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* In the [[TheTeaser cold open]] to "Revelations", the unnamed preacher's stigmata looks like a SpecialEffectsFailure uncharacteristic of the show... Then after the title sequence, we learn he was faking his stigmata with a bag of fake blood concealed inside his clothes - It looked like a bad special effect because it ''was'' a bad special effect in-universe.
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* In the [[TheTeaser cold open]] to "Revelations", the unnamed preacher's stigmata looks like a SpecialEffectsFailure uncharacteristic of the show... Then after the title sequence, we learn he was faking his stigmata with a bag of fake blood concealed inside his clothes - It looked like a bad special effect because it ''was'' a bad special effect in-universe. They probably had to walk a fine line with that scene - it had to look just real enough that the congregation would be believably fooled, but at the same time if it looked ''too'' real, it could induce fridge logic about just why this crooked preacher was so good at practical effects.
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* In the [[TheTeaser cold open]] to "Revelations", the unnamed preacher's stigmata looks like a SpecialEffectsFailure uncharacteristic of the show... Then after the title sequence, we learn he was faking his stigmata with a bag of fake blood concealed inside his clothes - It looked like a bad special effect because it ''was'' a bad special effect in-universe.
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* One thing that always was a concern was the endgame of Mulder's exposure of ETs, colonization, and the Syndicate's plans. The Syndicate played along with the Colonists' plans because the Colonists were perfectly content to sneak their way into human society and not just carpet bomb the place from orbit (there was also the whole thing with the slave race of hybrids). By keeping this colonization plan secret and assisting them, they helped forestall the eventual invasion. Now, the Syndicate was acting towards their own ends in any case—their vaccine most likely was not going to be shared with the rest of the world—but so long as the Colonists' cover was not blown, they would have kept to their plans and not just gone the blunt and bloody route. So if Mulder and Scully (and everyone else involved) did reveal the existence of ETs and revealed the Colonists' plans, wouldn't they have just abandoned the whole thing with hybrids/shape-shifting/Super Soldiers and just started wiping humanity off the planet?
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** It kind of zigzags. The Syndicate was mostly concerned with drawing undue attention to their plans. They couldn't let Mulder succeed, but if they killed him, it would just "turn [a] struggle into a crusade"; call attention to the project and give credibility to his beliefs, spurring further efforts to uncover the truth. They may have had a good reason for it, and not just selfishly... (see below)
* One thing that always was a concern was the endgame of Mulder's exposure of ETs, colonization, and the Syndicate's plans. The Syndicate played along with the Colonists' plans because the Colonists were perfectly content to sneak their way into human society and not just carpet bomb the place from orbit (there was also the whole thing with the slave race of hybrids). By keeping this colonization plan secret and assisting them, they helped forestall the eventual invasion. Now, the Syndicate was acting towards their own ends in any case—their vaccine most likely was not going to be shared with the rest of the world—but so long as the Colonists' cover was not blown, they would have kept to their plans and not just gone the blunt and bloody route. So if Mulder and Scully (and everyone else involved) did reveal the existence of ETs and revealed the Colonists' plans, wouldn't they have just abandoned the whole thing with hybrids/shape-shifting/Super Soldiers and just started wiping humanity off the planet?
* One thing that always was a concern was the endgame of Mulder's exposure of ETs, colonization, and the Syndicate's plans. The Syndicate played along with the Colonists' plans because the Colonists were perfectly content to sneak their way into human society and not just carpet bomb the place from orbit (there was also the whole thing with the slave race of hybrids). By keeping this colonization plan secret and assisting them, they helped forestall the eventual invasion. Now, the Syndicate was acting towards their own ends in any case—their vaccine most likely was not going to be shared with the rest of the world—but so long as the Colonists' cover was not blown, they would have kept to their plans and not just gone the blunt and bloody route. So if Mulder and Scully (and everyone else involved) did reveal the existence of ETs and revealed the Colonists' plans, wouldn't they have just abandoned the whole thing with hybrids/shape-shifting/Super Soldiers and just started wiping humanity off the planet?
