Right, I'm back on my X-Files bullshit. This time, we're going to deal with what Chris Carter thought was a good way to represent Natives. He gets better: 2facedjanus.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/w...
No, it's real. You have to remember, this was the 90's, when characters in shows for adults were allowed to have sex lives (or a lack thereof, in Mulder's case).
"Wow Mulder, the last time you were this engrossed in reading it turned out you were looking at *Adult World Weekly*."
"You know, Frohike, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name."
While it's used as a gag a fair amount, I do find it actually does add something to Mulder's character- a further reflection of his emotional stuntedness, pathological distrust of others, and unwillingness to be emotionally vulnerable. He can only enjoy sex at a controlled distance.
Early on in the show he doesn’t own a bed and sleeps on his couch. The style notes indicate that his suits should be loose compared to Scully’s careful tailoring
The show goes out of its way to point out that Mulder has issues.
Wasn't there an episode where someone who can see the future (Peter Boyle???) makes a comment like "agent Mulder, autoerotic asphyxiation is a terrible way to go"?
Yes! "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", an episode I *will* be talking about at some point.
(One of the many moments of dark humor in that episode is that, while Bruckman is talking to Mulder, he in fact commits suicide through self-asphyxiation at the end of the episode.)
The idea that Mulder liking porn makes him a predator is so baffling to me, anyway reading this before heading back out on my odyssey (driving to Maryland from New England)
"for comparison, imagine a story set in the French countryside where the monster is constantly referred to as “der Baumtufel“)."
This made me wheeze, thank you.
As soon as you mentioned the Native themes in the story and I saw the pic, my mind immediately went to skin-walkers. Most of what I've heard of the stories comes from The Dresden Files though, and I'm not sure how true-to-life his treatment is.
