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Date Posted: 10:38:20 01/10/03 Fri
Author: Islandgirl
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"Tithonus"

Since I'd already watched "S.R. 819", this was next on my list. I remembered it as being a kind of lackluster episode and, unlike some of the eps which improved on rewatching, that was my attitude this time around as well. It wasn't a *bad* episode, but there were two main problems with it: 1.) Virtually the only Mulder/Scully interaction was via cell phone; I remembered this as being a "Mulderlite" ep, but it wasn't so much that Mulder wasn't in it much as that they kept cutting back and forth between Mulder at FBI headquaters and Scully in New York City; they weren't together except at the very beginning and very end 2.) the X-File itself the was kind of a mishmash of several eps from previous seasons: we had the "man who can sense death approaching" aspect of "Clyde Bruckerman", mixed up with the "man who never ages aspect" of "Squeeze/Tooms" and the "photographs that tell more than they should" aspect of "Unrhue". . .all of which were better eps than this.
A couple of questions: Does anyone know what "Tithonus" means?? and The man (Felding) in this ep had essentially the same power as Clyde Bruckerman, yet while Scully was sympathetic and kind to Clyde, she seemed to view this man as some sort of monster who "profited" off his ability to know when others were about to die. Why the change in her attitude?

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Re: "Tithonus" -- CW, 20:57:20 01/11/03 Sat
- Thanks for the info, CW! (NT) -- Islandgirl, 11:20:51 01/12/03 Sun