Tag: Scully

• The Post-modern Prometheus

  

  ‘The Post-modern Prometheus’, from Season Five of the X-Files presents us with something of a controversy. The plot involves a doctor working in isolation on the Hox gene – the gene which ensures that the correct structures form in the correct places within a body. Unbeknownst to said doctor, his father has been conducting experiments of his own,…

  markwithanx

  October 3, 2020

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  accomplice, Cher, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Mask, monster, Mulder, rape, Scully, serial rapist, soul, The Great Mutato, The X Files

• I want to (believe) know

  

  Except for a brief period after his office is torched at the end of Season 5, Mulder has always the iconic ‘I Want to Believe’ poster prominently placed close by his desk. In the movie ‘I Want to Believe’, though no longer in his office, Mulder is sitting at a desk when first we meet…

  markwithanx

  February 27, 2020

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  Belief, Catholic, embryonic stem cell therapy, experiential evidence, Faith, Freud/Freudianism, I Want to Believe, Motivation, Mulder, Priest, Scepticism, Scully, Stem Cell, X Files

• An act of rebellion

  

  Clearly, in the Pilot episode of The X Files, Dana Scully is little more than ‘the sidekick’. Her lack of experience in either investigative work generally and these types of cases specifically provides plenty of opportunity for the exposition the audience needs if we are to understand Mulder’s work. According to the source that shall…

  markwithanx

  January 20, 2020

  X Files

  appearance, rebellion, scientific analysis, Scully, text