tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87815693500565228652024-02-21T12:27:14.216+00:00The X-Files RevisitedX-Files Revisited is committed to reviewing each and every episode of The X-Files. Each and every scintillating review in chronological order!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437797493717227957noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781569350056522865.post-56764408667345207102012-11-14T18:38:00.000+00:002012-11-14T18:44:07.418+00:00SLEEPLESS Episode 4 Season 2 of The X-Files<div id="fb-root">
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They cut out a piece of my brain…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Synopsis: Mulder teams up with Krycek to investigate a
mysterious death and the pair uncovers a top secret military experiment and a
man who has not slept for 24 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sleepless represents the first Howard Gordon script without co-writer Alex Gansa and the finale instalment of season 2‘s early
three strong grouping of MoW episodes. Just as we saw in the previous episode
Blood, the science bit could only be viewed as incredible however it makes for a
fun 45 minute paranormal outing, which includes the U.S government’s penchant
for human testing and general disregard for life and a menacing and unpredictable
killer as well as a premiere performance from the reconnoitring untrustworthy Alex
Krycek and the mysterious Mr X.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First that science bit. It is all obviously tongue in cheek,
to sit here and pick holes in it would be no different than being that person, who
whilst watching a magicians card trick states ‘that’s not magic’ neither an endearing
quality nor a beneficial one. The only thing you should do is sit back and
enjoy the show ladies and gentlemen. The idea that the government was experimenting
on its own troops in Vietnam to create a super soldier is actually a quite
credible one and a continuation of the themes found in <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/deep-throat-episode-2-series-1.html" target="_blank">Deep Throat</a>, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/eve-episode-11-season-1-of-x-files.html" target="_blank">Eve</a>, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/10/young-at-heart-episode-16-season-1.html" target="_blank">Young at Heart</a>,
<a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the.html" target="_blank">Erlenmeyer Flask</a> and <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/blood-episode-3-season-2.html" target="_blank">Blood</a> and represents a just cause for Mulder to fight for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The X-Files episodes which centred on government testing of their
own troops and civilians almost always allowed for the antagonist of the story a
chance of redemption as an indication to their own victimisation. Corporal Augustus
‘Preacher’ Cole is no different in fact all he wants to do is go to sleep but not
without taking down his old murdering squad colleagues before he does. I feel uneasy
that Mulder is so quick to sympathise with a man capable of murdering defenceless
men, women and children and who also instigated two cops to shoot one and other
leaving one in a coma and the other presumably dead. Mulder’s sympathy may
possibly be a shroud to cover his true selfish intentions of wanting to take
his man alive as hard evidence, proof to the fact that the U.S government are
as underhand and callous as he says they are and thus gives more reason to the re-opening
of The X-Files. Be that as it may Cole’s actions are still inexcusable and
Mulders ability to simply brush over these facts irks me a little.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You will recognise war vet Cole although some may not know
from where, he is played by veteran actor Tony Todd whose distinct deep reverberating
voice and threatening appearance has made him somewhat of a genre favourite
amongst scare fans and one of his earliest screen outings was the haunting Vietnam
masterpiece Platoon, a combination of the two guises works ever so well here. Todd
dose brilliantly with what screen time he is permitted. His scene in the Brooklyn
apartment in which he has the Vietnam victims made up of women and children
shoot dead his ex-marine comrade is chillingly conspicuous. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sleepless sees Mr X unveil himself to Mulder for the first
time. The new informant hands over a report to Mulder to help with the case. Mr
X’s motivations will always remain clouded. Deep Throats intentions were seen a
pure and selfless and a way of atonement for past misgivings whilst the intentions
of Mr X will never be so black and white, his affirmation of the fact that he
will never sacrifice his life for the information he has, dispels the idea of a
crusader for truth and portrays a more narcissistic character (although in hindsight
we do know differently). Mr X’s admission of having known Deep Throat
personally and of his duty to Mulder and The X-Files may go some way to
explaining his new position of informant, that’s just one we‘re allowed to work
out for ourselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is another arguably even more important character
introduction in this episode. Special FBI agent and rat for the syndicate Alex
Krycek makes his first appearance on The X-Files. After a rough start his all too
eager to please attitude eventual begins to break down Mulder’s proverbial wall
constructed of ‘trust no one’ mortar and come on admit it he fooled you as
well. Krycek gave The X-Files so many twist and turns and the inception of this
character was pure brilliance as was the casting of Nicholas Lea who was not
only suited to the role but also gave nothing less than 100%. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Although Kryceks introduction holds high significance you
may notice my establishment of the character has purposely been down played as
I don’t think what the Krycek character represents to the franchise as a whole should
take away from Tony Todd whose performance elevates this episode from a basic standalone
MoW to a much greater one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>I clocked Scully’s screen time at around the 2 minute mark
all of which was spent devoted to Mulder, no real point to this musings except
that I hadn’t mentioned her name at all during the review.</li>
<li>The parallels between Blood and Sleepless are so glaring
that it seems weird that they would be played back to back. Perhaps to
reiterate the point of Mulders contempt for a government that runs tests on its
own people without their consent or well-being in mind. The suicide by cop
ending which sees Mulder trying to salvage the situation also mimics blood and
maybe a good precursor to his negotiation skills in the build-up to the
following episode Duane Barry.</li>
<li>See what happens when you remove Gansa from the equation. Sci-Fi and the paranormal just arn't his strong points.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437797493717227957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781569350056522865.post-73114339325902385292012-11-06T21:36:00.000+00:002012-11-07T12:46:48.189+00:00BLOOD Episode 3 Season 2‘I played right field’<br />
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Synopsis: An experimental pesticide has an adverse effect on
its town when the inhabitants begin to embark on killing sprees culminating in suicide
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It is impossible to think that this unforgettable episode
will ever cease to become anything less than enjoyable and being a true
favourite of mine I cannot wait to surmise the bountiful reasons as to why!<o:p></o:p></div>
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KILL, KILL’ EM, KILL’EM ALL Each violent instruction introduced
by a high noted and sharp bang on the piano keys followed by a thumping heart beat
drum rhythm. Straight after our opening teaser with the once mild mannered now disgruntled
postal worker Edward, we discover that these cases of digital orders prompting there
victim to act on murderous impulses are not isolated incidents but more of an
epidemic in the usually peaceful town of Franklyn Pennsylvania. The premise of
which is wholly exciting, dangerous and mysterious.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The spree of superficial random acts of violence is quickly continued
with vigour by the vigorous porn/television actress Ashlyn Gere giving this
episode an even finer cutting edge, her character’s virginitiphobia has to be
an insider nod to her customary profession as does her attack on self-confessed
sex addict David Duchovney (I kid obviously, David wasn’t diagnosed with sex
addiction back in 1994 he was however diagnosed with young free and single-ism
at the time).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steady television actor William Sanderson’s portrayal of a
sweaty nervous disgruntled postal worker on the edge of break down is superb. We
eagerly anticipate his inevitable killing spree, with each passing opportunity
more tension builds and culminates in an expertly derived unhinged shooting
from top a clock tower and Mulder and Scully’s race to prevent it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mulders exposure to the experimental pesticides used on
Franklyn’s crops is a wonderfully clever and subtle addition to the story line,
the LSDM only effect on him is the message he received on his mobile phone ‘ALL
DONE…BYE BYE’ the message could have only been sent by the government syndicate
in charge of the spraying and this type of shadowy unknown government group going
as far as to conduct inhumane experiments on its own citizens is what Mulder
fears most.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This episode acts as a great exhibition of Mulder’s humour
and reverence to his wit. One liner abounds and always gives reason to a re-watch.
I particularly like his defence of playing right field in baseball and also
noticed his immature ‘rubber’ joke that must be yet another homage to Ashlyn Gere’s profession. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With Mulder and Scully still on temporary hiatus the cameo
by The Lone Gunman seems ideal. This is nothing more than a gentle re-
introduction and they only conspire on Mulders own thoughts by adding in a
brief history lesson on Government conspiracy with experimental pesticides. It
is great to welcome them back and this time in shadier surroundings to their <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/10/ebe-episode-17-season-1-of-x-files.html" target="_blank">E.B.E</a>
premiere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is obviously one massive and confusing plot hole in
Blood; the murderous instructions being able to be displayed on any electronic screen
or display seen by any of the hundreds of people exposed to the LSDM. You may
say perhaps due to the LSD contained within the LSDM that the victim’s fears prompted
a visual hallucination on these devices which doesn’t go as far as to explain how
each visualisation of the phrase 'kill them' are distinctly abbreviated in the
fashion ‘KILL’EM’ as you would expect each individuals spelling to differ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This level of technology and surveying is completely
impossible so on the first few watches I hoped I had missed something but
believe me it is what it is and in truth that is completely forgivable because this
thrilling effort from Glen Morgan and James Wong makes up for its lack of plausibility
with pure minute to minute humour, tension and well erm….. thrills!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just one, Scully’s sly introduction into this episode didn’t
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I wouldn’t like to meet the Russian that had to pass this
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Synopsis: After being given a disgusting assignment, Mulder
begins to believe that his position at the Bureau is becoming untenable yet
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Time to turn the repulse-meter to maximum and I mean maximum.
This mutated tape worm is without doubt the most disgusting creature ever conceived
by Chris Carter and The X-Files team and this memorable creature holds a
special place in many X-Philes hearts, she has even been affectionately named
Flukey among The X-Philes faithful. It has been said that Gillian Anderson
herself named The Host as the most disgusting X-Files episode she ever had the privilege
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Flukey, happy to lie in wait in human excrement, has a face
only a mother could love which is most probably why she is the proud owner of an
asexual reproductive system and her method of incubating her parasitic offspring
is tantamount to rape. I label Flukey as being feminine and reframe from using
the name flukeman because she has to be one or the other and she reminds me of
my mother-in-law. I will never forget the first sight of Flukey trapped in the
transparent pipe at the sewage plant; excuse me if you think I am being too
sympathetic here but she looked scared and confused as if she was trying to
figure out who these people were and who she was. We can assume that as a genetic mutation by
radiation that Flukey is the only one of her kind and that her own existence is
just as baffling to her as it is to anyone else, just like my mother-in-law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This episode could have easily relied upon Flukey to make it
a big hit and that would have been fine by me yet Chris Carter’s spices things
up with some added ingredients. Mulder is back from his close encounter, back
to his surveillance detail and thus back to his morbid disposition, threatening
to leave The F.B.I in hope that he can pursue his investigations into the
paranormal along a different path. He draws this conclusion after being what he
considers to be ‘jerked around’ by Skinner and the F.B.I by his sewage based assignment.
