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Date Posted: 14:47:44 01/11/00 Tue
Author: Mat
Subject: Scully's disbelief
In reply to: devlin 's message, "The Beginning is just the beginning!" on 13:54:32 01/06/00 Thu

Hi Dev! ITA with what you said about Scully's disbelief. It does seem to be that way. But... there have been occassions where she seemed more willing to accept extreme possibilities than you would expect based on your description of her. Strangely enough, it happened more often early on in the series. When I re-watched S1 this spring, it kind of jumped out at me. We'd just been discussing S5, and how Scully's beliefs never seemed to be affected by the things she'd seen. Until then I thought she'd always been strictly rational, needing scientic basis for everything, *unable* to belief. But now I think I may have been wrong. Already in the Pilot we see a kind of struggle between her scientific mind and the fear(?) that Mulder may be right. The scene in which she asks Mulder to examine her back, and the one where she holds the container with gray dust, desperate to proof something she would've rejected instantly just a couple of days earlier, have stuck in my mind. There are plenty more examples if you look for them, but she'll never admit, not even to herself, that she is - in a sense - capable of believing. I thought that in The Beginning you could detect a hint of doubt too. Like she did belief Mulder and was searching for a proof that would justify that belief.

Mat

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Which makes her all the more... -- devlin, 16:03:56 01/11/00 Tue