X files movie marathon: all time favourite

Last night I voted Small Potatoes as my all time favourite X files episode. Of course I still have about 4.5 seasons to go, so maybe there's another little gem in there somewhere :-)

Before I start ranting about why I like Small Potatoes so much, I'll give you my thoughts on the other 3 episodes I saw last night during my X files movie marathon.


Tempus Fugit and Max are also great episodes. They start off relaxed, dare I say happy, celebrating Scully's birthday and an orally fixated Mulder (mmmm, orally fixated Mulderrrrrrr).
Anyhoooooo, that's not really how the episode started, it starts with the abduction of Max Fennig. You gotta love the irony in that scene; being saved from a cold-blooded murder by an alien-abduction, only to die in a plane crash 9 minutes later...

After the plane crash Mulder goes on a wrist-watch scavenger hunt in the body bags. You gotta have a hobby... Later on while he's fishing for aliens, agent Pendrell, obviously drunk and with a crush on Scully, is shot. At the end of Max Scully says he saved her life. I found that a bit of an odd remark, I mean, he was actually blocking Scully from shooting the bad guy. I'm pretty sure he would've either drawn his own gun or ducked out of the way if he wasn't completely plastered.
Scully gets another nosebleed on the job and gives Skinner one of her trademark "I'm fine"s.
Mulder starts to strip in front of Scully. For some strange reason she actually turns around, didn't she have him half naked in her bed last season?

Scully: "Mulder... you have never remembered my birthday in the four years I've known you."
Mulder: "That's the way I like to celebrate them, every four years. It's like dog years that way."
Scully: "Dog years? Thank you."
Mulder: "You're welcome. Oh, I got something for you."
Scully: "Oh, you've got to be kidding me..."
Mulder: "It's just something that reminded me of you."
Scully: "What? An alien implant?"
Mulder: "Two actually. I made them into earrings."

Mulder: "You have to admit the man had an enduring sense of style."
Scully: "Only Max Fenig and you would appreciate living like this."

Mulder: "Do you know where she is?" [Sharon Graffia]
Scully: "In a mental institution."
Mulder: "I'd go with you but... I'm afraid they'd lock me up."
Scully: "Me too."

Mulder: "More people are trying to get their hands on this thing than a 'Tickle-Me Elmo' doll."


Synchrony is about the effects of time travel. And Mulder showing off how much he can remember about Scully's graduate thesis.

Mulder: "The security officer, who is now in the morgue, has a body temperature a little south of Frosty the Snowman."

Mulder: "'Although common sense may rule out the possibility of time travel, the laws of quantum physics certainly do not.' In case you forgot, that's from your graduate thesis. You were a lot more open minded when you were a youngster."

Mulder: "Never? Never is a very long time, Scully. You said that yourself. 'Although multidimensionality suggests infinite outcomes in an infinite number of universes, each universe can produce only one outcome.'"
Scully: "I was 23 when I wrote that."


Finally, Small Potatoes. I'm a sucker for comedy and an X files shipper, need I say more :-)
Actually, I think David and Gillian should do a romantic comedy together. They've got the chemistry and they're funny as hell when they get the chance.
There are so many funny scenes I can't possibly write them all down. Van Blundht pretending to be Mulder is just hilarious, especially with the Taxi Driver scene. And of course the scene where Van Blundht tries to make a move on Scully. Wonder what would've happened if Mulder had kicked in the door 30 minutes later? Which reminds me, how did he know VB would be with Scully (had he thought about doing the same thing), and why did he kick in the door when he has a key?

Amanda Nelligan: "He dropped by my apartment one day and... one thing sort of led to another."
Mulder: "But the baby's father is an alien."
Amanda Nelligan: "No, no, I didn't say he was an alien. I said he's from another planet. His name is Luke Skywalker. He's what is known as a Jedi knight."
Scully: "Did he have a lightsabre?"
Amanda Nelligan: "No, he didn't bring it. He did sing his song for me though." [Hums the theme to 'Star Wars']
Scully: "How many times have you seen Star Wars, Amanda?"
Amanda Nelligan: "368. I should break 400 by Memorial Day." [Mulder leaves]
Scully: "Okay. Thank you."
Amanda Nelligan: "Oh, wait a minute. Wait. You know these... these four other babies that were... born around here with tails."
Scully: "Uh huh."
Amanda Nelligan: "There couldn't be any chance... Luke's the father, is there?"

Mulder: "How would this happen?"
Scully: "Birds and the bees and the monkey babies, Mulder."

Mrs Neeman: "I haven't been with a man since 1989! I mean not counting you, honey."

