X-Files 6.10 "Tithonus"

"That gun ain't mine, Red."

Did you see Scully go Sipowicz on that guy? I mean, she smacked him!
Not hard or anything, but it was still cool. I thought this episode was
really cool, and it played on some old themes. The best part was Scully got to
see what it feels like to be Mulder: She got shot by her partner
(Anazazi) and she got to ditch her partner......(85% of the past five seasons of
episodes.)

Vince Gilligan, again, is my favorite X-scribe, in the abscence of Darin
Morgan (where for art thou?). Loved the mail girl getting stalked by
death. As a former mail girl, I felt her pain when her cart got stuck in
the elevator--it happens. But I didn't have to deliver mail in a skirt,
which is good. Loved the scary opening, and loved how gross it was.
I've been waiting, X-Files. Once again mulder and Scully are bored out of
their minds as they perforn LEGITIMATE IMPORTANT tasks that FBI agents
actually do, although, background checks probably IS the lamest detail to
pull for all I know. Fun to see Mulder and Scully sharing the same kind
of camerarderie we've all shared with co-workers when you hate your job.
Check out Scully's babalicious photo on her file, what's up with that?
Scully's awfully bold for someone who should be working in Salt Lake
City (um...whatever happend to THAT movie plot point?) I mean, what, she and
Mulder are going to be partners forever? even doing background checks?
Loved kersch's trying to divide and conquer, and loved that "you once had
a promising career" stuff he tries to lay on her--playing to all her
daddy-pleasing instincts. Loved how scully tried to reassure mulder, as
he childishly fretted, that this was a one time thing. Love it when Scully
has to be seperated from mulder's genius and deal with mere mortals.
Ritter is just so lame. scully is just so cool. when ritter says he
wants to get this guy and Scully says she's looking for the TRUTH, it reminded
me of one of the all time BEST SCULLY lines ever, when in "Squeeze" (1st
season), one of Scully's academy pals is upset when she and Mulder
interfere in his investigation. "Who's side are you on?" He sneers, and
Scully replies cooly (how else) "The victim's." Scully rules.

Loved Scully's irritation at Mulder's ability to follow the case step by
step. Note to agent ritter--don't leave your passenger door unlocked
when you are on stakeout in New York City. scully isn't scared (that light in
the dark window was hella scary), but scully goes up and confronts the
guy,> goes for a ride. this is a less-whimsical Clyde Bruckman, really (My
all-time favorite, if you held a gun to my head and made me choose....but
you wouldn't do that....Clyde knew the when and the how, this guy only
knows when. ANd he just takes the picture. It's actually sort of like
an evil "Early edition," You know, Kyle Chandler gets the paper and just
profits on the the tragedy instead of trying to change it. scully can't
stand by, she's a HEALER, a PROTECTOR by position and disposition, and
she knocks some manners into that guy, loved it.

Loved surly scully's "I apologize" to her scummy partner, and how she
looses whatever professional respect she may have had for him when he
mouths off about making the arrest, the evidence be damned. He tries to
threaten her and it SO doesn't work. Scully just says "don't call me
Dana, chump!' Love it. Loved how cool she was as she hung out on the
photograper's stoop waiting for him to come home. Her intense curiosity
is so much fun to watch: this is a woman, who, like this man (?) is
comfortable around death, I mean, she does autopsies, she's a
pathologist. But her clinical nature can't be mistaken for this man's goulish
coldness. Scully's compassionate, and studies the dead as a means to avenge them.
She's not content to merely deal with the dead, choosing the FBI ( as
opposed to becoming a coroner) where she might deal with the living as
well. She's also just recently faced death, and lost her Father and
Sister, and Gillian plays in all, doing that not-quite-but-totally-crying
thing she does so beautifully (Yeah, Golden Globes, Felicity my @$$).

Loved how rattled she was, how scared, you really felt this getting to her, and
how she believed but wouldn't admit it. Geoffrey Lewis was also great,
somehow making me feel compassion for this soulless ghoul.
Loved our beloved scully, sure that one could never run out of things to
learn, to experience, to love. WHen he cynically asked her if she
thought love lasted forever, the look she gave was intriguing. Hope? It was
rather inscrutable, but that was my take. Her insistance that she
wasn't going to die, the panic, the pain. Now, recall, Clyde Bruckman told her
she wasn't going to die, and it looks like he may have been right, as she
cheats death once more. Loved her GRIZZLY death, all bloody and icky.
Compare and contrast, i was a lot more worried for Scully than I was for
Skinner last week. Dana gets to visit another hosptial, Momma Scully got
ANOTHER call from the bureau--your daughter's in the hospital. All in
all, a great episode, and liked how uneasy Scully was--did he pass on his
immortality to her, is that how she's going to fulfill Bruckman's
prophecy? Does this fall in with the "scully's chosen my God for a greater
purpose" theory of "Revelations" AM i just makin' stuff up?? :D Anyway, re-run
next week, (Superbowl sunday, go Broncos, shoot down those dirty birds)
and then, apparantly, they are going to go and TELL US EVERYTHING.

Yeah, right, and the Star Wars prequel is gonna come out this year: we'll see!
Have a great two weeks!!! :D Christine>