Fox Mulder | Not a Green Man (basementman) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-10-13 19:16:00 |
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Entry tags: | !network post, christine chapel, dana scully, doctor - tenth, fox mulder, obi-wan kenobi, renee montoya |
Network Post; Fox Mulder
Yesterday I listened to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson talking about the X-Files at the Paley Center for media. It's a bit odd to listen to someone else talk about portraying 'you' as if you're fictional, but then to them, you are or - at the very least - you were before some giant blue box decided otherwise.
Regardless it cleared up something for me that I'd been wondering about and I've had conversations with others about. After listening to discussions about how filming, or what the actors knowledge about what was upcoming, influenced portrayals, I came to the following conclusion: We are the authors of our own lives.
I'm not certain about the technicalities of how our stories come to be told here. I don't have any way to prove that we came first and the stories here after. I could theorize about a psychic energy that pushed through the boundaries of one reality to another, but I can't prove any of it. I've worked with people who have psychic abilities and I know that they know things before they happen - seeing that and believing that it can occur even if it cannot be entirely scientifically explained means that I can believe it could happen across the boundaries of different realities.
As I've watched through the show I've seen events portrayed more or less as I remember them, and emotional truths more or less as I remember them, but there are little things here and there that aren't quite what I remember. It's as if the grand strokes are all there but the details aren't quite right - and how can they be when you are telling only pieces of the whole? Fictional stories, regardless of medium, are only pieces of a person's life and sometimes are told from the perspective of only one or two individuals - but I remember the whole of what happened to me, but it's only from my perspective, which may be very different from someone else's perspective, as at least one episode makes note of.
I'm pontificating a bit but on my birthday I'm allow I suppose, but the end result was that as odd as it was to listen to, it has definitely clarified what I believe about the which came first.
And today I decided to brave NYCC and met Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson as well, which was marginally less awkward than listening to a discussion of the mechanics of portraying my life on television. He's a nice guy. I'm pretty certain this will be all over the Internet by tomorrow considering the number of fans that were around, so have at it, Potts Tower, have at it.
Anderson is a lot like you, but also not remotely like you, which is really odd. I think Duchovny and I may be a bit more alike.And speaking of emotional tru
And what were the two of you talking about?
Thanks for going with me. And thanks for the party. And thanks for putting up with me in thoughtful mode tonight.
Thanks all of you who showed up to celebrate my living another year (give or take a few months considering) of life. It was a great evening.