Pity is a distant kind of feeling, something for situations you're not part of. Scully is in the trenches on this one-- it's just that she's behind the times, but the way she sees it, that's hardly her fault.

Leaning back means leaning vaguely against his forearm, the contact incidental but comforting. This is the kind of movie that demands a little more focus than an action romp, so she isn't watching him, for once.

Though admittedly she's finding herself questioning his choice of film pretty swiftly.