She's more of a way to make a point than an actual developed person.
Yeah, absolutely. I think the point is to obliterate the series as we know it. Very cleverly done, too.
I am pretty sensitive to eyebrow "waggling" (ugh, I don't even like writing the word)
Hee, hee.
Ack. I got so distracted by laughing at the waggling eyebrows that I forgot what I wanted to say.
If Samantha was raised in that environment in his stead, she'd have some mannerisms in common with him.
Maybe. But I think they'd be fairly superficial. Besides, she wouldn't be growing up in the same environment: she's a girl, growing up in the horribly sexist (trust me) sixties and seventies, a youngest daughter, not an oldest son. They wouldn't have held her responsible for her brother's disappearance they way they did Mulder. He was in charge of taking care of her, not the other way around. And Mulder didn't come to believe his sister had been abducted until after he'd undergone hypnosis, and that was after he'd already been in the FBI, right? His interest in psychology and criminal behavior we might attribute to his sister's disappearance, but the belief in aliens, that came later is my memory of it. The other problem I have is I just can't picture a woman making comments like that to another woman whom she'd just met, who'd been assigned to work with her, regardless of sexual orientation. It just sounds—off—to me.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think the point is to obliterate the series as we know it. Very cleverly done, too.
I am pretty sensitive to eyebrow "waggling" (ugh, I don't even like writing the word)
Hee, hee.
Ack. I got so distracted by laughing at the waggling eyebrows that I forgot what I wanted to say.
If Samantha was raised in that environment in his stead, she'd have some mannerisms in common with him.
Maybe. But I think they'd be fairly superficial. Besides, she wouldn't be growing up in the same environment: she's a girl, growing up in the horribly sexist (trust me) sixties and seventies, a youngest daughter, not an oldest son. They wouldn't have held her responsible for her brother's disappearance they way they did Mulder. He was in charge of taking care of her, not the other way around. And Mulder didn't come to believe his sister had been abducted until after he'd undergone hypnosis, and that was after he'd already been in the FBI, right? His interest in psychology and criminal behavior we might attribute to his sister's disappearance, but the belief in aliens, that came later is my memory of it. The other problem I have is I just can't picture a woman making comments like that to another woman whom she'd just met, who'd been assigned to work with her, regardless of sexual orientation. It just sounds—off—to me.