So it is funny that it is this assignment that gives Mulder hope of a
continuation of The X-Files or at least investigating the paranormal, a notion vindicated
both by Skinners admittance that The X-Files was shut down somewhat prematurely
and also by the emergence of a mysterious ‘friend’ at the F.B.I. The ‘friend’
we later find out to be informant Mr X or simply just X. I can only draw the conclusion
that Mr X had a hand in Skinner presenting Mulder with the case in an effort to
re-establish the importance of The X-Files. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What gives this episode its piece of individuality is that
Flukey is caught very early on, not only that, she represents hard evidence of
the paranormal and proves Mulders doubters that he isn’t away with the fairies,
in-fact this giant mutated Fluke worm is worthy of a Noble prize! So it seems
strange that the reaction it receives seem so downplayed and I can’t help but
smile at the idea that Flukey is to be treated at a psychiatric hospital, no
wonder she looks so confused.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>Mulder and Scully appear more relaxed with one another after
their exploits in <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/little-green-men-episode-1-season-2-of.html" target="_blank">Little Green Men</a>, as if the relationship is settling from the
adjustments of being partners to being friends.</li>
<li>The heavy Fluke suite took so long to put on and remove that
future X-Files writer Darin Morgan apparently wore it for 20hrs straight. Chris
Carter joked that the wearing of the suite should be a rite of passage for any
budding X-Files writer.</li>
<li>Flukey got cut in half and she survived, sure she is a worm
after all but don’t forget about its offspring from the sewage worker that
escaped down the shower waste. New Jersey certainly did have a problem on its
hands. I wonder if the sewage workers felt comfortable with re-entering the sewers.</li>
<li>Who would I least like to find coming out my toilet, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/tooms-episode-21-season-1-of-x-files.html" target="_blank">Tooms </a>or
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Synopsis: The closure of The X-Files has left Mulder without
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<o:p></o:p>It’s season two of The X-Files, it’s time to get serious. A
lot of Season one’s charm comes from its innocent misgivings, season two did
not have the same luxury and had to mature. Season two needed to wow from the
start. With time and money vested in growing its popularity Chris Carter and Co
needed to grab the attention of the shows newcomers whilst staying faithful to
The X-Files philosophy. With Little Green Men, Morgan and Wong nailed it using the
right blend of emotion, conspiracy, scares oh and the first sight of an
extra-terrestrial! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first episode of the second season hooked millions of
new fans to The X-Files, compare Little Green Men with its spoon feed treats,
silky camera work and exotic locations to the <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/pilot-episode-1-season-1-of-x-files.html" target="_blank">pilot</a> episode. In many ways they
are similar but at the same time they are truly worlds apart. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The opening to this episode is as intriguing as it is
clever. The introductory monologue tells the story of the voyager program and
hints towards its successful contact with alien life from the far reaches of
our solar system. If the promise of
contact is intriguing how about actually making contact? I remember the sight
of the slender E.T as pure sensory overload, for avid fans and new comers
alike, a great piece of television.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So our aliens finally have a face, well outline to the body
anyway. As part of a semi-reinvention to The X-Files universe they are no
longer seen as the atypical invisible scavenger like creatures depicted in
Fallen Angel but the more traditional slim big head big eyed aliens from so
many documented accounts of close encounters. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Both the dream sequence of Samantha’s abduction and the
contact Mulder experiences at the observatory are hair-raisingly to say the
least but for a good old jump out your skin moment look no further then Jorge
in the bathroom it got me 18 years ago
and it still gets me today. Poor Jorge left looked inside the observatory for
some inexplicable reason, his inclusion in the story an inspired one, how long
had he been there? How many times had he been abducted? For a grown man to be
scared to death it would take something callous.<o:p></o:p></div>
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how far The X-Files had come in its short tenure and what direction it would
take, a brief peak at an alien was enough to get us salivating at the mouth and
we wanted more. So did Mulder<o:p></o:p></div>
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The unkempt Mulder stuck on an endless wiretapping detail
seen earlier on in the episode was a depressed shadow of his former self. He
allowed himself to question his own beliefs; his paranoia raged uncontrollably
and seemed a man devoid of all-purpose. Without The X-Files Mulder felt
worthless, although hope remained in the guise or Senator Matheson. His apology
to Mulder about not being able to secure The X-Files future tells of his vested
interest in the cases and that he was most probably Mulder’s friend in Capitol that
he refers to in Pilot and to whom Skinners referred to in <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/tooms-episode-21-season-1-of-x-files.html" target="_blank">Tooms</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mulder heeds Matheson intelligence and travelled without hesitation
to the satellite observatory in Puerto Rico with complete disregard for his assignment
with the Bureau. Telling in that his prerogative to a regular pay check pales in
significance to his search for the truth. I find Mulders use of the Dictaphone brilliant
as not only was it a good way of explaining to the viewers what the partner-less
agent is seeing but also his reactions to what he was seeing, it was
interesting to hear him doubt himself without Scully’s faithful ear to bend and
in hindsight and a view to subsequent seasons it is especially interesting to hear
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Mulder made sure Scully had her work cut out in Little Green
Men. Her shoulder to cry on was all that was keeping Mulder in anyway sane, she
believed in him even if he didn’t. With Mulders fantastical imagination and hostility
towards authority figures it is easy to forget that Scully is three years his
junior and that a year prior to Little Green Men Scully was heading for a
perfectly amicable career in the FBI. She takes it upon herself to follow him blindly
and back him at all conceivable cost. Lying to her peers she evaded the watchful
eye of the bureau surveillance team and heads all the way to Puerto Rico, the
airport scene is reminiscent of the airport scene for <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ebe-episode-17-season-1-of-x-files.html" target="_blank">E.B.E</a> and typical of the
sort of covert methods taken by Mulder. Without this level of devotion and sacrifice
Mulder and Scully would never have worked. Scully’s eleventh hour appearance is
all that saves Mulder from the shoot to kill U.F.O crash site recovery
operation team. This was not the first time Scully had saved Mulder’s life and
it won’t be the last, debunking the theory of Mulder constantly saved the
damsel in distress; Scully. Well actually he does but what I am saying is that
it was not all one way traffic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cherry on the top of the icing on top of the cake for this
episode and one of my all-time favourite moments from the second series is the
final scene that not only authenticates Mulders paranoia to his being watched
but also creates one of these; that awkward moment when Skinner yells ‘get out
of my office’ and you think his taking to Mulder but his really talking to me! Ha
love it and its significance to the development of Skinners character, he is no
puppet but whether he likes it or not he cannot sit on the fence forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Consider attention grabbed Chris Carter there is nothing to dislike
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<ul>
<li>It seems Mulders has been ‘hounding’ a lady for a date, I
doubt that very much given his demeanour at the time and I am guessing that message
was from an admirer of which I assume Mulder had many.</li>
<li>The big bucks second season means a proper Hoover building,
the guts of which now look authentic and is a series main stay.</li>
<li>Mulders dream sequence of Samantha abduction differs from
his recollection of the event via hypnotic regression. C.C explains the phenomena
as possible inaccuracies in hypnotic regression. Want to know the real reason? Morgan
and Wrong had never seen <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/conduit-episode-4-season1.html" target="_blank">Conduit</a>!</li>
<li>The alias George Hale is in reference to the mentally ill scientist
that Mulder compares himself to during the covert meeting with Scully in the
car park. If you have time Google him for a fascinating read.</li>
<li>Voyager 1 is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth,
it is still in our solar system but scientists predict the craft to reach interstellar
space within 3 years. I hope it doesn’t attract any unwanted attention!</li>
</ul>
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Developing a premiere season is a tough task for any
producer but what made Chris Carter and Co. jobs that much harder was the
originality of The X-Files, it was experimental broadcasting with no guide rope they just had their
creativity, instincts and penchant for anything spooky, oh and they also had
the notorious FOX Network executives to deal with. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first season of The X-Files was rich in Monster of the
Week episodes, in-fact it boasted nineteen in total the highest amount of stand-alones
in any of the nine seasons. Not all were
classics mind and some were definitely dud but there was many diamonds amongst
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Some of these monsters make the cut because they are just
plain scary especially for the John Doe of 19 years ago some however make us
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With so many MoW’s to choose from narrowing them down to a
list of six was not easy but here it is, the definitive list of the six best monsters
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6. Cecil L’Ively, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/fire-episode-12-season-1.html">Fire</a></div>
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Possibly a controversial choice, Cecil’s general exclusion from
these types of lists can only be merited to the overshadowing hate for Phoebe Green a women equally annoying and fugly. Cecil just makes the cut based on the fact that he should
not be underestimated. The highly intelligent psychopaths’ dedication to his
killings is unrivalled and his anti-establishment views make him an ideal candidate
for world domination. His each and every sanctimonious move derived from pure
evil. A wicked black heart gets this pyro-kinetic monster a top six spot.<br />
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5. Roland, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/10/roland-episode-23-season-1-of-x-files.html">Roland</a></div>
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The hapless autistic Roland was an early example of the variety of
emotional avenues Chris Carter would be granted to travel down over the course of
the next 8 seasons. This X-Files MoW week didn’t scare anybody it may have got
a few laughs but in truth they only feeling we were left with was that of sorrow, loneliness
and possibly empathy for the most innocent and ill-fated young man. Perhaps that
is fear.<br />
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4. The bugs, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/darknss-falls-episode-20-season-1-of-x.html">Darkness Falls</a></div>
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These carnivorous nocturnal bugs cocoon and slowly digested their
prey, eating them alive. What makes their fear factor worse is that they are
undetectable in daylight. They could be gathering around your bed waiting for
darkness to fall. If The X-Files ever gave us a reason to sleep with the lights
on this was it.<br />
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3. The Eves, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/eve-episode-11-season-1-of-x-files.html">Eve</a></div>
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Creepy test tube twins Cindy Reardon and Teena Simmons both
killed the respective adoptive fathers through means of exsanguination at the
tender years of eight. These highly intelligent blood thirsty sentence
finishers are destined to drive themselves to psychotic madness in later life,
just ask their big sis, eye ball biter Eve 6.<br />
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2. Luther Lee Boggs, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/beyond-sea-episode-13-season-1-of-x.html">Beyond the Sea</a></div>
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On death row and desperate for a pardon, Boggs claims he can
use psychic channelling to help locate a killer before he kills his kidnap victims.
His claims seem to hold up against adverse facts to the matter. Is he to be
believed and even if he is; is this a chance for redemption and should his sins
be forgiven? A most memorable character responsible for bringing passion to The
X-Files, his importance to the show should not be undervalued.<br />
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1. Eugene Victor
Tooms, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/squeeze-episode-3-season-1-of-x-files.html">Squeeze</a>/<a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/tooms-episode-21-season-1-of-x-files.html">Tooms</a></div>
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We became acquainted with this bile spewing stretchy odd ball
over two episodes that allowed us to get a real insight into his peculiar existence.
Tooms appearance was also the first MoW appearance in The X-Files history. We learned
early on that behind his jaundice liver hungry eyes laid the brains to challenge
Mulder and Scully, he is good at what he does after all he has been doing it over
a matter of centuries. His ability to stretch out and squeeze through the tightest
of spaces meant that no one was safe from his appetite, his prey seldom escape.
He was disgusting, the sneer on his face was unpleasant, his method of
sticking his nest together was sickening and his methods of entry repugnant (the
sewer especially). It was fitting that Tooms suffered such a gruesome demise at the hands of Mulder and an escalator, an unforgettably brilliant end that he earned and it was no less
than he deserved.<o:p></o:p><br />
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best monsters from MoW episodes. Let me know your lists, who would of you
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knew too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Following a tip from Deep Throat, Mulder and Scully are led into an
investigation that brings them closer to the truth than ever before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Erlenmeyer
Flask proved that the triumph of mythology episode <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ebe-episode-17-season-1-of-x-files.html">E.B.E</a> was no fluke, an
episode full of depth in questions and answers made The Erlenmeyer Flask an enthralling
way to wrap up the first season. The freedom of the episode owes much to the
lack of mythology in the first season which allowed Chris Carter to add all new
elements that would become a main stay in the mythology arc over the course of
the entire series. Alien DNA millions of years old, the human/alien hybrid,
super strength, the ability to breathe under water and of course that toxic
green blood. Carter took a step back and thought about his one, each component evaluated
and polished before being woven into the fabric of the fledgling story arc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Obviously it
takes more than ideas and a script, it takes delivery and R W Goodwin delivers.
