I never watched the x-files, but I never really got the impression that it was regressive. As far as know Skully was on a par with Mulder, not a shrieking damsel that required rescue. I agree with her on the pregnancy plot line, that sounds terrible, but if walking behind Mulder when going to a door is the most egregious example she can produce, I don't think there's much of a problem.
One of the comments on that article made me laugh. Anderson was playing a straight red headed female. If any reboot was made Skully would be race swapped to black anyway, so Gillian needn't get her knickers in a twist.
Scully's entire role in the show is a foil to make Mulder's character shine brighter. Mulder is creative, intuitive, bold; Scully is boring, rational, restrained.
Her walking behind Mulder IS the point of her character. I don't know how it is an actor would not understand the basics of storytelling.
Even if that wasn't the case, complaining about "walking behind Mulder when going to a door" shows how out of touch these people have always been with normal human beings. This is normal human behavior whether there is a monster or annoying manager on the other side of the door. She wants Scully to be an extreme feminist that yells at a man for trying to protect her. Most women do not care about this.
She was his foil, but I thought her deductive powers were up there with his. Though it's been a while. She wasn't just a sidekick. He needed her rationality to get to the truth because unchecked he would assign too much to magic.
Who moves every episode forward? Mulder. So he's the main character.
On wikipedia Mulder is called a protagonist, Scully is called a partner.
She matches most definitions of sidekick, and I feel like the objection to calling her one is just that she's a woman. If her character was instead a guy called Pater (similar play on 'skull') he'd be a sidekick.
I never watched the x-files, but I never really got the impression that it was regressive. As far as know Skully was on a par with Mulder, not a shrieking damsel that required rescue. I agree with her on the pregnancy plot line, that sounds terrible, but if walking behind Mulder when going to a door is the most egregious example she can produce, I don't think there's much of a problem.
One of the comments on that article made me laugh. Anderson was playing a straight red headed female. If any reboot was made Skully would be race swapped to black anyway, so Gillian needn't get her knickers in a twist.
Mulder : Scully :: Sherlock : Watson
Scully's entire role in the show is a foil to make Mulder's character shine brighter. Mulder is creative, intuitive, bold; Scully is boring, rational, restrained.
Her walking behind Mulder IS the point of her character. I don't know how it is an actor would not understand the basics of storytelling.
Even if that wasn't the case, complaining about "walking behind Mulder when going to a door" shows how out of touch these people have always been with normal human beings. This is normal human behavior whether there is a monster or annoying manager on the other side of the door. She wants Scully to be an extreme feminist that yells at a man for trying to protect her. Most women do not care about this.
She was his foil, but I thought her deductive powers were up there with his. Though it's been a while. She wasn't just a sidekick. He needed her rationality to get to the truth because unchecked he would assign too much to magic.
Who moves every episode forward? Mulder. So he's the main character.
On wikipedia Mulder is called a protagonist, Scully is called a partner.
She matches most definitions of sidekick, and I feel like the objection to calling her one is just that she's a woman. If her character was instead a guy called Pater (similar play on 'skull') he'd be a sidekick.
Different times, for those times having a woman that was in to science was a big deal. So it was progressive for those times.