I love Scully a LOT. Her being inherantly set up to be wrong every time... kind of remains a problem (among quite a few things that Chris Carter just never bothered to work out and then kicked him in the ass), but les so, I think. She becomes an equal partner in the weirdbusting business, her emotions and her actions are just as important. Season one, she's the newbie - after that, not so much.

And I agree with platoeatssouls - up to season 5 is mostly very good, after that you want to avoid the mythology episodes. The mythology is where it all goes HORRIBLY HORRIBLY WRONG, but the one-shot episodes are often still worth watching. I always liked the monster of the week episodes a lot better than the mytharc anyway, but in the early seasons it was all dark and murky so it was mysterious and at least had the potential for an interesting reveal. Later, when they actually had to reveal something, it became very obvious they'd never had a clue (or cared) what the real answers were, and the more light there was the more embarassing that became. It's kind of sad, really, because mostly the show kicked ass.

I love cimorene111's fic SO MUCH (she was the first fic author I read who was any good, which clearly spoiled me for life), so thankyou very much for reminding me it's been a while since I read Instantaneous. And I liked the hand joke! Hee!