It is from The Erlenmeyer Flask that Goodwin will go on to direct three more big season
finales as well as other important X-Files episodes. In fact he never makes a
dud and it is easy to see why. From the
very beginning The Erlenmeyer Flask accomplishes high drama and intrigue. The first
shot sees alien/human hybrid escapee Dr Secare fleeing a state trooper in a
high speed police pursuit, their vehicles take to the air in scenes worthy of
The Dukes of Hazard, sparks fly as they land and in true cliché fashion Dr
Secare even drives through a stack of empty boxes. Love it! The opening joy
ride is only a peak at what is to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The X-Files
team work this case with efficiency, like a well-oiled machine. Mulder and
Scullly play to their strengths; Mulder uses his unquestionable detective abilities
to locate alien/hybrid Dr Secare whilst Scully investigates the science behind
it. Scully’s discovery that the bacteria found in the The Erlenmeyer Flask not only
predates Human existence but also contains extra-terrestrial D.N.A. sees her
admitting for the first time in an apologetic manner to Mulder that she may
have been wrong to question his logic and hints at her possibility of opening
up to extreme possibilities. Eureka, a breakthrough of sorts although we still see Scully err on the side of cautious science for the next six seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scully, frequently
found kerbside throughout season one is forced to take the reins when Mulder is
captured whilst incapacitated by Toxic alien blood. With the aid of Deep
Throats security clearance she ventures behind enemy lines and recovers an alien/hybrid
embryo. Seeing is believing and for me and millions of other watching at home treating
us to this discovery was a phenomenal revelation, its inclusion ingenious and a
step on from E.B.E. It acted as a cliff hanger leaving X-File fans licking their
lips over the prospect of what is to come in the next season, little did they
know how highly their diligence would be rewarded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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admittance of knowledge in the The Erlenmeyer Flask marks his demise. The truth he
tells Mulder and Scully is profound, divulging information on the top secret
Purity Control project, on how a government fraction (the syndicate) have experimented
on unwitting members of the public using alien D.N.A and how they found a cure
for fatal diseases yet have no plan to disclose the information. The man, it
would seem could get Mulder closer to the truth than any other. It is arguable
that never again would he have a more forthcoming and trust worthy informant,
Deep Throat’s fast track to the truth is something that Mulder will sorely miss.
His availability to Mulder proved his undoing and it is this that would see his
successors tread much more carefully in future. Deep Throat’s role in the
X-Files may have been small in terms of airtime but his impact was huge and his
death, not in vein, for it appears he wittingly gave his life for Mulders surely
making him a martyr of Mulder’s cause in search for the truth. As a child I
remember feeling warmth from his character and was shocked when he was killed, I
have vivid memories of him uttering that infamous line ‘Trust…No…One’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deep Throats
death was not the only end in this tale, word from very high office shuts down
the The X-Files, Mulder, dismayed at losing Deep Throat and all the evidence surrounding
the case, rings Scully at 11:21pm to inform her. His dejected manor and despondent
tone evident, he says ‘I'm... not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as
long as the truth is out there.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">C.S.M takes
the next scene, locking the alien/human hybrid embryo away inside the pentagon;
revealing the man as the sole recognisable face of The X-Files antagonists. The
season ends, leaving everybody waiting in unbearable anticipation. Wow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I had no
idea what an The Erlenmeyer flask was. It turns out it isn’t the flask in which the
embryo is kept but the flask in which the alien bacteria was kept and is otherwise
known as a conical flask this side of the pond.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The flashing
crime scene stills of Dr. Berube dead body was a great effect and looks like
something straight out of C.S.I</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Scully
should really know better than to put her fingers in a monkey cage. In her defence
she did think they were friendly, this from a woman with a PHD!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The opening
tagline ‘Trust no one’ replaces the tagline ‘The truth is out there’ presenting
the first time it has been changed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Gillian
Anderson is apparently showing in this episode but I never noticed to be honest,
I’m a man what can say, anyway the interlude for Dana Scully between Erlenmeyer
Flask and Season 2 Episode 2 Host is baby time. Her first born, Piper Maru will
lend her name to the Season 3 Episode of the same name.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The penultimate
episode of the X-Files season one sees a repetitive, candid pattern turn
full circle. Roland is another story of revenge from beyond the grave by controlling
the will of an unsuspecting person, see similar season one episodes; <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/shadows-episode-6-season-1-of-x-files.html">Shadows</a>,
<a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/huston-wehave-problem-210-i-feel-as-ifi.html">Space</a>, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/lazarus-episode-15-season-1-of-x-files.html">Lazarus</a>, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/10/born-again-episode-22-season-1-of-x.html">Born Again</a>. The decision for Roland to follow Born Again was myopic
and if it were not for Roland’s saving graces this review would be just another
scathe-fest. As a fan with many re-watches under my belt I find myself looking beyond
the story. I feel as an X-Phile that it is my job to see what some may not and
sing high praises to episodes found wanting by others and mainly I would just
feel plain guilty trouncing this one straight after trouncing Born Again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Always look
on the bright side of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
performance of steady actor Zeljko Ivanek is convincing, his character, the
autistic Roland lends inspiration and a numerical gift from the similarly named
autistic Raymond from late 80’s hit Rain Man. It is one thing to curl up your
hands, speak in a laborious monotone voice and role your head slowly back and
forth, it’s another to pull it off. His efforts are matched by co-star Kerry
Sandomerski playing Tracy. I knew she wasn’t disabled because I saw her on Fringe
the same night I began this write up acting as a perfectly ably mannered nun.
Nailed it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I can’t help
but feel a nerve tingling unease when watching their scenes inside the politically
correctly named half way house, partly due to the direction and the other part
possibly guilt. The dull ache in the pit of my stomach is more than evident, an
emotion David Lynch himself would be proud of generating. I find myself
relieved when they are over and yet somehow disappointed they are not longer.
The finale scene in which Roland must leave Tracy is especially sad when you
factor in the autistic persons slight understanding on love and the pairs
inevitable loneliness. The dream sequences that use vivid colours contrasting
black and white also resonates well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his compassionate side once more in the way he interacts with Roland. The understanding
and identification he shares with societies victims is always direct, just and sincere
and in complete distinction from his contempt for the villains. He has displayed
this tact with children, i.e. Born Again and numerous adults, i.e. <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/fallen-angel-episode-10-season-1-of-x.html">Fallen Angel</a>
with a warm trusting manor. Perhaps this empathy comes from Mulders own feeling
of loneliness and confusion. Sometimes however his directness allows his mouth to
run ahead of him leaving Scully to cut him short to avoid either embarrassment
or ill feeling as she did when Mulder attempts to explain the events leading to
Roland’s departure from the half way house to Mrs Stodie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
inspiration for Roland’s character may have been Rain Man but surely the idea
of the cryogenic chambers has to be accredited to the film Demolition Man. They
are a massive sci-fi shout out and although they have no place in the labs of
jet propulsion scientists, they are a fun inclusion. As are the manor of the scientist
deaths. The noise Dr. Surnow creates when hitting the fan can only be described
as a squelch and the chalk line of Dr. Keats fragmented head draws a wry smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The story
may boast a fuzzy back story and inconsistency in plot, but there is occasion
to laugh and cry. 18 years later and blessed with hindsight we know where all
the effort went so it’s forgivable 7/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The computer
software used in early X-Files to render e-fits of criminals and alter their
age and appearance is nothing short of other worldly.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the word
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and Howard MoW collaborations of season one got no better than mediocre and mediocrity
is all they could muster here. Inspiration for this episode seems short sighted
at best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Born Again signals
a return to conventional X-Files detective work for agents Mulder and Scully
not seen and forgotten since <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/shapes-episode-19-season-1-of-x-files.html">Shapes</a>. The agents are brought into this paranormal
investigation by Detective Sharon Lazard played by Maggie Wheeler of O.M.G. Janice from Friends fame on
the recommendation of her non-descript cop brother who had some sort of involvement
on the <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/tooms-episode-21-season-1-of-x-files.html">Tooms</a> case. They meet at New Yorks' 14th precinct, home of the crime
scene and terrible police station banter dialogue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder
wastes little time in realising what they are after, he has seen this before,
not in some X-File dating back 40 year but in and X-File dating back 16 episodes
to <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/shadows-episode-6-season-1-of-x-files.html">Shadows</a>. This episode is bereft of any originality and if anything just
plain thoughtless. Why if this girl was the reincarnation of Charlie Morris was
she giving psychokinetic abilities? Surely having a vengeful cop in the guise
of a five year old girl on a killing spree was a just cause for paranormal
escapade. Needless to say Gans-ward got a little carried away on this one, their
youthful exuberance is on show, they clearly needed to take a step back and surmise
their creation when it was still on the drawing board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read into this
you will but I find these posts easy to write when I am bashing an episode and
fun to write when I am enjoying an episode but with Born Again I am just plain struggling.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Even the chemistry
between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson flounders, highlighted further by their
wonderful exchanges shared in <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/darknss-falls-episode-20-season-1-of-x.html">Darkness Falls</a> and Tooms in the two previous
episodes. Scully’s unnecessary presence signifies regression in the
writing and is not something seen since <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.com/2012/09/huston-wehave-problem-210-i-feel-as-ifi.html">Space</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There was
some development to be had; Mulder asserts a firm belief in regression
hypnotherapy in this episode, this technique of delving into past life and the
sub conscious is a popular method in his pursuit for the truth. We first saw it
was used on Billy Miles in Pilot and Mulder had already used it on himself to
recall his sisters’ abduction. Later Scully will go on to devalue the credibility
of regression hypnotherapy but that’s a different post for a different
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lacking in
so many departments this episode is by no means ever going to be anybody’s
favourite but it is watchable in the same way that a low flying plane is
watchable, saying ‘oh look a plane’ and then forgetting about it 5 minutes
later. 3/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The plug
that attacks Tony Fiore removes itself from the wall socket and appears to look
at him before it takes his legs is unintentionally hilarious.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This was
Alex Gansa’s last creative influence on The X-Files story, good. He is the reason
I have never seen Homeland which may seem harsh but he is awful in this season.
Rant over. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Pffft NEXT!</span></li>
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and Bile 10/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis: A
court deems the stretchy contortionist Victor Eugene Tooms safe to be released back
into the public, Mulder however deems otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my last
post, <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/darknss-falls-episode-20-season-1-of-x.html">Darkness Falls</a>, I touched upon the notion that inspired characters and
casting make up the foundations of success for the first season of The X-Files.
