To be honest Chris Carter could have just made a reunion show about Mulder and Scully living life together without anything weird happening and a lot of MSR fans would have tuned in.
I don’t get why network tv/big budget Hollywood movies think married couples are boring and they can’t do adventurous shit like they used to before they get tgt. First Han and Leia, now Scully and Mulder
Scully is naked under the covers. Mulder gets up to rinse his mouth, then smiles proudly in the mirror that coupled with the dimmer on the afterglow line. There was some foreplay involved as well, no doubt
@@henryzhao4622 because that is what the writer and director are conveying in this scene. It's meant to be suggestive with these subtle but obvious hints.
There isn't one. Someone at a comic con asked Gillian if they kissed in s11, and she said no. She also said it was stupid that they weren't able to. But we did get a little something hinted at in the blooper reel. That's canon.
You aren't naked under the covers, in bed with someone, if you didn't have sex. Clearly. Especially when the one still in bed says. "Come back to bed."
Notice how to begin with they deliberately covered Scully's shoulders so we couldn't tell she was naked - it could have just been clothed snuggling or whatever - but then 😱 omg!
1:04 Me: *Looks at Mulder not listening to what he says because of Scully IN MULDERS BED* He looks worried, wonder why Me: *replays **1:04** and listens* OMFG did mulder just say that!
This episode was too good, deep, weird and full of tension, MSR fans dont deserve it the way they talk only about not "seeing" them have sex. This ep is so brilliant. So much going on. Very subtle performances.
This is when Mulder knocked Scully up for second time 🥰 During the whole episode, Mulder and Scully were so sex hungry for each other that they were waking each other up in the middle of the night and constantly teasing each other. There was definitely foreplay involved considering his bathroom visit. They both looked exhausted and his hair was quite messy afterwards. Must've been one crazy night ❤
Why Scully couldn’t be more closer to Mulder whn she was sleeping? Why he couldn’t like her her or sth? Noooo! They had to be separated by his hand! And of course she had to be covered up to her head! Am I the only one who wants it to be played differently??
Well, I guess that the idea was that we do not know if they had sex or not until the moment she gets up a bit and we get to see she is naked under that sheet. And than Mulder's "put the dimmer on that afterglow" should be a confirmation...
I'm not a native Engliash speaker, so please could any of you explain what's the meaning of the "put a dimmer on that afterglow" line? I get the idea that is a way to say "snap out of IT", I'm no sure though.
Everyone's going crazy over it because it is verbal confirmation that they'd just had sex basically. Afterglow means a pleasant sense of fulfilment after a nice event, used mostly for an orgasm. So Mulder's telling Scully to snap out of her hazy happy place and save her life.
I know the comment is 10 months old but he's referring to post-sex afterglow when you're riding high on endorphins and good feelings. He's telling her to snap out of the post-coital bliss and get up.
Fab upload thanks for sharing. Does anyone fancy offering their opinion as to why Mulder and Scully are not a couple? Why is Scully asking to what the future holds for them, appearing worried if Mulder might move on with someone else, while at the end of the episode not wanting to appear like she doesn't want Mulder? In fact it's the same all the way though the X-files right from the beginning. She appears to want him but won't get into a relationship with him. Anyone want to suggest some Scully psychology / analysis on the topic of her feelings for Mulder?! Many thanks x
If you watch the series Season 1-7 carefully, especially seasons 6-7, you will get a sense that Mulder wanted a relationship whereas Scully kept him at a distance. Triangle is a thematic equivalent for Mulder, whereas All Things is a thematic equivalent for Scully. Then there was Milagro, somewhere in season 6 that underscores the presense of feelings. After they got into a relationship, it did not survive, psychologically it might be because they lost their child. Very few couples survive that kind of pain and stay together. Scully ultimately left Mulder because he is no picnic as a boyfriend. For all of his brilliance, he also lost a sense of purpose when he stopped being an FBI agent after the events of The Truth. By contrast, Scully rediscovered her sense of purpose as a surgeon. All of that is explored in the movie I Want to Believe. By the time Mulder re-discovered his self-esteem and his identity when FBI hired him in the movie, Scully did stay with him for the time being, but ultimately left. This is because the X-files remained closed. Now, in season 11, Scully is getting older and realizing that she might stay lonely forever. She used to believe she had options, but now she's feeling the effects of her age and is realizing that other men do not interest her with their "normalcy". X-files changed her to the point where no man will ever be able to capture her interest besides Mulder.
