Out for what do you need that gun?
Scully: "What else do you want to do or find?"
Mulder: "My sister."
PHRASING!
man, Ray Pearce is a really unfortunate name.
Clearly Scully hasn't learned anything. So there is a conspiracy of doctors to hide alien babies. Where do you seek refuge? From the Army, that it's IN from the beginning? That has secret alien planes and hides aliens? Yep good idea, they will for sure help you!
Two of my favourite quotes from the show are are in this episode. One really funny one from Carolyn goes:
“I can’t stand breakfast. It’s just constant egg. Why? Who decided this?”
And another sad one from Villanelle undercover at AA “I hurt myself, I don’t feel it. I buy what I want, I don’t want it. I do what I like, I don’t like it.”
Both stick in my head.
I first read these books just under 20 years ago and wouldn't have dreamed of seeing them adapted like this. There were some less liked changes for me and a few casting duds but the rest made up for it!
I'm glad they dedicated a whole episode to this section, it really deserved it.
Mary's love backstory tweak to falling in love with a woman fit surprisingly well and was beautifully depicted.
I was in tears through Will and Lyra's pain. The actor for Will could have been a bit stronger but crikey, Dafne Keen sure made up for it! Absolutely nailed this character for me.
A beautiful and bittersweet ending. And just as when I finished the book, I didn't want to leave this world.
Nice side-off Christmas episode where we get to know a little more about Skully and her family, and a sad one too. Mulder is missing in this one though. That ending tho~!
Wow, this was actually a very good Episode.
Good Writing and Aisling Bea (Sarah) is just amazing.
Kind of sad, that Chibnail is only lowering his virtue signaling crap now that he is basically already out the door...
Honestly, the rest of Season 9 that I have watched thus far has been such a slog to get through that this episode was a breath of fresh air. The use of music and the highly stylistic cinematography were highly enjoyable; I love when a piece of media isn't afraid to play with the medium. It will definitely be going on my list of favorite The X-Files episodes.
Joffrey Baratheon: "Dog, I command you to go back out there and fight!"
Tyrion Lannister: "You're Kingsguard, Clegane. We must beat them back, or they're going to take this city! Your King's city!"
Sandor Clegane: "Fuck the Kingsguard. Fuck the city. Fuck the king."
[7.1/10] A bit milder of an episode, but still has its moments. I like Derek getting a little focus, and the show building out his relationship with Bean. There’s something compelling about him being lonely given his pressures and isolation and general unsuitedness to be heir to the throne juxtaposed with Bean being subject to the usual gender essentialism and sense of being usurped in her own family. Sure, it’s a little corny that at the end of the day, she proves how much she cares about Derek by risking her life to save him from a monster, but it’s also a little sweet (and the show nicely adds in that trademark Groening dose of cynicism to take the edge off).
I was less enamored with Zog’s “I wish I had gout” B-story. Luci helping people make bad decisions is always a good tack on this show, but the jokes from Zog eating terrible organ foods didn’t have much mileage in them (beyond rampant grossness, which isn't really my thing) and, aside from the Duke of Twinkletown getting attacked by the octopus, didn’t really go anywhere.
But while Derek’s story underwhelmed a bit, his boyish playing and slapstick with Elfo was cute. Really, the only major weakspot in this one was the giant squid, who seemed like a pretty random obstacle whose presence felt contrived. Even there, I got a kick out of the party barge captain coming back for some humor of the mundane amid the fantastical.
Overall, this is a middle-of-the-road episode at best, but one that’s mostly inoffensive, and has a good premise in terms of the main character relationship it explores.
Hm. I don't know. The logician and the children... At the same time, that's silly, adorable and tells you surprisingly much about the Vulcan society. Problem: there's this other civilization and you really don't have any context. Are they somehow important in the sector? What role do they play? Or are they just generic baddies (or so it seems)? Well, in the end there's a twist and an interesting phenomenon is discovered. This philosophical part isn't bad but very shallow
This episode is totally inconsequential. Off they go and next week's episode starts as if nothing had happened.
It saddens me to see them part ways, but it feels right, given how things have developed throughout this season.
Pete was so much fun in the first season, but a true party popper on this second one.
The show runners seem to have had a change of heart between seasons, and a hilarious S&M show was turned into a sappy drama. This lead to what truly feels like the series finale I did not want, but one that fitted the tone of the second season like a glove. Unfortunately.
