X-Files 5.20 "The End"

New sets next year!!! Heeheehee. hey I thought that was pretty damn
good! I will have quibbles, but no real quarrels later on down the review.
Is Mimi Rogers in the film? Or will she awaken next season? Getting
ahead of myself. Hey it opens in Vancouver. I'll bet that made all those
people who are losing their jobs feel real real good. Spectator Chess:
Little hint, bring the Gameboy. I found myself rooting for Cancerman
throughout this episode, and I'm not sure why. It doesn't seem like a
good thing. He sure could run fast for a 8-pack a day smoker--he looked
ripped! The actor is actually a world class water skier, maybe Cancerman has a
Soloflex in his mountain hideaway. This week, Mulder WANTS to be
monster-boy. So contrary. LOVED skinner enlisting him to get in
Spender's face, and Mulder's enjoying the idea. I hate that pencil-necked dweeb.
Hate hate hate. Loved how Mulder and Skinner came off like frat-boys
crashing a party, and Scully's oh-so-familiar guilt-by-association
embarassment. I really like the John neville character, known only as
"Well manicured-man" in the credits and by the fans. I HATE this
STUPID moniker with a searing passionate hatred. It's SO LAME. Do you really
see Scully saying "This well-manicured man warned be about a threat agaisnt
my life." and that's it , they decide to call him that? It's awkward and
silly. I call him Neville/Jeeves. I like him. I love how revolted he gets
at Cancerman (that's a cool name). They are the Oscar and Felix of the
global conspiracy. I don't really buy the whole "Golden Child" thing about
the little kid (didn't he look like a little Frohike?). I like him, he's
adorble and sad, and probably really important, but the idea that he
could unlock every secret of the universe strikes me as absurd. Maybe SOME
of> them, but...anyway, no matter. He sure chased Mulder out of that room
didn't he? LOVED Mulder's embarasment at the thought of his feelings
being exposed. I guess Mulder was thinking about Diana and she about him.
Scully was focused on the BOY, the CASE, her DUTY, while these two are
looking at eachother with smoldering eyes. Hate Mulder keeping Scully
in the dark. Love when Mulder tells geek-boy "you're insulting me when you
should be taking notes". Bosses him around and Spender's to lame to
fight back. LOVED scully holding the boys hand, she's so sweet with him.
And how she's so threatened by the conection Mulder shared and never revealed
to her, she flees Diana and goes to see what the nerds know. Frohike
sleeps in a bullet-proof vest, I love it. This was the "Friends" episode of
X-Files. It was so great how Byers was like "uh...yeah, they were a
couple," they are all surprised she didn't know about this. They sense
how silly she feels for not being in on the whole thing, and how hard it
must've been for her to come to them for this info. That woman...grrr.

