Thread by @JacquelynGill

It's #SureFineWhatever time! I'll be live-tweeting X-Files episodes for the next two hours. Mute if you don't want to hear women in STEM and friends talk science, Mulder's ties, and feminism. We're starting with S3E7 The Walk.

This place seems nice. Restful. A person could really heal from their traumas in this hospital.

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Scully: Who would we talk to if we need to investigate Callahan?

Captain: For what?

Scully: Do you see this face? Don't try me. You don't know what I've seen. Who I've killed. Who I've stopped from killing me. I'm your worst nightmare. Stand the fuck down.
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This is an average monster-of-the-week episode, but it has some really great righteously-angry-Scully scenes.

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This Army general is surprisingly open to the supernatural.

Meanwhile, while Mulder and Army guy are geeking out over EVPs, Scully catches the Real Life guy who broke in.

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Gee, Mulder, don't look so disappointed that the intruder left identifying fingerprints.

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Is it just me, or did shows used to be a lot more cavalier about child death than they are now? Was it just this show? Or did something shift in terms of cultural taboos?

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I wonder how disabled veterans feel about this episode. Is it validating? Exploitative? #SureFineWhatever

Really leaning into tropes about gendered differences in processing grief here. #SureFineWhatever.

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This episode reminds me a lot of The List, structurally. I'm almost surprised the network aired them so close together.

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Dark boiler rooms and empty swimming pools at night are on the list of places that TV has told me I should never, ever go alone. #SureFineWhatever

S3E8 Oubliette is next! We start at 8:55 ET. Lots of Season 3 X-Files episodes have fun single words for titles, and this is one of them. Coming up we have Syzygy, Apocrypha, Avatar, and Quagmire.

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Oh, no. No no no nonononoonono.

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IT'S KAYLEE FROM FIREFLY!

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Scully: That's spooky.

Mulder: That's my name, isn't it?

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This is such an intense episode-- watching these two women go through this trauma together, in their own ways, and especially as Lucy relives her past trauma.

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I can't find much about Tracey Ellis, the actress who plays Lucy. She's really good. It looks like two X-Files episodes were her last acting work.

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Okay, let's add camera flashes to the list of Perfectly Ordinary Things The X-Files Ruined Forever. #SureFineWhatever

Mulder has a few things to learn about consent, and working with trauma survivors.

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"I hate to say this, Mulder, but I think you just ran out of credibility."

This could be from almost any episode, honestly.

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Heck yeah, Tow Truck Dude! Way to show up.

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If I were Mulder, I'd be having search parties out in the location near where Lucy was found already.

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I swear, I don't mean to minimize the trauma in this episode, but WOW, Scully's lip color when she and Mulder arrive at the kidnapper's town is AMAZING. #SureFineWhatever

Poor Agent Kresky. This is probably his first day on the job as a field agent, and he's got no idea what's going on, and he's going to call his mom as soon as he gets home and has a restorative hot cocoa and maybe even a glass of wine. #SureFineWhatever

Nah, bro, just leave dude in the river. Let the bears and turkey vultures have him. #SureFineWhatever

That was brutal. I'm going to go cuddle my very protective German Shepherd/Husky mix under my down comforter with the windows locked and drink chamomile and watch videos of The Rock singing Moana songs to his daughter.

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