Enter Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner, acting superior to agents
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. As a body to
report to, Skinner offered The X-Files an additional dimension, a new barrier
to break down with new avenues to explore and an eventual formidable ally. Pileggi’s
powerful character’s share in the first season may only be accredited to three
scenes however his inclusion throughout all nine seasons of The X-Files and
both films bellow his legendary status. This monopoly on the franchise is bettered
by no one other than Mulder and Scully and his characters development is tantamount
to the growing success of the series. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Skinner’s presence
in this episode is primarily to question the practices that Mulder and Scully use
to get result with a clear view to closing The X-Files. He conjects that Mulder
has a detrimental effect on those that work closely with him i.e. Scully and that
Mulder’s conduct is fuelled by stress brought about by his emotional
involvement with The X-Files cases and asks in an apparent sincere manor that
he steps back from The X-Files. Skinner’s early innocents dictate that his
faith be place with the Cigarette Smoking Man however his mounting involvement
with The X-Files will eventually lead him to become the equivalent of a good
luck charm complete with muscle and an a whole lot of attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This episode
is all about change; new meeting old and I cannot give enough praise to Doug
Hutchinson’s reprisal of his role as the predatory slim ball Eugene Victor
Tooms. This is early 90’s Doug, a small fish in a big pond with little to note
on his C.V. playing a role opposite the television pin up boy of the decade. Unadulterated
determination to the character could only be born out of an obsession to make
it as an actor. Tooms is given much more screen time than in <a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/squeeze-episode-3-season-1-of-x-files.html">Squeeze</a> and the decision
is validated by Doug’s fight for his place in the show tooth and nail,
depicting a Tooms hungrier, smarter and more disgusting than before, his underlying
menace seeps out past every crooked smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The episode
in parts plays out like ‘a day in life of’ for Victor Eugene Tooms. We see him
at work, stalking his prey and his methods which can only be described as
thinking outside of the box. He shows some dry wit when he is told that the new
room he will be staying in is small… ‘I’m sure you’ll be able to squeeze in’
Tooms replies ‘I’m sure’. We learn that he enjoys the taste of rotting rodents
as he licks the glove used to pick up a dead rat and that he is unperturbed by
the thought of travelling through a sewer pipe and gaining access to a property
through a toilet pan. His odd behaviour adds humour to the character to the
point of feeling pity and perhaps empathy, it is easy to forget that Tooms
never asked to be this way and that putting all our eggs in the Mulder basket can
blind us to that fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tooms is a worthy adversary for Mulder. His ability to
evade capture by out smarting him is something that vexes Mulder and jabs his
ego. A personality trait Mulder displays on numerous occasions across the
series, ‘<a href="http://thexfilesrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/young-at-heart-episode-16-season-1.html">Young at Heart</a>’ and 'Pusher' just to examples. This trait is by no means a shortfall,
more of a characteristic better described as a quality. It drives Mulder on to
apprehend his suspects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In short
Tooms was dead before he ever left that courtroom and that smug smirk aimed at
Mulder on leaving the court room is at fault for the excruciating pain in which
the death happened. I’m not saying Mulders a murder but perhaps his latest ordeal
with Barnett has gone someway to prompting a reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder is unmistakably
aggravated by the courts rejection of the implausible truth he presents and of the
release of Tooms from the psychiatric prison, biting at Scully’s doubting of
his actions and methods in a stern voice he says ‘Look, Scully, if you're
resistant because you don't believe, I'll respect that. But if you're resistant
because of some bureaucratic pressure, they've not only reeled you in. They've
already skinned you.’ In short you are either with me or with them, an ultimatum
that Scully agrees with by ignoring Skinners plea to use methods that act by
the book. Mulder later snaps at Scully during a stake out as it becomes
apparent Tooms journey under his skin has gained mileage. This is one unhappy
Fox.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Needless to
say agents Mulder and Scully discover Tooms layer, an escalator pit located in
the spot of his old hibernating patch. Mulder ventures down the narrow corridor
beneath the escalator to find Tooms bile bonded nest. A woken naked Tooms
chases Mulder back up the corridor. Mulder’s narrow escape equals Tooms demise
as Mulder activates the elevator tearing him to shreds. This ending is one of
the most memorable sequences in X-Files history and cause of a particular recurring
nightmare of mine when I was young.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tooms is an abundant
feast of scares and humour, refined plot lines and commendable series
development and whose only competition for season one best MoW is EVE. I think
Tooms just squeezes out in-front. 10/10</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This
episode gave me a mutual respect of my toilet, a caution later validated by
season two episode The Host. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You can see Tooms bum in the escalator chase
scene! Hutchison came up with the idea to get completely naked, and I make him
right. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">C.S.M muttering the three little words ‘course I do’ in endorsement of
the phenomenon contained in The X-Files. His first words are telling in that he
is a believer. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Tooms return signals the first of three MoW sequels. Can you
name the other two? </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Synopsis: Mulder
and Scully turn prey to ancient carnivorous insect when an investigation into
the disappearance of 30 loggers in Olympic National Forest turns into a fight
for survival.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">The success of
The X-Files in its fledgling season was no fluke. The majority of episodes were
made up from a recipe of inspired casting, creative paranormal focused plot
lines, subtle comedic undertones, solid production values and of course scares and
it was this cocktail that established the shows core fan base that it still prevalent
today. There are of course exceptions to the rule, flops if you will and guilty
pleasures if you won’t. Inconsistency in value from one episode to another is a
possibility for the first season of any show as they test the waters, but for a
show which very essences is built upon the paranormal I would say it becomes an
occupational hazard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Darkness Falls
is a great exhibit of the strength season one had to offer, an unassuming episode
that keeps our interest from start to finish. The opening teaser sets the tone,
30 brawny plaid shirted lumber jacks scared witless, scream as they flee
hopelessly through the dense boundless woodlands of the Olympic National Forest,
Washington State. This vast forest is an ideal setting for this X-File. It is
natural and wonderful to behold and at the same time mysterious and dangerous,
the peaceful solitude turns into remote isolation and with the threat of
darkness comes a sensation of helplessness and intense claustrophobia similar
to that of Ice. Man versus nature is obviously the theme and Carter warns us
there can only be one winner although ultimately it is the U.S Government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">There is
understated comic relief in place throughout the episode, not meant as detraction
from the moody ambience but rather a ploy to loll us into a sense of security.
The relaxed opening scene between Mulder and Scully in the familiar warmth of
the X-Files office acts to divert our attentions away from the horrors that lay
in wait. This shroud of blissful ignorance soon disperses as the agents make their
way deeper into the woods and we learn that this field trip is going to be no
picnic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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cast all give solid believable performances which helps amalgamate the episode.
The agents enlist the help of park ranger Larry Moore as chaperone to the
logging site and are accompanied by Steve Humphreys, head of security for the
logging company responsible for the missing men. All round good guy Moore is
played by Duchovnys’ close friend and scientologist defector Jason Beghe who
pulls of the strong outdoorsman man’s man role very convincingly. Humphrey
although seemingly pleasant shows overzealous contempt for the eco warriors in
an attempt to deflect attention away from his companies’ reckless and illegal
logging methods. Doug Spinney plays the logger’s antagonist whose magnanimous
nature directly opposes that of Humphreys’ which entertains malevolent undertones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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affect sacrifices himself to save agents Mulders and Scully and park ranger
Moore and in doing so vindicates Mulders actions of allowing him to leave their
base camp along with the car battery, a decision that perplexed Scully, Moore
and everyone who has ever watched Darkness Falls it even had Mulder doubting
his own decision making. Who are we though to question Mulders choices? Admit it
you felt a little guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are so
many factors that make Darkness Falls’ re-watchable and it is always a pleasure
to revisit this strong MoW. 8/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What do you
call a camel with three humps?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Apparently Chris
Carters inspiration for this episode came from a tree-ring dating course he
took back in his college days. I suppose Darkness Falls justifies his omission
from simply dating girls back in his college days.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The awful
microscope affect used is completely allowable because the episode pulls its weight
with the aspects that really matter.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As a
foursome of three guys’ one girl, our agents, park ranger and logger man stumble
across a cocoon half way up a tree. They decided to send ‘the women’ up in the
harness to retrieve the icky insect webbed corpse, very brave guys and very
funny. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is one of the few MoW that isn't left </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">open-ended</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></li>
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Mulder and Scully’s investigation into a shooting over a land dispute turns out
to be more than just an open and shut case when a savage animal is introduced
into the mix.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">The episode
is by no means an attention grabber let alone attention retainer. It is a werewolf yarn and
we all know what a werewolf is and how they work; man gets scratched/bit, man
turns into werewolf. Although it seems we are taking our prevailing knowledge
for granted as it appears that The X-Files universe is unaccustomed to such myth.
So as I watch Mulder and Scully investigate and learn about this nameless
phenomenon I find myself reaching for my laptop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Today I was
off on a Native American Google search tangent that started with The Wounded
Knee Incident mentioned by Ish during his first exchange with Mulder. I went on
to learn more on the Native Americans’ plight against the U.S government , their
battles to preserve the lands, their culture, their weapons, their farming
methods, their hunting methods, their religion, their casinos. All the while Shapes
listlessly stumbles from scene to scene offering little more than soft background
stimuli.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">This emphatically
predictable story was in no way buoyed by the script and direction, which in
places was downright awkward, the pinnacle of which has to be Mulders chucking
in of the line ‘I want to believe’. When used without the class and the coherent
context found at the end of Conduit this epic X-Files tag line is reduced to
nothing but a cheap catch phrase.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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little better. Her most poignant character trace is the ability to dismiss incomprehensible
occurrences with logic and it is a trait we all appreciate, after all its part
of what makes The X-Files so great. Although her ability to dismiss the ‘shape
shifting’ Kyle Parker as a mountain lion is blind to the point of denial and
not the ‘I saw it but I won’t admit it’ denial but the ‘repressed memory that
may one day give me a brain tumour’ type of denial. The latter even played out on
film to a certain extent when Kyle Parker gave off several loud roars as he was
‘shape shifting’ in the bathroom, the shot of Scully attempting to gain entry
to the bathroom is silent. See no evil, hear no evil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">I think that
the transformation scene of Kyle Parker into a werewolf still looks great today
and finally my Google search tangent had a challenger to my attention. Alas it
was a short lived battle of which Google prevailed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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other moments in which my curiosity peaks along the way. The castings of
Duchovnys’ Twin Peaks co-star Michael Horse for example. As Sheriff Charles Tskany
he practically reprises his role of Deputy Tommy Hill in a nod to the early 90’s
supernatural drama to which X-Files owes for some of its inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also the backstory to these ‘shape shifting’ events which are attributed as the
first ever X-Files. Apparently Edgar J. Hover himself initiated the investigation
in 1946. The case, seeming unsolvable was swept under the carpet by Hoover(pun intended),
which is a conspiracy in itself I suppose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">I find this
episode unintentionally funny which is some sort of bonus I guess but this and
its other entertaining facets are too few and far between in an episode guilty
of sticking to closely to the myth ultimately causing it to be too banal. I did
however get more out of watching this episode than expected, an education into
the plight of Native American Man. 4/10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Or rather musing; </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder breaches the gap left
from a history of bloodshed between the U.S. Government and Native Americans.
He offers an olive branch which is accepted. Is karma now at work? Is this act
of philanthropy what helps the Navajo Indians bring Mulder back to life in ‘The
Blessing Way’ Not trying to put too fine a point on it put Karma does play a
large part in the Native American belief system. </span></span></li>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Syn</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">opsis: Samuel a supposed miracle healer is tried for murder, Mulder believes in more than just the boy’s innocence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">With the
paranormal, evolution and/or aliens the ever present subject matter of The X-Files,
it is inevitable conflict and amity with religion developed on a regular basis.
Miracle Man represents season ones first and only head on foray into religion.
That is if you are wiling to except that ‘The Kindred’ from episode Gender
Bender are not a religious sect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Christianity
is first in the firing line, or maybe more the false prophets that exploit the faith
instilled in people who are made vulnerable by their lame limbs, old age or prevalent
mourning. There are religious television channels that run all day that film these
false prophets placing their hands on members of their congregations and ‘heal’
them of their physical and mental burdens using the power given to them by God.
If you can’t tell I’m sceptical, although this boy Samuel, he has me believing.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">I watched
with my very own eyes this young boy put his hands upon a dead man, a man
burned alive minutes before in a fiery car crash, I watched as he asked this
man to rise, rise up and heal using the power of faith and the power of God. I
saw that man rise from the ashes as if he were Lazarus himself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Make no
bones about it this boy is the real deal, and if we are to believe the blatant New
Testament imagery he is also the second coming of Jesus. While running the risk
of patronising you I shall lazily list these metaphors:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">He performed
Miracles.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">He was
arrested and wrongly accused.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">He was
beaten to death whilst in the ‘crucifixion’ pose.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">He forgave the
man that had him killed.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">He rose from
the dead and disappeared.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">He drank
beer and got into fights.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">The writers
cleverly used Samuel divine powers to reignite the interest in the story line
surrounding Mulders abducted sister. First Samuel envisages Samantha’s abduction
he then shows visions of Samantha to Mulder. This not only gave Mulder reason
to belief in Samuels’s powers and thus find the real suspect but also re-opened
the book on Fox’s hunt for his sister for the first time since episode Conduit.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">With Miracle
Man following E.B.E, an episode that really kicked started the alien conspiracy
mythology, there was a lot to get excited about and it was no coincidence that household
ratings went in to ascendency following them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">With the exception
of the first episode Pilot, this is the first episode that leaves you guessing
on the suspect. I’m not saying that it is or is not difficult to figure out (I didn’t
have a clue), what I am saying is that we normally know who the perpetrator is
before we are treated to Mark Snow’s eerie score. This will become a more
established template for future MoW episodes as we watch The X-Files evolve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">An enjoyable
episode that offers up a surprise killer and small amount of early Samanthology.
