I just watched the first season finale (S1 Spoilers)
Please don’t spoil anything beyond season 1 in this thread.
This is my first time watching through X Files.
I feel such chagrin for Deep Throat. Maybe we’ll learn more about him in the future but dude was an enigma. No idea what part of the intel community or exec branch he worked for, but I think that was part of his charm. I went back and watched his clips in S1E2 as well. He was charming and cared about Mulder and the truth and it cost him dearly. Man, such a tragedy. The interdepartmental conflicts are something I did NOT expect when watching x files. I don’t know why but I didn’t expect there to be different conspiratorial groups within the intel community fighting one another.
Was that really an alien baby or body? Does it even matter if they think it is? It gave a bit of an Indiana Jones ending with the warehouse within the Pentagon as well.
Now TXF are disbanded and we’ll have to see the band get back together in S2. Wonder how that’s going to happen. Crazy that the President shut down the TXF. It’s a subtle line, but Mulder said, “word came from up top at the executive branch, they’re shutting us down.” Maybe it wasn’t POTUS but a cabinet member.
RIP deep throat.
I also did some googling, bc I ONLY name the name deep throat as a sexual act and surely it’s not referencing that, right? Yes and no. The informant for Watergate was nicknamed DEEP THROAT and TXF deep throat is a homage to that one. The original deep throat was a double entendre of “deep journalism” and a popular smut movie at the time called “deep throat.” So, not very classy but is what it is I guess.
I find myself relating with both Mulder and Scully. I am pretty skeptical at heart, which leans me more towards Scully’s passion for logic and empirical evidence. She’s a bit like Spock in that regard. And I resonate with Mulder as his open mind and hope/optimist for scientific mysteries can leave him ostracized or seem like a crazy person. He does the right thing and wears his heart on his sleeve, and has a generous heart and open mind, but that can also burn him easily. It’s a damn shame they’re putting such a brilliant mind on surveillance duty for white color crimes in S2E1.