She tries to feel out Mulder on Scully, dissing her behind her back.
Mulder only acknowledgs that he's done well without Diana--he's more
interested in protecting his fragile ego than defending his partner.
He should have said, "She rules, back off ho-beast!" Ok? Later, when
Diana says the X-Files are an "indulgence" I wanted to slap her silly,
because Scully was actually CLOSING cases, not friviously pursing pet-projects
likeshe and Mulder did, having romantic getaways and billing the FBI just
because they visited some damn mental hospital on the way back from the
Bed and Breakfast. Whore. Poor, noble Scully. She walks past and sees
him caressing that woman. She was SO HURT!!! Professionally and
personally betrayed. She goes from being his "One in Five Billion" to "The next
one" in one week. She couldn't bring herself to share her informaton with
that Woman there, so she goes into the car to set up a private meeting. She
cries all the way to FBI headquarters. Mulder encourages her to tell
the whole room about the weird thing she's uncovered about the boy (NO, I
don't remember his name, it was odd and it began with "G" ). Since he is the
progeny of Alien Astronauts, I will refer to him from this point on as
"Astro." Diana insults Mulder and Scully to get back at Mulder for
having a meeting with his "new" partner. She wants to protect the X-Files
because she has an "investment" in them. Puh-leeze, that's why you've been in
Europe for seven years, you little tramp? The statute of limitations
is UP lady, on Mulder and the X-Files. You're in Dana Territory now, you got
it? You don't speak the language, your money's no good here and if you try
to plug in your hair-dryer here, it will blow up in your face!!
Uh...where was I, heh? Liked how the kid liked the Simpson's and King
of the Hill, a nod to Fox, obviously, but they ARE great shows. Loved
Scully asking how he was, she DOES CARE, unlike Dirty Diana. DD just wants to
study him, run her tests--when he's not doing tricks like some
side-show freak, she gets bored and falls asleep, which fortunately gets her
shot. I beg to differ with Astro about Scully: "You don't care about what
people think...except for her." UH, Dana cares way to much about what people
think, period. Maybe that's just what Astro has seen in his limited
experience of her. LOVED Diana getting blown away--Punctured
Lung...ahhh, painful, just the way we like it! So now Kryceks a driver for Neville,
since he's so bad at killing people--the right ones anyway. Can't wait
for Scully to find out Krycek was their when Missy got killed. Loved
Cancerman walking cooly away--he had to look cool, even if Krycek was going to
run him down. That look of fear, then relief, then triumph when he
realized he had survived this round of the game. Loved Scully letting Mulder sulk
while she handled Skinner, and how Skinner was looking out for them.
Loved how he mention that Spender was throwing around the "Alien Astronaut"
thing "Makes you look pretty bad," he was more pal there than superior.
She's attending to Mulder, who flew off the handle with geek-boy (it was
worth it). Spender seemed so pathetic, "Oh YEAH, Nuh-uh Mulder, I'm going to
end your career, nyah nyah. Ok, so it seems likely, at least for a bit.
Scully's dealing with all of it while Mulder can only whine about his
lack of fore-sight and ask about HER. "How's Diana?"

Diana, friend of freinds, cherish these moments of Mulder uttering your name with
such concern and tenderness, and know that I bear you no ill will. I share
my name with an evil car. Re-assignment, the closing of the X-files, it's
the First season ender all over again! Except this time, the Office is
torched! Even the beloved poster --I'll bet Scully gives him a new one
in the film or next year, any takers? Did you all catch the "You are
Here" Post-it on the Saucer at the begining of the show? Cute. I didn't
give a rats patootie over Cancerman telling that brat that he was his Dad. He
treated his Mom like Crap, he deserves a murdering master-manipultor as
a father, but, who cares? I hope I'm supposed to hate him, and that they
don't try to make me like him. I feel like Chris Carter wants me to
care about this revelation (which we actually got in the two-parter a few
weeks ago), about this character WAY more than I do. I just don't care for
him the way I do for the other creepy characters like Krycek, Neville and
Cancerman. ICK. Loved how Mulder was so stunned, and Scully just held
him, because she knew he needed it. She could have used a hug in
return, but Mulder was (naturally) to self-absorbed to respond in kind. Ah
Well. I'll miss sending these to you all, what to do? I'm not sure a movie
review will be possible, but if you want my take on it, just e-mail me
AFTER you have seen it, and I'll throw in my two cents. June 19th, be
there or be square. Have a great week everyone :) Genie Francis is coming
back to GH this week YEAAAA!

Christine :)

X-Files 5.19 "Folie a Deux"

Hey everybody. I liked this epiosde! Not enough to forgive them for
this season, but enough to say: "Hey everybody, I liked this episode!" Now,
was that a (714) area code the guy was calling? That's orange county!
Look out Diana, hang up that phone when the telemarketer starts saying "it's
Here!" Or before. Didn't Skinner's assistant sound bored or even
annoyed when she announced Mulder and Scully's arrival? How many times do they
get called into the principal's office, I wonder. Mulder is such an
a******. Sorry, there's not a better word for it. HE asked to be
monster-boy--He insisted, against the will of each and every one of his superiors, to
be assigned to the X-Files. And it IS his job to do as he's told--Anyone else
out there bored with their jobs? Poor Baby. Scully, of course, does as
she's told, always dutiful, she does Mulder's scut work--the stuff
that's too tedious for him, because it's her job. The scene where she tells
him "I told you so" was adorable, and I loved how proud he was as she
showed him the needle she'd found in one of his haystacks. As always, I loved
to see Mulder doing what we've been told he was recruited into the Bureau
to do: Profile criminals. I also liked his calm in the face of chaos, as
his training kicked in and he began to reason with an unreasonble man.
Scully, meanwhile, walks into Mulder's mess and immediately starts proteting
him. "Sir, we need to find a better way." She's the one who should be
giving the orders--if Mulder had taken her with him, maybe she could have
anticiapted this, or at least helped him out of the situation. Instead
she's stuck with OTHER AGENTS, who are always stupid. They don't
listen to her, and a guy gets killed. Hey, Mulder losses his gun, but this time,
it's not his fault--where was his ankle gun (grrrr). We'll call it
even since his fingers were bandaged from last week. The OTHER AGENTS hasty
"we're running out of options" seemed too hasty. Loved how anxious she was
to get him out of there, to take care of him, and how distressed she was
at his distress--"Has Mulder been drinking from his tapped tap again?" she
must have wondered, or was it just good ol' paranoid, gullible surly rebel
Mulder from season's past?