7/10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Mulder
already knows of the Reverend Calvin Hartley and of his son Samuel’s healing
powers before Scully show him the case. He doesn’t explain why, perhaps he read
about it in The Lone Gunman or maybe he previously looked into seeing Samuel
about his sister. Or maybe he just saw him on the GOD Channel.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Scully refers
to her catholic faith saying that ‘God never lets the Devil still the show’
Reference to Sully’s faith is few and far between in the first season but are
later established frequently.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">I found the
trail of food left on the roof to the ventilation shaft for the locus is hilarious.
They are insects not Hansel and Gretel.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Vance went a
little far with the Locus thing as it left a paper trail back to him, not that
it mattered in the end.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Best quote undoubtedly
goes to Mulder ‘Remember, the boy did rise from the dead. That kind of thing
happens only once or twice every two thousand years or so.’</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">Sheriff
Daniels wrongly persecuted Samuels and had him beaten to death in his cell. He
then got arrested and most probably imprisoned, leaving his paralysed wife to a
life of solitude and himself to a life behind bars with criminals he would of
helped to send there. What was this guy’s motivation or am I missing out on
some New Testament imagery????</span></span></li>
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secret government agency transports a downed U.F.O and Alien across America,
can agents Mulder and Scully track it down and what ‘truths’ are they to
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<span style="color: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">E.B.E
represents a leap in The X-Files universe. It plots a course for the truth that
will map out an entire franchise. This is where it all begins. Of course we
have been offered glimpses of the government’s seemingly reckless actions and
the callous way in which it covers the truth, however E.B.E looks closer, exposes more and for the
first time offers us answers that maybe we never thought were coming. Fuelled
by snippets of conspiracy laid down in earlier episode, E.B.E rises up as the
maiden episode of nine seasons of mythology.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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us an up close and personal look at Deep Throat and the reasons for his role as
informant. Deep Throat has been a
concrete source of Mulder, showing him where to look and assisting him in
solving cases. There seems to be a mutual respect between the two men, I would
even go as far as to say Mulder admired the man. The events of E.B.E. cast
doubts over the validity of this trust. With Mulder confronting Deep Throat for
the first time and then launching a tirade aimed at the ethical practise of his
work, a tirade that Deep Throat can defend himself against.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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reads like a book in this episode we learn what makes him tick. The information
he offers has always been concrete, yet we find him also deceiving Mulder. Like
a tactician he plans his truths and lies like a chess game, a distinct
characteristic of the government conspirators seen throughout the X-Files. During
the meeting at the shark tank he defends his deceit by saying ‘a lie Mr Mulder,
is most convincingly hidden between to truths’ One of the most iconic lines in
X-Files history.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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importantly we learn of Deep Throats intentions. He explains to Mulder that after
watching him for years, with enthuses put on years, he choose Mulder as the one
to trust. Deep Throat needed someone to expose certain government conspiracy. In
his role he has carried out heinous and brutal acts against man, nature and biological
entities (We discover that Deep Throat implemented the act of e</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">xterminating biological entities) and is of the thinking that Mulder can expose the government
for what it really is. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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first episode in which we see direct attempts by government agencies to interfere
with the X-Files. Firstly with the bug found in Scully’s pen and the bug found
in Mulders apartment. Then two men that follow the agents on route to the
airport, in a brilliant sequence in which Mulder and Scully evade the cronies.
And lastly the feigned alien rescue mission that depicts the lengths in which
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years. It reunites Agents Mulder and Scully. Not since ‘Space’ has David
Duchovny and Gillian Anderson shared this much screen time and it shows, big
time, for their ability to act with one another has metamorphosed into
something quite wonderful and it hits home in one magnificent episode. The only
way I can think of describing it is seeing a child for the second time after a
three year interlude. The screen presence they share has simply grown.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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of one another so effortlessly; the opening scene that they share investigating
the report of the U.F.O sighting from the previous nights is one of my
favourites from the whole program. Scully offers up her most rationale theories
as Mulder humours her, brilliant. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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people out there willing to use his blinding beliefs as a way of deceiving him.
Which is fair after all, how far would Mulder get if he never had Scully there
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our first instalment of everybody’s favourite conspiracy theorists The Lone Gunman.
The trio are introduced to us in their very clean well lit office, is it there
dealings with agent Mulder that drives them to a more underground feel later
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trust them in return, a stark contrast to any shady government agents Mulder is
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Russian Social Democrats to Mulder and all he can muster is a shrug or funny
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take up much screen time in E.B.E but do have a significant part to play in
this episode, and of course grow in stature as The X-Files grow. They not only
offer assistance to Mulder and Scullys campaign for the truth they also offer
banter that is worth its weight in entertainment value. Love these guys.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I was taught by my English teacher that a story must comprise of a beginning a middle and an end. What Chris Carter taught me was a story must be rich in depth and meaning, that you must have a protagonist with strong unwavering ideologies and indomitable methods and yet the mortality to question his own actions and the ability to redeem those actions and grow before our eyes. His antagonist’s motives must be comprehensible and yet his methods must remain unpredictable. The reader or in this case watcher must care about the people they meet along the way and revel in the alluring mystery as it unravels before them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Mulder’s back story grows deeper in Young at Heart and as a result the character flourishes. We meet Agent Reggie Purdue whom Mulder considers a friend and one of the only people within the Bureau he finds worthy of trust. The pair appeared to share a warm relationship. They met whilst working in the violent crime division. Mulder playfully toys with Reggie chanting his name when they meet at the jewellery store crime scene, the first place of which a clue is left to signify John Barnett’s involvement to the surprise of agent Mulder who believed him to be dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Barnett, the man whom we discover has left Mulder fighting inner demons. Mulder blames himself for the death of a fellow FBI agent shot during a stand-off with Barnett. The empathy he shows towards the family of the dead agent clearly present when he notes that the man’s child is now an all-star football player, Mulder must have been watching over them due to what he perceives as his accountability. Mulder will later go on to blame himself for Purdues death claiming he should have shot Barnett when he had the chance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Mulder appears to have met his match in the figure of Barnett. A man who knows how to enter Mulders head and push all the right buttons. The two spa throughout the episode, not in the conventional manner but via a deadly game of cat and mouse. Barnett calculated supply of clues lures Mulder closer. It would seem inevitable that the two should be draw together into a similar situation they found themselves in before, with Barnett taking a hostage and Mulder forced to make a decision with his weapon drawn. Mulder seeks for redemption, it is this incentive that drove him to Barnett and drove him to pulling the trigger. With a clean shot he puts his man down.<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Barnett’s rejuvenate abilities were down to the experimental Dr Joe Ridley. Ridley had no compassion and saw his progaria patients as little more than lab rats and a great opportunity on which to perform his experiments. He was an outcast in the medical profession compounded by the loss of his medical licence for illegally performing experiments on live human test subjects. This is when the government employed Ridley to continue his work, allowing him to use prisoners as live test subjects. He confess all to Mulder and Scully, he is terminally ill and seeking his own forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">The government had known of Barnett’s existence and that he was the only successful candidate of Ripley’s treatment. Mulder meets with Deep Throat for answers. Deep Throat explains to Mulder that the government has been bargaining with Barnett for Dr Ripley’s stolen research. He tells Mulder that they need Barnett alive as his information could change the course of mankind, another interesting angle in a plot with more than just a middle, beginning and end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Scully play her part to. Seamlessly gathering information and acting upon it. She ascertains that the account of Barnett’s death was suspicious and looking further into it discover of Dr Ridley and his work. She also finds a finger print belonging to Barnett on her answering machine that leads the agents to the theatre where he would shoot agent Scully and in turn be shoot by agent Mulder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Mulder shoots and kills his man in the end. He was driven to it and not offered much choice. Killing is not something Mulder takes lightly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I never realised the man that tries to gather information from the dying Barnett was the Cigarette Smoking Man. I caught the name William B. Davis in the end credits, his first appearance since the pilot. I love discovering new information on re-watches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Barnett is not the only one to use Fox Mulders name as a pun to describe a hunt. Fast forward to season 5 episode ‘Kitsunegari’, which means Fox hunt in Japanese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Synopsis: An FBI agent and a bank robber are gunned down at the scene. The robber dies while the FBI agent is revived however Mulder suspects the agent of not being who he appears to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Raising of Lazarus is a biblical story of a miracle performed by Jesus in which he raises Lazarus of Bethany from the dead. Unfortunately the story on offer here is less than divine and plainly insipid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">If you were a bank robber shot whilst on the job and in death you were given a second chance what would do? Would you catalogue your mistakes and misgivings in your first life and act upon them in a way of redemption in your second learning to appreciate that the error of your ways may be related directly to your untimely demise and perhaps learn to change them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Or would you clumsily hunt down your ex-husband murdering, FBI fugitive, double crossing wife and once finding her abduct a federal agent?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">My point being that at the very least you would keenly prevent attention being draw to yourself. This is not for bank robber Warren Dupree, who spends no time what so ever on considering his options. I am not going to pretend that The X-Files is always believable, after all it is Science Fiction, but it is when palpable human behaviour is so blatantly disregarded that I find myself rolling my eyes. I see little reason to look further into this MOW impractical behaviour. Well maybe I could say he was driven by passion which is the only argument but really? Yawn. It seems like lazy storytelling to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">The lack in character depth does bother me somewhat although it is not all bad and as you know I am not one to kick an episode whilst it is down. It’s a fun story, having the mind of a criminal jump to that of FBI agent Jack Willis a man whom he’d been hunted by for two years. Dupree recklessly gets up close and personal with the FBI. A little more focus on his interactions around other FBI agents and inside the FBI headquarters could have added a touch of sophistication to this episode. Regrettably it wasn’t to be as I believe this would have made for a more invested storyline. Mulder was the only one within the FBI suspicious enough of Willis’ new behaviour to show enough concern. Which is odd really given the common knowledge that Willis inexplicably cut the finger off a corpse in a scene that makes me wince, and yet still manages to pass a physical and perhaps more surprisingly a psychological exam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I will move on. Another small portion of Dana Scully’s past was offered up to us. Her relationship with FBI Jack Willis was confirmed to be more than just friendship when Scully revealed to Mulder that the two had dated for almost a year. It seems Scully has a habit of mixing work and pleasure and this time with a man she appears very incompatible with. We also learn of her birthday, February 23<sup>rd</sup>, but not the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I’m sorry if my take on this episode conflicts greatly with your views on it. There just aren’t enough redeeming features on show. As much as I dislike low scoring I have to be realistic. A lowly 2/10 and a big look forward to the next episode Young at Heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I have a strange affiliation to Gender Bender and no it is not what you’re thinking. 18 years ago I remember sitting round my Grandma’s house watching GB with my dad, mum, Nan and sister. I remember where I was sat where they were sat, I remember it like I remember yesterday. The reason I remember that night so vividly is because we sat and enjoyed the show together, The X-Files brought us all together. It was a show we all could enjoy watching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">You must realise I was eight years old but even so, many adults of the time knew next to little about these sects. Today it’s a different story; we have films, documentaries and even reality television show based on their way of living. They no longer seem alien to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">1994 however was a different time; their existence was alien to the general population. Here the writers play on that but maybe missed a trick. I found the back story missing and in place it found sex scenes, they may have tied into the story but really were unnecessary. Don’t get me wrong I like a sex scene as much as the next red blooded male but if the producers ideas of sexing up the show where having a women that was really a man or vice-versa, changing sexes right after the doing wild thing then they are clearly mistaken. Unless it is me who is mistaken?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">If only they substituted the sex story line parts of this episode with more mystery surrounding the ‘Kindred’ and the farm on which they lived. The farm was a marvellously atmospheric setting and could have played host to a real spooky episode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">All we were left with were horny transsexual chick and dude magnet aliens that for some reason travelled across time and space just to settle down into an Amish way of life and ban themselves from the fruits of the forbidden tree without any explanation what so ever. Somehow I don’t think this is the ‘truth’ Mulder had been expecting to find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I do like to draw some of my own conclusions from each episode but come on not all of them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Enter player Nicholas Lea. Before his appearance in the next season as Alex Krycek he had a role in this episode having, sex with brother Martin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">This episode is flawed and feels incomplete but it is a fun ride and bring back fond memories for me, I could never say I dislike it or skip it during a Season watching marathon. 5/10 for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">This episode focuses squarely on Dana Scully, so much so that the writers had to hospitalise Mulder. This allowed Scully to open her mind to the possibilities of paranormal phenomenon, for the first time on an X-File she had no one off which to bounce her conflicting ideas. She alone must walk the line between the realms of distinct possibility and unconceivable probability. It is a lesson in growth for our sceptic agent. Can she let her guard down and allow herself to believe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">The agents interview Luther Lee Bogs. Bogs is clearly a scared man and desperate to prove his abilities to Mulder, it is the only way of saving his own life. I feel bogs could channel the emotions of the kidnapped couple without the need to touch an item of their clothing. Touching the clothing was for show and had more to do with humouring Mulder into believing his powers as he didn’t want to reveal his true connection to the kidnapper. A plan which backfired, well in the case of Mulder at least. Maybe Mulder was trying too hard to dispel Bogs claims and so found them too easy to dismiss. Scully, having recently lost someone was easier for Bogs to reach. As she left the room he began to sing Beyond the Sea. She turns back to be confronted with another vision of her father. Bogs then says did you get my message Starbuck. These are all signs towards the paranormal ability of Bogs that Scully can surly not refute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">She knows what in death her father’s words would be. They are simply ‘I am proud of you’ I found this thought so moving, so true and so comforting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I have other thoughts on this episode away from what we learn about Scully. I believe that Bogs was given his gift in order to redeem himself from the devil. He was given a second chance; the week prior to his death he prevented three deaths. The scene when he was walking to the gas chamber is remarkably brilliant and spooky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Blogs ability to channel Henry and his victims came from his contact with Henry in previous crimes that the two were paired up on. A fact he had no intention of letting Mulder know, hence the Nicks jersey fiasco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I cannot rate this episode any lower than a 10/10. The depth it added to Scullys character allowed her to become a main stay in show and in turn help cement The X-Files in television history for ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">This episode is hot <span style="background-color: red;">7/10</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Synopsis: An old flame of Mulders asks for his assistance in </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">apprehending</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> a </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">psychopathic</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> pyro-maniac</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Another
Strong MOW (monster of the week) offering that offers a little more. On top of the
Pyro maniac with a demonic ability that is matched only by his demonic view on
the world, we have the first exaggerated nod towards Dana’s secret affection
towards Fox and Mulders clumsy affection towards Dana. A term X-Philes
coined as ‘ship’, Short for relationship. The shippers had X-Philes around the
world speculating heavily on forums, blogs and chat rooms and
caused a phenomenon in itself possibly the biggest, away from any story arch
the series had to offer. It is safe to say that this subject remains the
strongest of all topics of conversations on any thing X-Files. Kept stronger by
stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson real life will they won’t they relationship.