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** They're also going to have some problems raising another family. Sure, Momma just had another baby, but it most likely would have died naturally anyway, and she's getting pretty old to be having more....
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* I was rewatching the series and I found myself becoming slightly frustrated. Several times Mulder had the chance to shoot fleeing suspects and did not shoot (meanwhile Scully and Skinner don't hesitate to open fire in the same situations). At first this frustrated me and it seemed like the writers trying to extend the episodes. Then it hit me, early in the series Mulder shot one of the aliens which bled green acidic blood, this almost killed him. It makes perfect sense, Mulder is afraid to shoot because he might be dealing with an alien shapeshifter and shooting would make the situation worse.
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* I was rewatching the series and I found myself becoming slightly frustrated. Several times Mulder had the chance to shoot fleeing suspects and did not shoot (meanwhile Scully and Skinner don't hesitate to open fire in the same situations). At first this frustrated me and it seemed like the writers trying to extend the episodes. Then it hit me, early in the series Mulder shot one of the aliens which bled green acidic blood, this almost killed him. It makes perfect sense, Mulder is afraid to shoot because he might be dealing with an alien shapeshifter and shooting would make the situation worse.
worse, especially since unlike Scully or Skinner, Mulder has color vision problems and is probably afraid he won't see what color his target's blood is.
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* I was rewatching the series and I found myself becoming slightly frustrated. Several times Mulder had the chance to shoot fleeing suspects and did not shoot (meanwhile Scully and Skinner don't hesitate to open fire in the same situations). At first this frustrated me and it seemed like the writers trying to extend the episodes. Then it hit me, early in the series Mulder shot one of the aliens which bled green acidic blood, this almost killed him. It makes perfect sense, Mulder is afraid to shoot because he might be dealing with an alien shapeshifter and shooting would make the situation worse.
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* In "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" Mulder tricks Scully into staking out a haunted house with him on Christmas Eve. Except from the beginning, we can tell that Mulder doesn't really believe the story and is just as surprised as Scully is to find that the ghosts are real. Has anyone else wondered what the heck Mulder's original plan was?
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* In "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" Mulder tricks Scully into staking out a haunted house with him on Christmas Eve. Except from the beginning, we can tell that Mulder doesn't really believe the story and is just as surprised as Scully is to find that the ghosts are real. Has anyone else wondered what the heck Mulder's original plan was?
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* In "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" Mulder tricks Scully into staking out a haunted house with him on Christmas Eve. Except from the beginning, we can tell that Mulder doesn't really believe the story and is just as surprised as Scully is to find that the ghosts are real. Has anyone else wondered what the heck Mulder's original plan was?
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* In "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" Mulder tricks Scully into staking out a haunted house with him on Christmas Eve. Except from the beginning, we can tell that Mulder doesn't really believe the story and is just as surprised as Scully is to find that the ghosts are real. Has anyone else wondered what the heck Mulder's original plan was?
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* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
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* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents "creature") parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
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* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some critics who reviewed the episode) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some critics who reviewed the episode) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
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** Or, even worse, he was replaced ''before'' he met his wife and had a family. That means his child is a HalfHumanHybrid and just hasn't realised it yet.
* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some critics who reviewed the episode) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some critics who reviewed the episode) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
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** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some people on this site) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
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** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some people on this site) critics who reviewed the episode) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
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* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some people on this site) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
* "The Jersey Devil"'s ending; both of that... child's (I refuse to use the word "creature)parents are dead. That means she's either going to starve to death or a pack of passing coyotes will decide "ooh, easy lunch" and eat the poor child alive. [[TearJerker Poor kid]].
** And, to say that the female Jersey Devil deserved to [[spoiler:die]] (like some people on this site) is just cruel. She was trying to ''escape'', and was not actively attacking Mulder, Scully or anyone else. Despite her, ahem, [[ImAHumanitarian dietary preferences]], Mulder's shock at the fact the resident CorruptCop [[spoiler: killed]] her is entirely justified. And makes us hate the CorruptCop more.