Of course she could have other men if she desired... scully has always and will always love mulder, they haven been through a lot. I think in this scene yes she is feeling unsecure with herself and what the outcome with her relationship with mulder will be, maybe there is regret that she left him.
While I see this view among fans often, I don't really feel that it was at first Scully who was keeping Mulder at a distance in the original series. What about "Small Potatoes" in S4 when she's more than willing to let Mulder kiss her before she realizes it is actually Eddie wearing Mulder's face? And then later, after Eddie has criticized Mulder for not taking the opportunity to "live a little" & said he's a loser by choice, Scully (having been watching the conversation on a monitor outside the interview room) tells Mulder, "I don't imagine you need to be told this, Mulder, but you're not a loser." And he replies, "Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either, am I?" because (I always thought) he doesn't have the courage to risk kissing his partner the way Eddie did. No actual examples of her keeping him at a distance prior to that come to mind. In fact, back in S1, "Tooms," when he's telling her he doesn't want to see her get in trouble for violating orders for joining him on an unauthorized stake-out, she says, "Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you," after having tried to step to a new level of intimacy by addressing him as "Fox." I can't think of an earlier line from either of them that is that...shippy. My view is that early Mulder is first too wrapped up in his work to really see how she feels and then too scared to do anything about it...or anything more than come up with reasons to spend his weekend hanging out with her (03x12, 04x13, even as late as 7x17 ["all things"] he pulls that one). I think that, not their work, is what she's really referring to in 3.x12, "Never Again," which she talks of how they're not even going in a circle but in an endless straight line, two steps forward, one step back.
As for the breakup, I think all the vague half-assed nods from Carter toward explaining that add up to a big fat nothing. I don't think she left him after 15 years as a couple and 25 together because he's no picnic/difficult. She gave up everything to go on the run with him in 2002; it doesn't seem believable that after that she'd leave him because...what, he talks about aliens too much and hoards newspaper clippings? I don't think his depression (mentioned by Sveta the mind reader as what "killed your relationship" in 10x01) is a good explanation either. The only way I can see Scully leaving him with that as a cause is if she thought her leaving would snap him out of it enough to do something to help himself. And I think that if losing William was going to kill their relationship, it would have done so in that first six years ('02-'08) between "The Truth" and IWTB, not after another 5-8 years. Also, it turns out that a high instance of divorce after losing a child is a myth (www.taps.org/articles/21-1/divorce). In NLF (11x9), she says, in another lazy non-explanation, that she "thought we could live together, but I fled." After 15 years? That's some seriously delayed cold feet! Ultimately, Carter split them up, imo, just to manufacture some angst to give his show some interpersonal drama, no matter how unrealistic. He didn't have a backstory in mind for why/when/how they broke up, let alone how they'd resolve that issue(s) to come back together. He wasn't invested enough in it to even want to tell that story. He just likes to mess with MSR shippers. As Gillian recently said, so politely, writing choices were made with "unconsciousness." Their breakup is another writing failure, just like almost all of the conspiracy arc of S10-11. Personally, rather than Scully not wanting to be in a relationship with him, I think she's always still "in a relationship" with Mulder after she's moved out of their house, as deeply emotionally involved with him as ever. The way they talk when she calls him in 10x01, it sounds to me like talking is not a rare occurrence. And she's "always happy to see him" while he's "always happy to find a reason" to see her; they're not living together but they've not been totally out of each other's lives. Maybe how we see them hanging out and falling asleep on the couch in their house in "This" (11x02) is nothing all that new. She still calls the house "our home" when she mentions it to Skinner. (It's "Agent Mulder's residence" on the phone bc it's officially his residence, not hers, and that's an official call intended to get the police to that location, not to her other house, but emotionally, it's "our home.") In NLF, whatever (non-existent, unwritten) reason she had for leaving, she states her desire to be fully together again--finally makes it official so poor Mulder (and we poor fans) won't have to look so lost anymore at the question, "Are we together?"
