(see Season One for legend)

REDUX

Lovely bit of UST:
(Scully begins to take her shirt off)
M:keep goin' G-Woman.
S: Mulder, what are you doing in my bedroom in the dark?

REDUX 2

So much UST and affection and love -- not one, not two, not three, but FOUR KISSES!!! 1) hand 2) cheek 3) palm, during the midnight crying-by-the-bed scene 4) cheek close to Scully's mouth. Our VCRs nearly exploded!!!!!!

UNUSUAL SUSPECTS

No Scully, little Mulder. I mean, not much Mulder, but a couple of good scenes with him. Good ep though. [Fox in a Box... gutter, Verb, gutter.......]

DETOUR

So much shippiness... so little time... full transcript of shippy exchanges coming soon to a computer near you!!!!

POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS

Black and white comedy ep, nominated for lots of Emmys, now a classic. At the end, in a fantasy sequence, Mulder and Scully slow-dance close, gazing into each other's eyes. I wonder whose fantasy that was????

CHRISTMAS CAROL

No Mulder. Scully discovers she has a daughter.

EMILY

Oh boy, another three-strikes rating. Tragedy ep. Mulder doesn't even HUG Scully at her daughter's funeral, and even JUST FRIENDS do that much!!!! GEEZ, Three steps forward, then four steps back......

KITSUNEGARI

Sequel to "Pusher." Mulder sees (or thinks he sees) Scully shoot herself, and he looks like his whole world has shattered. However, when the real Scully appears she doesn't even pat him on the shoulder.

SCHIZOGENY

Nothing.

CHINGA

How SUCKY can we get? We did see Scully on vacation (including a gratuitous scene of her in the bathtub... I wonder who decided to have that scene... <*coughRobBowmancough...*>) anyway..... Mulder does propose to her, though in jest, and is totally lost without her.

KILL SWITCH

This ep is very very cool. No shippiness though... although shippers will be singing "Twilight Time" from here on out along with "Walking in Memphis" and Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World".

BAD BLOOD

Antishippy to the extreme. Mulder and Scully hate each other in this one. Scully also lusts after a local sheriff, and Mulder actually arranges for them to be ALONE together, showing that he could care less if she gets... involved... with someone else. It's a Darin Morganesque comedy, good under normal circumstances but considering it was written by King of the Shippers, Vince "You Are My Sunshine" Gilligan, WAY below par.

PATIENT X

Mulder behaves very evilly. But Marita Covarrrrubiassssssssssssssssss gets hurt so it isn't all bad. :-P The Weaselboy, Agent Spudner (Jeff Spender, played by Chris Owens of Young CSM and Great Mutato fame) is introduced.

THE RED AND THE BLACK

WOOHOOOOOO!!!!! This wasn't a shipper ep really except when Scully held Mulder's hand during her hypnosis [all that gasping "oh God oh God oh God" does NOT count as shippiness, it counts as the director and/or writer being a pervo!!]. But now that we know that CancerMan is alive and Spender is Mulder's brother, I think maybe XF could last another 2 years.... hehehehe

TRAVELLERS

Really profoundly sucky ep set in 1989 that screws with the whole mytharc continuity. Mulder smokes and is wearing a WEDDING RING... what's up with that?

MIND'S EYE

Despite the UST Mulder had with Marty (Lili Taylor), this was an all-around kickass ep. Lili Taylor is an awesome actress, and once more we have a female guest character, Marty, with depth and strength. If only Scully was written like that lately...

ALL SOULS

Wow... This ep was so AWESOME. I'm inclined to like the ones that deal with Scully and religion anyway, but this one just totally blew me away. The scenes with Emily are unnecessarily heartbreaking, though, as she calls Scully "mommy". This episode features a fine performance by Gillian Anderson, and a single shippy moment when Mulder places his hand on her shoulder and leans in close to speak to her. John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz co-wrote this one, with a story by the two writers that were fired. Wonderful! Wonderful!

PINE BLUFF VARIANT

Yet another kickass mystery-of-the-week ep. Very boyficcy, but very good. I enjoyed it very much and was rather surprised that John "S***forbrains" Shiban wrote it.

FOLIE A DEUX

Yet another kickass Vince ep. Creepy, good monster. Great shippy Mulderism: "You're my one in five billion." Note the use of the possessive "my" heheheheheheheehee....

THE END

Whoa, boy!!! Kick ASS ep!!! This ep should have been the series finale -- meaning, that they should not have contracted to do a s6, and made this the finale. The ep was very appropriate right down to the title, "The End." I think that this marks the end of the XF as we know it and the beginning of the purgatory known as the L.A. Years.

Anyway, this ep was so friggin full of UST and everything.... I especially loved the part where Scully sees Mulder holding Diana Fowley's hand and goes to sit in her car and almost cry over him (just listen to the heart-wrenching "he loves somebody else" music playing in the background... Mark Snow is GOD) and calls Mulder and lies, saying she is at the office and needs him to come... just to get him out of the clutches of the other woman. SHIPPY SHIPPY SHIPPY!!! Sets up the movie VERY well!!!

THE X-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE

Can ya tell I loved it? ;) This was the most awesome episode of all!!! From the explanation of the conspiracy to the implication that Mulder may have <*bleep*>ed up a good thing to the wonderful bits of humor, this is the X-File to end all X-Files. It was like a big-ass three-parter. Of course, all those hearts are for the romance that just ooooooozed from every scene. The Hallway Scene (aka the Almost Kiss) was brilliantly acted, and Mulder's monologue left no doubt that he is IN LOVE with Scully: "As hard as it's been sometimes your goddamn strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times. You kept me honest. You made me a whole person. I don't know if I want to do this alone. I don't know if I can." Note the italicized words -- "just really good friends" don't say that to each other. A gesture of note was when Scully got stung on the neck and Mulder gently rubbed the spot where she was stung. *sigh*

The scene where Scully tells Mulder she's quitting is heartbreaking; he was just in shock.

The scenes where Mulder comes to Scully's rescue are beyond awesome. After the CPR scene, she looks up at him and smiles slowly in what I have termed the "afterglow smile" -- the same smile we imagine in fanfic after Mulder and Scully have -- been physical with each other.

The CPR scene was sweet but it made me a little mad because if Mulder is going to be on top of Scully, she'd better be awake and they'd better be naked!!! <*vbeg*>

The scenes on the ice after they escape the ship are awesome.... as the music swells to an old-romantic-movie-style crescendo, Scully holds Mulder in her arms. She kisses the top of his head (in tight close-up). The camera pulls back in a panoramic crane shot (overhead view, for you civilians out there), and we see the back of Scully's head, moving as if to kiss his cheek, and then moving again as though kissing him passionately on the lips. I think Rob "I Love Gillian" Bowman shot it this way on purpose so shippers can believe they kissed and NoRoMos can believe they did. This would have made a grand finale of the film, but thee had to have a prologue after to wrap things up. Unfortunately, even though the plot takes a good turn, one thing marred it.

In their final scene in the movie, Mulder and Scully talk. He tells her to go be a doctor, and she declares that her place is with him. (Yes, she said it. Amazing, isn't it.) She holds his hand, then lets go as they walk off into the sunset. :) The problem with this scene is that it is shot outdoors, in Los Angeles. The light is yellowish and muddy-looking, and is not flattering at all to either actor. It isn't even in keeping with the visual style of the series. This sneak preview of the possible visual quality of next season was rather disheartening amidst all the shippiness. However, it cannot take away from the fact that this was an AWESOME movie worthy of many, many viewings.

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