Quick question
Hey quick question but in the original run of the show was it the alien DNA that caused Scully's cancer? If so wouldn't her vaccine result in people developing cancer and they would have to rely on CSM for a cure anyways?
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What does scully mean by the immortal thing?
It is from the original series. It is a trait that has been hinted at several times, mainly in ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’ (Darin Morgan’s writing too!) and also in ‘Tithonus’ (the way the episode unfolds may suggest how Scully becomes immortal). It’s still debated but if I remember correctly, Chris Carter confirmed it was true.
Nah, CC was kidding, and Darin pretty definitively said it was a joke in this interview published tonight.
Vince Gilligan wrote Tithonus and the ending to that episode highly implies that yes indeed Scully is immortal seeing how death comes for her but takes Alfred Fellig instead in a similar way which resulted in him becoming immortal.
Will we ever find out if this is the case? Prob not, sort of how we prob won’t see Mulder die from autoerotic asphyxiation.
Plus can you really trust interviews like that? writers and creators constantly change there minds about things. Really who they should have asked was Vince Gilligan seeing how his episode gave more evidence to Scully’s immortality than Darin Morgan’s episode
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DANA SCULLY & EVIDENCE (2016)
Ok this is probably the biggest issue I have with this show b/c it is never made clear. What is a soul in the buffyverse?...
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The concept of a soul is directly related to the idea of free will. Both Buffy and Angel are ultimately shows about power--who has it, who controls it, how the powerless can fight back. This concept is at the very core of the mythos, with vampires being a metaphor for (among other things) the idea absolute corruption--turning a human into a being of pure evil, one who has no choice but to kill and eat and seemingly take gleeful joy in it. Even when Buffy suspects Willow has been turned ("Doppelgangland") there is not a moment's hesitation: she has to kill her best friend. Willow won't have a choice in becoming an evil being. She just is one.
Angel takes that same idea and tweaks it slightly. A vast stretch of the series' run leads up to one event: the arrival of Jasmine, a supreme being who immediately makes everyone be the opposite of a vampire. The entirety of the humanity has no choice but to be good. Again: the absence of free will is the ultimate sin.
The returning of the soul is the return of free will, which is why most people act differently with it. Most, not all. Some chose to carry on doing what they were doing, choosing to be evil. Free will's tricky like that.
Well if the soul is connected to the idea of free will. Where blood thirsty demons have to kill, drink blood, or what ever and have no choice who it is and beings with souls do is nice and all but there are still examples that disprove that.
One major one comes from Angel. In the episode Lullaby Darla sacrifices herself so that her baby will live. This is an act of free will. She chooses to save the life of a living being, if she was "pure evil" she would let Connor die and "take gleeful joy in it". And you can't say it's because she is a mother because when spikes mother was turned into a vamp she had no motherly feelings towards him. And as he said it was the demon not her.
You know, I think the main point is that this universe just has no rules.