Mulder: "Oh, so you're saying there was romance involved?"
Edward Van Blundht: "Why is that so hard to believe? Just cause I was born with a tail no woman would want me? Maybe I got personality. Ever think of that?"

Mulder: "If you're waiting for my usual theory as to what's going on, I don't have it."
Scully: "I do. On behalf of all the women in the world, I seriously doubt this has anything to do with consensual sex."

Mulder: "I have a theory, if you want to hear it?"
Scully: "Van Blundht somehow physically transformed into his captor then walked out the door leaving no one the wiser?"
Mulder: "Scully, should we be picking out china patterns or what?"

Scully: "But what are you saying? That Van Blundht is an alien?"
Mulder: "Not unless they have trailer parks in space."

Mulder: "Hey Scully, if you could be somebody else for a day, who would it be?"
Scully: "Hopefully myself."
Mulder: "That's so boring... I mean wouldn't you even be tempted to try out someone else's existence for a day? Live your life as somebody else?"
Scully: "Looking like someone else, Mulder, and being someone else are completely different things."
Mulder: "Well, maybe it's not. I mean everybody else around you would treat you like you were somebody else. I mean, ultimately, maybe it's other people's reactions to us that makes us who we are."
Scully: "All right then... Eleanor Roosevelt."
Mulder: "Can't be a dead person."
Scully: "Why the hell not?"
Mulder: "Because..."

Scully: "This man's body is quite a scientific experiment and thankfully it's preserved and intact." [Examining the tail, Mulder accidentally snaps it in half. He continues talking to Scully while trying to arrange the tail so Scully won't notice. When Mulder leaves the morgue, the tail drops to the floor and Scully stares at it oddly]

Mulder: [to Amanda Nelligan] "I was just here... Where did I go?"

Skinner: "Which one of you wrote this?"
Mulder: "I did, Sir."
Skinner: "You spelled 'Federal Bureau of Investigation' wrong."
Mulder: "It's a typo."
Skinner: "Twice."

Scully: "I don't imagine you need to be told this, Mulder. But you're not a loser."
Mulder: "Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either. Am I?"

As I'm really lazy, I didn't write all these quotes down while watching the episode. Kudos to Red Wolf's X-Files Episode Guide.

X files movie marathon: headaches and TV

Apparently headaches and TV don't mesh well. I kinda already knew that but I wanted to continue my X files movie marathon anyway. Bad idea...

I've only managed to watch 2 episodes the last couple of days.

Kaddish is about a mudmonster, the Jewish Golem. I went to Prague a couple of years ago and kept thinking about that episode while I was there. Watching it again now, made me think of Prague. Beautiful city by the way, really worth a visit.
There's some spontaneous combustion, just not of the human kind. Mulder looked less than impressed with Scully's explanation as to why the book caught fire.
As for the "wedding" at the end, thank god they didn't kiss...

Curt Brunjes: "What kind of Jew trick is this?"
Mulder: "A Jew pulled it off two thousand years ago."

Jacob Weiss: "It was self defence."
Mulder: "Hanging a man in self defence?"

I think I missed a couple of minutes from Unrequited halfway through the episode; cause I can't remember why Teager can make himself "invisible". It's like memoires of an invisible man with an X-files twist. Instead of the mundane nosebleed, this time a woman starts bleeding from her eye. After seeing Mulder and Scully being chased by 3 rottis, I really think Scully should get a rottweiler. The red hair and black coat was a perfect match for the rottis black and tan coat :-)

Skinner: "Right now I'm flying by the seat of my pants."
Mulder: "You mean there's no procedure outline for an invisible assassin?"



BTW, if you're wondering where I get these screengrabs from go here.

X files movie marathon: skipped a day

I skipped a day as I only saw half an episode, but now I'm back on track with my X files movie marathon. Lots of great episodes...

Paper hearts
Mulder has some sort of telepathic connection with a serial killer he put in jail years ago.
I still don't understand why they changed his sister's abduction story. It all nearly ends as another Mulder guilt trip. Very nice ending for us X files shippers :-)

El mundo gira
El chupacabra!!! Another monster of the week episode. Poor goats...

Scully: "Did he tell you what happened?"
Mulder: "A flash of light, yellow rain, Maria! MARIA!" (the look on Scully's face :-)

Mulder: "Scully, I've been thinking. I know that's dangerous, but just bear with me. "


Leonard Betts
What I find kinda strange about Leonard Betts is that his body grew a new head, for some reason a head growing a new body makes more sense to me...you know, in a warped X files universe kinda way. One of the most memorable parts in this episode is when Scully is up to her shoulders squishing away in surgical waste and suggests Mulder should dig in as well cause he has longer arms. The look on his face :-)
I'm sort of wondering why Scully didn't tell Mulder what happened in the ambulance with Betts. Maybe she wanted to find out the facts first, before trusting a cancer-eating mutant. I guess the nosebleed was a pretty clear sign.

