"Drive" and "Triangle" -- X-Philes World-The Old Episodes

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Date Posted: 19:01:30 12/30/02 Mon
Author: Islandgirl
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"Drive" and "Triangle"

Well, I decided to (mostly) watch the season six eps from the start, but skipping over the ones I don't like. So I didn't watch "The Beginning" because it has Fowl Thing in it and it just wasn't, generally speaking, a very good ep. I remember a *LOT* of people were majorly disappointed in it, coming as it did immediately after the movie.
But we watched "Drive" and "Triangle" and I enjoyed them both. "Drive" was actually better than I remembered it being. Lots of Mulderisms and, rarely for XF, there was a completly rational, scientific explanation for the problem the man was experiencing and Scully was able to figure it out. So I guess she was "right", although Mulder was so busy driving around that he didn't really spend a lot of time advancing alternative theories. And Mulder just looked so incredibly, unbelievably sexy there at the end, where he got out of the car and took off his tie! There's a country song that came out a couple of years ago called "Shut Up and Drive" which is what Crump kept saying to Mulder. . .I never made the connection before, but I wonder if the composer of the song was an X-Phile and that's where he/she got the idea for the title?
"Triangle". . .what can I say?? At the time I first watched it, it was probably my favorite XF ep ever and (while my all-time fave is now "The Unnatural") it's definitely still one of my top ten. After all, it's got *the kiss* AND Mulder saying "I love you" in the same ep! Also, I just loved the whole "parallel universe" concept. A couple of tiny inconsistencies I did pick up on while watching it this time around: the British sailors had "never heard of" the FBI. . .but wasn't the FBI formed in the 1920s and already fairly well-known, at least among people in English-speaking countries, by the late 1930s? Also, Langley said early in the ep that the ship disappeared in September of 1939 but a few scenes later said it had been missing for "more than 60 years". "Triangle" first aired in November of 1998, which would have been slightly *less*. than 60 years after September of 1939. And why did Scully have to go through Skinner to contact somebody in Navy Intelligence?? She's from a Navy family; couldn't one of her brothers or one of her father's old friends have helped her?

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Re: "Drive" and "Triangle" -- CW, 21:35:07 01/04/03 Sat