I'm in the middle of re-watching the whole series and today I watched Per Manum ("By Hand" - get it?).
When Scully first uttered "I'm pregnant" in Requiem, the mythology was destroyed. This episode is the first one to deal with the "new mythology" that revolves around Scully's Jesus boy and supersoldiers. It's awful.
First we have Scully acting like an idiot, ignoring the obvious and treating Doggett like scum. Now I know that pregnancy is a personal issue but if it's causing so much trouble and not just to you then please, princess Scully, tell your partner about it so that he doesn't have to guess what's eating you.
The scene where Scully is staring at her reflection in the mirror with that awful music playing in the background is just so laughable that I, well, bursted to laughter.
And we're supposed to believe that suddenly Scully wanted to have a child, and not just maybe some day in the future but pretty much immediately after learning that she can't have children? I mean, the flashbacks took place BEFORE the whole Emily thing so what is it that suddenly triggered her to want to have a child right now? I hate when writers re-write history. The whole flashback thing was a stupid excuse to bring Mulder in anyway (not that they found much use for him in The Gift either).
What a glorious way to celebrate the destruction of the character Scully once was!
When Scully first uttered "I'm pregnant" in Requiem, the mythology was destroyed. This episode is the first one to deal with the "new mythology" that revolves around Scully's Jesus boy and supersoldiers. It's awful.
First we have Scully acting like an idiot, ignoring the obvious and treating Doggett like scum. Now I know that pregnancy is a personal issue but if it's causing so much trouble and not just to you then please, princess Scully, tell your partner about it so that he doesn't have to guess what's eating you.
The scene where Scully is staring at her reflection in the mirror with that awful music playing in the background is just so laughable that I, well, bursted to laughter.
And we're supposed to believe that suddenly Scully wanted to have a child, and not just maybe some day in the future but pretty much immediately after learning that she can't have children? I mean, the flashbacks took place BEFORE the whole Emily thing so what is it that suddenly triggered her to want to have a child right now? I hate when writers re-write history. The whole flashback thing was a stupid excuse to bring Mulder in anyway (not that they found much use for him in The Gift either).
What a glorious way to celebrate the destruction of the character Scully once was!