Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All

After watching the new X-Files movie, I feel that Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz missed an episode when they came up with their essential viewing list for the movie. Currently, the list includes eight episodes: the Pilot, Beyond the Sea, The Host, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, Memento Mori, Post Modern Prometheus, Bad Blood, and Milagro.

I mentioned before that this list is suspiciously Scullycentric. You may believe me or not, but I did wonder, if they were going to focus on Scully, why isn’t “Revelations” on this list? “Revelations” is the episode that gave Scully her own set of unexplained phenomenon—those stemming from her religious faith. One of the hallmarks of Scully’s character is her struggle to reconcile her scientist side with all the things she has seen and with her Catholic upbringing.

“Revelations” is also the episode where they suggest that Scully’s connection with God may not be such a personal one. Perhaps she’s called upon to do more, to be more.

So why isn’t this included? Perhaps it may be confusing. In the beginning of the movie, there is a kidnapping scene. We just barely get to see the assailants but I immediately thought about a character in this episode. For a couple of seconds, I thought there would be a connection.

The episode is written by one of the few women writers the show ever had. Kim Newton is also the scribe for “Quagmire.” Even though these are two very strong episodes, perhaps CC & FS just didn’t remember these contributions.

Or, they just liked Revelations as a title for the boxed set so much that they didn’t want to change it?

They should have put it in.

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