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Why I Loved Scully

Posted Jul 24, 08 1:03 PM CDT in Opinion,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – The X-Files’ Dana Scully was everything women in entertainment today are not: intellectual, nuanced, tortured, Rebecca Traister writes in Salon. So as the sci-fi classic hits the big screen once again this weekend, we need Scully, “the cerebral head of the X-Files, torn between her Catholic faith, her scientific impulse to explain away the inexplicable, and her affection for her partner,” more than ever.

The geeky alien hunter Fox Mulder, played by press darling David Duchovny, was always supposed to be the star of The X-Files. But Gillian Anderson stole the show as the skeptical Scully, whose “surety was solid, stable, rigid; every time she saw something she thought she'd never see, we saw it crack, sparks fly from it.”

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Gillian Anderson, a cast member in "The X-Files: I Want To Believe," waves to photographers at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
In this image released by 20th Century Fox, David Duchovny, left, and Gillian Anderson are shown in a scene from, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe."   (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Diyah Pera)
In this image released by 20th Century Fox, David Duchovny, left, and Gillian Anderson are shown in a scene from, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe."   (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Diyah Pera)
Gillian Anderson's character in The X-Files, Dana Scully, "got the better arc, and her journeys were always, by dint of the setup, more intricate and moving."   (Getty Images)
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