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Why does Dana Scully not believe in aliens or any of the other weirdness in the x-files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Every week there's a new monster (MOTW) where all the evidence for outsiders disappears, or there's the mythology where the government is covering it up.

I'm a huge skeptic in almost everything, but if I saw what she saw, I would clearly believe. That's plenty of evidence for me, and I'm an actual scientist (well PhD engineer. I definitely did real science in school though)

The shit's clearly real in their universe.

(Sorry, just been watching the first season of the x-files for the past few weeks)

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[-] lung@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Iirc it becomes progressively more obvious to her. Character development and audience relatability

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does not. She is stalwart in her skepticism.

I'll grant your recollection a bit of leeway because when she's part of the action, she does believe. That was true from the very beginning though.

She just writes it off at the end and continues to be skeptical about every new weird thing. After a few monsters, I would start believing whatever Mulder thought.

He's not always right because he always jumps to aliens, but if she came to realize that monsters are real in her universe, she'd be a much better scientist.

Edit: I'm glad this got the support it needed. This response was pretty far down voted for a while. I know Internet forums can (and hopefully should) never be the arbiters of our understanding of truth, but positive communication is very important IMO.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

By season 8 she's so convinced she's essentially Mulder. She has times where she's more or less convinced until then, but it's a trajectory towards believing until she does. It just takes her a really long time.

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then, the next episode, she doesn't believe.

Every. Single. Time.

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