[kj] X-Files

[T.B.]

I thought the second episode was vastly superior to the first one.  Reminded
me a *lot* of the old David Cronenberg movie, "Scanners" with a shadowy
government agency breeding mutants/telepaths via drugs in mothers of unborn
babies.  Even had one scene of almost head explodin' greatness.  And yeah,
Killing Joke should have had a couple songs featured in this show,
everything fits right in.  The mini-series (or whatever they want to call
it) is far from perfect so far, has a lot of faults that the original series
suffered from, especially in its last 3 seasons with inconstant writing,
arbitrary character shifts, and almost amateurish acting across the board.
Still, I dig the shows, faults n' all.

T.B.

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Subject: Re: [kj] X-Files

They (the critics) were never going to go for the myth arc stuff. Wasn't
going to happen. I'm far more interested in the monster-of-the-week stuff.
That's where the show really scored. 

Jim.

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