2x10 "Red Museum"

[wendelah1]

This episode is confusing. There are so many plot elements and red herrings that when Scully says it's "kind of hard to tell the villains without a scorecard," you'd best believe her. But when I found out that "Red Museum" was originally intended to be a cross-over with the CBS series Picket Fences until the network vetoed the idea, it all made sense. This was a fast re-write, designed to clear all references to someone else's universe, which never quite gelled.



Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Win Phelps
Originally aired: December 9, 1994

Synopsis:
When several teenagers from a small town in Wisconsin are kidnapped and returned with the phrase "he is one" written on their backs, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate.

Most Memorable Quote:
Scully: So, you started to tell me about walk-ins but I'm not sure if I grasped the finer points.
Mulder: Well, it, it's kind of a new age religion based on an old idea. That if you, uh, lose hope or despair and want to leave this mortal coil, you become open and vulnerable.
Scully: To inhabitation by a new spirit.
Mulder: A new enlightened spirit. According to the literature, Abe Lincoln was a walk-in. And Mikhail Gorbachev and Charles Colson, Nixon's advisor.
Scully: But not Nixon?
Mulder: No. Not even they want to claim Nixon.

Links:
Transcript
Fences X'd Out
Sarah Stegall

Fanfiction:
There are a few stories at Gossamer. Of those I've read, I can recommend "Camera Lucida 01 - Latency" by tree and "Camera Obscura 01 - Latency" by A. Kelley Nolan

Comments

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

Ayup Duckies! Well, I am way, way WAY behind on this rewatch, so much so that I guess I'll never catch up (I think I'd just started watching Duane Barry when the tornado that is my J.O.B. whisked me away from Texas. Real Life: it is some bitch Dorothy).

So, Red Museum from memory: people in weird red turbans. Something to do with cows. That infamous shapeless beige coat. Scully packing heat. Mulder wiping BBQ sauce off the corner of Scully's mouth and Scully shooting him a glance that said "at this very precise second I'm picturing you naked Spooky Boy". Even the thirty something Noromo that I was back then could pick up on THAT gaze.

Do not even bother arguing this point with me. What happened over those plates of ribs was the X-F equivalent of Michaelangelo The Creation of Adam's finger touching business, only, you know, like, with eye sex.

[write-out.livejournal.com]

Ah, so this is the ribs ep? That's about the only thing I remember. Must find time to rewatch this weekend.

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

That's about the only thing I remember

Priorities: You have them straight. *empathic nod*

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

Texas *rolls eyes* I meant Kansas. Ruby Cowboy Boots, not quite the same...yeeha.

[estella-c.livejournal.com]

Y'know, we were still hearing the CC mantra: NO ROMANCE. And I was not young but still wanting some vicarious action. And I saw that wiping off of sauce and I said to my not-all-that-interested husband: "Would regular guy partners do that wiping off thing?" And I don't really think he answered. I think he didn't care.

I cared! CC was allowing and extending the tease. He saw how it excited the fans.

Oh. Boring ep. That walk-in thing didn't take, and when they brought it back after Samantha's death it really didn't take.

Samantha deserved better. Even as a perverted seductress as in Iolokus.

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

If we'd known back then that all those lovely intimate and professionally inappropriate moments were going to amount to the Great Ship Debacle of S8/9. *sigh*

CC I swear, was both the best and worst thing to happen to this show.

I want to grind my teeth to dust and spit them out just hearing that word "walk-in". You are absolutely right. Samantha deserved a hundred times better than this cockamamie about bloody starlight as a send off.

Yes, even the perverted seductress of Iolokus did her better justice, I agree.