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Date Posted: 17:28:45 01/04/01 Thu
Author: devlin
Subject: No, not her own office and desk!
In reply to: Stardoe 's message, "Thankyou Detoured." on 21:45:16 01/03/01 Wed

Though Stardoe makes a sort of case for it in a very convoluted description that has me doing mental contortions. I am more interested in the 'notional desk' idea. It is a fact, isn't it, that Scully has worked with Mulder for several years when she protests the lack of desk (in 'Never Again'). If she had really wanted one, or needed one, *surely* she would have just said - "I'll put a desk up over there, if that's OK" I would have certainly made an area for myself and not waited to be asked.

So - the desk business in 'Never Again' is significant of something else; maybe she has felt second place to Mulder. Being assigned to the X Files in a negative role must have made Scully feel a bit jaded. Yes, she gets to work with Mulder, but for her at that time, it must have felt like she was always running second.

If anything, Morgan and Wong cleverly drew out this point, and I felt it was a very significant observation that Scully had to make. It is, for me, one of the strongest Scully based eps and one where, for the first time, Scully was allowed to have her own opinions about a case, which included an X File element. I don't know, yet, what her and John Doggett are coming up against, but if I was Scully the events of 'Never Again' would be a reminder of the origins of my independent past.

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Replies:

Never Again - Blistering Scully ep. -- Sig, 18:05:39 01/04/01 Thu
- Re: Never Again - Blistering Scully ep. -- Stardoe, 00:24:02 01/05/01 Fri
  - Re: the timing of never again -- cvl, 06:45:20 01/06/01 Sat
    - Re: the timing of never again -- Sig, 07:44:01 01/06/01 Sat
      - I think a little differently -- devlin, 09:04:33 01/06/01 Sat
        Re: I think a little differently -- Sig, 13:00:55 01/06/01 Sat
        I think we know too much about behind the scenes XF -- Stardoe, 15:19:41 01/06/01 Sat
        Re: I think we know too much about behind the scenes XF -- Sig, 05:21:54 01/07/01 Sun
        I see your point Sig. -- Stardoe, 15:02:42 01/07/01 Sun
        Re: Technical stuff -- Sig, 15:58:16 01/07/01 Sun
        I watched Arcadia last night. -- Stardoe, 21:57:45 01/08/01 Mon
        re:production orders -- cvl, 12:38:22 01/09/01 Tue
        There's always an Old Ep to discuss! -- devlin, 16:43:38 01/10/01 Wed
        Re: I think a little differently -- Sig, 13:02:22 01/06/01 Sat
      - Re: the timing of never again -- Cookie Monster, 11:24:51 01/06/01 Sat