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Date Posted: 10:33:41 04/02/02 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
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"The Jersey Devil"

This was a fun ep! Not exactly lighthearted in the sense of "lite" eps from later seasons, but not as somber as most of the season one eps.
What I hadn't remembered what that this was one of the rare eps where Scully was actually "right". Autopsies on both the male and female "devils" found they were, biologically speaking, simply normal human beings. . . who, for some reason, had chose to run around naked, live in the woods and occasionally practice cannibalism. They weren't the "missing links" Mulder theorized they would prove to be.
As a shipper, I also liked comparing Mulder's reaction to Scully's going on a date in this ep to what it became in later seasons. He kind of resents her having a social life, but he is equally resentful of her attending a child's birthday party or going out on a date with an attractive man near her own age. It isn't the romantic/sexual nature of what she might be doing in her free time that bothers him, he simply wants her to spend *all* her time with him, running around investigating X-Files. By season four (in "Never Again") it is clearly the idea of her *dating* that upsets him. And by season six (in "Milagro") he gets upset even by the idea of another man showing an interest in her!

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Re: "The Jersey Devil" -- CW, 20:51:12 04/02/02 Tue
- This should have been one of my other choices... -- detoured, 22:56:33 04/02/02 Tue
  - Scully's fashion sense. . . -- Islandgirl, 09:04:23 04/04/02 Thu
    - I don't think so -- detoured, 16:57:48 04/04/02 Thu
      - I think that the -- CW, 20:53:22 04/06/02 Sat
    - I think Scully looks *much* prettier now. -- Scully'sMyHero, 08:13:20 04/07/02 Sun