Should clarify? I'm not stating Scully wasn't a great character or feminist.
Just that the X-Files didn't do anything ground-breaking. ie. If I didn't hate the alien/monster of the week story bits so much, I'd have loved the series. The only part of it I liked was the Scully/Mulder characters and relationship. Everything else? Bleargh. ;-)
(Not a fan of that type of horror. Never was. Have similar issues with Fringe. I hate the horror procedural, and conspiracy stuff, but like Peter/Olivia/Walter/Bell/Nina/Astrid/Lincoln...so I try to ignore the stupid disease/monster of the week. )
So my point? Not that it wasn't a feminist story. But that it didn't really discuss the issues related in my post above...because it was criminal work-place procedural about paranormal horrors, which is sort of a popular trope that has been done to death. Not an emotional horror serial about growing up. If all you've seen is the X-Files..you've been living under a safe rock.
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Date: 2012-02-07 06:32 pm (UTC)Should clarify? I'm not stating Scully wasn't a great character or feminist.
Just that the X-Files didn't do anything ground-breaking. ie. If I didn't hate the alien/monster of the week story bits so much, I'd have loved the series. The only part of it I liked was the Scully/Mulder characters and relationship. Everything else? Bleargh. ;-)
(Not a fan of that type of horror. Never was. Have similar issues with Fringe. I hate the horror procedural, and conspiracy stuff, but like Peter/Olivia/Walter/Bell/Nina/Astrid/Lincoln...so I try to ignore the stupid disease/monster of the week. )
So my point? Not that it wasn't a feminist story.
But that it didn't really discuss the issues related in my post above...because it was criminal work-place procedural about paranormal horrors, which is sort of a popular trope that has been done to death. Not an emotional horror serial about growing up.
If all you've seen is the X-Files..you've been living under a safe rock.