out and in such a high volume, I don't even know.