Tag Archives: Dana Scully

The FBI’s Most Unwanted 9.5: What’s Up, Doc?

Posted on 27/08/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains two-headed doggies and SPOILERS!!!] As I said when I began this folly, what frustrates me most about The X Files as a TV series is that the writers never seemed to accept that they were terrible at writing long-term … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 9: Bring Me Spanky

Posted on 22/08/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains bioluminescent shark guts and SPOILERS!!!] Sigh… what can I say about the ninth season of The X Files? Scully was side-lined into a teaching job, and spent most of her screen time fretting over her miracle-baby, before deciding to … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 8: A New Wrinkle

Posted on 16/08/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains spinning metal spinal columns and SPOILERS!!!] By the time it came to shoot the eighth season of The X Files, the show’s stars were starting to get itchy feet. After a rather bitter behind-the-scenes dispute over money owed, Duchovny … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 7: God Wants You Hot!

Posted on 09/08/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains baby snakes and SPOILERS!!!] The seventh season of The X Files saw two plucky new writers joining the creative team… a couple of starry-eyed ingénues named William B. Davis and Gillian Anderson! Davis’ episode (#7.15, “En Ami”) saw his … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 6: Save Your Own Ass, Sir!

Posted on 03/08/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains big piles of manure… also, SPOILERS!!!] Fight the Future was a refreshingly illuminating info-dump for viewers of The X Files, as far as the show’s shadowy “myth-arc” conspiracy was concerned, so fans can be forgiven for expecting that narrative … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 5.5: Mulder’s Mucho Macho Movie!

Posted on 27/07/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

I don’t really have any memory of watching the fifth season of The X-Files first time around, so I think I went into Fight the Future (1998) as a lapsed follower rather than a slathering devotee, when it opened in … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 5: Snaps To Scully

Posted on 25/07/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains a syringe of sinister green SPOILERS!!!] According to Chris Carter’s master plan, the fifth season of The X-Files was going to be its last, with the TV show segueing into a series of big-screen adventures, beginning with Fight the … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 4: Naah-Ram-Ew!

Posted on 16/07/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains icky inbred SPOILERS!!!] It looked like Scully was going to get a relatively easy ride in the fourth season of The X-Files… right up until she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, that is. Most normal people would hear this … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 3: “Smart Is Sexy”

Posted on 28/06/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains leash-dropping, doggy-losing SPOILERS!!!] Season Three of The X-Files saw some pretty momentous changes in the life of our heroine, ‘Special Agent Dana Scully’: First her hippy-dippy sister ‘Melissa’ was killed in a botched assassination attempt on her own life… then … Continue reading →

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The FBI’s Most Unwanted 2: Belly Up!

Posted on 14/06/2013 by Dee CrowSeer

[Contains inconveniently procreating SPOILERS!!!] Often an actress’s ill-timed pregnancy can scupper a perfectly good series, by literally benching one of its main characters and forcing the production team to draft in an inferior substitute. Well, I say “often”, but I’m … Continue reading →

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