Mulder: "Blinked or winked?"

Leonard Betts: "I'm sorry... But, you have something I need."


Never again
Scully turns rebellious, ending up with a tattoo and nearly getting herself killed. It's the famous "why don't I have a desk episode" (shipper-famous that is). A lot of tension between Moose & Squirrel, heavy conversations. Mulder's being a bit of a jerk, I mean when Scully is opening up about her feelings he just suggest it's good to get away from eachother for a while and walks off. Good move Mulder...
Jodie Foster's really great as the psychotic talking tattoo.
I can't help but wonder what Mulder was going to say at the end, I'll go read some more fanfic to ease my mind.

Scully: "I'm not going."
Mulder: "What do you mean?"
Scully: "Your contact, while interesting in the context of science fiction was... at least in my memory, recounting a poorly veiled synopsis of an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle."
Mulder: "Eenie Weenie Chilli Beanie, the spirits are about to speak?"
Scully: "Rocky and Bullwinkle are looking for an Upsidasian mine. Boris Badenov alters the road signs, which causes them to walk onto a secret military base, where they are picked up by a car — with no windows and no door locks — and there are silent explosions from a compound called Hush-a-boom."
Mulder: "So you're refusing an assignment based on the adventures of..." [Boris Badenov voice] "Moose and Skweereel."
Scully: "Refusing an assignment? That makes it sound like you're my superior."
Mulder: "Do what you want. Don't go to Philadelphia. But let me remind you that I worked my arse off to get these files reopened. You were just assigned, this work is my life."
Scully: "And its become mine."
Mulder: "You don't want it to be?"
Scully: "This isn't about you, or maybe it is indirectly, I don't know."

Scully: "Look, Mulder, I have to go."
Mulder: "What" You got a date or something? You... you're kidding?"

Scully: "Ed, I... don't go out very much. I think the last time I went out on a date was to see 'Glengary Glen Ross'. And the characters in the movie had a much better time."

Mulder: "And congratulations for making a personal appearance in the X-Files for the second time. A world record."

Mulder: "All this because I... because I didn't get you a desk?"
Scully: "Not everything is about you, Mulder. This is my life."
Mulder: "Yes, but it's m..."


Memento Mori
Another one of my favourite X files episodes. Here's an outtake from Memento Mori on YouTube.
Scully gets another nosebleed, this time on the job. Lots of "I'm fine"s. Lots of angst. Skinner once again proves his loyalty to Mulder and Scully trying to make a deal with the Smoking man.
Mulder finds Scully's ova (looks like we'll be getting Uber-Scullys after all) and apparently walks around with them in his pocket for half an episode.
I'm also starting to see a hallway-scene pattern in the X files, personnaly I prefer to keep emotional conversations behind locked doors.
Oh, and the Lone Gunmen pulled a "Mulder panic-face" when he suggested they pick out something black and sexy.

Mulder: "Is it operable?"
Scully: "No."
Mulder: "But it's treatable?"
Scully: "The truth is that the type and placement of the tumour make it difficult... to the extreme."
Mulder: "I refuse to believe that."
Scully: "For all the times that I have said that to you I am as certain about this as you have ever been."

Mulder: "The truth will save you, Scully... I think it will save both of us."

X files movie marathon: bad day

If you think you're having a bad day, it's most likely nothing compared to what Krycek went through in the mytharc Tunguska and Terma. Seems like every other scene he gets beat up, he even loses his left arm at the end. I bet he's sorry now he yelled at Mulder not to leave him in the car ;-)

Not that the other characters were having the time of their life. Mulder is exposed to the black oil, crashes a truck, is nearly blown up at an oilfield. And the whole chicken-wire thing didn't look to comfortable either. I guess compared to other episodes Scully not having too much of a hard time, no kidnapping, blows to the head,...she's just thrown in jail for not talking.

Scully: "What I'm worried about is you, Mulder. How far you'll go. And how far I can follow you."

Krycek: "Mulder, you're not..."
Mulder: "I'm leaving the window rolled down. If I'm not back in a week I'll call Agent Scully and to come bring you a bowl of water."

Scully: "Several of the men on this committee are lawyers. It is my experience that lawyers ask the wrong question only when they don't want the right answer."

Mulder: "I can put my arms around you... both of them."

X files movie marathon: the good, the bad and the ugly

In my attempt to watch the whole X files series again before the release of the new X files movie I watched 3 more episodes last night.

