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Date Posted: 11:30:38 03/12/00 Sun
Author: Misterio
Subject: Can this season be saved?

I don't know about you guys (or should I say gals? ;-) ), but I don't think that S7 has been that good so far. I feel like quite a few of the eps them were either poorly or incompletely written and that they had too much of a set-ish look to them.

The season started well with the two first eps, but after that came the very bad ep "Hungry". It was followed up by "Millenium", which would have been a good XF if it hadn't been dubbed the closure to the show Millenium. There was too little in that ep to consider it an ending to a show that aired for three years. As for the kiss...well i'm a Noromo so it pretty much sums up how I felt about it, but I must say that it wasn't that great. Scully kind of ruined the whole moment when she stayed so cold and rigid when they walked away in the last scene. I really can't understand why she didn't put her arm around Mulder's waist.

Then it was "Rush", which is an episode I really liked, but not for the reasons one might think. When the ep aired I was reading (and still am now) "The vampire chronicles" by Anne Rice and I just love to read about the vampire Lestat's powers and how fast he can move without being seen or making a sound. When I first saw the kids in "Rush" move I kept wondering if they moved as fast as Lestat did ( with him being one of the most powerful vampires there are) and it thrilled me to find out that they did. But what really fascinated me was the fact that it was discovered that the human body can't endure the punishment that moving that fast brings and it made me realize that to move that fast on a regular basis, you really must be dead and have a hard and marblelike skin like vampires do. That discovery only made me appreciate and enjoy Anne Rice's books more.

From an X-Phile point of view I found that M and S kind of just stood around until the case resolved itself. I felt like they stayed indoors during the whole ep, and just went out at the end to "pick up the bodies", so to speak. I also found that the ep was written in an incomplete way since they never found out what the light in the cave was. I can appreciate that it was one of nature's mysteries, but still... And another think that bothered me, was the fact heat wasn't properly considered. The kind of friction that moving like that causes, surely would have burned their bodies and probably alot more than just their shoes. But, that's just me nitpicking because the ep had me from the moment I saw that car crash scene, but as an X-Phile, the ep might not have been that much of a treat like it was for me.

Then it was the "Goldberg Variation" which was an ep that was completely over hyped by the commercials: "...it was the XF case that never should have been opened..."the smokey voiced guy said. PLEASE! Anyone, X-Phile or not, that has seen "Home" can't possibly think that "TGV" was even remotely chilling. It was too light and sappy for my taste. And also, the sunnyness of this season's eps was really getting on my nerves at that point.

Then it was "Orison", which I found very average. I had taped the show, and when I got to the scene in the beginning of the ep when the inmates where in the workshop, I paused the tape and looked at the scene and thought: "If someone just a year ago told me that this scene was from the XF, I would have told them that they were crazy.". Why I thought this you ask? It was too sunny! But right then and there I decided to stop bitching about it and accept the new found "light" in the XF and kept on watching. Alas, my acceptance didn't last long.

In case you're still reading all of this Reader and are REALLY annoyed about my whining about the newfound sunnyness of the XF, please answer this question for me, just off the top of your head : "What time of the day was it when Scully had her pyjamas on and was getting ready to go to bed when Donnie attacked her in her apartment?" I don't about you but I remember the sun still being up. Now why would Scully go to bed while the sun was still up? Maybe she was tired you say, but Mulder was getting ready to go to bed too! Now, I really don't think that Mulder's body could even fall asleep a such an early hour. And seeing Donnie light the candles in the bathroom while sunlight was coming in from the window was nothing short of ridiculous.

The fight scene was very COOL, but the following scenes were peppered with weird reactions from Scully. After dumping the library on Donnie, why didn't Scully go for her gun? It was right there! No, she'd rather try and call 911?! 911 is great, but it's far from being instant help and as an FBI agent Scully should have know that and tried something else.

In short, there was never an atmosphere of danger because the fact that the sun was still up I felt that if Scully had gone out the door and screamed her head off, someone would have helped her. An average ep, at best

Then came "The Great Moleni", another average ep, that felt dry and incompletely written and oh yes, too sunny. ;-) I only liked it more than the average person would, because when I was in the 8th grade me and my freinds went into this magic trick learning phase, and that has made me appreciate magic a little more ever since. It was nice to see Scully wear the top hat, she looked HOT! :-) And it was cute of Mulder to try and trick me with that coin trick. "Nice try Fox, but you'll have to do better than that to fool me!". :-)

Then it was "Signs and Wonders", let's see: too sunny, not as scary as the commercial said it would be, incompletely written... in short, another average ep. The scene when the snakes came out of that lady was a nice though. It had that shocking quality that has been missing from the Files in quite some time. However the ep did go downhill from that point on. The last scene with the snake was OK, but it only reinforced my disappointment of the painfully obvious use of computer generated effects that have been used this season. It seems to me like they were better hidden in the past.

And what was the deal with that guy? Was he a snake man, a guy who swallowed a snake by accident and found out that he could live with it inside him...what? There have been eps where the bad guys got away in the past , but we always knew or had an idea of what he or she was, but that didn't happen here.

By that time I didn't even feel like watching the XF anymore, I had the new eps on tape, but I really didn't feel like watching them. But then came four great eps in a row. February was a great month for the XF. The lighting was perfect and the stories were sweet! :-)

To conclude, I really enjoyed the XF this past month, but I'm still wondering if this season can be saved. I think that this year there are even less eps than last, and I wonder if CC and the gang can come up with a string of good eps that will prevent this season from being a bad last season overall for the XF.

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I think tonight;s ep "Theef" saved the season!NIM -- Scullystar, 21:47:40 03/12/00 Sun
I've been rewatching S6 on reruns, so I gotta ask -- hairytoes, 01:45:16 03/13/00 Mon