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Date Posted: 01:56:08 08/14/00 Mon
Author: detoured
Subject: Baseball and that alien green blood
In reply to: devlin 's message, "My appreciation was touch and go there, for a while" on 11:12:02 08/12/00 Sat

I read a quote from DD where he said he's a bigger basketball fan than a baseball fan but basketball wouldn't work for this type of story. I agree, basketball just doesn't have the history and passion that baseball does. It just carries a lot more meaning. DD obviously knows the game of baseball very well though.

They had to keep the brother's name the same because they had already shot the scenes with the younger Dales and Exley and he's called Arthur throughout the episode. I suppose they could have had Arthur's brother just really the story of his brother to Mulder but I don't think that would have been nearly as effective. I love how DD rewrote those scenes though. They also have a sister named Arthur! LOL I enjoyed M. Emmett Walsh's performance in this a lot and he did it on very short notice.

I think one person taking a bite from another's ice cream cone definately implies a very intimate gesture. You may have heard that it appears from interviews that DD is a shipper.

I thought Exley was a very friendly alien and a great idea from DD because I'd never thought of that before. CC always presented the aliens as the bad guys and this opens the door to the thought that there might be a faction of alien earth sympathisers who don't want their 'people' to take over our planet. DD has really added a lot to the mythology along the way. He created the Alien Bounty Hunter in the first place didn't he?
He really put a lot in this episode. Not just a stand alone but some mythology too!

So what do you think of how the green blood fit in with what we were discussing earlier about One Son? Exley said the blood was toxic but there have been other cases where it wasn't nd then we wondered if it was just the hybrid blood that was toxic. I assume Exley wasn't a hybrid. Can this all makes sense or did DD slip up on that aspect? (I won't fault him if he did!).

I didn't really think about DD being an only child. I knew he had a brother and also a younger sister. I guess she didn't want to be in the ep. I don't think Daniel wants to act (and frankly he wasn't very good in his scene where he had a bit of dialog). DD prabably just wanted him in it for fun or maybe Daniel asked. (Ron Howard always puts his whole family in all his movies.) I know Daniel directs TV commercials and stuff and should probabaly stick with that rather than acting. And I guess D got the good looks in the family!

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Toxic or non-toxic? -- devlin, 16:19:10 08/15/00 Tue
- I am surprised! Which baseball players do you know? -- detoured, 19:45:14 08/20/00 Sun
  - OK, my list of baseball players (don't laugh) -- devlin, 10:44:53 08/21/00 Mon
    - Well that's impressive! -- detoured, 20:07:39 08/22/00 Tue
      - You think there's a 'generic' Bounty Hunter?? -- devlin, 16:11:04 08/23/00 Wed
        Like a bridge over troubled water... -- detoured, 02:55:41 08/25/00 Fri
        Oh go on - put the picture up!!! -- devlin, 14:19:30 08/25/00 Fri
        Yes, det! Put the picture up! -- Scully'sMyHero, 19:12:34 08/25/00 Fri
        OK Devlin and SMH. I put the picture up!... -- detoured, 01:45:09 08/29/00 Tue
        See, I've already embarrassed myself! -- devlin, 11:33:04 08/29/00 Tue
        I forgot about Gone with the Wind! -- detoured, 00:54:58 08/31/00 Thu
        Coinciding on the boards? Can it be true? -- devlin, 00:59:35 08/31/00 Thu
        It's 10 after 1 here! -- detoured, 01:14:28 08/31/00 Thu
        A sense of history is one thing -- devlin, 01:24:56 08/31/00 Thu
        DD really did a good job with this ep -- detoured, 00:23:05 09/01/00 Fri
        This is *really* off topic, but... -- Scully'sMyHero, 07:07:02 09/01/00 Fri
        Perfectly good topic, SMH! -- devlin, 09:20:22 09/01/00 Fri
        Well then, while we're on a good off-topic... -- Scully'sMyHero, 13:58:27 09/01/00 Fri