The good: Unruhe
With another boring and useless meeting at work 4 hours from now, an icepick-lobotomy sounds really nice...Maybe I won't have to attend the meeting if I start rambling on about howlers in German. Not much to say about this episode, weird photo's, Scully getting kidnapped for the umpteenth time, Scully speaking German, Mulder in full Scully-protection mode shooting the murderer withouth even checking whether his got the right guy.

The bad: The field where I died
I really didn't like this episode. Not sure why though, maybe it's because I'm a shipper...
This is about the only good quote:
Mulder: "Dana? If... early in the four years we've been working together... an event occurred that suggested... or somebody told you that we'd been friends together... in other lifetimes. Always. Would it have changed some of the ways we looked at one another?"
Scully: "Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day... Well... maybe that flukeman thing. I could of lived without that just fine."

The ugly: Sanguinarium
If ever you need a reason not to have plastic surgery, watch Sanguinarium. I think I'll postpone a liposuction indefinetely and start doing some ab exercises instead. Mulder appears to be contemplating plastic surgery the way he keeps making funny faces in the mirror.

This morning I ended up watching Musings of a cigarette smoking man. It's about, you'll never guess, the Cigarette Smoking Man ;-) I guess pure evil isn't all that pure after all. I mean, the guy actually tries to become a writer and gives his employees Christmas presents (were those red and green ties implying something or am I just paranoid?). He even tries to quit smoking and writes his letter of resignation. Smoky gives his own view of life being like a box of chocolates.
Chris Owens who plays the young Smoking Man, plays Smoking Man Jr. later on in the series.

X files movie marathon: another season

Feeling ill really speeds up my X files movie marathon, didn't feel like doing a lot except vegging out in front of the TV. Here are the episodes I watched yesterday: Avatar, Quagmire, Wetwired, Talitha Cumi, Herrenvolk, Home and Teliko.

The situation Skinner got himself into in Avatar, would be something more likely to happen to Mulder in my opinion. Mulder and Scully find out more about their boss than I would like to know about mine.

Quagmire is the end of cute little Queequeg's life. I'm getting a strong impression Mulder's not to keen on pets, lets face it, even his fish have a very short shelf-life. Really like this episode, apart from Queequeg's early demise (did I mention I'm a dogperson?), mostly because of the conversation Mulder and Scully have when their boat sinks.

Wetwired features Scully in full paranoid mode, nearly shooting Mulder...again...
It is mentioned here that Mulder is red-green colour blind, so for all he knows Scully could have green hair...

Talitha Cumi introduces Jeremiah Smith, who will be back later on in the series. Not only can he shift shape and heal wounds, he can also remove blood stains from clothes.
It's the last episode of the x files season 3, so it's another 2-part mytharc episode. It's implied that Mulder's mother and the Cancerman had an affair, after which Mulder's mother has a stroke (who wouldn't after an affair with good old Smokey). Mulder then does some redecorating in his parents' summer house and finds a ...'swish-stick', you know, that high-tech ice-pick the bounty hunter has been running around with that makes the 'swishing' sound...

In Herrenvolk Mulder ditches Scully again, unfortunately for her, Mulder's not as good with an alien ice-pick as with a gun. So she's stuck with the alien bounty hunter. Jeremiah Smith shows Mulder a colony of clones of his sister. I bet if Mulder had informed the authorities of child labour instead of an alien colony they would've acted faster. The Smoking Man ends up saving Mulder's mother. And Marita Covarrubias is introduced as a new source for Mulder.

Home is another one of my favourite episodes. The whole thing is really rather disgusting, but there are some great scenes in there. Who the bleep puts a baby corpse in the fridge next to his lunch...
And was Mulder offering his superior genes to create little Uber-Scullys? Or is that my imagination gone wild again...
Check out a great deleted scene on YouTube, it's a shame they cut it out, but considering what they were about to do I suppose it wasn't all that appropriate...

All I can really say about Telinko is Mulder and Scully are having a great hair day ;-)

X files movie marathon: x files shippers episode

Despite the fact that I won't be able to finish my x files movie marathon before the release of the new X files move, I haven't given up.

I was watching Pusher again last night and that episode is, in my opinion anyway, a shipper's dream :-) Scully falling asleep next to Mulder, according to Mulder drooling on him, and then there's the part right before Mulder enters the hospital. And when they touch hands at the end, sooooooo sweeeeet (yes, I managed to drag my mind out of the gutter thanks to this episode and get in a more romantic mood ;-) )
Oh yeah, somewhere along the episode Skinner gets his ass kicked by a woman after being maced.

Mulder: "Hey... I think you drooled on me."

Robert Modell: "You and your pretty partner seem awfully close. Do you work well together?"
Scully: "So he's a killer and a golfer?"
Mulder: "Rings a bell, huh? Let's go G-woman."