Well, let the shipping continues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Scully’s instant
distain for Mulder’s college year love interest Phoebe Green is instantly recognisable.
Phoebe whispers in Mulders ear ‘She hates me’ somewhat blatantly to show of her
dominance over Scully for Mulders instant affection. Mulder seems aware of
this and immediately deflects the unwanted tension by questioning Phoebe of the reason to her visit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Phoebe asks
Mulder to help in catching a narcissistic pyro maniac who kills members of the upper
classes by burning his victims alive. The only lead is a potential target of
the attacker, Sir Malcolm. Mulder agrees to assist, upon leaving his office Phoebe turns
to Scully rather nonchalantly and says ‘Oh, good bye’ as if she forgot of her
presence in the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Scully is
wary of Phoebes control and possible manipulation over Mulder. She remarks to
Mulder how she had just witnessed him drop everything to help Mulder who
defends himself by stating ‘I was merely extending her a professional courtesy’
to which Scully quips ‘Oh was that what you were extending?’ A funny line that
is rife with jealous undertones. Scully displays further acquisitive emotion as,
against Mulders wishes she goes to the hotel to where he and Phoebe are
staying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">The role of Phoebe
was originally designed to be a recurring role with a view to replacing the
enigmatic Dana Scully. Luckily for us this wasn’t the case. I found her simply irritating
and I would just like to say we don’t all talk like that! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Our MOW Cecil
L’lvely’s awaits the visit of Sir Malcome Marsden and family to the vacation
home. He poses as the grounds man for the estate having killed and buried the
real one in a shallow grave. Cecil kicks the Marsden’s family dog and threatens
to skin it alive. Cecil is not joking he would skin the dog alive he feels no
remorse for his actions he is a loaner cold and callous. He is intelligent and
has a confident demeanour; he is a psychopath in every sense. He is a psychopath
with the penchant for murdering aristocrats, not for political or financial
gain. He kills these powerful men to validate his own beliefs that he is all
powerful. Cecil is a man that really is geared towards world domination. <o:p></o:p>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">He is also a
voyeur that spies on the wife of his targets. He watches Mrs Marsden through a
window his attention drawn primarily to her body. His affection towards these
women is most probably perverse although it is not explored in too finer detail.
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">His malevolent
behaviour is explored brilliantly in one scene where he befriends the two young
Marsden boys with magic using cigarettes which he then uses to tempt the boys
to smoke as if he were the Devil himself. He also tricks the Marsden’s driver
into drinking rocket fuel and sets him alight, so he could assist the Marsden’s
more closely. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Personally I think this MOW is far too easily
overlooked he holds many of the cards over some better established MoW in terms of his evilness, maliciousness, </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">intelligence</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and all over anti-hero vibe over .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Other
noteworthy points to take from this episode are Mulder admitting to having a
photographic memory and pyro-phobia. The pyrotechnics used I find impressive to
this day. The X-File case number Scully retorts at the end of the show, 11214893
includes the number 1121 the birthday of X-Files creator Chris Carters wife. This
number along with 1013, Carters birthday and name of his production company are
used with regularity throughout the show. The original script of this episode
includes a conversation near the end in which Scully comments, ‘Well, never let
it be said that you wouldn't walk through fire for a woman, Mulder’, to which
he answers, ‘And never let it be said that I wouldn't do it for you again,
Scully’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">EVEil Genius <span style="background-color: red;">10/10</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">EVE is an
amazing episode full of red herrings and twist. From start to finish the
unfolding plot keeps Mulder and Scully guessing on the potential suspects. The likelihood
that a sophisticated Murder could be carried out by an eight year old girl was beyond
the realms of thinking even for Mulder. As a viewer it was nice to see a
tightly woven story unravel in front of my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is no
denying that twins in horror works as for some reason they are able to possess a
certain unnerving quality much like a china doll. The younger EVE twins are
murders are evil and genius, a scary group of attributes to hold. They are capable
of killing without feeling regret but instead share jubilation in their methods
homicide, gleefully watching as their self-cultivated poison terminates the
closes thing the girls could ever come to calling a mother. This gives much
reason behind the elaborate ways in which the fathers of the two girls met their
demise. Exsanguination is a word I had to look up not a method of murder, least
that is what I thought. The creativity involved in the murders inevitably contributed
to the girls undoing as it was quickly passed down as an X-File due to its
oddness in nature and without Fox Mulders intuitive observance the girls break
for freedom would have been successful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Harriet Harris
turns in some credible performances playing Dr Sally Kendrick, EVE 6 and EVE 8.
As the psychotic EVE 6 she was very convincing, chattering her teeth whilst
telling stories of biting a guard eyeball and I really wouldn’t like to be locked
in a cell with her. She had an air of unpredictability about her and played
unhinged very well. Another of her scenes is also rather thrilling. Cindy
Reardon lies in bed when her wardrobe doors begin to open, we then see from
Mulder and Scully’s view point that she is then quickly snatched. Scully runs
to Cindy’s aid entering the house she doesn’t know what she will find and neither
do we. Whoever or whatever it was that snatched Cindy had to have been waiting
in that wardrobe for two days as the house was under surveillance. The music
adds to potential scare we’re about to receive. Scully makes her way up the stairs
and is knocked down by EVE 7 who then bursts through a patio window and escapes
the waiting Mulder by holding a gun to Cindy’s head. A top sequence in the
episode of which there are so many highlights. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My favourite
sequence of the lot has to be the rest stop scene. The girls poison the agents
drink only to be thwarted by Mulders intuition. I thought it was filmed really
well and showed Mulders at his think ‘outside the box’ best. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Not many agents would evaluate the evidence in
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deep Throat
makes an appearance here, divulging the project that created the EVEs called
the Lichfield experiments. These experiments were designed to rival that of the
Russians attempt of creating a super race at the height of the cold war. They created
a group of genetically modified children, the boys were called Adam and the
girls were called Eve. We know from meeting Eve 6 that the experiments still
continue and that these children grew to be psychotic. We learn from EVE 7 that
the young EVEs; Cindy and Teena have developed at a greatly accelerated speed,
meaning they’re very dangerous. On their capture they are returned to the Lichfield
experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quotes I
have picked out for this episode are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quip to Scully whilst she reads from the autopsy report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scully:
Death by hypovolaemia. 75% blood loss. That's over 4 liters of blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder: I'd
say the man was running on empty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder’s and
Scullys banter. He also points to the sky and says that maybe their looking in
the wrong place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder: One
girl was just abducted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder: Potato,
potahto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two psychopathic
girls that have never met murder their fathers in exactly the same bizarre
manner at exactly the same time on different sides of the country. Psychotic
clones run amok. Exsanguination, poisoning and biting eyeballs. A supposedly expired
highly classified experiment continues. Creepy twins that may in-fact be cloned
to create more of the little murderers. This episode had a lot I think I enjoy
it more than any other in this series and as I realise I can be stingy with my
scoring I feel it is only right to slap a 10/10 on this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more for the next episode ‘FIRE’ coming in the next couple of days. Thank you
for reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis:
Mulders attempt to infiltrate a U.F.O crash landing cover up is thwarted by the
military leading to a chance meeting with an eccentric UFO fanatic with a history
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Townsend, Wisconsin.
A spaceship crashed in the woods, or as UFO reclamations expert Colonel Calvin
Henderson puts it ‘confirmed Fallen Angel in sector 87’. Operation Falcon is
put into action. An operation not only intent in the salvage and cover-up of
the downed spacecraft, but also in the extermination of any and all extra-terrestrial
life found at the wreckage site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder is loosely
informed by Deep Throat that the quarantined area of a reported train crash in Townsend,
Wisconsin was in fact a UFO crash site and that he had only 24hrnbefore all
evidence was removed. That is all the information Mulder needs. Begin the
defiant agents’ one man quest to uncover the truth. I love episodes where our
two heroes go behind enemy lines as they normally always uncover something and
this episode is no different. Mulder’s endeavour pays of and he is confronted by
one hell of a spaceship and for the first time he remembers to bring a camera
to collect photographic evidence. This preparation proves futile as he is soon
caught by military personnel and dispossessed of is camera. He is brought in
front of Colonel Henderson where his work on the X-Files is severely
threatened, more on that later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the encounter
with the Colonel, Mulder is placed in a holding cell which leads to his meeting
with fellow detainee Max Fenig played by unknown Scott Bellis. I think this guy
played the role superbly and I am not surprised he was given the opportunity to
redeem his role in future episodes. He nailed the traits that one may expect of
an obsessive loner. He had the equipment and knowledge to track U.F.O phenomena
and mainly acted alone having little face to face contact with others and none
with persons from outside the U.F.O fanatic circle. I could imagine that the investigative
group he claims to be a part of N.I.C.A.P. consist of only a handful of awkward
individuals. I think it is safe to say we have Scott Bellis to thank for the concept
of the Lone Gunman. He demonstrated to the writers that informants to Mulder
didn’t have to be shady two faced G-Men but could also be allies fighting for
the same side. Mulder himself realises this. When he asks Max ‘What makes you
so sure there is something out there’ Max replies ‘the same thing that makes
you so sure’ Indicating that they both have encountered U.F.O phenomena and
thus both want to get to the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scully’s comes
to release Mulder from the holding pen not knowing the reasons for his actions.
