tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post2902588114137716175..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: The X-Files #80: Musings of Cigarette Smoking ManSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-83339064105741968142015-06-08T13:07:57.344-03:002015-06-08T13:07:57.344-03:00AmHawk: I understand that's the intent, but it...AmHawk: I understand that's the intent, but its director doesn't seem to know how to make that come across intelligibly, which is my real gripe here - that everything doesn't actually pull in that direction.<br /><br />Madeley: I watched Space Above and Beyond relatively recently, and yes, despite its iffy polygonal effects (but if Babylon 5's don't pull you out of the story, these shouldn't either), it still holds up today.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-72150681169738751892015-06-08T13:00:45.643-03:002015-06-08T13:00:45.643-03:00As we touched on in previous comments, I found ser...As we touched on in previous comments, I found series four to be quite weak, and it wouldn't surprise me that Carter's interest in getting Millennium off the ground is the culprit.<br /><br />So much of the X-Files is clearly influenced by Carter's love of Silence of the Lambs, that I can't help wonder if Millennium was the show he ACTUALLY wanted to make- more of a pure serial-killer-profiling show. Of course, Millennium got more supernatural as time went on, maybe because that's what people expected of Carter.<br /><br />If I was being REALLY mean, I'd accuse not only Carter of getting fed up with the show, but Morgan and Wong being frustrated that they had to go back to the X-Files after their own show failed. It's difficult not to feel that some of the humerous episodes, particularly this one, have some contempt towards the show and its characters. I don't know, maybe after twenty years I'm still an oversensitive fanboy. I definitely enjoy the format-breaking eps more now than I did at the time.<br /><br />Regarding Space: Above and Beyond, I remember watching it at the time, and liking it well enough, but not enough to ever go back to rewatch it. It definitely had some good final episodes, good enough that I was disappointed it never continued. And there was one episode, "Who Monitors the Birds", that so affected me that I still remember the title to this day. No idea if it would stand up now, but it's certainly stayed with me.Madeleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-92205757363326978902015-06-08T12:15:26.074-03:002015-06-08T12:15:26.074-03:00One of our disagreements, I'm afraid. I loved ...One of our disagreements, I'm afraid. I loved this episode at the time, and never once interpreted it as even vaguely being accurate. It's a send-up of everyone involved based on their desperate need to humanize someone who just ISN'T, despite his origins. It's no Jose Chung, but it is amusing enough, and the rest of the series happily and blithely ignored it, so no harm done.American Hawkmannoreply@blogger.com