Mulder: "Oh we had enough to get past a simple preliminary hearing. Modell psyched the guy out. He put the whammy on him."
Scully: "Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy."



I couldn't remember that much about Teso dos bichos. Except for the fact that Scully is attacked by a cat. The only reason I remember that is because in one of the extra's on the DVD Chris Carter mentions they had to use a fake cat because Gillian Anderson is allergic to cats. Why do remember a useless tidbit of information like that? Because I'm allergic to cats as well, and lots of other stuff like rodents, fruit, trees, grass, cleaning, work...
Mulder's attempt to be a gentlemen hits rock bottom when they're about to enter the sewer and he says to Scully "Ladies first" :-)

Scully: "Label that."
Officer: "As what?"
Scully: "Partial rat body part."

Scully: "Have you been drinking Yaje, Mulder?"
Mulder: "Go with it Scully."

In Hell money Lucy Liu makes an appearance. What really amazes me is that when someone starts digging on TV they always start at the exact spot where the face is lying.

Scully: "He was a dishwasher in Chinatown."
Mulder: "How many dishes do you have to break before your boss tosses you in an oven?"

Scully: "Do you know how much the human body is worth, Mulder?"
Mulder: "Depends on the body."

Another humourous episode is Jose Chung's 'From outer space'. A writer is trying to get an objective view from Scully on an alien abduction as everyone involved has a different story.
I can't believe how much I had forgotten about this blankety-blank funny episode :-)
Mulder the blank and expressionless "Mandroid" yelping, Scully being referred to as a man in black disguised as a woman, the men in black, aliens, Mulder in his own bed,...
There's another nosebleed, and a phrase which comes back later on in the series "this is not happening" (regardless of what context it's used in, that phrase always reminds me of sad-Scully music).
And I completely agree with Blaine Faulkner, I have frequently wished to be abducted by aliens in my current job.

Jose Chung: "And here I was thinking you were just some... brainy beauty. Now I find out that you also have... good taste."

Scully: "Just as long as you're attempting to record the truth..."
Jose Chung: "Dear god no! How could I possibly do that?"

Scully: "Well, of course he didn't actually say 'bleeped', he said —"
Jose Chung: "I'm familiar with Detective Manners' colourful... phrasiology."

Mulder: "He said it happened before the abduction. Well, so what if they had sex?"
Scully: "So we know that it wasn't an alien that probed her."

X files movie marathon: that 70's show invasion

Syzygy is another one of my favourite X files episodes. Dark yet funny, because of the constant arguing between Mulder and Scully. As a shipper, I kept thinking of ways Mulder and Scully could make up (I need to get my mind out of the gutter). Scully's in full bitch-mode, honestly, if looks could kill, there would be a lot of dead people in Comity. And Mulder, I'm not sure what kind of a mood he was in. He may have been a little mean towards Scully, but to be fair, she had it coming. I guess Mulder getting drunk on a DIY screwdriver was a bit out of character, as was Scully smoking and muttering. What I really don't understand though, is why Mulder "the porn king" didn't exactly cooperate with Detective White when she basically threw herself at him. I wonder what would've happened if it had been Scully throwing Mulder on the bed...(oops, there's that gutter again).

Detective White: "Yeah. That's right. Excuse me."
Scully: "Where's she going?"
Mulder: "You don't suppose she's a virgin, do you?"
Scully: "I doubt she's even a blonde."

Mulder: "If it's no bother, if it's not too big a deal, maybe you can get me a few photographs of that thing which bears absolutely no resemblance to a horned beast."
Scully: "Sure, fine." [Snaps glove] "Whatever."

Mulder: "Oh. First off, I'd like to apologise for my partner's rude behaviour. She tends to be rather rigid, but rigid in a wonderful way, not like she was today. Personally I like to try to keep a more open mind."
Detective White: "So, what are you doing at my house?"
Mulder: "I was hoping you could help me solve the mystery of the horny beast."

Mulder: "No, no, no. Be my guest. I know how much you like snapping on the latex."

Scully: "...I find your conduct and comportment in this investigation not just alarming but highly objectionable..." [Mulder is sniffing Scully] "WHAT are you doing?"
Mulder: "Must be Detective White..."

Mulder: "Let me drive."
Scully: "I'm driving."
Mulder: "Scully, it's not what you think."
Scully: "I didn't see anything anyway."
Mulder: "Will you let me drive?"
Scully: "I'm driving. Why do you always have to drive anyway? Because you're the guy? Because you're the big, macho man?"
Mulder: "No, I was just never sure your little feet could reach the pedals."

