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Date Posted: 20:25:42 04/04/00 Tue
Author: c_shantal
Subject: RE: Chimera
In reply to: Scullystar 's message, ""Chimera" was pretty good. I enjoyed it. What did everyone think? nim" on 20:47:58 04/02/00 Sun

ITA with detoured about this one being a stinker after I saw it Sunday. However I kept thinking I must have missed something, so I watched it again.

Detoured, if you have only watched it once, I was amazed that it works much better the second time. This is a study in "red herrings", or something that distracts attention from the real issue, according to Webster. Up until it is revealed Ellen is indeed causing the deaths, we are thrown several red herrings. Gennie might certainly be the suspect appearing and disappearing like she does to Ellen and scaring the little girl. Or Martha might have run off with an unknown lover. Or the sheriff might be the suspect with his strange suspicious behavior. I had even decided it wasn't Ellen based on the fact we saw her reflection and the chimera's refection in the nursery mirror at the same time. And we don't know what Mulder is thinking, we can't pick up on what clues he's picking up on, BECAUSE Scully isn't there for them to discuss the case. But I still think Mulder was acting weirdly, running off without even saying Skinner had called, and wanting her there - why? - there was already a coroner there. So shippers, this is shippier than you thought maybe.

I was surprised at the return of the jovial, joking Scully we saw in Goldberg Variation. Cute little jokes, Scully. At one point I was very afraid she was going to start throwing pencils in the ceiling. The cel phone conversations reminded me too of Chinga. A strange reversal in some ways. But she, and Mulder, should have been suspicious of the Jesus Van, esp, Scully when it showed up again. That whole stakeout part was very weak I thought.

ITA at first that there was a blending of DD and Mulder. I thought at first it was maybe the worse acting I had seen by DD. Instead of "spooky" Mulder we got "goofy" Mulder. Embarrassing to see. But watching it a second time I saw a progression in his behavior. He is flippant and silly with the sherrif at first; he's Skinner's "Monster Boy" again, and is none to pleased. But by the breakfast scene with the sheriff he is the intense Mulder we expect, and from then on he was ok, IMHO.

While the SO line Mulder said was so good and was nice to hear the admission from him, I liked another line better. When Ellen says he's not used to someone taking care of him, I expected a flippant remark or a joke, not the deadly serious, "That has a vaguely pathetic ring to it." I was caught totally off guard with that one line and the seriousness in which it was delivered. Here I have thought, along with others, that Mulder was just sitting back waiting on Scully to embrace ( heh-heh ) the fact that she loved him, and that he wasn't going to push it, that the ball was in her court, so to speak. and when she did the MSR would progress. Now, I'm forced to see another POV. Maybe he's not in a hurry to get into a relationship to be "taken care of". (Which, I thought, is what all men want, based on my experiences, maybe that's why I was surprised.) Maybe that's why he doesn't pursue her. Maybe in his past relationship with Fowley she was too controlling. Maybe he's afraid that would happen again. Does anyone have any comments on this?

All in all, Chimera won't make my top ten list, but it's not that bad either. It had it's problems, for sure, but there's worse, and egads written by the same guy! Besides, Mulder just looked yummy in every scene he was in, even dripping.

Chantal
"Mirrors are considered items of enchantment - a broken one means something. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it means something." A goofy or an elusive Mulder?

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I'll give it a second look... -- detoured, 01:48:33 04/06/00 Thu