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* Scully giving William up for adoption in season 9 is a source of FridgeLogic for a lot of fans. In the first place, it goes directly against Scully's character, who only four seasons before had fought tooth-and-nail to adopt a three-year-old daughter she'd never met and had only known three days. All this despite knowing that the child was conceived to be experimented on and that both mother and daughter would likely be hunted by the conspiracy. In the second place, it doesn't make sense from a common sense standpoint. Scully gives William away to an anonymous couple in order to keep him safe. Never mind that she is taking the baby away from at least ''five trained FBI agents'' who know the details of the situation and have the weapons, knowledge, and training to at least try to keep him safe and giving him to a couple who know nothing about the baby's paranormal background, the conspiracy, or the fact that they now have a huge bulls-eye painted on their backs. To make it worse, this is a ''closed'' adoption--there is nothing Scully can do to check on her baby after she gives him up. Doesn't this just make it easier for the conspiracy to kill of William and his adoptive parents?
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** It's not meaningless; the "control group" in the episode is a religious group who call themselves the Church of the Red Museum. Mulder even asks the significance of the name. The leader took his congregation to cattle country and bought a ranch, turning "500 head of cattle into pets." The leader called it a "monument to barbarism" as the whole population was vegetarian. The vegetarianism ''is'' relevant to the plot, since not only were the children in this church ''not'' getting the inoculations of growth hormone the other kids were getting, they also weren't eating the beef and milk from the cattle who were also getting the hormones.
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** Mulder is also implied to have come from a wealthy family; he grew up on Martha's Vineyard, his parents owned a summer house in Connecticut, he went to Oxford for college, and he "rents" a Congressman for his own uses. In season 8, he's unconcerned about his own unemployment and doesn't try to get another job. After that, he's able to easily slip into hiding and support himself while doing so. It could be that he's ''not'' using FBI channels or money at all, but his own money to fund some of his more ambitious expeditions and his friends in high places (see the rented Congressman) to grease the wheels.
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* There's a Fridge Brilliance moment to Mulder's HandsOnApproach baseball lesson he gave to Scully. Scully claims she has never hit a baseball which is kind of hard to believe as Scully was a major tom-boy with two brothers who did things like buy her a BB gun for her birthday and take her shooting in the woods, and moreover, she adored her father the sea captain with whom she shared a special bond. The likelihood of her not knowing how to hit a baseball is pretty small. However, she did not appear to mind to be taught at all.
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* There's a Fridge Brilliance moment "The Unnatural": The end scene has an aspect of FridgeBrilliance to Mulder's it. Mulder uses the HandsOnApproach baseball lesson he gave to Scully. teach Scully claims she has how to play baseball. The entire scene is based on Scully telling Mulder she'd never hit a baseball which before, instead finding better things to do than "slap a piece of horsehide with a stick." This is kind of hard to believe as most likely a lie. Scully was introduced as someone who defied female stereotypes and enjoyed being OneOfTheBoys. Her mother tells Mulder in season two that she was a major tom-boy tomboy, unlike her sister. She got along well with two brothers her brothers, who did things like buy gave her a BB gun for her birthday and take showed her shooting in the woods, and moreover, how to use it. Moreover, she adored was very close with her father the sea captain and spent a great deal of time with whom she shared a special bond. him. The likelihood chances of her not knowing how to hit ''never'' hitting a baseball is are pretty small. However, slim. But judging by the look on her face, she did not appear to didn't mind to be being taught one bit.
* "Arcadia:" Mulder and Scully go UndercoverAsLovers to solve a case. Mulder mentions this is their first case since being back on the X-Files, but complains that it isn't an X-File atall.all. And he's right; though the case turned out to have paranormal elements to it, it was originally just a missing persons case in a seemingly perfect neighborhood. Which means that out of all the male/female partnerships in the FBI, whoever was in charge of the case thought that ''Mulder and Scully'' would be the most believable as a married couple.