Question: Does Scully have her own office?
She's surprised to find him in his, so what was she doing? Is her
office in his? I mean, she's a Doctor for crying out loud, she should have
her own office. In "Never Again" she complains she doesn't have a desk,
but she was at a desk in earlier episodes, and she "drops by" often in a
way that implies she spends a lot of time else where. Hokay, sorry.
"Sick, disturbed, demented" uh...that sounds like Mulder to me. Loved her
rationalizing HIS behavior--it's bad enough she does it for herself,
but here we see her ascribing sane motivations to make Her feel better
about HIM. Mulder doesn't care, he knows he's right, but Scully isn't
comfortable, so she assures him (HER) that there's a rational excuse
for his behaviior. Then Mulder has the audacity to cheat on her with the
OTHER AGENT--you bastard! When Mulder looks out the window and sees that
zombie, it reminded me of this hella scary "Six Million Dollar Man" I saw when
I was kid--scared the crap out of me., Steve Austin (the bionic man)
has anear-death experience, and keeps seeing this glowing likeness of
himself everywhere, plus, he keeps almost getting killed. This woman tells him
it's his soul trying to finish the job--it's been freed from his body
but it can't go into the afterlife wth the body still demanding on living.
In true Scully/Scooby-Doo fashion, it's just someone trying to drive him
nuts, and kill him. Loved Scully covering for Mulder, as usual. She's such
a bad liar. Skinner has to know she's holding out on him, but she looks
so fetching in her red suit, and so he lets her do whatever she wants.
Later, when Mulder is institutionalized ("you must've seen this coming") she
reaches for his hand, comforts him. She doesn't WANT to humor him, to
perpetuate his delusion, but when he expresses his need for her, when
he reiterates that she is the ONLY one for him, the onlyone he'll ever
trust, and who really trusts him, she relents. he looks so fetching strapped down
in that hospital gown, she does what ever he wants. That SOUNDS sexual,
but this is Mulder and Scully we're talking about--he wants her to perform
an autopsy on a zombie. Before she was bit, that woman has a smile on her
face that confirms she gave Mulder his sponge bath--I find it hard to
believe a nurse in a psychiatric hospital would say "Don't let the bed
bugs bite" to a paranoic. Then she gets bit and turns into nurse Rathcet.
Anyone out ther ever read "People of the Lie" by M. Scott Peck. this
episode reminded me of it. I mean, in it , he basically speculates
about the existance of EVIL, real evil, in people. He was (is?) a
psychiatrist, and he relates these stories about really evil people. I mean, Scully
sees that this woman is "dead" but is that real, or is it just like when you
(and we all have) get a "bad feeling" about someone? We encounter monsters
and zombies everyday. Then Scully goes in and shoots the thing. She saw
the same thing Mulder did, but she can't admit it. She can't understand it
so she won't acknowledge it. She won't tell Skinner the TRUTH, that she
saw a monster and a zombie, nor will she look Mulder in the eye when she
talks about God--because she CAN"T sound crazy, she must be taken seriously
at all times. Mulder doesn't mind being lauged at, hell, he LIKES being
different--he just needs HER, his "ONE in Five Billion" . Scully can't
handle that. Her identity is tied up too close with how she is
perceived by others (especially father -figures, sorry Skinner), and that
perception has to be "perfect, competent, acceptable, GOOD." Ain't no room for
crazy. But in the end, she does reciprocate to Mulder, that theirs is a
madness shared by two--and, fortunately, by us...:)

Mulder's got an old flame next week.
Kyrcek, lone Gunmen, jealous Scully, oh yeah, I'm there :)