Hilarious from beginning to end with a solid throughline of Bender's disgruntledness with his human compatriots. The all-robot planet was a nice setting for both Trek-ian riffs on weird alien cultures, and some satire aimed at the still salient American xenophobia as well. But apart from the riffs and commentary and good character work with Bender, it's just a damn funny episode. The comedic rhythms of the show aren't settled yet, so the pace is a little slower, but bits like the robot elders saying "Silence" before everything, or Fry obliviously sticking with his "uninhabited planet" line, or Bender trying to get off for Robanukah are just a taste of the laughs in this one. It's striking how funny this show was this early in its run.
Good to see Agent Doggett getting to understand how to handle these X-Files thanks to Agent Mulder
The actual finale for the X-Files. I knew that My Struggle had to be fake memories. Thanks for helping us remember the truth Reggie!
Well, that was awful. As a pure character-building exercise for Janeway it mostly fails, because the character it focuses on isn't even her. Sure, it's nice for Star Trek to sometimes do something different, but when it does it usually ties in to something important. This doesn't. This is the equivalent of a daydream with no bearing on anything.
It's like the writers wished they were making a completely different show. It could have worked if the story it told was original or interesting. The episode was meant to include Q and Guinan which would have improved it immeasurably.
There wasn't the slightest hint of chemistry between Shannon and Henry.
And again, Tom Paris' original character set up continues to be destroyed by making him an obscure history buff whose knowledge now expands to all Earth history, not just cars of the 1950s.
Finally, this episode solidified my understanding of the mythology. It's taken this long but the exposition cram sessions provided by this and the previous episode ("Two Fathers") finally set things straight for me. Not the most entertaining episode, but definitely critical to understanding the mess of details associated with the previous seasons.
Secondary characters in this episode: Kersh, CSM, Agent Spender, Diana, Krycek, Bill Mulder, Lone Gunmen, Syndicate, Cassandra, Marita Covarrubius
haha a lotta dog jokes and puns here; but more importantly, 1999 was just the time when online dating or meeting someone from the internet grew, so it's nice that they incorporated that into the show
A bit more background on Mulder's past, so that was good... but the episode overall was a bit boring
One of my favorite episodes! I absolutely loved the fact that this probably aired on FOX while COPS was also on the air. I loved the idea that some people might have actually taken it seriously as a COPS episode due to the intro being basically identical to the actual cop show.
Eight seasons to find out who Finn’s parents are. I love it.
I like this episode. To begin with, I appreciate they don't waste time on how the Hirogen were able to board Voyager. Of course it shamelessly feeds Hollywood's insatiable hunger for all things WWII and the Nazis in particular and while this could be annoying it's so strangly integrated into the world of Star Trek that I actually like this episode. Plus, at this point, writers know how to work with Seven and the Doctor. It's certainly one of the most memorable and unique Holodeck goes wrong episodes in the franchise. Usually that's holograms who become aware of the simulation, of themselves and somehow gained control of systems outside the holodeck hereby endangering the crew. This story is better written and much more complex. It's more than one of those little holodeck extravaganzas that only serve as an entertaining diversion.
PS: that's probably an awful thing to say given what we Germans are responsible for but the Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS uniforms showed an impeccable sense of style. And the Hirogen look good in them.
This is an interesting episode, and we get to see Jeri Ryan singing, which in itself is a treat :)
However every time I see it I'm bugged by something : the studio settings of 1944 France are very good, reproducing a 1940's French town quite accurately, but in one instance they fail badly : there is a car prominently featured in 2 scenes, a Citroen 2CV "Charleston" a model that came out in 1980, furthermore it's worth mentioning that in any case the original model of the Citroen 2CV was unveiled in 1948, 3 years after the end of World War 2. This anachronism grates and could have been so easily avoided (there are other period related cars in the background that don't clash)
Didn't Janeway memorise all conduits and Jeffrey's tube of Voyager but doesn't know where a Junction Room is?
The guest stars in this one are awesome. Amy Poehler as GOB’s wife and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the blind lawyer both are perfect.
Once more Marisa carried the show, every other character is just a tragically lacklustre experience. And by every other I do mean every other.
Spoiler alert:
How they didn't explain at all that the dying character in the cube was "the Authority" is just another typical failure by the showrunners.
Sometimes I watch movies and shows and I'm like well I guess they're a product of their time but then I watch Star Trek and I'm like WOW they really did THAT and then it's difficult for me to excuse the shit from other shows and movies
