This reminds me of the review that someone wrote about The X-Files during that "What's the Best Drama of the Past However Many Years It Was" series. I don't know if I can find the link but if I do, I'll come back and edit this comment. The reviewer talked about how their relationship evolved as Mulder and Scully went about their daily lives, working their cases, flying to different cities, driving to others. I can see why you think this feels filtered of all of the strangeness that we associate with The X-Files, which made it so wonderful and bizarre and terrifying. But maybe for Mulder and Scully the characters, it was just life. Their life. This story reminds me in tone of Frey's vid "Good-bye": loving, nostalgic, looking back at a bygone era. A love letter to Mulder and Scully and the fandom, whatever that represented to Lyman's Might at the time it was written.
I think their actions and emotions seem very adult, for lack of a better word. Maybe this is meant to show how normal people would behave under similar circumstances? I like the idea of Mulder and Scully being together like this, I'm just not sure this is how they could be.
But I loved the story anyway. It had its own internal emotional logic that carried me along and sustained my interest. And, it made me feel happy.
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Date: 2012-05-30 04:20 pm (UTC)I think their actions and emotions seem very adult, for lack of a better word. Maybe this is meant to show how normal people would behave under similar circumstances? I like the idea of Mulder and Scully being together like this, I'm just not sure this is how they could be.
But I loved the story anyway. It had its own internal emotional logic that carried me along and sustained my interest. And, it made me feel happy.
This is the essay I was thinking of: The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, Round One: The X-Files v. The West Wing.