She rejects Mulder idea of a crashed U.F.O in belief of a highly classified
story of a downed Libyan Fighter Jet carrying a nuclear pay load. A story
Mulder dismisses as ‘a highly classified lie’. Scully has the attitude of a
mother telling off her son, this may be due to the impending closure of the
X-File brought about by Mulder’s exploits. Is she growing attached to department
she works in or the partner she works with?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scully
regularly denounces Mulders theories throughout the episode I think in attempt
by the writers to revert her back to her original purpose in the show. After
all she may have been too willing to entertain Mulders wild notions of the
paranormal in recent episodes and there is a need to re-establish her strong independent
stance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile it
is not enough that Colonel Henderson has to deal with an insubordinate FBI
agent, he also has to track down and kill an extra-terrestrial capable of cloaking
itself to its surroundings and destroying its adversaries using potent amounts
of radiation. A task that it is fair to say he has no grasp on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This alien
creature is only interested in one thing, finding Max Fenig. It was recurring abductee
Max that drew the craft to Townsend. He wasn’t aware of this or his previous
abductions, He was only aware of blacking out and reawaking in strange places.
It was Mulder noticing a scar behind Fenig’s ear that lead him to the
conclusion that Fenig was an abductee, as that same scar came up in X-Files
cases involving other abductees. Another
spaceship came down to Townsend to retrieve their fellow alien and Max Fenig disappears
with them, for now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Later back
at FBI headquarters, agent Scully’s attempts to support Mulders actions appear
to be in vein. The Office of Professional Responsibility Hearing run by Section
Chief McGrath is not going well. Mulders turn defends his actions, but his
evidence and field report are suppressed by conflicting reports from Colonel
Henderson to which Mulder proclaims ‘How can I disprove lies that are stamped
with an official<br />
seal?.... You can deny all the things I've seen. All the things I've
discovered, but not for much longer. Because too many others know what's happening
out there. And no one, no government agency has jurisdiction over the truth.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although
Mcgrath has Mulder banged to rights and makes the decision to disband the
X-Files and probably remove Mulder from the bureau. The decision is overturned
by Deep Throat. In a secret meeting between the two men Deep Throat explains
his actions as keeping his friend close and enemies’ closer. This is the first
time we see Deep Throat’s involvement away from Fox Mulder and he comes across
as sinister and scheming and maybe more powerful then we previously thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before I
wrap this post up I just want to add a couple of my favourite bits from the
episode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulders
reconnaissance mission, hanging on to the bottom of that truck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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downed UFO and the fact that Mulder brought a camera.</span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That
intrepid soul in search of a closer encounter that is Max Fenig<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scully: ‘we have a plane to catch in under an hour’ (It takes longer than an hour to
get through security nowadays)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
little back and forth at the US Space Surveillance Centre;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CAPTAIN KORETZ: Sir I have flash
traffic at 24-18. Repeated calls for ID go unanswered. And it’s not in the
orbital or suborbital inventory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MILITARY OFFICER: 24-18. Isn't
that where...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CAPTAIN KORETZ: Same exact spot
sir. Although I am reading a much larger craft his time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MILITARY OFFICER: Meteor, Ms.
Koretz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CAPTAIN KORETZ: A much larger
Meteor, sir. Hold on a second.(Putting hand to earpeice) We have a confirm.
Whitmarsh Air Force Base is tracking...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MILITARY OFFICER: Where is it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CAPTAIN KORETZ: Well, sir. The
meteor, seems to be hovering over a small town in Eastern Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Various
Mulder quotes; ‘a highly classifies lie.’ ‘Enigmatic Dr Scully.’ ‘You don’t seem
to understand Scully, Max doesn’t believe he was abducted by aliens I believe
he was.’ ‘no government agency has
jurisdiction over the truth.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I like this
episode and could go on but maybe you can fill in the gaps or add your take,
feel free to use the comment box below. For now I will leave you with my score
8/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have a problem <span style="background-color: red;">2/10</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel as if
I have just spent 45minutes watching Mulder and Scully watch a NASA space
mission that was in jeopardy from paranormal forces. Paranormal forces whose
inception came from the famous 'face on mars' photograph taken from by the Viking 1 Orbiter during the
70’s. The famous photograph is shown at the beginning of the episode when
it is questioned by a reporter over its possible indication to life on mars.
Chris Charter must have seen the photo and drew all his inspiration for the
episode from it and I mean all his inspiration. Maybe he thought it such a
novel idea that he could run with it for an entire episode. Unfortunately it
didn’t have the legs to carry the episode and without any added dimension the
whole thing came across as lazy as if Carter put no real thought into it at
all. A clever background story to the face’s origin might have had me
salivating and an injection of Deep Throat conspiracy theory may have
supplemented the story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sure had it
not been for Mulders interjection in the last ten minutes the Space
Shuttle Orbiter may not have re-entered Earth’s atmosphere without bursting
into a big ball of flames, apart from this Mulder and Scully were left
redundant throughout. Like voyeurs they observed as a confused mission control
tried to regain some sort of grasp on what was happening to the sabotaged
shuttle. Mulder appears to be quite struck with meeting his boyhood idols in Lieutenant
Colonel Belt yet that old adage ‘never meet your heroes’ rears its head as
Belts decision making is reckless and void of compassion for the men aboard the
shuttle. It is in the end Mulders desire to believe in the greatness of the man
that draws the real Belts away from alien control to receive the instruction to
bring the shuttle in at a trajectory of 32 degrees thus saving the lives of the
crew members and preserving the life of the space program. This episode shows
how strong and unique Mulders faith really is as any normal man would have
given up their belief in their hero under similar circumstance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another
noteworthy point is the convincing mission control set. Ok maybe we might
expect to see a larger room with technicians running all sorts of varying
equipment. Nether the less it manages to pull it off and it is not impossible
to believe. The techno jargon between mission control and the ship seems
plausible and the NASA footage of the shuttle in space and landing offer nice
touches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I find it
funny; I always thought Ghost in the Machine was my least favourite episode of
the series until I wrote this post. GITM succeeds in bringing us a delightful
conspiracy undertone that not only breaks up the episode but also give it a
point. Space on the other hand is almost entirely pointless and that’s why I can
only award it 2/10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After that
nonsense I am really looking forward to sinking my teeth into the next episode
‘Fallen Angel’ Thanks for reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">This episode
sits proudly atop many X-Philes’ favourite episode lists, not mine though. Don’t
get me wrong it is not far off, for me there is just one subtle tweak that
could have catapulted this episode to the top of the pile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not
hard to understand why this episode is so popular amongst the X-File community.
The successful method of the story for one thing is a tried and tested
platform. Most recent inspirations to the broadcast of this 1993 episode were
from John Carpenters 1982 Horror/Sci-Fi classic The Thing. Of course there are
other inspirations but The Thing is the one I’m most familiar with. Ice borrows
some of the finest fragments from the film and successfully repackages and delivers
them back to us in a 43 minute slot. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">The very
opening scene of the Arctic Ice Core Project shows us a shot of just how
isolated the facility is. A Snow storm blows in; the whistle of the swirling
winds is all that can be heard. Inside the facility seems no more hospitable
the outside. Its dark a, thermometer hangs on the wall measuring -34 degrees Celsius.
A dog forages for scraps the camera follows; we see body on the floor and then
a lifeless arm hanging from a desk. A
man armed with a hand gun interrupts the scene he looks exhausted and is
shirtless and bloodied. He turns on the ham radio equipment and then a lamp and
the video camera below it. He slouches down on a chair placed in front of the
camera and breathing heavily utters ‘we are not who we are….we are not who we
are….it goes no further than this….it stops right here right now…’ with that
another man grabs him and pulls him from his chair. They fight as if their
lives depended on it. They both end up pulling a pistol. They stare into one
another eyes as the stand-off. Slowly they lower their weapons only to draw
them again only this time it is to their own temples. The filming of the scene
switches to outside the facility. The winds that are still whistling are
accompanied by two loud gun shots.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">This post is
not a novella of the episode but I feel as if I have to give this remarkable
opening sequence it due. It builds up a tense atmosphere full of dread and
solitude that carries on throughout the episode.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The episode
is set almost entirely inside the facility. When a show or film is shot in such
away I believe it is called bottling. When done in the correct manner it can
evoke strong emotions in the viewer and considering there is only a 43min run time, I think they have done
well to see that we the viewer share the intense suspicion and </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">claustrophobia</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of the characters. Here we are not left outside in the cold looking in, we are stuck inside hoping to get out. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">We are not merely roped into casting aspersions over each character but forced.
This is not comfortable, as this is the first time in the series that we are
obliged to make that choice. You ask yourself who is being deceitful and who is
telling the truth? And then it hits you, without Mulders help we would never
know. Trust no one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Agents Mulder,
Scully, physician Dr. Hodge (Xander Berkeley from ‘24’ fame); toxicologist Dr.
DaSilva (Felicity Huffman from ‘Desperate Housewifes’ fame); Pilot Bear (Jeff
Kober from ‘China Beach’ fame) and geologist Dr. Murphy (Steve Hytner from The
X-Files episode ‘Ice’ fame) all full into the same traps we do. There is only
one worm controlling one host at any one time during their time at the
facility. Yet the reaction of the team and their hostility towards each other
appear to become magnified under the claustrophobic conditions the facility places
them in. Even Scully suspects Mulder of murder to some degree. When she finds Mulder
with the body of Dr. Muphy throat slit, Scully accusingly asks her partner what
he is doing. Pulling a gun on him
shortly afterwards and forcing him into solitary confinement, although this I
suspect is just as much for his own good as for hers. Dr Hodge’s narcissistic, malevolent
and somewhat misogynistic attitude makes him prime suspect through most of the second
half of the episode. Looking back he was an obvious red hearing as he had been unpleasant
from the very beginning of the show. And as it turns out timid Dr. DaSilva is
the one with the little beastie in her. She goes into a state of hysteric anger
but Dr Hodge and Scully are on hand to save her from the extra-terrestrial parasite
using X-File science. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In addition
did anybody else notice the substance secreted by the worm after being pulled
from the pilot’s skin. Possibly a tie in with the alien Black Oil that plays a
large part in future episodes. It does have similar characteristics. It enters a host through an orifice in the head and makes them act </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">differently</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> then usual. It is found in ice estimated to be 250,000 years old. There are large reservoirs of Black Oil under the earth that have been there for millions of years. Personally I think the Black Oil is an evolved state of the </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">parasitic</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> worm or some kind of mutation from it. What are your thoughts?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">This episode demonstrates what can be achieved when using inspiration from the very best that the Sci-Fi genre has to offer</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">. I’m going to
give this episode a 9/10. It could have so easily been a ten but for one minor
issue I have. I would have liked to have found Mulder with the corpse of Dr Murphy just as
Scully had rather then watch Mulder discover the body. I feel this subtle difference
would have had a dramatic impact adding an extra </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">psychological</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> edge. Oh well you can't have it all I suppose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis: The elaborate murder of a
C.E.O to a large technology company gets pinned on the company founder, but
Mulder believes it not to be as straight forward as this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The creative vision in this episode
makes 2001: a space odyssey seem like it was written by an oracle, which trust
me is not a compliment by any stretch. At least HAL 9000 seemed plausible or
for one of a better word convincing. Considering it was shot 25 years later
there are no excuses here for C.O.S. to feel so dated, clunky so unfashionable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Maybe I am missing the point, maybe
it is less of a second rate rip off from the Stanley Kubrick classic and more a
tribute to 70’s Sci-Fi adventure series Space 1999. A show that’s colt following has more to do
with it being so much farther from the mark than on it. You may argue that 23<sup>rd</sup>
century man will laugh at the exploits of James T. Kirk but that point is moot.
