Oh…comedy. Here we have a farcical version of Carrie/The Craft/’Gingerbread’ from Buffy (several years before that episode was written…spoooooky!!), with two magical teenage girls doing some killing and Mulder and Scully…

W H in The waX-Files

Apr 21, 2017

3x04: Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

‘…how do I die?’ ‘You don’t.’

The smile on Bruckman’s face as he delivers that good news to Scully has been, for me, one of the emotional high points of the show. And the look on Scully’s face when she finds Bruckman in bed at the last, his…

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Apr 21, 2017

3x02: Paper Clip

‘I’ve heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers.’

…and…

‘Think I’m bluffing?’

‘Paper Clip’ is…a jumble.

W H in The waX-Files

Apr 21, 2017

3x01: The Blessing Way

(I barely remember having these opinions)

The one with the Navajo resurrection spell (lucky Mulder found a high-level cleric out here on the borderlands, eh?) and the unintentionally brilliant couplet, ‘It wasn’t a dream?’/’Yes.’

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Feb 2, 2017

2x25: Anasazi

Deep Throat, Deep Time

‘Nothing disappears without a trace.’

If it hasn’t been clear since at least Mulder’s teary missing-Samantha moment in the church in ‘Conduit,’ I hope it’s clear now: Mulder isn’t actually chasing ‘the truth about…

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Feb 2, 2017

2x13: Irresistible

This is a first draft and I haven’t even bothered looking at it since feverishly so let’s keep our expectations low, shall we?

‘I’m gonna modem it out to you immediately, see if you can…