"Aqua Mala" (Season 5)
dablick
This is the episode where M+S go to FL during a hurricane to investigate
reports of a sea monster and discover a monster that is water-borne.
I love the X-files but I found myself scratching my head all thru and after
this ep.
OK... the monster is killed by "fresh water" (I derived this only from
reading an ep summary - in the actual dialog all we are told is "it's the
water", not that it's the FRESH water).
Now, how is it that the monster managed to come up from the sea thru
drainage systems? OK, maybe the rain backs the drainage systems up but
that doesn't bring sea water into the drainage systems. And this monster
seems to do fine in water collecting in a light fixture which seems to be
water from rain runoff (i.e. FRESH water).
And they put the sheriff in a tub of ice, someone spills a little salt in it
and minutes later this creature can melt the sheriff while he's in the tub.
The salt enabled that? How did it melt so quickly? The drain wasn't
closed?
Also, Mulder and Scully seem to realize how to kill the monster at the same
time, right as both of them are in the middle of attacks by it. We see how
Scully kills it (shoots the water-sprinkler system) but how does Mulder fend
off the attack?
Ultimately, the question I am asking is: Are these apparant gaping plot
holes just me missing something or did they just really blow it on this one?
Unbound I
weak episodes in S6. Scully leaving Mulder out in the hallway to possibly die
while she goes birthin babies is another of the seemingly endless supply of
ludicrous moments in the episode. It's also another terrible waste of Darren
McGavin, who had the good fortune to appear on TXF twice, but the bad fortune
to be in two really awful episodes.
Unbound I
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ColemansLoveChild
seemingly. I will say that it pretty much left my mind the minute it
was over, and I may only remember it because it's mentioned
occasionally. Truly mediocre.
I tend to remember the truly awful episodes more then the "meh" ones.
In some perverse way, does that make the terrible eps better?
Best episode of season six is Milagro. Worst episode? Hm, there are
quite a few I dislike but I may go with Dreamland 1 & 2. (I'm cheating
and going with a two parter) A running SNL joke episode should not be
dragged out to two episodes, I'm sorry. At least the other "lite" eps
were kept as one-offs that season, and I even liked a few, though I
would have been happier if there weren't so many.
The one thing that will always bother me about season six is the shift
in look. The show still had control over itself tonally I feel, I just
don't like how they shifted it. Way too many sunny California eps in
seasons six and seven which I don't feel fit. Give me a dingy, wet
alley with mist any day. From that standpoint, I really think the last
two seasons of any merit (6/7) had much less leeway as far as
material, since the tone of previous seasons was sounder in my view
and could sometimes make even a terrible episode content-wise better.
Though, as far as content, everybody seemed way too willing to be
goofy or lite much of the time in seasons six and seven as well - bad
combination. Why they were so willing and eager to give into this is
anybody's guess, but it was and is bothersome.
That doesn't mean I totally hate those seasons, but it seemed that
much of the quirky oddness of the show was gone, replaced by something
altogether less satisfying.
Michele Jackson
best writers. Plus Mulder and Scully seemed to be acting out of character.
Scully had virtually no reaction to the danger that Mulder might have been
in. Still, it was good for a few laughs, which is more than I can say for
El Mundo Gira (although the "Maria, Maria, Maria!" was pretty funny).
Michele
Bosco
I didn't think it was all that bad of an episode until the end which I
never understood. One minute, it's, omg, Mulder is in danger and the
next they are back with Darren McGavin. Uh? Other than that it was
just one of many blah episodes in the shows history.
FoxyKilt1
Michele Jackson
"FoxyKilt1" <foxy...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> It was fine. Tes Dos Bichos now on the other hand, that was bad.
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I liked it when Mulder and Scully escaped from the kitties and came out of
the shoot. That was kind of cute. I liked Tesos better than El Mundo. I
liked Hell Money and everyone hated that. Michele
ColemansLoveChild
> It was fine. Tes Dos Bichos now on the other hand, that was bad.
I watched that again last year. Didn't bother me. I must be insane.
(damn, show some backbone for your own opinions, boy!)
Tonally it seemed fine though, so maybe that's why I had no problem
with it whether it was retarded or not on specifics. (better)
Unbound I
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>foxy...@aol.com (FoxyKilt1) wrote in message
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>> It was fine. Tes Dos Bichos now on the other hand, that was bad.
>
>I watched that again last year. Didn't bother me. I must be insane.
>(damn, show some backbone for your own opinions, boy!)
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>
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was pretty damn hard to begin with) when all I can think about is the blooper
with Duchovny fighting the fake cat. <g>
ColemansLoveChild
> >From: ChrisCar...@yahoo.com (ColemansLoveChild)
> >
> >foxy...@aol.com (FoxyKilt1) wrote in message
> >news:<20040202230856...@mb-m19.aol.com>...
> >> It was fine. Tes Dos Bichos now on the other hand, that was bad.
> >
> >I watched that again last year. Didn't bother me. I must be insane.
> >(damn, show some backbone for your own opinions, boy!)
> >
> >
> >
> It's impossible for me to even attempt to take the episode seriously (and it
> was pretty damn hard to begin with) when all I can think about is the blooper
> with Duchovny fighting the fake cat. <g>
>
> Unbound I
I'm too cowardly to completely defend it, especially since I can go
with the excuse of only half paying attention to it when watching it
at 2:00 in the morning. This seems to be pretty universal on the shit
list of eps from what I've seen - still, I like it better than Steven
King's Chinga (let the bashing continue), outside the few
Mulder/Scully bits in that ep. I sat through that POS ep a month or
two ago and it was worse than I remembered it, and I already had it
marked as one of the worst episodes I sat through outside the Seasons
That Shall Go Unmentioned
(coughDoggettsuckscoughhackReyesisamoronhack).
Northdue
>at 2:00 in the morning. This seems to be pretty universal on the shit
>list of eps from what I've seen - still, I like it better than Steven
>King's Chinga (let the bashing continue), outside the few
>Mulder/Scully bits in that ep
Having read a different script of that episode, (or most of it, on a Script
Differences page) I can't imagine how it ended up the bore-a-thon it was and
why it was changed so much.
In the other script you actually saw the lifesize doll and not just the shadow
of it, which was more comical than scary!
I also can't understand why it's always described as the episode Stephen King
wrote, when it seems CC rewrote most of it - which is why the two versions are
so different.
The Mulder/Scully bits are the only parts worth watching - and in the other
script they actually end up in the same place at the end of the episode, which
would have been nice to see!