* "Arcadia:" Mulder and Scully go UndercoverAsLovers to solve a case. Mulder mentions this is their first case since being back on the X-Files, but complains that it isn't an X-File at
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** Mulder was the Smoking Man's son, and he sacrificed his wife and Samantha to the aliens to protect Mulder. Krycek and the Well-Manicured Man were protecting him as well.
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* In "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", the titular character tells Scully she won't die. One wonders how that's possible, till we reach "Tithonus", where an immortal photographer apparently gives up his immortality in order to save Scully, taking her place. As this is how he stated he became immortal in the first place...
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* Okay, "Home" is a great and chilling episode, but does anyone else think the writers didn't put much thought into that ending? The surviving Peacock family hit the road with plans to start over their grotesque family elsewhere, but how in blazes do they hope to pull that off? The only way they had managed to hide from society for so long was because of their ancestral farmhouse, which they no longer have by the end, and in the course of the episode they had ''murdered two law-enforcement officers and one's innocent wife'', so there's no doubt whatsoever that police are hot on their trail. Since they aren't supernatural villains with any reality-bending powers, it's a pretty safe bet that the minute their car runs low on gas or they need to find food, Peacock Jr. and his incestuous potato-sack of a momma are '''fucked'''.
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* Okay, "Home" is a great and chilling episode, but does anyone else think the writers didn't put much thought into that ending? The surviving Peacock family hit the road with plans to start over their grotesque family elsewhere, but how in blazes do they hope to pull that off? The only way they had managed to hide from society for so long was because of their ancestral house, which they no longer have by the end, and in the course of the episode they had ''murdered two law-enforcement officers''. Since they aren't supernatural villains with any reality-bending powers, it's a pretty safe bet that the minute their car runs out of gas or they need to find food, Peacock Jr. and his potato-sack momma are '''fucked'''.
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* Okay, "Home" is a great and chilling episode, but does anyone else think the writers didn't put much thought into that ending? The surviving Peacock family hit the road with plans to start over their grotesque family elsewhere, but how in blazes do they hope to pull that off? The only way they had managed to hide from society for so long was because of their ancestral house, farmhouse, which they no longer have by the end, and in the course of the episode they had ''murdered two law-enforcement officers''. officers and one's innocent wife'', so there's no doubt whatsoever that police are hot on their trail. Since they aren't supernatural villains with any reality-bending powers, it's a pretty safe bet that the minute their car runs out of low on gas or they need to find food, Peacock Jr. and his incestuous potato-sack of a momma are '''fucked'''.
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* The title of "Red Museum". Largely meaningless in the context of the episode - but on a meta-level, it's a collection red herrings. Enough to fill a ''museum'' perhaps...
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*** Take it even further, actually: the Cigarette-Smoking Man ''always'' paid close attention to wherever and whatever Mulder went and did, and there are several hints throughout the series that, when it didn't interfere with their specific projects, the "cabal" had no problems implementing whatever safety procedure suggestions he would make regarding dangerous unexplained phenomena. To put it another way, Mulder was half a whistle-blower, half Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}} agent. They would've been fools to have actually gotten rid of him completely, and they knew it.
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* There's a Fridge Brilliance moment to Mulder's HandsOnApproach baseball lesson he gave to Scully. Scully claims she has never hit a baseball which is kind of hard to believe as Scully was a major tom-boy with two brothers who did things like buy her a BB gun for her birthday and take her shooting in the woods, and moreover, she adored her father the sea captain with whom she shared a special bond. The likelihood of her not knowing how to hit a baseball is pretty small. However, she did not appear to mind to be taught at all.
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* An [[ConspiracyTheories all-powerful evil conspiracy]]... could not oust rogue Agent Mulder and sympathetic Assistant Director Skinner from the FBI, or at least remove them to some insignificant bureaucratic duty? Explained (rather poorly) by the back story of Mulder having been regarded as a hero who aided in the capture of a vicious serial killer early in his career, and therefore any action against him would be a public relations pain in the backside. Not explained by the fact the [[TheSyndicate Evil Conspiracy]] had already ousted people far more important and powerful.