Zirinka: "Well, some more than others. Relationships are going to suck, significant dates can exaggerate the effects."
Mulder: "What if today was my birthday?"
Zirinka: "Then I'd say happy birthday. Unless of course you were born in 1979, and then I'd call the police.

Scully: "Shut up, Mulder."
Mulder: "Sure. Fine. Whatever."

I didn't really like Grotesque. Well that's not exactly fair, it's a good episode, lots of Scully angst, good story...but I have these love/hate feelings towards gargoyles. Gargoyles fascinate me, but at the same time they scare the living daylights out of me ever since I was a kid. I keep seeing them whenever I close my eyes, so the episode just creeped me out.

On another note; there appears to be an invasion of That 70's show actors on the X files. First Eric's sister Laurie (Lisa Robin Kelly) in Syzygy and now Eric's dad (Kurtwood Smith) in Grotesque.

Mytharc: Piper Maru and Apocrypha
This is where Mulder and Scully first come in contact with the "black oil". Skinner is shot by one of the men responsible for Melissa Scully's death. Mulder ends up in hospital as well, with yet another head injury. And what's behind door number 1013??? That's right, Krycek coughing up black oil.

Mulder: "Looks like the fuselage of a plane."
Scully: "It's a North American P-51 Mustang."
Wayne Morgan: "Yeah, sure is."
Mulder: "I just got very turned on."

Smoking Man: "Have the bodies destroyed."
Navy Doctor: "But sir, these men aren't dead yet!"
Smoking Man: "Isn't that the prognosis?"

Scully: "Hi. How are you feeling?"
Skinner: "Like someone's been inside my stomach redecorating."

Mulder: "Actually I wanted to talk to you, I wanted to... thank you for everything you did."
Skinner: "You mean getting shot in the gut?"

X files movie marathon: revived

Looks like I got my second wind again with my X files movie marathon: watched 4 episodes last night.

Nisei and 731 are 2 mytharc episodes. Scully finds out more about her abduction and the chip that was in her neck. Now I know we women tend to carry around al sorts of weird and crazy stuff in our purses...but implants...? Anyway, Agent Pendrell, who has a major crush on Scully, destroys the chip while testing (I forgot about that).
Once again, Mulder doesn't listen to Scully's good advice and ends up nearly dead...again...
What is it with Mulder and boxcars anyway, didn't his parents give him any toy-trains to play with when he was a kid? Oh, and he once again points a gun at Skinner. After he says to Skinner "I don't remember giving you a key", I started wondering about when (and why) he gave a key to Scully...maybe I'll try and find some fanfic on that to ease my mind a little.

I quite liked Revelations, because of how it deals with Mulder and Scully's friendship and beliefs. But as Scully mentioned as well, I still don't understand why Mulder beliefs anything and everything except when it comes to religion. Too me the end also showed that Mulder can trust Scully more than the other way around.

War of the Coprophages (I'm not even going to try and pronounce that one) is another humourous episode, so a good one in my book :-)

Hey, I eat at my coffee table too :-)

It's fun for many reasons, not just because our dynamic duo end up litteraly covered in crap. Mulder trying to impress the bug lady (I guess there are worse names than Fox, how many times would Bambi have been asked whether her mother had been shot?), Mulder freaking out about bugs, Scully doing relatively normal weekend stuff (which reminds me I have to wash my dog as well), Scully getting just a little bit jealous, Mulder being dumped for a guy in a wheelchair. Great episode all around :-)

X files movie marathon: once again only 2 episodes

Will I be able to finish my X files movie marathon before the new x files movie is released?
At the moment it's looking very doubtful. Once again, I only managed to watch 2 episodes: The walk and Oubliette.

The way Scully talked to all those army officers in The walk showed she was a real navy brat. Mulder basically just stood there, seemingly not knowing what to say. Imagine that, Mulder not knowing what to say... The whole astral projection thing was pretty fun. Especially the part where Mulder says to Rappo "No sleepwalking."

All through Oubliette Mulder has his patented "sad Mulder look" on. Really cute. How Scully manages to keep her hands to herself when he's got that look, is an X file in itself ;-)
There appears to be a nosebleed pattern all through the X files series, I wonder if there will be any nosebleeds in the new X files movie as well.

Scully: "That's spooky."
Mulder: "That's my name isn't it?"



On another note; Mulder's hair is starting to look really good :-)

X files movie marathon: slowing down even more

I need to get back in gear if I want to finish watching all 9 seasons before the new X files movie is released. Once again, only 2 episodes; The list and 2shy.

Well actually only 1.5. I saw the first half of The list the day before yesterday.

