astarte | TXF-Vid: Scully PoV

Artist/Song Title: Garbage - Metal Heart
Subject: The X Files, Scully PoV, Vid-Challenge Season1: Paranoia
Summary: ’But now that we know for sure they're telling lies when they say, no one gets hurt and therefore nobody dies.‘ Paranoia is knowing all the facts.
Length: 03:59 | Size: 64 MB | Format: 720x400 - AVI - zip
Links: megaupload, mediafire, permanent link

While in the mists of vidding 'Matches to Paper Dolls' I said to

xandra_ptv, 'We should do a TXF vid-challenge. One vid per season.' Xandra being who she is said, 'Sure.' Because this is the stuff I randomly throw at her to see if something sticks. Finding the right song on such short notice was an hair-pulling experience I will repeat in about, uhm, NOW. The season itself holds up pretty well when you consider it was filmed 1992/93, they had some really cool scenes for TV back then. So this vid happened, mostly because I found S1-Scully precious and her hair wasn't as bad as I remembered, which can only mean that S2 will be hilarious in that department.

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I totally get what you're saying, it seems to me a lot of Scully's issues became 'womanly' and exploited from a narrow male writers perspective later on. What you said about her daddy issues in your journal a while back, rang true for me. It was such a typical TV female issue and it would have been a hell more complex, if it was about her disappointment in her father. Not about controlling males in general and her need of approval and then rebellion. The captain, who isn't there for most of her childhood. Her growing up and losing that illusion of a perfect father by seeing his flaws crystal clear, when he is at home. Her inability to express her take on life with him, because he would shut her up. But getting back to canon: The tacked on ending of 7x07 Orison destroyed a otherwise perfect Scully ep for me. Why did she need to justify pulling the trigger in a situation like that with becoming an instrument for good or evil? It takes her own agenda away. I just imagine them discussing Scully's S8 fate in the writers room and going, so Scully can't reproduce, I bet that makes her very sad. And the one female one going, 'But she is pregnant, you made her pregnant in the S7 finale. It's solved.' And the rest ignoring that comment and going, 'Imagine if they tried in vitro and it didn't take. Very sad indeed.'

I'm just not sure, why her commitment to the work wasn't enough on its own as a drive for the writers, considering the losses she faced over the years to harden her resolve to fuck this conspiracy up to the ninth degree. It became personal with her abduction and then Melissa's death, her cancer and why on earth, did her infertility take center stage in the season in which she already was pregnant? Such repetitive storytelling. I really didn't need to see her asking Mulder to be a sperm donor, if it wasn't in the context of her taking him against a wall and have her wicked way with him. Season 8 was in ways the worst offender, because it felt so uninspired. The writers didn't take risks - none and the risks were what made the earlier seasons so great, especially on gender roles and stereotypes. Plus half of Mulder's S8 appearances were completely wasted in my eyes. Trying to reproduce the chemistry with a male partner did backfire and in retrospective I would have loved watching a season of her and Monica Reyes kicking ass. (I only seen S8, Xandra told me they fucked her character up in S9, but I cover my ears and go lalalalala.)

TXF-Vid: Scully PoV - Metal Heart

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