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 04:17 am (UTC)Maybe she was pulling a double shift at the hospital and he got bored? (Or maybe he was just bored in general? All he seemed to be doing was combing newspapers for paranormal/alien reports.)
He looked like Al from Home Improvement. So wrong.
ARGH ARGH YES.
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Date: 2008-07-26 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-26 04:24 am (UTC)But I'm a pretty hardcore shipper.
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Date: 2008-07-26 04:38 am (UTC)I think the movie would've been greatly improved if they'd chosen either the shipper plot or the Fr. Joe plot and run with it, instead of trying to do both. Both plots ended up missing too many pieces.
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Date: 2008-07-26 04:32 pm (UTC)I have half a mind to write it as fanfic. Although someone else probably has already. (That's the major benefit of such a large fandom...anything TPTB screw up, someone fixes! Yay!)
I think the movie would've been greatly improved if they'd chosen either the shipper plot or the Fr. Joe plot and run with it, instead of trying to do both. Both plots ended up missing too many pieces.
I don't know if just the shipper plot could've sustained the whole movie, though, even with the Frankenstein plot. I think if I were writing the movie, I would've dumped everything but the shipper plot, then had some kind of mutant or ghost show up figuratively at M&S's doorstep, and threaten them in such a way that they had to get involved, and be the primary "investigators" in the "case." There would've been many more creepy aspects, and a lot more of them working together to find the truth.
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Date: 2008-07-27 12:58 am (UTC)I almost wonder if that was the point of the story: to leave gaps for fanficcers to fill in.
I think if I were writing the movie, I would've dumped everything but the shipper plot, then had some kind of mutant or ghost show up figuratively at M&S's doorstep, and threaten them in such a way that they had to get involved, and be the primary "investigators" in the "case." There would've been many more creepy aspects, and a lot more of them working together to find the truth.
Yeah -- more like a real monster of the week. It seems like unless the monster (dear movie people: MOTW episodes typically include a monster) is actually threatening Mulder and Scully, their characters have some serious lack-of-investment issues with the plot, given their distance from the Bureau.
I was so glad to see Skinner, though. I wish he'd had more to do.
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Date: 2008-07-27 02:50 am (UTC)You may very well be on to something. There are plenty of them.
Yeah -- more like a real monster of the week. It seems like unless the monster (dear movie people: MOTW episodes typically include a monster) is actually threatening Mulder and Scully, their characters have some serious lack-of-investment issues with the plot, given their distance from the Bureau.
Indeed. (And yeah, there's a reason it's MOTW and not PsychicOTW.)
I was so glad to see Skinner, though. I wish he'd had more to do.
Yes! I had kind of resigned myself to no Skinner by that point in the movie. It was wonderful to see him again.