The conclusion as Mulder continues to stare into the abyss, while Neitzsche is standing there like hands-on-hips-meme-guy. Part 1: • A Look at Grotesque (X...
You know what would have been interesting? Flip Mulder and Scully's roles. First tell it from Mulder's POV, where he is seeing Scully doing these odd things. Being in places where she shouldn't be, seeming obsessed with gargoyles, disappearing suddenly and Mulder finding her prints on the weapon. Play everything else the same and now it becomes Mulder, with his "I want to believe" attitude, becoming convinced that Scully is possessed and wanting to help her... only for the rug to be pulled out from under him when it turns out his mentor is the killer and Scully easily explains everything she was doing. To everyone else it looks sane and rational. But to Mulder... well, it looked supernatural. This could have then led to a moment of Mulder actually considering how his desire to believe led him to almost making a horrible mistake. Do a few episodes where his belief is shaken and he needs to regain it again.
Got no recollection of this episode even though I watched the first four seasons when they were first broadcast. Either this didn't leave much of an imprint or it wasn't repeated like some other episodes.
In a way I felt Mulder's pseudo-madness was a weaker part here. Maybe if it had been more Scully watching what she increasingly suspected was him finally losing it or if the madness was done differently. Beyond that I'd say it's at least interesting in HOW it subverts expectations, which is important because subversion just to be a twist is just jumping around crowing about how clever the writer is.
Often without being clever at all; Ned Stark's death was clever, because he seemed to be positioned as the protagonist, but the story gave plenty of reasons to think he wasn't going to survive along with feeding the subverted expectation that authors don't kill protagonists. As opposed to sUbVeRtInG eXpEcTaTiOnS by having a character take an action that is totally out of their established character, and makes their actions before the 'twist' often not only counterproductive to their revealed goal, but paving the way to eventually being thwarted. That is, the only reason the revealed goal is thwarted is to misdirect the _audience._ That latter doesn't convince me the writer is clever; rather the opposite.
Always thought this could have been better without the rather lame 'those who fight monsters...' cliché. It would have been better if it explored Mulder's relationship with the rank and file FBI before the X-files. What an incredible waste he must have seemed to Kurtwood Smith's character.
You know what would have been interesting? Flip Mulder and Scully's roles. First tell it from Mulder's POV, where he is seeing Scully doing these odd things. Being in places where she shouldn't be, seeming obsessed with gargoyles, disappearing suddenly and Mulder finding her prints on the weapon. Play everything else the same and now it becomes Mulder, with his "I want to believe" attitude, becoming convinced that Scully is possessed and wanting to help her... only for the rug to be pulled out from under him when it turns out his mentor is the killer and Scully easily explains everything she was doing. To everyone else it looks sane and rational. But to Mulder... well, it looked supernatural. This could have then led to a moment of Mulder actually considering how his desire to believe led him to almost making a horrible mistake. Do a few episodes where his belief is shaken and he needs to regain it again.
Okay, that is the ideal use of that Zoolander clip.
Got no recollection of this episode even though I watched the first four seasons when they were first broadcast.
Either this didn't leave much of an imprint or it wasn't repeated like some other episodes.
Yeah, I don't remember it either, but it's a good one.
Demonic possession... the X-Files Episode.
5:00 Gillian Anderson preparing for her future role as Margaret Thatcher. Blue light does not suit her.
In a way I felt Mulder's pseudo-madness was a weaker part here. Maybe if it had been more Scully watching what she increasingly suspected was him finally losing it or if the madness was done differently.
Beyond that I'd say it's at least interesting in HOW it subverts expectations, which is important because subversion just to be a twist is just jumping around crowing about how clever the writer is.
Often without being clever at all; Ned Stark's death was clever, because he seemed to be positioned as the protagonist, but the story gave plenty of reasons to think he wasn't going to survive along with feeding the subverted expectation that authors don't kill protagonists.
As opposed to sUbVeRtInG eXpEcTaTiOnS by having a character take an action that is totally out of their established character, and makes their actions before the 'twist' often not only counterproductive to their revealed goal, but paving the way to eventually being thwarted. That is, the only reason the revealed goal is thwarted is to misdirect the _audience._
That latter doesn't convince me the writer is clever; rather the opposite.
Always thought this could have been better without the rather lame 'those who fight monsters...' cliché.
It would have been better if it explored Mulder's relationship with the rank and file FBI before the X-files. What an incredible waste he must have seemed to Kurtwood Smith's character.