Due to complete lack of inspiration, a few quotes:

The list

Mulder: “Okay, but imagine if it were true, Scully. Imagine if you could come back and take out five people who had caused you to suffer. Who would they be?”
Scully: “I only get five?”
Mulder: “I remembered your birthday this year, didn’t I Scully?”

Scully: “Woman gets lonely. Sometimes she can’t wait around for her man to be reincarnated.”

2Shy

Mulder: “Okay, it’s not yet the finely detailed insanity that you’ve come to expect from me, it’s just a theory. But what if he’s not doing this out of a psychotic impulse, but rather out of some physical hunger? Maybe he needs to replenish this chemical deficiency in order to survive.”
Scully: “From a dry skin sample you’re concluding what? That he’s some kind of a fat-sucking vampire?”

X files movie marathon: slowing down again

Saw only 2 episodes last night: DPO and Clyde Bruckman's final repose. My X files movie marathong appears to be slowing down again.

DPO features Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi (Frank jr. jr. on Friends, Phoebe's sister), and they're both brilliant in this episode about a young troubled guy who can control lightning.

Clyde Bruckman's final repose has everything I want in a good episode, humour, interesting storyline and great conversations. Check out this X-files movie promo clip on YouTube where Gillian actually refers to this episode.
Here are some of my favourite quotes from this episode:

[The Stupendous Yappi accepts Scully as a believer but asks Mulder to leave because he gives off negative energy]
Scully: [to Mulder] "I can't take you anywhere."

Mulder: "Mr Yappi, read this thought."
The Stupendous Yappi: [reacting as if hit] "So's your old man!"

Detective Cline: "Look, all I know is that so far Yappi has provided more solid concrete leads on this case than you have. Now, if you don't mind, I have to get an APB out. On a white male, 17 to 34, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo, who's impotent. Let's go."
[Detectives Cline and Havez leave the room]
Scully: "Might as well go home Mulder. This case is as good as solved."

Clyde Bruckman: "You don't get it, do you kid?." [Clyde Bruckman slips into a trance and describes the man's death]
Mr Gordon: "Mister. You really need to work on your closing technique."

Clyde Bruckman: "I'm supposed to believe that's a real name?" [Looking at Mulder's badge]

Mulder: "Do you receive any other impressions from it? [A brass ornament of three frogs]
Clyde Bruckman: "It's ugly." [Drops it] "Next."

[Their parked car is stuck in the mud and Mulder gets spattered whilst trying to extract it]
Mulder: "I'm glad I could bring a little smile into your life, Mr Bruckman."
Clyde Bruckman: "I'm not smiling. I'm wincing." [A hand is visible under the car's rear tyre]

Scully: "We can't come up with suspects by having visions."
Clyde Bruckman: "Jealous?"

[After hearing Clyde Bruckman's premonition that they would end up in bed together]
Scully: "Mr Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are MISSES."
Clyde Bruckman: "I just call them as I see them."

Mulder: "Look at this Scully, the lab analysis for the first bit of fibre that was found just came back. It's lace."
Scully: "Chantilly lace?"
Mulder: "You KNOW what I LIKE."

Puppet: "There's something I've been wanting to ask you for some time now. You've seen the things I do in the past as well as in the future."
Clyde Bruckman: "They're terrible things."
Puppet: "I know they are. So tell me, please, why have I done them."
Clyde Bruckman: "Don't you understand yet son? Don't you get it?" [Killer shakes his head] "You do the things you do because you're a homicidal maniac."

Mulder: "If my Miss Manners serves me right, that protrusion from his left cornea is a salad fork."

Mulder: "How'd you know where to find us?"
Scully: "I didn't. I got in the service elevator by mistake."
Mulder: "Thank heaven for happenstance."

Oh and Scully ends up with a cute little Pomeranian (who happened to have been eating his previous owner...did I remember to feed my dog...?)

X files movie marathon: 2 seasons down

Finished the second season in my X files movie marathon yesterday.
Don't have much time right now, I'll try to add more info later, so here's the list of episodes: Humbug, The Calusari, F.Emasculata, Soft light, Our town, Anasazi.

My favourites: Humbug, Our town and Anasazi.

I'm a sucker for the funny "monster of the week episodes", and Humbug definitely falls into that category. The part where they dig up the sheriff's potato and get caught red handed...the looks on their faces and following banter trying to explain themselves is hilarious. And that's not the only time they end up looking like fools :-)

Our town, how do they come up with these stories? I was actually in the middle of dinner when I started watching that episode. Thank God for vegetarian tofu!. On another note, where did the maid go after Mulder opened the big red cabinet of horrors? I'm pretty sure I would scream my lungs out if I found out my boss had a closet full of heads in his living room...
And once again Scully gets hit on the head, I'm surprised neither of them are suffering from permanent braindamage at the rate they're always getting smacked on the head. Oh and she gets kidnapped as well...again...

