Oh, and yeah, Scully was quite the paradox. She was the one who unlike Mulder demanded that everything have a rational explanation. . .unless it came down to matters of spirtuality/religion. In those cases she was the believer while Mulder constantly sought ANY explanation but a religious one. They balanced nicely in that case. The story did get strained in the latter seasons as the show bent over backwards to not show the Mulder/Scully ship while at the same time playing off of it. Still, Scully could fight. She was relentlessly logicical, relentlessly competent. She didn't give a damn about fashion or shoes. She was smart and could shoot a gun and rescue Mulder if need be. She could be remote and difficult... but I was never annoyed by it because it never attained Buffy bitchiness.