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Date Posted: 18:33:43 12/01/00 Fri
Author: Sig
Subject: Re: Chris Carter said...
In reply to: devlin 's message, "Chris Carter said..." on 15:17:29 12/01/00 Fri

The more I work through my problem with 'no Mulder & Scully', the more I believe that this ep was a success. I'm defining success here as whether the writer(VG) & director(KM) achieved what they set out to do. Sometimes, I know, that doesn't always please us fans, but I think they have to make the episodes interesting for themselves aswell. If Vince doesn't keep on experimenting then he is going to become some X-Hack and I still think he is one of the best things to happen to TXF.
So his choice to have the story unfold from the killers point of view, naturally, had to exclude M & S. Giving over that much screen time to a murderer, VG had to give Rob some redeeming features. Therefore, he gave him the desire to conquer his unusual craving & try to lead a normal life. I don't believe this was just to avoid drawing attention to himself, but a genuine attempt at some sort of normality. Ironically, trying to beat one addiction left him in the grip of another. Albeit a much more socially acceptable addiction, that of prescription drugs. So maybe it had something interesting to say about how we treat addiction too. It may sound absurd, but is it any more absurd than prescribing methadone to heroin addicts instead of getting them into proper rehab. May be I'm reading too far into this!

Going back to how M & S spent their off-screen time; they would have been doing their usual background checks. Mulder probably played the hunch he got from his first encounter with Rob. Possibly researching similar deaths around the country & Rob's whereabouts at those times. Maybe he even remembered an unsolved X File.
I think if we had seen 'Squeeze' from Tooms' viewpoint, M & S's investigative leaps would have also seemed unlikely. If we hadn't seen Mulder lift a fingerprint from an impossible entrance point & didn't know how abstract his thinking can be, we'd be wondering how the hell they ever got to '66 Exeter St.'.

XXX Sig:)

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