My best stab at imagining Scully's mindset is that she left him ("fled") because she was feeling inadequate and like she couldn't give him enough. That her concerns about her age that we see in "Plus One" are not newly inspired by Judy but something pre-existent that Judy picks up on. As a feminist, I hate seeing Scully worried she's "not enough" because she's aging and can't bear children (b/c she is "dried up" [doesn't Judy use that very phrase?])--I want her as a feminist icon to be too awake and smart to let that part of society's discourse about women under her skin--but there it is, in the script, so. I think when she says to Mulder, "What if you meet someone younger who wants to have kids?", it's not that she's worried about him meeting someone else in general; really, imo, she's focused on the younger/kids part. She also says "that journey is over," which I think is a veiled (weirdly, since this is Scully) reference to menopause. It could be (again, I hate this so much) that the onset of menopause has made Scully hyper-aware of her "failures" as a woman, particularly of how she hasn't and can't give Mulder children and she's (OMG yuck) left him so he can find some younger woman to have kids with b/c she feels that while it's too late for her, it's not too late for him to have that kind of family life. In that case, with some time having passed during which he has failed to do that, the weird conversation in bed in "Plus One" is Scully feeling him out on that subject. Is that something he'd want? Their broken-up relationship is not all that different than their pre-breakup relationship, aside from having separate houses (or maybe it's that working together again and spending more time together as a result has shown her that the old bond is still there), but what if he does find someone to have kids with? All the "when we're old," "when we retire," "if we lose our jobs" stuff is just different ways they'd end up not working together--she's asking if even without the work, they'll still have the same relationship. If he has kids with someone else, without the work to bring them together, he'd be with them instead of falling asleep beside her on the couch. Maybe she didn't think through this "sacrifice" of giving him up so he can have a family thoroughly enough...maybe if he tells her it's never gonna happen, is not what he wants (and maybe now that they're working together again and she's seen how he still cares even though she left, she's thinking kids with someone else might not be what he wants), she can let herself go back to him... He asks her if SHE wants more kids. She says something like, "Besides the fact the first time was a miracle and I don't have anyone to have one with?" He points out that she's a woman of science (i.e., she doesn't have to be able to conceive a child herself to have kids or even need a partner to do so). I think the church scenes in NLF support the idea that there's SOME connection between the children issue and Scully leaving. She says that maybe the candle blowing out means God is telling her she's out of "miracles." Mulder later asks her if she's praying for "a miracle"--this is child-related language in both the original series ("Never give up on a miracle," he tells her when the IVF has failed) and "Plus One." She says she's looking for the strength of faith that her mother had, that Mulder, who always points north, as she puts it, has. (He always points north [toward her!], resolved and committed to staying the course, unlike Scully, who "fled.") He talks about the results of their choices being all they have and that they just have to hope they make the right ones. She looks like she feels she has not made the right ones (presumably thinking of the choice of leaving him). Later, he tells her that HIS choice is to be standing there, right beside her, and she whispers something to him and tells him that whatever she whispered is not her looking for a miracle but her "leap of faith forward" and she wants to do it together. Is it having a child she's talking about? The leap of faith (rather than the praying for a miracle) of a woman of science? Or that she knows whatever it is won't be as easy as praying for a puppy and then getting one but she means to have the strength of faith to see it through anyway? Either way, I think she's certainly telling him that now she chooses him too.
it's weird to explaine if you haven't watched the episode but basically it's because the murderers play hangman with the names of their victims so, when any of them guess the word, the victim die... And y'know, Mulder and Scully are the targets here, their names would be in the game and they'll have time to avoid death as long as the murderers don't complete the words.
Haha, that's b/c Chris Carter wrote it for M&S. ;-) So reluctant to ever give us MSR to start with, really does so only when DD is leaving the series, splits them up for the revival, and now he's writing the anti-sex sex scene. But if you mean you doubt that it was a post-coital scene, just look at how her smile grows after she's said, "We'll think of something" in the previous scene. Then note that she's not wearing her shirt anymore and has somehow ended up on the opposite side of the bed than she was on when we last saw them. LOL then of course there's Mulder referring to her "afterglow."
Sometimes less is more. The rest of the MSR writing which can suck this is different. It suits them and do not forget this is how she gets pregnant. She is one year younger than my aunt who thought she could not have children. Then she found out she was pregnant late in life. That now grown man is one of the most spoilt brats ever as a boy as I always remind him.
