X files three wishes

Mulder : I can't believe you don't want butter on your popcorn. It's un-American. Dana Scully : "Caddyshack", Mulder? Mulder : It's a classic American movie. Dana Scully : That's what every guy says. It's a guy movie. Mulder : Okay, when you invite me over to your place we can watch Steel Magnolias. Dana Scully : So, um What's the occasion? Mulder : I don't know.

Just felt like the thing to do. Dana Scully : Cheers. Mulder : I don't know if you noticed but, um, I never made the world a happier place. Dana Scully : Well, I'm fairly happy. That's something. Three for the two cups of tea they drank and the sky-bending revelations that were shared -- waking up at 1 in the morning to find the one person in his life who still mattered standing by his bed, determined yet shy, in a hypnotizing pair of lacy, black underwear.

His mouth had hung open for a full five seconds before he finally closed it, swallowing all the insufficient words he didn't know how to say. He had meant to say "It's okay" , but all in the air in the room had suddenly gone perfectly still, and he found that he couldn't speak for fear of breaking the spell.

She continued, "If all our choices led to this very moment, then I believe we are precisely where we are supposed to be. I told you once, a long time ago, that I would do it all over again.

I still would. She took in a deep breath, looked him squarely in the eyes and simply asked, "Mulder, do you want me? Since then, they'd had ample opportunities to address those words and all the tiny miracles that had bloomed in their light, but life kept getting in the way. Neither was exactly sure how to take the next step.

They both finally agreed they were on the right path, but it had led them to a foreign landscape. Point was, it was his turn to make a move. That was clear. She was already his partner in every possible way -- his lover, his savior, his very best friend; the least he could do was invite her over for dinner and a movie.

No butter, though -- that was disappointing, but comforting in its predictability. Oh, he'd noticed. He was pretty sure she'd known he would, but he could at least hold out for the final credits, couldn't he?

His first wish was bring his brother back to life. Much to the despair of Scully, Stokes' brother vanished from the morgue and returned to the Stokes' trailer. However, Anson appeared as a decaying corpse replete with wound from being hit by the truck and unable to speak.

Leslie's second wish was for Anson to speak, which he could only do by shrieking at the top of his lungs. Eventually, Anson was able to articulate words, demanding to know what Leslie had done. Leslie was perturbed that Anson was not more grateful at being resurrected. Vince Gilligan proves once again that he is the king of the comedy x-files and you'd better wish that we'll be able to see works by him in the future outside of the X-Files.

NatashaJAmos 23 May Season seven is my least liked season. Sure it's got some classics like Closure were we finally learn about Mulders sister Samantha and not to mention the fun episode X Cops. But this episode is a real gem.

No pun intended! Apparently the master of comedy and my favourite tv writer Vince Gilligan wrote the part of Jinn for Janeane Garofalo who appears in season 7 and onwards of 24 but I really like this actress who played the jinn. One of the best written, wittiest, and most entertaining episodes, so much better than all the ridiculous and annoying conspiracy episodes that the Trump nut jobs are so fond of because they too see conspiracies everywhere.

The brothers in this episode perfectly represent the typical Trumper: moronic trailer trash. One can only imagine what their three wishes would be, but I'm pretty sure they'd involve something orange, corrupt, and criminal. It's the maw of the Monkey's Paw when a lazy dimwit cleans out an abandoned storage unit, getting three wishes from Jenn, a genie who only wanted a donkey and instead has gotten a lot of jackasses!

When Mulder gets the chance to make wishes of his own he discovers The ending is sort of a mild twist, though of course you could see it coming - the assumption being that no previous wish had affected the course of world history This is only an OK story, and wouldn't have been more than semi-comic filler in previous seasons. In THIS thriller-forsaken season is stands out like a beacon of quality! We have, of course, long passed the threshold of whether or not the X-Files happens in an alternative universe: magic happens here, get over it!

What really strikes ME about this Arabian-Nights-inspired subject matter is the degree to which non-Christian ideas have been overlooked in the X-Files. Muslim ideas about the nature of reality? How about Djinn as aliens? It's difficult to express how stupid I thought this episode was when I first saw it, knowing how much I've come to love it since. A story about a genie seemed so totally out of character for the show, as if they were desperately trying to find any ideas from the supernatural that they hadn't already done.

A lot happens: A guy Anson Stokes finds a woman rolled up in a rug in a storage locker. His boss instantly loses his mouth. Cue a wonderful scene of Scully dusting an invisible corpse with lycopodium powder while grinning like an idiot.

And it goes on, in the manner of what I think is called a "romp". And it sounds so profoundly stupid. But it isn't.

Far from simply giving us a parable about being careful what you wish for, by giving the genie to someone we know to be an intelligent, sophisticated person trying to act as selflessly as possible, we get the real message, ultimately, from Scully: these wishes represent not the danger of getting what you want, but of being able to get what you want without trying.

Power isn't just dangerous for stupid people; it's even dangerous for people like you. It seemed a little trite when I was a kid. In fact, it made me downright angry. Because at the time, I guess, I would've been totally convinced that, if I'd had the genie, I would've done things differently. Years later, rewatching it, I'm very aware of how poignant it actually is, in a very devious way, in telling us that basically we'd never be able to deal with all that power, no matter how wise we thought we were, and that the smart thing to do would be to just roll the rug back up.

As such, it's a neat little story, deceptively lighthearted but not lightweight. On another note: Paula Sorge is fantastically beautiful. I grew up reading the Nights and often thought about what kind of wishes I would make, if I found a jinni.

This episode delightfully brings that wish to life. Scully finds it fascinating that Jenn is a living witness to years of human history.