ok confession time. so i've seen a lot of ppl recently talk about how they found out about mulder and scully's estrangement in the revival and how they were shook about it but. basically. ugh. it didn't realy work out that way for me. bc genuinely the first time i saw i want to believe the msr vibes were so insane that i thought they were already estranged. like i fully thought the unremarkable house was just. mulder's house. and scully just came over to visit. and stayed over. in a weird ex-wife sort of way ? so when the revival happened years later and everyone was all: omg mulder and scully broke up ??? i was just there like ???? no kidding ????

truly i have been misinterpreting this show for decades