@@neongirluk This scene wasn't even that imo. It was non existent lol. So implied that I needed help to see what was going on in the Mulder in the bathroom scene. There is such a thing as being TOO implied. It took me out of the scene (the bed scenes overall impliedness) as a whole and it felt clinical somehow.
Honey there is bigfoot with titties in s01e05. I'm not saying the revival is good 😂 but the comedic tone has definitely been there all along, in between more serious episodes. It can be a very goofy show! The best rated/most popular episode is basically a comedy
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To be honest Chris Carter could have just made a reunion show about Mulder and Scully living life together without anything weird happening and a lot of MSR fans would have tuned in.
But that is not Chris Carter. 😞
But sadly Chris is a sadist who wants to see fans experience emotional suffering
I would watch an hour of Mulder and Scully folding laundry together, or shopping for groceries, every week till the end of days.
I don’t get why network tv/big budget Hollywood movies think married couples are boring and they can’t do adventurous shit like they used to before they get tgt. First Han and Leia, now Scully and Mulder
There no such thing as msr
Scully's "what are you talking about" sounds imo so much like Gillian it's ridiculous, haha!
I was looking for this comment. 😂😂😂 It's so Scully though, the way her character processed over the years. It's great
Scully is naked under the covers. Mulder gets up to rinse his mouth, then smiles proudly in the mirror that coupled with the dimmer on the afterglow line. There was some foreplay involved as well, no doubt
That's why he rinsed his mouth lol
@@nikkinoodlescrews9218 Yea! He gives south of the border vibes. 😏
Why y’all have to make it so dirty and ruin it
@@henryzhao4622 because that is what the writer and director are conveying in this scene. It's meant to be suggestive with these subtle but obvious hints.
@@dominicusx god I hate American TV it’s so undignified sometimes when it comes to sexuality
Mulders smile at 0.27/0:28! OMG*-* he's so happy
omffffg "PUT A DIMMER ON THAT AFTERGLOW"
Scully is so beautiful
0:42 Damn, Mulder's been working out!
*put a dimmer on that afterglow* ahhhhhh I am soooo happpyyyyyyy!!!
Mulder, come back to bed.
That underlines everything.
I like to believe there is a version of this scene where they actually kiss in bed or something, and CC decided to cut it... 🤷😊
There isn't one. Someone at a comic con asked Gillian if they kissed in s11, and she said no. She also said it was stupid that they weren't able to. But we did get a little something hinted at in the blooper reel. That's canon.
That is dumb, but like they still had sex. In the series overall it was pretty rare to see scenes like that in general.
You aren't naked under the covers, in bed with someone, if you didn't have sex. Clearly. Especially when the one still in bed says. "Come back to bed."
There is not such thing
Something must have happened, I think Scully wouldn't be topless.😂
That smug smile, him rinsing his mouth, the PUT A DIMMER ON THAT AFTERGLOW, he just made her see heaven and the stars with his mouth 😂😂
bruh, mulder just had the post-nut clarity
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I know this comment was a year ago, but I'm dying. 😭😭😭
I know your comment was a year ago, but I'm still dying. 🤣
Thank you so much for uploading these clips from episode 3. Much appreciated from a UK fan 🤗
Notice how to begin with they deliberately covered Scully's shoulders so we couldn't tell she was naked - it could have just been clothed snuggling or whatever - but then 😱 omg!
What happens in the motel stays in the motel lol
This is the funniest comment ever 😂
Wiping the doughnut glaze off and smiling is too funny!
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I didn't hear or listen to one single word in this scene when the camera was on Scully
They can't really deny things can they; their baby is a big giveaway.
1:04
Me: *Looks at Mulder not listening to what he says because of Scully IN MULDERS BED* He looks worried, wonder why
Me: *replays **1:04** and listens* OMFG did mulder just say that!
It's times like this when I think Chris Carter has a split personality like Judy and Chuckie. ;-)
I'm so happy that Mulder and Scully finally found the happiness they deserved. And I think in this scene, is where Scully finds out she's pregnant.
This episode was too good, deep, weird and full of tension, MSR fans dont deserve it the way they talk only about not "seeing" them have sex. This ep is so brilliant. So much going on. Very subtle performances.
Season 11 involved them getting back together ❤.
Que decir ...son la pareja perfecta!
