XF2, Psychic Boogaloo!

[icepixie]

Bar 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.)

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[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Bar none, the best part was finding that Mulder and Scully's pillow talk consists of toxicology reports and animal tranquilizers

YES YES AND YES. I love them.

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.

I took that to mean "together anymore", but I'm not sure either. I can't even figure out if Scully was actually living in Mulder's hermit shack or not. Were they already together? Or had they drifted apart, and her needing to find him for the FBI brought them back together? Because she looked awfully at home there, but... the beard and the "you're a psycho hermit" talk suggest otherwise. (And really, would she have let that beard happen if she'd been sleeping with him all the months he was growing it? Ugh.) 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.

Conclusion: I just have no idea where they're coming from.

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.

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 cackled at the bit with the boat in the credits. HEE!

There was post-credits stuff? NOOOOOOOOO!!! Sarah wanted to leave, and I was all, "Well, okay, it's not like anything interesting's going to happen anyway..." CURSES.

Okay, the most unbelievable part was that Scully could go from forensic pathologist to brain surgeon in, apparently, very little time.

Uhhhh, maybe she got her brain surgery training online while she was googling stem cell research? :::facepalm:::

I think it didn't work as well for me because M&S were in consultant positions to the FBI rather than agents themselves.

Dunno, I kinda liked the fact that they had an outsider's perspective for once. The plot wasn't their best, though, no.

Russians-and-Callum-Keith-Rennie-sewing-heads-on-and-mutilating-dogs

GAH THAT'S WHY HE LOOKED SO FAMILIAR. I am made of fail.

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.

Heheheh, yes.

(Okay, I would've been happier if Mulder hadn't had that tribble on his face for the first half hour

Seriously. Seriously. I'm just glad she finally called him on it.

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Bar none, the best part was finding that Mulder and Scully's pillow talk consists of toxicology reports and animal tranquilizers.

YES. It went directly from Scully talking about Mulder's package to "Oh, yeah, remember that guy's chopped off arm?"

I, too, was afraid of a separation, but that was much more together than I had hoped for.

I really want to see the fic coming out of this, especially in regard to Skin-Man and such. They need to have him over for dinner or something. That and rowboat!fics. ;)

Scully the county medical examiner I would believe; Scully the brain surgeon, not so much.

Yeah, I was trying to figure out what her specialty was supposed to be. Wear your mask, Scully! I'm sure she can slice and dice with the best of them, but she hasn't dealt with live patients (other than Mulder) in years. It does sound like she was the solitary breadwinner in the family.

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.

Exactly. :)

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Oh, question: did anybody else half-wonder if Christopher was William? I was a bit afraid he got some weird-ass brain disease from his daddy. I miss William, but I'm really glad that wasn't the case.

[bigrosie.livejournal.com]

Ok, I was disappointed. Like every other shipper I was hoping for some more domestic bliss - like a meal together or some joking around. After seeing it again, I realize now that CC did the right thing with their relationship. After six years of Mulder isolating himself - and I think DD did a good job of portraying that stir-crazy syndrome, especially when he tells Scully that he's alright when clearly he isn't -OF COURSE there's going to be some distance! It's obvious that 6 years of that is taking its toll on Scully because Mulder refuses to associate with anyone but her - that's gotta be a hell of a lot of pressure to put on a person you are living with, to make them be the only one who can make you happy in life. So I see now why CC did this and plus it makes us shippers use more of our imagination and you all know what that means - FAN FICTION!!! I expect some good stuff to come out of this movie, now that none of us have to guess at M&S's current situation. And the ending was classic X-Files - we don't really know 100% that they are still together because Mulder hasn't really addressed his issues at all. He's still in his office cutting up newspapers.

If anyone knows where to find some great XFIWTB fan-fiction, please post it on here!

Oh and another thing, did anyone notice the book on Scully's nightstand during the cuddle session/toxicology report? CC didn't show the entire title, but the last word of the book title spelled SEX in big gold letters! I noticed it the second time I saw the movie.

Thoughts about the book?

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

re: Mulder stealing Jeremiah Crichton's face badger - I think it was either a recent thing or a longstanding complaint on Scully's part. I'm betting Mulder didn't shave every day once he left the FBI as I believe it is regulation that agents be clean shaven. So it didn't scare me or freak me out.

Scully announcing she wouldn't be coming home that night? SCARED ME though!!! I was very worried right up until the end that CC would actually split em up!

Scully as brain surgeon didn't jive with me either, not to mention Scully googling stem cell therapy?!?! I mean they could've at least gone to GoogleScholar or something! *L*

Skinner showing up got the second biggest squee out of me for the entire movie! *L*

The plot made about as much sense as the plot for the first movie did so I won't complain too much about it. I was definitely more there for the ship and the nostalgia. Which we got in SPADES!!!

[bigrosie.livejournal.com]

And seriously, it must have totally escaped CC's brain that a Catholic hospital would never in a million years allow one of their physicians to engage in stem cell research or surgery seeing as how abortion would have to be involved. That was what killed a lot of the movie for me - plus the google sessions - it's like they slapped this together with very little thought that they would be insulting the audience's intelligence.

Still in all, like I said before it was better the second time around because I started to understand why all was not blissful in the Mulder-Scully homestead.