Yeah, Anderson always shined in Morgan's scripts. His take on Scully played well against her natural sense of humor. (In interviews, Anderson, if anything, is kind of "bubbly", a big contrast to Scully in most X-Files scripts…)

Morgan's genius
"I see us quite clearly in bed together. You're holding me hand, uh… very tenderly and then… you're looking at me with such compassion and I feel… tears are streaming down my face. I feel so grateful. It's just a… very special moment neither of us will ever forget."

Scully in peril
I feel ya on how backwards and needless that seems sometimes on this show. But it also seems to be a central part of her character's function on the show - you could argue the whole cancer storyline was an extension of the theme.

Anderson rules
The thing that I really remember about Irresistible is a great shot of Anderson towards the end.

I got the impression Gail thought Jen & Mike were sleeping together. (And raised an eyebrow at Jen's taste in men.) And who could blame her for thinking that; really, those hugs were a little long and close.

the lens flares
the lens flares weren't an Earth 2 thing, they were indicating Olivia's hold on the "time sync" was slipping. they would flare up fiercely when things skipped.

five-by-five…
…means "loud and clear". The military reports a channel's loudness and clarity on a 1-to-5 scale - "one-by-one" means "quiet and noisy".

Anne Dudek was brilliant at the mike. That laughter was totally creepy.

I thought the drunk was her brother, not uncle (he's uncle to her kids, of course). Maybe I'm wrong.

At the more abstract level, yeah, but I find Miyazaki is making a much more specific analogy than that.

Oh, the theory is much more detailed than I let on. Like, it's not so much that you lose contact with your parents. It's that you leave them in a huff, like the bratty teen Chihiro was destined to become, after getting disgusted with their venality.

my pet theory on this one
It's a fable about the first time you leave home and get a job. And you lose contact with your parents, and have no friends, and your boss is mean and the work is weird and there's this weird old guy who likes you for some reason. And it's all very alienating and horrible. But you get that…