This is when Mulder knocked Scully up for second time 🥰 During the whole episode, Mulder and Scully were so sex hungry for each other that they were waking each other up in the middle of the night and constantly teasing each other. There was definitely foreplay involved considering his bathroom visit. They both looked exhausted and his hair was quite messy afterwards. Must've been one crazy night ❤
I'm so happy that Mulder and Scully were able to find happiness. I think after t
Why Scully couldn’t be more closer to Mulder whn she was sleeping? Why he couldn’t like her her or sth? Noooo! They had to be separated by his hand! And of course she had to be covered up to her head! Am I the only one who wants it to be played differently??
Chris Carter is playing with our hearts since 1993. Why would he stop now? XD! LMAO
Well, I guess that the idea was that we do not know if they had sex or not until the moment she gets up a bit and we get to see she is naked under that sheet. And than Mulder's "put the dimmer on that afterglow" should be a confirmation...
I'm not a native Engliash speaker, so please could any of you explain what's the meaning of the "put a dimmer on that afterglow" line? I get the idea that is a way to say "snap out of IT", I'm no sure though.
Something like "extinguish fire"... I mean "fire" is like desire or something like that...
Throw Back Thank you now I get a better grasp of the scene
Everyone's going crazy over it because it is verbal confirmation that they'd just had sex basically. Afterglow means a pleasant sense of fulfilment after a nice event, used mostly for an orgasm. So Mulder's telling Scully to snap out of her hazy happy place and save her life.
Ursula King Ooooh much appreciated your input on this. Thank you!
No problem, it's a pretty cool scene and very in character for Mulder :)
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What does “put a dimmer on that afterglow” mean?
Stop basking in the wonderful intercourse we just had and get your head in the game bc Im panicking.
I know the comment is 10 months old but he's referring to post-sex afterglow when you're riding high on endorphins and good feelings. He's telling her to snap out of the post-coital bliss and get up.
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Fab upload thanks for sharing. Does anyone fancy offering their opinion as to why Mulder and Scully are not a couple? Why is Scully asking to what the future holds for them, appearing worried if Mulder might move on with someone else, while at the end of the episode not wanting to appear like she doesn't want Mulder? In fact it's the same all the way though the X-files right from the beginning. She appears to want him but won't get into a relationship with him. Anyone want to suggest some Scully psychology / analysis on the topic of her feelings for Mulder?! Many thanks x
If you watch the series Season 1-7 carefully, especially seasons 6-7, you will get a sense that Mulder wanted a relationship whereas Scully kept him at a distance. Triangle is a thematic equivalent for Mulder, whereas All Things is a thematic equivalent for Scully. Then there was Milagro, somewhere in season 6 that underscores the presense of feelings. After they got into a relationship, it did not survive, psychologically it might be because they lost their child. Very few couples survive that kind of pain and stay together. Scully ultimately left Mulder because he is no picnic as a boyfriend. For all of his brilliance, he also lost a sense of purpose when he stopped being an FBI agent after the events of The Truth. By contrast, Scully rediscovered her sense of purpose as a surgeon. All of that is explored in the movie I Want to Believe. By the time Mulder re-discovered his self-esteem and his identity when FBI hired him in the movie, Scully did stay with him for the time being, but ultimately left. This is because the X-files remained closed. Now, in season 11, Scully is getting older and realizing that she might stay lonely forever. She used to believe she had options, but now she's feeling the effects of her age and is realizing that other men do not interest her with their "normalcy". X-files changed her to the point where no man will ever be able to capture her interest besides Mulder.
Of course she could have other men if she desired... scully has always and will always love mulder, they haven been through a lot. I think in this scene yes she is feeling unsecure with herself and what the outcome with her relationship with mulder will be, maybe there is regret that she left him.
While I see this view among fans often, I don't really feel that it was at first Scully who was keeping Mulder at a distance in the original series. What about "Small Potatoes" in S4 when she's more than willing to let Mulder kiss her before she realizes it is actually Eddie wearing Mulder's face? And then later, after Eddie has criticized Mulder for not taking the opportunity to "live a little" & said he's a loser by choice, Scully (having been watching the conversation on a monitor outside the interview room) tells Mulder, "I don't imagine you need to be told this, Mulder, but you're not a loser." And he replies, "Yeah, but I'm no Eddie Van Blundht either, am I?" because (I always thought) he doesn't have the courage to risk kissing his partner the way Eddie did.
