Next Week's X-Files

This is the episode where we'll see if Patrick will fit or not. These kinds of episodes are the most frequent.

I hope it's good.

Damn! Against all odds I'm starting to like Robert Patrick's character. I think making Scully the believer who's trying to convince someone else is really giving this show the kick in the pants that it has been needing for that past few years.

I've even almost completely forgotten about that silly T-1000 thing. Almost...

With Robert Patrick now on board, The X-Files finally has a actor that I could give a shit about on it...

This is a hoax. It's not the X-files.
Why? Because they've had resolution (not of the whole thing, of course, but usually there's this ...enh...taste left over, like you've been slightly cheated by a deus ex machina. Like the old joke for 6 seasons of Scully somehow ALWAYS staying the skeptic by JUST missing things). They're making Dogget smart & likeable, instead of meanacing. I mean, we all KNOW he's her new partner (sort of), but they didn't dally like they normally do. They MOVED.
It's an alien. Shoot it in the back of the neck.
On second thought, let it live. I kinda like this.

I'm totally digging this season so far, and the vampire beasts for next week look incredibly sexy.

The season does hold promise.

tangent: what's up with the alien blood thing? is it toxic or not? Skinner was messed up from it, but Scully plugged the Mighty Morphin Bounty Hunter and turned him to goo, and it didnt affect her or that bizarre looking kid at all...

Ok, here we go:

THE BLOOD: When they're decomposing, the toxidity goes away because the chemical composition is changing, making it inert. They've never stated this, and it's not painfully obvious, but I get the feeling that's what happens (it's not the first time we've seen people around someone decomposing like that, and they weren't affected, either)

THE SPOT: It's "easier" to hit the spot of the stilletto is used. Big guy vrs little guy...it's quiet. Little guy vrs big guy...it's concealable. While Mulder & Scully are mentioned as being great shots, it's still hard to hit that spot in a fight. Scully had the advantage this time...he thought she was out of the fight and was walking away, not dodging.

THE BOSS: IIRC, there's no ties to the AD to the conspiracy. He may just be trying to sink Doggett, *or* the X-files (supposition: because he feels they're an embaressment to the Bureau).
Mulder wasn't killed because CSM didn't want him to be. WHY we may never discover...there's speculation he may believe he's his son, or just fond feelings towards his mother. He mad hooey about martyrdom to keep others from doing it...maybe. We never know with him.

further proof that... yep, they're making it up as they go

Actually, I'm in full agreement with Dave Davis. The sudden shift may have been due to the very question of why not use a gun?
Again, you're still dealing with a very small target to hit. That ROUND (not wide like a knife) stilletto has to hit a very special place , and be deep enough. The only thing that could duplicate that, really, is an impressive jab with a pen, or a very good shot.
There's a fact that many audience members overlook (that *might* apply here. I have no real idea if it does, the following about Mulder & co is supposition), but that writers seldom do: Characters react to what they know.
The reason writers seldom overlook this is not because of hoity toity, we're better than you...it's because, as a writer, that's HOW YOU WRITE CHARACTERS. That's all.
Mulder was reacting to what he knew. It was important. It was a known way to kill the bounty hunters, where shooting them didn't work and could cause toxic fumes. Shooting him in the back of the neck may work, but he didn't know. Maybe there WAS something special, an alloy or a third agent in the "needle". It was important, and he had to get it.
Maybe Scully, in her pragnatism, just tried shooting, hoping it would work.
Maybe it was just bad writing. But contextually, it fits how both characters tend to think. Does that mean that's what the writers intended? Hell, I don't know. I'm just doing continuity forensics. The evidence suggests a probability, but we're missing key evidence to determine the validity of the hypothesis: the writers.
Lack of sleep + forensics degree makes Jack a wordy git. Sorry

But on the topic of Doggett...I like Patrick a lot. He strikes me as someone off the set of L&O or Homicide, a 'real' cop. Now all we need is a little more Krycek and no more cute episodes like the last couple of seasons.

I'm surprised Duchovney didn't get snuffed years ago. I was hoping he would be when he dissed Vancouver, one of my favorite towns.

Doggett read every one of Mulders files. That's how he makes the leaps of logic needed to connect the case they're working on with old x-files.

*BOING!* Keith Szarabajka is tonight's badguy! More recognition for Kieth the unpronounceable!
I love that actor.

They oughta bring back the Equalizer with Keith in the lead.

Matt

Agreed
They wasted him last night, though. Anyone could have played that role.