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Date Posted: 13:57:53 07/02/00 Sun
Author: devlin
Subject: Back in business!
In reply to: Mat 's message, "Tithonus" on 05:36:57 07/02/00 Sun

First - welcome back all those who've been awaiting the continuation of S6! Are we at last going to see the whole of the rest of the season, without interruption? Here's hoping!

Mat's comments are very interesting. I was not particularly 'bowled over' by the action of this one. (OK, it was because there was a dearth of Mulder and a Mulder-light ep is never the same for me!) But there were some good things. I think Ritter was quite a pleasant character. He wasn't one of these brash know-it-all types whom S & M have come across before. This was sort of Tooms meets Clyde Bruckmann, I felt: the immortality and awareness of the approaching deaths of others being key to those two episodes respectively. (Although getting squished under the moving parts of an escalator put paid to Tooms continuing regeneration!) Was anyone else reminded of War of the Copraphages when Mulder was continually on the phone to Scully "How's the XF coming?" and then he gets involved in the case anyway? Substitute his line with "Still want me to come up?" and it out me right in mind of WOTC.

I think the other interesting link with Clyde Bruckmann is over this suggestion that Fellig's immortality might have been passed on. Bruckmann told Scully she wasn't going to die, didn't he? If our heroine is never to die, where's the jeopardy of putting her life in danger? But it was somehow hinted at, as Mat said.

I agree that the pre-title sequence was excellent. It was very tense and I didn't like seeing Fellig stare from a long way away. It was like dreams I've had where the danger is right there but still a long way off at the same time.

I wondered why Mulder was so mellow about the fact that Scully was carrying on an XF investigation without him. He seemed to be unconcerned, really. All that sitting about, doing background checks would have driven him mad, normally. I thought he might at least go and complain to the boss. And if this case was so 'spooky' that they called in Scully, how come Fowley and Spender weren't assigned to work with Ritter? For that matter, where *are* Spender and Fowley? They seem to have vanished.... (But that's a rhetorical question only. I'm sure everyone knows but me)

Does anyone know what 'Tithonus' refers to?

devlin

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Yay! It's a Season 6 Par tay! Shall I bring the wine and cheese? -- detoured, 00:31:22 07/03/00 Mon
- who hoo !back in business -- sam, 01:20:12 07/03/00 Mon
  - hmmm... sorry dev, I knicked your title :( I could've sworn you'd written something else! NIMOOPS (NT) -- sam, 05:00:14 07/03/00 Mon
  - Well, FINALLY! -- nic, 06:55:51 07/03/00 Mon
    - Re: Well, FINALLY! -- cvl, 13:34:31 07/03/00 Mon
- Slapper! -- nic, 07:16:35 07/03/00 Mon
  - It was Tennyson -- nic, 07:27:17 07/03/00 Mon