YEAH, THAT WAS WEIRD, I AGREE. And as I was watching it, I kept thinking about Scully's response to hearing all these crazy priest scandals over the years, and a part of me feels like it would have caused her to become really disillusioned in her faith? Yes, she's a spiritual/religious person, but I think she's also had her doubts. And after everything she's been through with Mulder and just having him rub off on her as well-- if she saw her conduit to God be convicted of doing stuff like that? I think her faith would be significantly shaken, because of both her devotion to her faith as well as her "strict rationalism." Does that make sense?
And okay, I am probably in the severe minority (at least in my LJ) but as much as I love Scully becoming a doctor again-- going from forensic pathology for 10 years to being a pediatrician? I don't see that! I feel like she'd turn more towards science science rather than medicine. Because that always seemed to be her thing, too! She came to the FBI because she realized that medicine wasn't actually what she wanted. Now okay I get her wanting a normal life after all she's been through, but I don't necessarily see that as medicine?
I loved that Mulder kept saying things like "i'm only half of the team" and was so sensitive to Scully's feelings? THEY GREW UP! !!!!! YES !!!!!!! And little things like her bugger line and their little "what a colorful way to put it" "I could think of something better" "oh I'm sure you could!" exchange. GREAT STUFF.
(I didn't expect Mulder to pop up there! I was like, "aww, Scully! WHOA -- HEY! :D :D :D!") YES!!!!! And just the whole exchange. "I can feel you thinking." and the way he leans into her. AND AND AND, let me curse god for a while. AND AUUUGHHHH TALKING IN BED, I LOVE THESE TWO.
I was not totally on board with the Scully/little boy (again, very platonic punctuation mark) plot but I did like that the surgery was the ending. I agree. I wanted to care about the Scully storyline, but I just couldn't? It was too disconnected from Mulder for me to care. Not because she needs to be connected to Mulder in everything she does, but just in the sense that the XF magic comes from the fact that they're only one half of a whole, like he says. And so much of this film is them doing their own things and you don't really have that believer/skeptic (and when it was there it seemed like a device) slash intuition vs. cold hard facts/irrefutable science dialectic that I love so much.
AH WELL. With me starting to get sick and moving and having to get ready to leave the country in a week for a week, I think there's a chance I won't get to see this again any time soon. I still really want to and will try to! But I'm not completely heartbroken about letting it simmer and revisiting when it comes out on DVD?
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Date: 2008-07-26 05:25 pm (UTC)And okay, I am probably in the severe minority (at least in my LJ) but as much as I love Scully becoming a doctor again-- going from forensic pathology for 10 years to being a pediatrician? I don't see that! I feel like she'd turn more towards science science rather than medicine. Because that always seemed to be her thing, too! She came to the FBI because she realized that medicine wasn't actually what she wanted. Now okay I get her wanting a normal life after all she's been through, but I don't necessarily see that as medicine?
I loved that Mulder kept saying things like "i'm only half of the team" and was so sensitive to Scully's feelings? THEY GREW UP!
!!!!! YES !!!!!!! And little things like her bugger line and their little "what a colorful way to put it" "I could think of something better" "oh I'm sure you could!" exchange. GREAT STUFF.
(I didn't expect Mulder to pop up there! I was like, "aww, Scully! WHOA -- HEY! :D :D :D!")
YES!!!!! And just the whole exchange. "I can feel you thinking." and the way he leans into her. AND AND AND, let me curse god for a while. AND AUUUGHHHH TALKING IN BED, I LOVE THESE TWO.
I was not totally on board with the Scully/little boy (again, very platonic punctuation mark) plot but I did like that the surgery was the ending.
I agree. I wanted to care about the Scully storyline, but I just couldn't? It was too disconnected from Mulder for me to care. Not because she needs to be connected to Mulder in everything she does, but just in the sense that the XF magic comes from the fact that they're only one half of a whole, like he says. And so much of this film is them doing their own things and you don't really have that believer/skeptic (and when it was there it seemed like a device) slash intuition vs. cold hard facts/irrefutable science dialectic that I love so much.
AH WELL. With me starting to get sick and moving and having to get ready to leave the country in a week for a week, I think there's a chance I won't get to see this again any time soon. I still really want to and will try to! But I'm not completely heartbroken about letting it simmer and revisiting when it comes out on DVD?