Why? The fact remains that the producers should of know better than to of half
arsed it, being that in reality technology was not too far from something similar
and that they could have drawn inspiration from this technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So rant over really and I have
decided to focus my energies on the relationship between Fox Mulder and the ham-fisted
Jerry Lamana. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jerry calls over to Mulder and instigates
a hug. Mulders first reaction is to shoot Scully an apprehensive glance. He
sends another glance equal to the first in her direction when Jerry claims they
were more than old work mates but partners in the violent crime division. The
unease Fox feels around Jerry is quickly established by these looks and his
less than confident demeanour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the next scene Jerry reveals his
reason for his meeting Mulder; he needs help on a case. Mulder initially tries
to side step the request by saying he is assigned to the X-Files but Jerry desperately
pleads with him for assistance. Jerry needs this case to impress the attorney
generals and help get his career back on track. A career that as it turns out ‘ran
into a little bad luck’ when he misplaced evidence, resulting in a near fatal attack
on a federal judge. It now seems evident why Fox felt dubious of Jerry’s
presence. Jerry seems like the type of colleague who would have a detrimental
effect on Mulders work at the FBI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This proves the case as Jerry walks
into the X-Files office steals the profile Mulder had been working on for the progress
report and passes it off as his own work without shame. When confronted by
Mulder he simply states that he asked for Mulders help and got it. To me Jerry
seems to carry himself like a cornered animal swinging out, a broken man with a
bruised ego who will do anything to rebuild his battered reputation no matter
how ill advised that may be. I think Mulder recognises this and has genuine
sympathy for the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder forgives him and allows Jerry
to bring in Mark Zuckerberg excuse me I mean Wilczek alone, on evidence Scully
found that put Wilczek in the frame for murder. Unfortunately for Jerry this latest
attempt at a short cut in restoring his status at the bureau back fired and proved
to be his last. Being killed by probably the worse MOW ever was the cherry on
top of a disastrous career for Special FBI Agent Jerry Lamana, R.I.P.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deep Throat makes his second appearance
in The X-File on Mulders terms. Mulder needs to know why Level 5 clearance
needs to me granted to gain access to Wilczek’s property. It transpires that
the DoD are after Wilczek software programing abilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The climax of the episode has agents
Mulder and Scully trying to reach C.O.S in order to shut it down. Playing out
like an episode of Krypton Factor Scully battles the physical challenges whilst
Mulder the mental challenges. Claude Peterson, the buildings system engineer
turns out to be an agent from a branch in the government (probably DoD) who for
two years has tried to infiltrate the C.O.S. Paterson holds Mulder at gun point
in preparation to seize the technology only to be thwarted by Scully who
appears to have been dragged through a bush backwards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder and Deep Throat meet up for a
second time with a somewhat more poignant discussion. It transpires that the government
have taken Wilczek to force him to program software for them. Mulder states that they can’t take a man like
Wilczek without explanation to which Deep Throat replies ‘They can do anything
they want.’ This proves the case over the course of the next eight seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have no problem with the story
really. Looking past the horrible dated Sci-Fi style A.I. the episode give us two
extra dimensions; the Jerry angle on which we learn more of Mulders backstory
and of his compassion and the Deep Throat angle where we learn about the length
secret government agencies are willing to go to. These two things save this
episode form being erased from my files completely and I give it lowly 4/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Catch my next blog coming soon, ICE
one of my favourites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks for reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gonna call? <span style="background-color: red;">8/10</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis: The corpses of two men found dead in an alleyway
have unusual post mortem abnormalities. Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate
their deaths which lead them to Lauren Kyte, a secretary who appears to be
protected by a poltergeist like force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One thing I
love about season one is this cluster of MOW shows from JERSEY DEVIL to SPACE. Granted
there not all brilliant yet they are all (except one, can you guess which?) enjoyable
to watch and there are some real gems pitched in there. This is one such gem of
an episode the first MOW to feature the afterlife as its paranormal prerequisite.
I do have a fondness for a good ghost story and for me this one dose not
disappoint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We start the
episode with Mulder wilfully participating in a campaign of miss information
with a couple of G-Men from some unidentified government agency. Mulder using
his cunning, manages to obtain the finger prints of a dead man in the morgue whose
identity is undisclosed to the agents and the story is underway. With these finger
prints the pair ascertains the identities of the two corpses and where they
died. Mulder is shown at his devious best here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fast forward
a couple of scenes and we find Mulder and Scully searching through CCTV footage
from an ATM machine near to where the two victims’ bodies were discovered. They
spot what may be our antagonist, a shadowy figure but they cannot get a good
look at whom or what it is because in 1993 ‘the resolution was to poor and it wouldn’t
help much to enhance it’ Simply put the technology wasn’t about at the time so
why the catastrophe that was the following episode GHOST IN THE MACHINE? (Have
you figured out which episode it is I do not find enjoyable?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile timid
secretary Lauren Kyte is threatened by her boss only for him to be attacked by
some invisible force. Yes! Gotta be a ghost!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CCTV video
leads the Mulder and Scully to Lauren, the last person to have seen the two men
alive. I cannot help but wonder where it is that I have seen this woman before.
I typed her name ‘Lisa Waltz’ into goggle and the best answer I’ve come with is
that I’ve seen her in Pet Cemetery 2, however I am not convinced by this. Can
anybody out there name something more substantial she has been in, that I may remember
her from? Things like this really bug me and I won’t be happy until my
curiosity is cured. Anyway the agents ask Lauren if she had ‘seen this person
before’ and hand her a picture of the ghostly apparition taken from the CCTV footage
that looks more like The Flash. This made me giggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This spectre
that is by now unmistakably guarding Lauren then sends Fox and Dana hurtling
backwards in their vehicle and straight into a collision with another motorist
at high speed. All involved, including the other driver are miraculously unharmed.
In what can only be viewed as homage to a regular A-Team in-joke. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Can I just
point out Scullys reference to the film Poltergeist in the following seen ‘They’re
here’ said in a chilling voice, an genuine homage to one of my favourite films
from my youth. Sometimes it seems the show was wrote, directed and shot just
for me and that’s why I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Back to the
show and our agent begin surveillance on Lauren. They watch her in the car park
preventing her ex-boss, Howard Graves name from being replaced on a parking
space sign with that of Tom Braidwood, the guy who plays Melvin Frohike by the
way. Anyways Mulder soon discovered that Howard Graves, whom committed an
apparent suicide, is the poltergeist that has been protecting her. Although
Scully is convince that Lauren has an accomplice in the murder of the two men
at the ATM and the sabotage of the agent’s car causing it to crash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lauren is
awoken that night by the macabre voice of Howard Graves pleading for his life
and the sound of water dripping. She follows the noises to the bathroom armed
with a baseball bat. Scared she cautiously walks in and flicks on the light. A
curtain surrounds the bath, she reaches out pulls it back and reveals a bath
slowly filling with blood that then drains away. From this we find out that
Howard was murdered. A frightening scene that if you ask me, would have looked at home in any slasher film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m going to fast forward past the
Scully/Mulder theory exchange to the inevitable conclusion that Mulder is
correct. With just a quick reference to an Elvis joke…:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mulder: Do you know how difficult it
is to fake your own death? Only one man has pulled it off...Elvis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We’ll see how many Elvis in-jokes we
can count through this season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Suspecting she may be the target of a
hit for figuring out the killer of Howard Graves, Lauren calls Mulder and asks
him to come to her house ASAP. Mulder’s presence however turns out to be redundant
as the two hitmen are killed by the poltergeist. He arrives just as the last
hitman is being choked to death whilst being suspended in mid-air. Fox stops visibly
stunned by what he was seeing. Scully comes in just after and characteristically
manages to miss the paranormal phenomena. Not the first time Dana has missed
the critical visual proof of the paranormal. Even if she had seen I still doubt
she would believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lauren sits in an interrogation room,
Mulder one ups the G-Men from the beginning of the episode a second time and coax’s
Lauren into talking about Graves Partner and how he was involved in illegal supplies
to a terrorist group. The agents pair up with the G-Men to raid the office of
Graves’ business partner. Where, with the help of Graves’ spirit none the less
they find a floppy disk containing the sordid details necessary to put Graves’ business
partner behind bars. Yippee! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I enjoyed that I could clearly see
the inspiration taken from the film Poltergeist. I also like the reminders that
this was made in 93’ a year that for me was a much simpler time when I was just
a young boy. Now I come to think of it maybe I remember Lisa Waltz from
watching this episode as an eight year old boy, curiosity cured? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ah the nostalgia, lovely 8/10 from
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wow I hope you have had as much fun
reading as I have had writing. Now bring on ‘GHOST IN THE MACHINE’ which promises
to be a much shorter post (grumble, grumble).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monster of the Weak <span style="background-color: red;">5/10</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Synopsis: Mulders investigation into a murder in New Jersey leads
to him hunting down the mythical Jersey Devil. Meanwhile Scully goes on a date.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After the luxury that was Eugene Victor Tooms in the
previous monster of the week episode, the monster featured here was nowhere
near as fascinating and creepy. The opening scene where a man get attacked and
has limbs ripped off promises a creature of immense hostility, brutishness and
coldness but what we got was a pretty women in desperate need of some Pan10 Pro
V.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The story was all a little obvious and flat and just appeared
to hurry on as quickly as it could. They added the Dana Scully on a date bit in
to elucidate the fact that she too was to be married to The X-Files and have
little or no personal life comparable to her partner. I understand the
reasoning for its inclusion in the episode but personally I think this screen time
could perhaps be shared with the hobo staying in Mulders hotel room. I am sure
he was probably drinking the mini bar dry and ordering soft porn to his telly,
but I guess we’ll never know.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A part of
this episode I found quite interesting was when the agents meet up with Dr
Diamond, one of Scully’s old teachers. He and Fox are talking about the evolutionary
food chain;<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444;"><b>MULDER:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But what if something entered the food chain above us?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444;"><b><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">DR. DIAMOND:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> It won't happen,
see our intelligence virtually insures us, barring the introduction of some
alien life-form, we will live out our days as rulers of the world.</span></span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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And there it is in black and white a heads up or warning
maybe?<o:p></o:p></div>
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That was not
all that was said. I’m probably reading way too much into this sentence but...;<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #444444;">MULDER:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #444444;"> But, but what if
through some fluke of nature, a human was born, who reverted to it's most
animal instincts, a kind of carnivorous Neanderthal. Wouldn't he occupy a space
above us on the food chain?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As soon as I
heard this sentence I immediately thought of fluke form season 2 episode ‘THE
HOST’ as an example of a freakish evolution in nature that sits aloft us humans
in the food chain. I am also thinking this sentence can be applied to numerous villains
from Monster of the Week episodes. But like I said I might just be reading way too
much in to things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One more
thing before I go, anybody else notice the guy in the casino that checked the change
slot in the telephone just before Mulder was going to call the park ranger. Not
significant really just thought it was a nice touch and Mulder reaction made me
laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Time to rate
and sorry X-Philes I want to give it a higher score but 5/10 seems fair. An uninspired
story and a insipid monster. I think this is one of the episodes from series that tries to stick to close to real mythology, before the writer new to bend the 'truth' a little more.<br />
Hopefully I will leave the next episode post on a merrier
note, so look out for my covering of SHADOW coming soon.</div>
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