Googled My Symptoms And Turns Out I Have To Have A Pretty Girl Kiss Me

In no particular order (number 1-10 too keep track if how many):

1 Momento Mori

2 Triangle

3 Ascension/One Breath

3 Redux part 1 and 2

4 unruhe

5 Elegy

6 Tithonus

7 bad blood

8 Arcadia

9 young at heart

10 Wet Wired

Do people actually have lists of favorite xf episodes? Because I'm trying to think of my top ten and it's impossible.

Personally I’m angst lover and I love the moments where angst forces emotion from characters. They couldn’t have killed Scully and we all knew that, but there was something about watching Mulder not know that is so txf. It’s so “he wants to believe” that she will get better while while still not knowing how exactly that is possible and her being completely convinced (after Momento Mori) that she will be dying and, “no Mulder don’t fight me in this, it’s a fact” that is just so in line with the entirety of the show. And while I’ve also not seen a lot of fics where Scully doesn’t get cancer I also think that a lot of caner arc fics dont get a lot of love. I understand people sometimes just want to read something feel-good and cute but don’t knock the emotional catharsis of watching two people who are madly in comfort each other through the fact that they are about to be ripped apart until you try it.

Y’all should go read “I Never Got Over Those Blue Eyes (I See Them Everywhere)” by HeavyOnTheTragedy on AO3 because shameless self promotion

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

Before i watched fight the future i saw some spoilers, just vague things like “hallway scene” and “Antarctica” and “that fucking bee” I said to myself “surely, SURELY, its not that deep.” IT IS THAT DEEP. I rented this movie and i watched it over two days, and it lived rent free in my head forever. If my friends ever ask why I’m so into the xfiles (because im totally normal about my interests all the time) I show them the hallway scene. When it ended one if my friends goes “why do I feel like I just watched them have sex?” BECAUSE THEY BASICALLY DID, THEY EMOTIONALLY HAD SEX. That’s a canonical kiss to me because they totally would’ve if not for an outside intervention. Also also also the Antarctica escape scene. I am a SUCKER for the night in shining armor trope and the way she said something like “gotcha” after he gave her cpr sent me

So yeah, it is that deep and I will probably be buying that movie so i can watch it whenever i want cuz pirating websites are sucky

Oh my god do i want her or do i want to be her

oh she was SLAYING the 90’s

“everyone interprets characters differently” unfortunately so true! thankfully I was blessed with an intense preternatural insight into their core beings (watched and paid attention) and I don’t have to worry

YOU MEAN A ROTARY?!

Season 4… save me..

Save me

Save me season 4

FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY in TELIKO (4.03)

FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY | The X-Files: Fight The Future

Triangle vs S2 Abduction arc perfect encapsulated

The contrast between the way Mulder and Scully act whenever they have to rescue the other one from something is amazing.

Because Scully immediately goes into hyper-competent mode. Like she has A PLAN and she is going to do the plan and to hell with anyone who is going to stop her. Everything by the book about her goes away and she’s just like nope we are doing everything this way if you get in my way I will end you. I am very worried but I refuse to let my emotions influence my plan unless I am using them to scare the shit out of bad guys. I am short and full of rage and I am the only person with the smarts to pull this off. Do not stop me.

And then Mulder just like…descends into pure chaos. He will either snap and nearly kill someone or he will descend into a puddle of tears on the floor. There is very little in between. He has not slept in a week. He has not had a coherent thought beyond the need to save her. There is no plan just him racing blindly into the darkness because there is nothing in him beyond the need to get her back. And yes to hell with everyone who tries to stop him but in a way that’s tinged with so much grief and unpredictability that’s it’s just as terrifying to us as it is to the people around him.

Idk I just like the contrast.

(Also this is as of S2E6 so no spoilers please!)