No actual examples of her keeping him at a distance prior to that come to mind. In fact, back in S1, "Tooms," when he's telling her he doesn't want to see her get in trouble for violating orders for joining him on an unauthorized stake-out, she says, "Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you," after having tried to step to a new level of intimacy by addressing him as "Fox." I can't think of an earlier line from either of them that is that...shippy.
My view is that early Mulder is first too wrapped up in his work to really see how she feels and then too scared to do anything about it...or anything more than come up with reasons to spend his weekend hanging out with her (03x12, 04x13, even as late as 7x17 ["all things"] he pulls that one). I think that, not their work, is what she's really referring to in 3.x12, "Never Again," which she talks of how they're not even going in a circle but in an endless straight line, two steps forward, one step back.
As for the breakup, I think all the vague half-assed nods from Carter toward explaining that add up to a big fat nothing. I don't think she left him after 15 years as a couple and 25 together because he's no picnic/difficult. She gave up everything to go on the run with him in 2002; it doesn't seem believable that after that she'd leave him because...what, he talks about aliens too much and hoards newspaper clippings? I don't think his depression (mentioned by Sveta the mind reader as what "killed your relationship" in 10x01) is a good explanation either. The only way I can see Scully leaving him with that as a cause is if she thought her leaving would snap him out of it enough to do something to help himself. And I think that if losing William was going to kill their relationship, it would have done so in that first six years ('02-'08) between "The Truth" and IWTB, not after another 5-8 years. Also, it turns out that a high instance of divorce after losing a child is a myth (www.taps.org/articles/21-1/divorce). In NLF (11x9), she says, in another lazy non-explanation, that she "thought we could live together, but I fled." After 15 years? That's some seriously delayed cold feet! Ultimately, Carter split them up, imo, just to manufacture some angst to give his show some interpersonal drama, no matter how unrealistic. He didn't have a backstory in mind for why/when/how they broke up, let alone how they'd resolve that issue(s) to come back together. He wasn't invested enough in it to even want to tell that story. He just likes to mess with MSR shippers. As Gillian recently said, so politely, writing choices were made with "unconsciousness." Their breakup is another writing failure, just like almost all of the conspiracy arc of S10-11.
Personally, rather than Scully not wanting to be in a relationship with him, I think she's always still "in a relationship" with Mulder after she's moved out of their house, as deeply emotionally involved with him as ever. The way they talk when she calls him in 10x01, it sounds to me like talking is not a rare occurrence. And she's "always happy to see him" while he's "always happy to find a reason" to see her; they're not living together but they've not been totally out of each other's lives. Maybe how we see them hanging out and falling asleep on the couch in their house in "This" (11x02) is nothing all that new. She still calls the house "our home" when she mentions it to Skinner. (It's "Agent Mulder's residence" on the phone bc it's officially his residence, not hers, and that's an official call intended to get the police to that location, not to her other house, but emotionally, it's "our home.")
In NLF, whatever (non-existent, unwritten) reason she had for leaving, she states her desire to be fully together again--finally makes it official so poor Mulder (and we poor fans) won't have to look so lost anymore at the question, "Are we together?"
My best stab at imagining Scully's mindset is that she left him ("fled") because she was feeling inadequate and like she couldn't give him enough. That her concerns about her age that we see in "Plus One" are not newly inspired by Judy but something pre-existent that Judy picks up on. As a feminist, I hate seeing Scully worried she's "not enough" because she's aging and can't bear children (b/c she is "dried up" [doesn't Judy use that very phrase?])--I want her as a feminist icon to be too awake and smart to let that part of society's discourse about women under her skin--but there it is, in the script, so.
I think when she says to Mulder, "What if you meet someone younger who wants to have kids?", it's not that she's worried about him meeting someone else in general; really, imo, she's focused on the younger/kids part. She also says "that journey is over," which I think is a veiled (weirdly, since this is Scully) reference to menopause.