Anasazi is the mytharc episode ending season 2. We find out more about Mulder's father and his past. Oh, and is that Chris Carter in the meeting with Skinner? Why yes, yes it is. How very Hitchcock of him :-) I checked IMDB, and apparently Anasazi isn't the only episode he was in.

During the beginning of season 3 of the X files everything goes from bad to worse. Quick recap of this 3 episode mytharc (Anasazi, The blessing way and Paperclip); Mulder is drugged, picks a fight with Skinner (and loses, nobody's a match for the Skinman), Scully gets shot at in Mulder's appartment, Krycek kills Mulder's father, Scully shoots Mulder in the shoulder, Mulder ends up being bombed in a buried train, Mulder "dies", Scully has to turn in her badge, Scully finds out she has a chip in the back of her neck, first appearance of the Well-manicured Man (where do they come up with these names?), Scully holds a gun on Skinner, Mulder (who isn't dead after all) joins in and also holds a gun on Skinner, Krycek shoot Scully's sister Melissa (he's a busy little ratboy), Mulder and Scully find out some big government secret and escape a small army, end up with no proof and Melissa dies at the end.

But my favourite part of all three episodes is where Skinner tells the Smoking Man to "pucker up and kiss my ass!!!"

X files movie marathon: some of my favourite episodes

Here are the episodes I saw yesterday as part of my X files movie marathon; Irresistible, Die Hand die verletzt, Fresh bones, Colony, End game, Fearful symmetry and Dod kalm.

I love Irresistible. Donnie Pfaster really is pure evil. Lots of Scully angst, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is also the first episode were she started her "I'm fine" mantra. I wonder how many times Scully will be saying "I'm fine" in the new X files movie?

If you were wondering why Mulder is still single, it's not because he's spooky and believes in the existence of extra-terrestrials, it's because of his technique to ask a woman out on a date; he takes Scully to a desecrated grave (not warning her about what she's about to see) and then, after she's thoroughly upset, asks her to go see a football game with him.


In Die Hand die verletzt an actor from another one of my favourite shows plays Jim Ausbury, Dan Butler, who plays Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on Frasier.
Favourite quotes from this episode:

Scully: "I think he incited your imagination. I think this case is nothing more than a murderer taking advantage of local folklore. I mean, there's nothing odd about —"
[Scully is interrupted by a rain of toads]
Mulder: "So... lunch?"
Scully: "Mulder! Toads just fell from the sky!"
Mulder: "I guess their parachutes didn't open. You were saying something about this place not feeling odd?"

First time Mulder and Scully shower together...they don't look too happy though...
You do have to admire Mulder, even in a hopeless situation like that he's trying to shield Scully with his own body from any bullets...or was he trying something else?

Colony and End game continue the mytharc storyline, introducting Mulder's abducted sister Samantha (well, sort of anyway) and his parents. Colony is also the first episode in which we see Brian Thompson as the alien bounty hunter. Which causes Scully to lose shoes to the green alien goo every other scene.

My favourite quote:
Scully: "I mean, whatever happened to 'Trust no one', Mulder?"
Mulder: "Oh, I changed it to 'Trust everyone'. Didn't I tell you?"

Mulder points a gun at Skinner for the first time in End game. As a matter of fact it's a pretty bad episode for the Skinman, but he does prove his loyalty to Mulder and Scully.

Here's something we'll be seeing a lot more as the series continues; Scully at Mulder's hospital bed. Only Mulder waking after yet another serious injury can cause a full-blown Scully smile like that.

As for Dod kalm, what can I say, Mulder and Scully have looked better...

Favourite Dod kalm quotes:
Scully: "Feeling any better?"
Mulder: "No. You're lucky you inherited your father's legs."
Scully: "What?"
Mulder: "Sea legs."

Mulder: "You know, I always thought when I got older, I'd maybe take a cruise somewhere. This isn't exactly what I had in mind... The service on this ship is terrible, Scully.

X files movie marathon: still going strong

Managed to watch four more episodes last night during my X files movie marathon; Firewalker, Red museum, Exelsius Dei, Aubrey.

I have to admit, when each episode started it actually took me several minutes to recognise the story. I guess I never paid too much attention when I watched them before...

From a shipper point of view I really liked Firewalker and Red museum. Firewalker because of the obvious concern Mulder has about Scully returning to work after waking up from the coma. And Red museum because apparently Scully is a messy eater ;-)

I liked the other two episodes as well, especially Aubrey. Very creepy storyline in my opinion, I think I would rather be abducted by aliens than having to go through what B.J. went through.

On to the next DVD...