i really love scully-centric episodes. this one’s great for so many reasons, you’ve got great character development for scully, progression in mulder and scully’s relationship, cool cosmic fate story, a happy lesbian couple living their best lives, great acting by gillian anderson (as always), lovely shots of scully being beautiful (as always), and just overall beautiful cinematography. and the parallels in this episode!! really, what’s not to love?
Ohh my this was boring :zzz:
I really liked the music in this one; the moments when everything is in slow motion. It's got a very dreamy, nostalgic vibe.
It really seems that the "world book" for The X-Files was thrown out the window. That typed, there are some interested beats here... some neat moments (even if they aren't executed well). No surprises here, but Anderson gives more than the series deserves yet again. She almost makes up for all that another actor takes away.
All this typed, wow. The levels of cringe here are off the charts. It's nigh unbelievable. There are multiple scenes in this episode that make parodies of pretentious films seem sublime. You may have seen it, but your mind will fight you to the very end not wanting to believe it.
It has to be mentioned that, yet again again again, there is no consistency and no respect given to characters and the golden rule is broken yet again... which is, when you create a world, the rules can be whatever you like - but then you have to stick with them.
Also yet again, it is now canon that in addition to Scully being immortal and evil, she is also a cheating and homewrecking POS. Way to go, writers and showrunners.
Also cubed: Did anyone else find the May/December element featuring a daughter the same age as or older than one of the characters creepy and off-putting? Was anyone else upset by the disrespect attributed to that character (in so many ways)?
The final also: I know as fact and fiction that the conspiracy behind the production of this episode wanted, more than anything, to have the group Enigma score it. Truth!
Creatively i don't like this episode, but i can't deny it's high quality.
Excellent directing.
It's more frowned upon now on student teacher relationships even if they're both adults. There's the disconnect of the power dynamic and the age gap. So introducing Scully's past affair with her former teacher doesn't hold up, and i don't like it as adding to the backstory of the character.
In the imdb trivia though, Gillian Anderson said she wrote the story with Scully not becoming his lover, and leaving before she thought she would ruin his family life. That changes things for me.
But it makes no sense about the teacher moving closer to Scully for 10 years yet never bothering to talk to her again? Doesn't make sense at all, and neither does the contrived coincedence of Scully getting the medical file mix up, but we all know it's chalked up to religion.
I don't like Scully engaging in mysticism stuff or the chakra healing either. It just doesn't feel right for the character.
But the episode does explore Scully's life more and what she wants/what she originally wanted, that of more of an ordinary life, rather than galavanting with Mulder for years. We did see in the first season i believe it was for example, with her having a focus on trying to have an ordinary life along with investigating cases with Mulder.
This episode does go into Scully's deeper desires for the kind of life she wants to live.
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New age, alternative medicine, Buddha...all of these things are observed by Scully over the course of a couple of days. Her experience with these things help her to cure an ex-lover who has a disease. This thing wants to be so different and it is. But it's bad. I don't know if it wants to be a music video or a Lifetime TV series pilot.
Secondary characters in this episode: None