Monday, March 1, 2010

Jersey Devil




This is one of those episodes I'd probably skip if I weren't such a completest.

I just.. I don't get the point. A) What about the case (a homeless guy with his arms eaten off... OK, by a person, but still...) makes Mulder even interested in pursuing it? Maybe if it was nearby, he'd pop in to take a look. But it's not; it's pretty darn far away! But it doesn't even sound like an X-File. Cannibalism isn't really very supernatural...
B) What about the case makes it interesting enough to poach it from the local law enforcement?. Buy local, people. Seriously.
C) What about the case makes it so interesting, that Mulder gives a homeless guy his motel keys, so he can sleep in his little homeless, makeshift, gross-smelling lean-to in the alleyway?
D) In the end, the suspected 'Neandertal' doesn't even have any prehistoric physiology! She's just a person who lives in the woods and eats people.

My husband likes this episode, but I suspect he just likes wild women running around naked and jumping men...

Oh and PS, that so called anthropologist... "As a primate she would have a natural fear of heights". OK, who wrote this episode?

*checks* Chris Cater? YOU wrote this episode?!?!
Oh, I am so disappointed in you. Where on earth did you get that 'primates afraid of heights' thing? No, seriously!?! Which primates did you have in mind when you wrote that?

So disappointed in you. So are they:



OK, but what did I like about the episode?

I do like the "Let's get a hotel room, see a floor show... make a weekend of it" exchange, before Scully bails on a case that isn't actually theirs.

I like that scene with Scully on the worst date ever; that guy never fails to crack me up.
Oh PS; I really like that Scully is scared away from this guy because he's going on a bit too much about his kid, and how he'd like to involve Scully in this kid's life right off the bat. Ie 'I have _kid's name_ and two extra tickets to whatever; Bring the other kid along and come!' or ' I have _the kid_ for the weekend, why don't you join us...' Yech. I'd be scared off too.

It's interesting that Scully's reaction to kids in general is to kind of be afraid of and overwhelmed by them. So no interested. Especially interesting knowing later on how badly she'll want one. I wonder what changes that for her?

Let's see.. what else do I like....?
I also like Scully and her friend (oh, um; if that's her nephew, does that make the friend he sister in law? Just checking) gossiping a bit about Mulder (see, she thinks he's cute. And a jerk; no wait, just obsessed with his work. I like her struggling to find a reason not to date Mulder :) haha )
Hmm... I also like the end of the episode, when she let's Mulder know she's not at all interested in 'the guy she had dinner with the other night'. And then follows him out to tag along with him, to Mulder's surprise.
And how in that scene, Mulder looks like the famous Bigfoot image that he was studying earlier:



See?

And Scully buys homeless Mulder some lunch, because he didn't manage to panhandle some change...



OK, you know what? This episode had a lot of fun M/S exchanges, just like most of the other early episode. Fun, fun fun.

But the X-File was still stupid!
Almost as stupid as that 'anthropologist'.







Stupid.

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