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Date Posted: 08:04:38 10/16/00 Mon
Author: kande
Subject: Help needed.

S.O. and I were discussing X-Files over breakfast yesterday. Well, we were discussing Scully (which is why I'm posting this here). Keep in mind that S.O. doesn't watch XF.

My point was that one reason I like XF so much is because Scully is unlike most female characters on tv - she's intelligent, strong, not a bimbo. She's allowed to have a mind and she isn't jumping into bed with every man who looks her way.

S.O.'s counterpoint was that Scully is a stereotype. The stereotype (if I understand it right) is that she's beautiful AND intelligent, and how unusual for a woman to be both. S.O.'s point (again, if I'm getting it right) is that the show's creators have taken Scully to another extreme (from bimbo to brainiac) and that Scully is still a one-dimensional character.

When S.O. said this to me I was extremely puzzled because I don't see Scully that way at all. Yes, she's intelligent and beautiful, but that's not the point or purpose of the character. Luscious, pouty lips aside, I don't see Scully as oozing sexuality. We've seen Scully vulnerable, conflicted, scared, funny, happy. Am I wrong to think of Scully as a well-developed character?

I know I'm not expressing this well, but I'm looking for others' views of Scully.

kande

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Replies:

Puzzled at use of stereotype? -- CW, 11:16:47 10/16/00 Mon
But Fox was dead set against GA because she wasn't pretty enough -- detoured, 01:59:24 10/17/00 Tue
- Glad they put GA and DD on -- CW, 07:31:05 10/17/00 Tue
  - Re: Glad they put GA and DD on -- Islandgirl, 09:33:05 10/17/00 Tue
  - Re: Glad they put GA and DD on -- Islandgirl, 09:33:38 10/17/00 Tue
    - What we don't know is -- Cw, 13:52:44 10/17/00 Tue
      - I think it was subtle but apparent that. . . -- Islandgirl, 13:26:37 10/18/00 Wed
        Sounds like a winner to me--after she was abducted, her -- CW, 14:05:59 10/18/00 Wed
        Interesting stuff. -- kande, 07:06:58 10/23/00 Mon
        desires -- bwreck, 20:33:55 10/28/00 Sat
I think I see what your SO is saying...... -- kenamom, 12:51:26 10/17/00 Tue