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No one ever remembers/points out that in the show, Scully was ALWAYS WRONG. Like, every single time. It was aliens or a monster that did it, guaranteed.

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Most of the time she was wrong, but not always. For example, she correctly determined that the "UFO photo" in E.B.E (S01E17) was a fake while Mulder was completely uncritical of it. And she was often right when the cases involved something to do with Catholic theology, but I'm not sure that counts because in those cases, Mulder was the skeptic and she was the believer (as Mulder is agnostic and Scully a devout Catholic).

> And she was often right when the cases involved something to do with Catholic theology, but I'm not sure that counts because in those cases, Mulder was the skeptic and she was the believer (as Mulder is agnostic and Scully a devout Catholic).

And that kind of complexity makes the character interesting, instead of a cardboard scientist trope.

It's a cardboard alien/monster trope.

Flipping the gimmick isn't complexity of character. It's a sly dig at Catholcisi though.

Maybe they only showed you the time that Moulder was right; like maybe 90% of the time it actually wasn’t aliens or ghosts but they just don’t make that into an episode :)

She was skeptical, sure, but Scully and her work were often (usually?) instrumental in solving the case.

They were often both wrong too, or rather "the plot thickened".

My favorite scene in the entire series is when she sits down with the female FBI biologist to discuss the "monkey pee" sample called Purity Control. I think the whole show pivots on that scene and it's fascinating. Your imagination is turned loose and you can't wait to watch the rest of the show.

Even when she was wrong, she was right to be skeptical.

Right, but she didn't have enough evidence and she was at the mercy of the scifi writers.

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