** I always thought it was because no-one liked or believed Mulder; this way, anything he actually found out was guaranteed to be treated as a CassandraTruth. In a way, Mulder was an extra layer of protection.
** The conspirators may also have found him a convenient stalking horse, when investigating strange events that they weren't involved in. All those Monsters of the Week, for example.
*** Take it even further, actually: the Cigarette-Smoking Man ''always'' paid close attention to wherever and whatever Mulder went and did, and there are several hints throughout the series that, when it didn't interfere with their specific projects, the "cabal" had no problems implementing whatever safety procedure suggestions he would make regarding dangerous unexplained phenomena. To put it another way, Mulder was half a whistle-blower, half Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}} agent. They would've been fools to have actually gotten rid of him completely, and they knew it.
** It was likely a useless move. Mulder has shown that it doesn't matter if he is in the FBI or not -- he'll go after the truth with or without their help.
** He also had a few friends in high places himself at times.
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* Quite a bit, but the most notorious example might be from ''Fight the Future'': how did Mulder and Scully get back to civilization from the crashed spaceship in the Antarctic? (There's a joke about this later in the TV series.)
* EasyLogistics played for the RuleOfCool: Mulder never ever has any qualms about commandeering any resource from the [=FBI=], regardless the cost, which strikes as unrealistic when everyone knows he is acting on suspicions, insignificant clues and in most cases outside the rule of law, full stop. Airplane (possibly ''military'') transport, all-terrain tracked vehicle, supplies by ton for the Antarctic trip. No higher [=FBI=] official batted an eyelash on such extravagances ever.
** The girl handling the agents' finances was later revealed to be a huge fan of the agents, so she probably didn't treat any of Mulder's actions as unnecessary.
* "Darkness Falls" episode (1994) does it at least twice. The Monsters of the Week, basically [[BugWar vicious blood-sucking bugs]], are "afraid" of light in Mulder's words, in practice they are inactivated by light. Our heroes and a few others are caught at night in stranded cars, but with fully operational engines and electrical systems. Why didn't they turn on the headlights and interior dome lights? And how could the bugs after killing a 70-90 kg (155-200 lbs) man raise his body onto a tree? (Although the last one [[FridgeBrilliance can be explained]] by the fact the victim could have been killed while he was already up in the tree, since he was a logger).
** There was supposed to be critically short fuel supplies, making escape (or even cabin lighting) via the vehicles impossible. What struck me as odd is why they didn't maintain a small to medium reserve to use as an extreme form of lighter-fluid, and use it to start campfires that, once going, would have the unlimited fuel of the forest.
*** Speaking as someone who's grown up in TheOtherRainforest, at that location and time of year, any wood they didn't have chopped and stacked under cover was probably too damp to burn. Even lighter fluid sometimes isn't enough to keep a fire going, if it's too soggy.
!!FridgeHorror
* In "The Calusari", we know Michael, who is [[spoiler:essentially a ghost]] can travel around and physically harm people. He's a lot creepier and more emotionless than Charlie... which is exactly how the boy in the opening appears. Which means that kid might have been ''Michael'', not Charlie, which then makes one wonder, ''how often has that happened''? How many times have the parents walked around thinking they were with Charlie, and instead had ''[[spoiler:[[OurZombiesAreDifferent the dead one]]]]''?
* In the first part of the Season Eight finale, Doggett calls his friend Agent Crane in on the weekend to help investigate a murder, which Crane mentions caused him to miss his "kid's Little League game." Then at the end of the episode we find out that Crane is one of the alien Replicants with the bumpy metallic spines. Assuming that he does have a family, they're living with a murderous alien and are absolutely none the wiser...