Christine

X-Files 5.18 "The Pine Bluff Variant"

What happens when John Shiban watches "Point Break" and "Oubreak" in
the same week? Heehee. Well, for those of you who saw the second season's
"F. Emasculata", the X-Files wrecthedly disguting "Outbreak" rip-off
episode, this was the show they SHOULD have done--a little less derivitive and
believe it or not, less gross! No exploding boils (may I add how glad i am
that I did not see that episode when i had Chicken pox...) The eww
factor was pretty high on this one. I felt it was weak that they didn't seem
to realize they'd done this before--I mean, Mulder and Scully and Skinner
dealt with OUR government exposing people to a virus in the
aforementioned episode! But, I'll just say they discussed the similarities on the
car ride home, and rate this episode as entertaining, mainly because of
some cheap yet effective tricks they used on me :) Jogging Mulder (trick)
Scully leaping from the van in answer to a biological imperitive she
has to protect Mulder (trick). Scully is suspicious of Mulder--he isn't good
at lying to her, he can't even look her in the eyes--no finger-breaking
necessary. SHe doesn't like being out of the loop--she knows
somethings up, even though by now she HAS to be used to his blowing her off...But
she's used to covering for him, and she does--she can't really think
he's "in" on anything resembling a terrorist plot to overthrow the
government--otherwise she'd turn him in, or at least make him turn
himself in. But she probably figures he's trying to do something by himself
and that he may be in too deep. So she tails him, expertly, driving with
the lights off, she's so rad! I don't think any movie theater would be
showing "Die hard with a Vengence". This was lame, beacuse "Die Hard" would
be plausible in a discount house, because people actually liked that
movie, and you'd have the same joke. (sigh). It was great how the cashier
had to leave the Box in order to sell popcorn--very common in cheapie
theaters. And the bad guy's demanding "fresh" popcorn popped special just for him
even though the stuff you JUST poped five minutes ago is just warm and
fresh enough, but NOOOO he's got to make you pop a new batch...I always
knew those people were evil. Nice that the stuff that Mulder said
about the government at that UFO conference earlier this season got a
reaction from SOMEONE, if not Mulder's superiors...but maybe it was his
superiors who set this up...Ok. Anyway, I liked that. When Scully was being led
to the CIA guy and Skinner, and she looked all small but defiant
surrounded by these big-bad men, I was reminded of the scene in "Star Wars"
when Princess Leia is being led to Vader and Tarkin...hmmmm. Trying to work
that into an analogy, but I can't, i like Skinner, and don't want him
to be affiliated with the dark side. Usually Scully is Han Solo to me, but
Mulder played that role this week, cracking-wise in the face of death.
Skinner always looks to be checking Scully out, but it's Mulder's
darkened apartment she slips into. Loved her tending to his bruised hand,
applying ice, setting the break with care (Trick). Sigh. She loves him.
Hypocratic oath, platonic freindship MY BUTT, OK, she loves him and
I'll hear no argument on the subject. I didn't like them being recorded--if
it's that easy, how is it that they haven't been shut down by now?
Mulder in that beige sweater (it looked...soft. I sent this to my Dad, so
I'll stop myself there :0 ) and Leather Jacket--the leather
jacket...(trick)

Notice how Scully asks to be taken off speaker phone and Skinner jumps
to it? But he still tipped his hand to the CIA guy--no, I have no idea
what his name is. Skinner, you're a better liar than that. Like it when
Scully interacts with her fellow geek scientists. I sure miss Pendrell.
Scully illustrates the point she tried to mke to Mulder in "Tooms" about
needing a partner when one does surveillance, when she dozes off in the car. But
Dana is this awsome: even when she's slackin' she solves the case!
While she sleeps, her mind is working hard, and she comes up with the truth
about the money. I'll bet Mulder was talking to God with that gun to his
head, and Boy was he GORGEOUS. I'm sorry, but he's never looked better than
he looked with that gun to his head. So is guy that winds up saving
him...a new Deep Throat? A friend or a foe? And will CIA guy be back? That's
the moral of this story, kids: THE CIA is EVEN WORSE that the FBI (but not
as bad as the IRS). Have a good week all. I will be travelling next
weekend, so My review of next Sunday's episode will be a day late.

Christine :)

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