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 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 1:38 am
DAY 8: FUNNIEST SCENE
Plenty of funny scenes in the series, obviously, but this one always makes me giggle.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:34 pm
Two Fathers & One Son:
s**t JUST GOT REAL, SON.
These might be my favorite mytharc episodes, but I can't entirely convince myself. I like them a lot, especially all the intertwined relationship stuff, but I can't outright label them as my favorite.
OLD SYNDICATE GO BYE BYE. WUTNOWBITCHES?
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:55 pm
DAY 9: FAVORITE MULDER/SCULLY PHONE CONVERSATION
The Radio transmission in "Vienen". I DON'T KNOW WHY.
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:27 pm
Agua Mala:
Other then the not so subtle sterotype running around in this episode (LOL, FLORIDA?) this is a pretty fun one. I like the monster, I like the pacing of the episode, I love seeing Arthur Dales, and Scully being all take charge. Filming anything with a ton of water is always a massive headache, but getting to see a different type of MOTW was a nice change of pace.
I also really like the sound effect used to represent the monster/the backwash of sea water. It is like a gurgle, bubbly, echo-ish sound. ninja
Monday:
This episode annoys some people because of how repetitive it is, but I thought it was actually very impressive how yes the day repeats over and over again (closer to The Twilight Zone's "Shadow Day" than Groundhog Day); but it was handled well enough to not be boring. Each day is a little bit different, leaving in and omitting tiny bits and parts, giving the episode enough variation to not be stagnant but still be obviously frustrating for those involved (the viewer and the character Pam).
This episode is also well written and is very pretty looking. The explosion in the teaser is top notch, high quality stuff for a TV show, that was awesome the first time I saw it.
Arcadia:
I cannot decide if this episode was planned for a long time, or if it only came into fruition after the large influx of "undercover as a couple" fics. If this episode had been written by Vince Gilligan I wouldn't be in doubt this entire thing is a homage/play on a popular fanfic trope, but it was written by Daniel Arkin - a guest writer. So I have no idea. And ultimately it doesn't even matter to me because this episode is way too fun to overly dissect. Mulder and Scully are posing as a married couple and a giant trash monster is killing off uptight suburbanites! AMAZING.
God, I love the scene were Mulder is talking to Gogolak to see if he can put up his basketball hoop and when he says no Mulder is all sad and if you watch Scully she frowns and pats his hand. A second later she realizes what she is doing and catches herself and stops. HILARIOUS. That minuscule moment cracks me up, I love it so much.
Alpha:
This episode is pretty meh - again primarily due to execution. The overall flow of the episode is off for some reason and I can't honestly pinpoint it. Everything just moves too fast. There are parts I like, mostly just dialogue between Mulder and Scully (AND GETTING TO SEE A LOT OF PUPPIES IN A EPISODE).
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:20 am
From that episode on, I have always hated HOAs/gated communities.
"He works from home."
"That means she's the breadwinner."
I lol'ed.
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:04 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:21 am
DAY 11: LEAST FAVORITE EPISODE
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:24 pm
Trevor:
I feel like this episode is one of the most underrated. The "science" behind the MOTW is weak as hell, but it is still a interesting idea and I like that a lot of the episode shows Pinker, June, and the supporting cast almost as much as Mulder and Scully - as they are a great supporting cast in compelling characters. In my opinion. xD
PLUS!
Scully: I don't know. It's, uh... it's not a simple bisection. There's a considerable amount of his abdomen missing. I mean, it almost looks like a burning but it's too localized. Maybe an industrial acid.
Mulder: There's, um... no acid found in his office.
Scully: Hmm... Spontaneous human combustion.
Mulder: Scully!
Scully: Well, isn't that where you're going with this?
Mulder: Dear Diary - Today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion.
Scully: Mulder, there are one or two somewhat well-documented cases. [Mulder stares at Scully] Mulder, shut up.
Milagro:
LOLOLOLONEOFMYFAVORITESOFANYTHINGEVER.
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:45 pm
The Unnatural:
This is a fun episode, a little cheesy/fluffy, but still a lot of fun. And it is pretty moving for just being a little under a hour long. This is DD's first full script and directorial debut, kakow.
The awesomeiest part about the episode is that Vin Scully did the voice for the announcer! I know like 6 famous people tied to sports and he is one of them. THANKS FANDOM! Derhohohoho!
Three of a Kind:
Lone Gunmen episode, woot-woot! Overall I really like that the Susan Modeski plot was brought around again, and that this time Scully was in the mist of it all unknowing while Mulder was absent. Bimbo!Scully makes me laugh a lot, because Gillian Anderson is surprisingly hilarious, but then a weird part of me is weirded out by it. The most OOC thing this show has ever seen is written away with "It is a side effect" rubs me the wrong way a little. BUT I STILL LAUGH AND ENJOY IT.
