XF2, Psychic Boogaloo!
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icepixieBar none, the best part was finding that Mulder and Scully's pillow talk consists of toxicology reports and animal tranquilizers. WHY DOES THAT NOT SURPRISE ME AT ALL. (Also? Squee. And heh, their combined paranoia put them in a house with a giant chain link gate out in the middle of nowhere, either in West Virginia or near DC. I was never quite clear on exactly where they lived.)
Did I mention squee above? Because yes, squee. I had heard rumors of a bitter separation prior to the film, and the whole "I won't come home tonight" thing made me a bit faint in the heart, but ahhhhh, that scene in front o their house? WORTH. IT. (Although I did wonder if there would be a bee somewhere in there...) Er, question, though...so Scully says it's Mulder's stubbornness that made her fall in love with him (*cheers*), and he says that's why they can't be together. Uh, they looked pretty damn "together" to me. That was one of several things I didn't quite understand.
In general, the nostalgia factor was VERY high, which was really all I was expecting. Hell, M&S could read the phone book at each other for two hours and I'd watch. Plus there was the Skin-man! I love me some Skin-man. (Also loved the little trick with Mulder's cellphone. BWAH! Although I might have appreciated it more with Morgan & Wong on that list as well, but, eh. Still funny.) I cackled at the bit with the boat in the credits. HEE!
Beyond that...hmm. Okay, the most unbelievable part was that Scully could go from forensic pathologist to brain surgeon in, apparently, very little time. Scully the county medical examiner I would believe; Scully the brain surgeon, not so much. But anyway.
I had always wondered what it would look like when Scully finally said no more, and...I guess it looks a lot like this. (Except without the unbelievable brain surgery. But anyway.) I guess she had no choice after the ending of the series, but...it seemed to work for her? Mostly? Except for the dying kid? (And ow, that "if you were a mother" comment. OUCH.) However, the plot...was not so good. I think it didn't work as well for me because M&S were in consultant positions to the FBI rather than agents themselves. They weren't at the center of the action until practically at the end, and then the whole Russians-and-Callum-Keith-Rennie-sewing-heads-on-and-mutilating-dogs...thing didn't make much sense at all. The psychic priest was supposed to be creepier than he turned out to be, I think. Oh, well.
But plot failings aside...this wasn't about the plot, this was about nostalgia and 'ship, not necessarily in that order, and it delivered on both counts, so I'm happy. (Okay, I would've been happier if Mulder hadn't had that tribble on his face for the first half hour, but, eh. I can deal.)
Did I mention squee above? Because yes, squee. I had heard rumors of a bitter separation prior to the film, and the whole "I won't come home tonight" thing made me a bit faint in the heart, but ahhhhh, that scene in front o their house? WORTH. IT. (Although I did wonder if there would be a bee somewhere in there...) Er, question, though...so Scully says it's Mulder's stubbornness that made her fall in love with him (*cheers*), and he says that's why they can't be together. Uh, they looked pretty damn "together" to me. That was one of several things I didn't quite understand.
In general, the nostalgia factor was VERY high, which was really all I was expecting. Hell, M&S could read the phone book at each other for two hours and I'd watch. Plus there was the Skin-man! I love me some Skin-man. (Also loved the little trick with Mulder's cellphone. BWAH! Although I might have appreciated it more with Morgan & Wong on that list as well, but, eh. Still funny.) I cackled at the bit with the boat in the credits. HEE!
Beyond that...hmm. Okay, the most unbelievable part was that Scully could go from forensic pathologist to brain surgeon in, apparently, very little time. Scully the county medical examiner I would believe; Scully the brain surgeon, not so much. But anyway.
I had always wondered what it would look like when Scully finally said no more, and...I guess it looks a lot like this. (Except without the unbelievable brain surgery. But anyway.) I guess she had no choice after the ending of the series, but...it seemed to work for her? Mostly? Except for the dying kid? (And ow, that "if you were a mother" comment. OUCH.) However, the plot...was not so good. I think it didn't work as well for me because M&S were in consultant positions to the FBI rather than agents themselves. They weren't at the center of the action until practically at the end, and then the whole Russians-and-Callum-Keith-Rennie-sewing-heads-on-and-mutilating-dogs...thing didn't make much sense at all. The psychic priest was supposed to be creepier than he turned out to be, I think. Oh, well.
But plot failings aside...this wasn't about the plot, this was about nostalgia and 'ship, not necessarily in that order, and it delivered on both counts, so I'm happy. (Okay, I would've been happier if Mulder hadn't had that tribble on his face for the first half hour, but, eh. I can deal.)
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Date: 2008-07-26 03:51 am (UTC)I want to hug them and squeeze them and call them George. SO CUTE!
I took that to mean "together anymore", but I'm not sure either.
I got the distinct impression it was something they'd talked about several times before, and it was like this standing thing between them, but...I dunno.
Because she looked awfully at home there, but... the beard and the "you're a psycho hermit" talk suggest otherwise.
Yeah, I wondered about that too. I can explain away the "it's not good for you to be so isolated" as "...from people other than me" (and let's face it, they have juuuust about the most unhealthily codependent relationship in TVdom), but...yeah. I don't know. Although the bed scene made it really seem like they were living together, even with the "scratchy beard" comment (maybe this was a longstanding argument?).
(And really, would she have let that beard happen if she'd been sleeping with him all the months he was growing it? Ugh.)
She was always too indulgent of him. I can see it, actually.
If they'd been together for the past six years, you'd think it'd take more than a random consulting case to make her go all "OMG you're a crazy UFO freak!", especially if they'd been doing fine for years beforehand.
Well, I got the impression that they'd had no contact whatsoever with the FBI, aliens, conspiricists, or monsters of any sort in between the finale and this movie, so it was kind of a relatively out-of-nowhere UFO freakout. Maybe.
Conclusion: I just have no idea where they're coming from.Wait, what was on the phone? I only got as far as "ha, he's got a Gillian in his contacts list!" and "wait, does he seriously only have four people in his phone?" before the shot ended. I was in bad seats. : (
I thought it was a Gillian at first, but it's actually Gilligan, Spotnitz, and Shiban (aka the writers and co-producers for much of the series). Hee!
There was post-credits stuff? NOOOOOOOOO!!!
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IT WAS AWESOME! The credits turned from a background of sweeping snow to sweeping waves, rather of a tropical hue, then you could see the shadow of a helicopter on the ocean, and then a rowboat came into view. Mulder was rowing, and Scully was leaning back in the bow. Both were wearing bathing suits. They looked up and waved to the helicopter.
Best fanservice ever!
Uhhhh, maybe she got her brain surgery training online while she was googling stem cell research? :::facepalm:::
She took courses from Phoenix University!
Dunno, I kinda liked the fact that they had an outsider's perspective for once. The plot wasn't their best, though, no.
I didn't like that they ended up spending so much time apart while actually investigating. Especially in the scene where Mulder and Amanda Peet are chasing after RayK in the reallyreally tall building, I felt like that should've been Scully and not whatsherface. It needed more of them actually working together.
GAH THAT'S WHY HE LOOKED SO FAMILIAR. I am made of fail.
Dood. You need your eyes checked. ;)
Seriously. Seriously. I'm just glad she finally called him on it.
Oof, for real though.