It could be (again, I hate this so much) that the onset of menopause has made Scully hyper-aware of her "failures" as a woman, particularly of how she hasn't and can't give Mulder children and she's (OMG yuck) left him so he can find some younger woman to have kids with b/c she feels that while it's too late for her, it's not too late for him to have that kind of family life. In that case, with some time having passed during which he has failed to do that, the weird conversation in bed in "Plus One" is Scully feeling him out on that subject. Is that something he'd want? Their broken-up relationship is not all that different than their pre-breakup relationship, aside from having separate houses (or maybe it's that working together again and spending more time together as a result has shown her that the old bond is still there), but what if he does find someone to have kids with? All the "when we're old," "when we retire," "if we lose our jobs" stuff is just different ways they'd end up not working together--she's asking if even without the work, they'll still have the same relationship. If he has kids with someone else, without the work to bring them together, he'd be with them instead of falling asleep beside her on the couch. Maybe she didn't think through this "sacrifice" of giving him up so he can have a family thoroughly enough...maybe if he tells her it's never gonna happen, is not what he wants (and maybe now that they're working together again and she's seen how he still cares even though she left, she's thinking kids with someone else might not be what he wants), she can let herself go back to him...
He asks her if SHE wants more kids. She says something like, "Besides the fact the first time was a miracle and I don't have anyone to have one with?" He points out that she's a woman of science (i.e., she doesn't have to be able to conceive a child herself to have kids or even need a partner to do so).
I think the church scenes in NLF support the idea that there's SOME connection between the children issue and Scully leaving. She says that maybe the candle blowing out means God is telling her she's out of "miracles." Mulder later asks her if she's praying for "a miracle"--this is child-related language in both the original series ("Never give up on a miracle," he tells her when the IVF has failed) and "Plus One." She says she's looking for the strength of faith that her mother had, that Mulder, who always points north, as she puts it, has. (He always points north [toward her!], resolved and committed to staying the course, unlike Scully, who "fled.") He talks about the results of their choices being all they have and that they just have to hope they make the right ones. She looks like she feels she has not made the right ones (presumably thinking of the choice of leaving him). Later, he tells her that HIS choice is to be standing there, right beside her, and she whispers something to him and tells him that whatever she whispered is not her looking for a miracle but her "leap of faith forward" and she wants to do it together. Is it having a child she's talking about? The leap of faith (rather than the praying for a miracle) of a woman of science? Or that she knows whatever it is won't be as easy as praying for a puppy and then getting one but she means to have the strength of faith to see it through anyway? Either way, I think she's certainly telling him that now she chooses him too.
Why did he ask "how many letters are in Scully, Scully?"
it's weird to explaine if you haven't watched the episode but basically it's because the murderers play hangman with the names of their victims so, when any of them guess the word, the victim die... And y'know, Mulder and Scully are the targets here, their names would be in the game and they'll have time to avoid death as long as the murderers don't complete the words.
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This Didn’t Feel Like A Sex Scene TO Me
Haha, that's b/c Chris Carter wrote it for M&S. ;-) So reluctant to ever give us MSR to start with, really does so only when DD is leaving the series, splits them up for the revival, and now he's writing the anti-sex sex scene.
But if you mean you doubt that it was a post-coital scene, just look at how her smile grows after she's said, "We'll think of something" in the previous scene. Then note that she's not wearing her shirt anymore and has somehow ended up on the opposite side of the bed than she was on when we last saw them. LOL then of course there's Mulder referring to her "afterglow."
Sometimes less is more. The rest of the MSR writing which can suck this is different. It suits them and do not forget this is how she gets pregnant. She is one year younger than my aunt who thought she could not have children. Then she found out she was pregnant late in life. That now grown man is one of the most spoilt brats ever as a boy as I always remind him.
@@neongirluk This scene wasn't even that imo. It was non existent lol. So implied that I needed help to see what was going on in the Mulder in the bathroom scene.
There is such a thing as being TOO implied.
It took me out of the scene (the bed scenes overall impliedness) as a whole and it felt clinical somehow.
@@estherbrown4102 u literally said a bunch of nothing 😂😂😂
Just a little weird for me😔
to be honest these series became stupid its literally a comedy now
I felt the same watching this. It looks like an SNL skit of the X-Files
@@LeMonsieurBanane exactly it feels like a sitcom! the original series was so dark and mysteries which was fine because they were solving crimes.
That's rubbish. You show zero understanding of the show and the characters.
This is why I stopped watching the season 11 at the first episode.
Honey there is bigfoot with titties in s01e05. I'm not saying the revival is good 😂 but the comedic tone has definitely been there all along, in between more serious episodes. It can be a very goofy show! The best rated/most popular episode is basically a comedy
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