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Date Posted: 13:24:53 04/30/01 Mon
Author: devlin
Subject: Hollywood Director

And that's just what DD was being. I liked this ep a lot. I was expecting something different, something more light hearted and Hollywood-y but in fact it was in places quite a normal serious case. I loved all the interaction with Mulder and Wayne - how Wayne trivialised the agents' lives with one-line summing up; he spoke in movie pitch speak. Very funny. To Wayne, Mulder looked like "A Jehovah's Witness meets Harrison Ford's 'Witness'".

As I said, there was quite a serious plot going on there: the Lazarus bowl and messages that could have been held within the ancient artefact since Jesus' time. I wouldn't have put DD with a religious storyline (I suppose it is usually Scully's area, so you might have expected religion to figure in GA's plots, but not in DD's) but he told a very clever and involving story.

Of course it was equally full of funnies. When M & S met Tea and Gary, I thought DD did a great job of making Mulder look shy and nervous at meeting 'stars'. He almost blushed! There was that great in-joke with Scully telling him that Tea fancied him. I loved Mulder talking with Gary about 'which side he dressed', and all the while Scully is running backwards and forwards in the background, showing Tea how she runs in those shoes! But my favourite funny scene has to be the bubble bath split screen scene. How inventive of DD to use the classic Hollywood device and then to add Skinner into the mix too! "Skinman's taking a bubble bath!" I keep giggling at the thought of that scene.

It was good too, when the Tea and Gary version of M & S kissed and all real Mulder could do was stare aghast and put his head in his hands. Brilliant! I liked this episode more than 'The Unnatural' but maybe that is because I didn't warm to the baseball theme as much. H.A.D. was much more accessible and extremely slick! And hurray - M & S were in it most of the time and very 'together' I thought. Full marks to DD!

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