Did They or Didn't They? The Comedy Episodes
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| Title: | Did They or Didn't They? The Comedy Episodes |
| Creator: | Fialka |
| Date(s): | 1998, updated 1999 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
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| External Links: | Did They or Didn't They? - Fialka, Archived version |
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'Did They or Didn't They? The Comedy Episodes is by Fialka.
It was part of a series. The author comments that: "Many of these essays first appeared as discussions on OBSSE, Scullyfic and/or ATXA."
The essay was first posted to The Annotated X-Files Study Guide and is at Fialka's Candybox.
Later, it was reposted:
Sadly, when the old NBCI server went the way of so many really cool, free things on the net, I never could find another free site with enough space to house the whole Study Guide, and it didn't get enough traffic to warrant paying for 250mb on a server somewhere. Not to mention, I no longer have as much time on my hands as I did back then, so like the UFOs...well, it is another UFO. Some of it still appears to be here, if you can wade your way through all the advertising on FortuneCity. I sure won't be insulted if you don't. These essays are from the original site, and appear here unchanged. Unlinked titles got abducted by aliens somewhere along the way. If you find them wandering dazed by the side of the road, could you be so kind as to send them home?
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Comedy episodes generally inspire a rather heated discussion of whether or not to admit these stories to the X Files canon. Such episodes can be extremely problematic, especially where the actions of Mulder and/or Scully go so far as to be perceived as completely out of character. Someone on a list was recently complaining that she had just seen the Pilot and she hated it. It wasn't 'her' Scully (if I remember correctly, she had begun watching in the 4th season). On the same list, a discussion of the Iolokus saga again inspired heated debate. Is the Scully of Iolokus a logical progression of what our Scully - were she a real woman and not bound by the narrow dictates of prime time tv - might become? Far more than Mulder, the tv Scully has grown enormously in six years - one might even say she has grown up, from an overeager overachiever, trained but unseasoned; to a cool, calm professional whose devastating emotional experiences are slowly wearing away not only her intrinsic skeptical nature, but also her ability to relate to the world in any kind of ordinary way.