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Date Posted: 11:36:26 05/04/01 Fri
Author: c_shantal
Subject: Ditto, devlin!
In reply to: devlin 's message, "Hollywood Director" on 13:24:53 04/30/01 Mon

I love this episode!! It's just soo much fun. I 'still' watch HAD with a silly big smile on my face! It seems every scene is packed full of humor and storyline twists and turns; just everything in it but the kitchen sink.

However I don't know which scene I think is the funniest! I love the scenes with the priest and cel-phones antics! And the satire of the artifact from Biogenesis! Koo-koo-ca-choo!! LOL Then there's the - well, this episode is just so full it makes my head swim! I 'never' get tired of watching it.

You know when it first aired there were fans that actually said they were going to boycott it by not watching because it had GS & TL in it. For what, all of 5 minutes? I thought the scene where they meet with M&S was soo well done, and how funny is it to poke fun at yourself?! How funny is it that GS & TL portrayed themselves as stars in a role wanting to get the "feel" of the character they were representing. With absolutely no depth at all! And how funny was Tea's freakin' huge cross!? Sure the scene in the coffin was terrible, it was supposed to be - he has a bigger flashlight, indeed. I'm ROTF!

btw, Blue is actually in a much earlier episode. In Quagmire he can be seen in the background in one of the scenes filmed near the lake.

HAD, the whole ep, can be viewed as a parody, I think. DD knows every nuance, every detail about the XFiles and the characters so it seems, and uses all he can. So was it actually making fun of the XFiles, like many fans thought, or rich satire? Maybe he was making fun of how some of the episodes are written with the exaggerated dancing bones scene, and, Federman's reaction. Was that not a "Mulder-like" reaction? Was this the obligatory paranormal scene? How about Scully's obligatory, unwillingly performed autopsy scene, thumping that heart on the scales oh so Bad Blood. She experiences hallucinations, again, but oh she doesn't have hallucinations, she has "visions", and she doesn't tell Mulder. Again. Oh, insert commercial break here. LOL I'm on the floor again. How many times have we seen scenes nearly like that?

As for the poking fun of religion DD walked a mighty fine line here between sarcasm and sacrilege - and I thought it was hi-larious! The Lazarus Bowl, indeed! ROTF Perhaps DD uses religion because he knows it's a controversial subject just like porn, and will catch the audience's attention.

Federman can be viewed as DD himself, his own doppelganger, shawdowing behind M/S, a "beat" off, spouting all of DD's one-liners. What's that he says to Mulder's "It's only a movie, it's not real life"? Something like "the difference being"?? ROTF Spoken like someone in "the business", I would presume.

Did you think the time line was a big joke as well? It supposedly took place 18 - eighteen!! months earlier!!??
Could that me a reference to the ridiculous time lines seen in some episodes?

IHMO, sarcasm walks a fine line between humor and contempt. But DD drops all pretense, doesn't he, with the sarcasm and parody when characterizing Mulder's and Scully's scenes together. He writes this two characters with loving care. What a multi-layered Mulder, not just a nutcase. I agree with so many others when they say they love how DD writes Scully. My goodness, think of several years with them like this!! And notice they talk, actually talk in DD's version of the MSR.

However, I still haven't had the zombie scene at the end explained to me satisfactorly. Dead zombies on a movie lot? Just to re-inforce it's all make believe? Or a "celebration of life"?? This whimsical scene was way bizarre.

Oh, and the initials on the hotel towels, "B E" surely mean something. Does anyone have any idea?

I don't know, but maybe M/S walking off into the blue screen may be my favorite scene. I thought that was brilliant. Mulder and Scully, two fictional characters, walking into the 'netherland' of ...the blue screen .... whatever it will be.

I love The Unnatural, too. But it's soo different from this one that it's hard to compare the two to me. I suppose the common thing would be that they showcase the immense talent DD has for storytelling.

just my 2 cents.

Chantal
Mulder: "How silly is that?" ???? LOL

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