I am a crazy person.
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:44 am
Field Trip:
THE TITLE OF THIS EPISODE SHOULD NOT AMUSE ME AS MUCH AS IT DOES. I AM SO FRIGGIN' DUMB.
What really interested me in this episode the first time around was how it is a strange, strange, summary and/or thesis of Mulder and Scully's relationship/practical function in the show. It starts out with Mulder saying "Scully, in six years, how... how often have I been wrong? No, seriously. I mean, every time I bring you a new case we go through this perfunctory dance. You tell me I'm not being scientifically rigorous and that I'm off my nut, and then in the end who turns out to be right like 98.9% of the time? I just think I've earned the benefit of the doubt here." And as the viewer you can't help but kind of agree (even for those of us who are crazyhardcoreScullyfans).
But being right isn't the point, being right carries no weight in the show and not for the viewer. Scully isn't there to highlight how right Mulder's crazy theories are; or rather she is, but not in the way this episode sets it up to be. Mulder's statement could easily be from a causal viewer of the series, someone who has seen a few episodes here and there and can easily deduce that the weekly pattern is a perfunctory dance of believer and skeptic. But you and I, dear philes, know better.
Initially Mulder believes the Schiff's deaths to be related to alien activity on the mountain they were found on - the "Brown Mountain Lights". Scully, obviously, isn't thinking along those lines at all; the most logical and simplistic deduction is that the Schiffs were murdered, most likely by a ritualistic cult.
At first separated in the yellow digestivie LSD laden goopy goo, the gigantic carnivorous underground mushroom sets out on keeping both agents docile by allowing each to be right in their initial assumptions about the case. But, of course, without the other - neither agent can truly function or accept events.
Mulder certainly believes himself to be right, then again he believes most things quite easily - but without Scully to question, rationalize, correct, and guide what he is perceiving; the reality built up for him by the undergroundmushroomofdoom crumbles. The questioning, the refusal to budge by what cannot be proven in science is what Mulder needs from Scully to thrive as a individual on a personal crusade, as a investigator, and as a character. The same goes for Scully. She needs Mulder to jump to conclusions, to act on a hunch, to wip up a theory; or all her science and all her rationalism has no purpose.
Once placed together - things rapidly change. Mulder is pulled out of his state of belief by Scully's analytical findings. And yes, after the first "fake out" ending Mulder is "right" by stating that they aren't safe, they aren't out. But he got to that point by leaping off Scully's work; by expanding on her thinking. And that is how the characters work, that is how their relationship rotates. They're equal to each other and they're necessary for each other - they're symbiotic.
Mulder and Scully are probably the most equal characters I've ever seen on screen, big or small, in terms of their treatment of each other, the writers treatment of them, and the purpose of their creation in relation to one another in their narrative space. It is kind of sort of totally awesome.
OK, DONE RAMBLING NOW LOLOLOL. dramallama
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:22 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:38 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:43 pm
Biogenesis:
This is the start of what is actually, probably, my least favorite bit of mytharc. I don't hate it, there are plenty of scenes, bits, and undercurrents I really like - but overall as mytharc story it isn't my favorite. I feel it weighs to heavily on Mulder, with Scully acting uncharacteristically. Not to the extreme, it is just weird to see her in Africa so far away from Mulder as his medical doctor. Certainly her intentions, as they always are, are noble and in that regard she isn't out of character at all. But at the same time, it is just... weird.
Meh, I don't know how to pinpoint it - but everything is just a little bit off. Maybe it is the pacing. I remember this episode ending when it first aired and thinking "WTF?! Already?!"
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:49 pm
The Sixth Extinction I and II: Amor Fati:
These episodes, I love them in some ways and then they make me go "WTF" in other ways. The overall plot and side plots I have no objection to; I like the African Moses, Mulder's mind reading, Scully's frustration, I even like Mulder's mental trip of guuuuuhFowly-ness because although it is slightly gag worthy it is still interesting. At the same time, again, it all seems a little off. I mean, I love the shippy bits as much as the next shipper but they cannot (for me personally) unify the narrative of this all-over-the-place three parter. PLUS the overt religious symbolism is not unexpected of this show, but never expected in such a bluntly obvious way. And then even that is frustrating because while being not even remotely subtle, the CSM/Mulder Father/Son thing is not uninteresting and is rather thought provoking.
So ultimately, I think the issue I have with these episodes is that all the side plots are great separate - but smooshed together they form rather odd episodes.
PLUS I just flat out don't like that Fowly had such a big part in saving Mulder. I wanted her to be full on evil SO. BAD. Then my hate of her would be completely justified.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:24 pm
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