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* An [[ConspiracyTheories all-powerful evil conspiracy]]... could not oust rogue Agent Mulder and sympathetic Assistant Director Skinner from the FBI, or at least remove them to some insignificant bureaucratic duty? Explained (rather poorly) by the back story of Mulder having been regarded as a hero who aided in the capture of a vicious serial killer early in his career, and therefore any action against him would be a public relations pain in the backside. Not explained by the fact the [[TheSyndicate Evil Conspiracy]] had already ousted people far more important and powerful.
** I always thought it was because no-one liked or believed Mulder; this way, anything he actually found out was guaranteed to be treated as a CassandraTruth. In a way, Mulder was an extra layer of protection.
** The conspirators may also have found him a convenient stalking horse, when investigating strange events that they weren't involved in. All those Monsters of the Week, for example.
*** Take it even further, actually: the Cigarette-Smoking Man ''always'' paid close attention to wherever and whatever Mulder went and did, and there are several hints throughout the series that, when it didn't interfere with their specific projects, the "cabal" had no problems implementing whatever safety procedure suggestions he would make regarding dangerous unexplained phenomena. To put it another way, Mulder was half a whistle-blower, half Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}} agent. They would've been fools to have actually gotten rid of him completely, and they knew it.
** It was likely a useless move. Mulder has shown that it doesn't matter if he is in the FBI or not -- he'll go after the truth with or without their help.
** He also had a few friends in high places himself at times.
!!FridgeLogic
* Quite a bit, but the most notorious example might be from ''Fight the Future'': how did Mulder and Scully get back to civilization from the crashed spaceship in the Antarctic? (There's a joke about this later in the TV series.)
* EasyLogistics played for the RuleOfCool: Mulder never ever has any qualms about commandeering any resource from the [=FBI=], regardless the cost, which strikes as unrealistic when everyone knows he is acting on suspicions, insignificant clues and in most cases outside the rule of law, full stop. Airplane (possibly ''military'') transport, all-terrain tracked vehicle, supplies by ton for the Antarctic trip. No higher [=FBI=] official batted an eyelash on such extravagances ever.
** The girl handling the agents' finances was later revealed to be a huge fan of the agents, so she probably didn't treat any of Mulder's actions as unnecessary.
* "Darkness Falls" episode (1994) does it at least twice. The Monsters of the Week, basically [[BugWar vicious blood-sucking bugs]], are "afraid" of light in Mulder's words, in practice they are inactivated by light. Our heroes and a few others are caught at night in stranded cars, but with fully operational engines and electrical systems. Why didn't they turn on the headlights and interior dome lights? And how could the bugs after killing a 70-90 kg (155-200 lbs) man raise his body onto a tree? (Although the last one [[FridgeBrilliance can be explained]] by the fact the victim could have been killed while he was already up in the tree, since he was a logger).
** There was supposed to be critically short fuel supplies, making escape (or even cabin lighting) via the vehicles impossible. What struck me as odd is why they didn't maintain a small to medium reserve to use as an extreme form of lighter-fluid, and use it to start campfires that, once going, would have the unlimited fuel of the forest.
*** Speaking as someone who's grown up in TheOtherRainforest, at that location and time of year, any wood they didn't have chopped and stacked under cover was probably too damp to burn. Even lighter fluid sometimes isn't enough to keep a fire going, if it's too soggy.
!!FridgeHorror
* In "The Calusari", we know Michael, who is [[spoiler:essentially a ghost]] can travel around and physically harm people. He's a lot creepier and more emotionless than Charlie... which is exactly how the boy in the opening appears. Which means that kid might have been ''Michael'', not Charlie, which then makes one wonder, ''how often has that happened''? How many times have the parents walked around thinking they were with Charlie, and instead had ''[[spoiler:[[OurZombiesAreDifferent the dead one]]]]''?
* In the first part of the Season Eight finale, Doggett calls his friend Agent Crane in on the weekend to help investigate a murder, which Crane mentions caused him to miss his "kid's Little League game." Then at the end of the episode we find out that Crane is one of the alien Replicants with the bumpy metallic spines. Assuming that he does have a family, they're living with a murderous alien and are absolutely none the wiser...
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