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Date Posted: 14:53:26 02/18/00 Fri
Author: devlin
Subject: S6 - Big on jokes and UST
In reply to: nic 's message, "(St)rain King" on 05:03:01 02/18/00 Fri

The Rain King was infinitely better than TOE. We should embrace these eps that are at least attempting to return to an XF style we recognise. This was entertaining, even if that entertainment arose from a bit of an M & S sopa opera angle. A lot of this ep focussed on the MSR (albeit indirectly) and in that regard, how was it different from ‘How the Ghosts Stole Christmas’? In that ep, we had two main characters analysing the relationship between M & S. And here again, in The Rain King, outsiders were putting in their oar about two people who they had never met. The character analysis that started in HTGSTC by Lyda and Maurice was taken up by Sheila and Holman.

I began to wonder why just because Mulder and Scully are a male/female FBI partnership that everyone was so quick to decide that they were really a couple. It seemed like a bit of an insult to male/female work partners! At least three people misrepresented M & S’s relationship. I presume this was all for the shippers’ benefit? In fact, I felt a lot of this episode was all about the tease, and it felt like an episode of ‘Moonlighting’!

I was not very convinced by Holman and his weather changing abilities, so I suppose that makes me Scully, in this case. I didn’t care even a little bit about what Holman could and couldn’t do. And where were the risks to life and limb? The murders? About half way through, I thought we’d entered a strange limbo world and it was a place where people learned life lessons only. No more significance. The High School Reunion. Perfect.

I did enjoy it in a light hearted way. It didn’t offend – it just didn’t deliver plot! It fixed on Mulder and Scully and stayed firmly there. I did laugh at a lot of good one liners: “It’s like looking in a mirror” (the Gunderssons) , “The blind leading the blind” , “I’ve seen how you two gaze at each other”, “I’ll build the ark, you gather the animlas” ”That cow had my name on it”

The one really significant scene was the half revealed conversation between Sheila and Scully. I want to know what Scully said to Sheila to make Sheila say “You’ve never even kissed?” It sounded to me like the significant end to a girlie heart to heart conversation – and from what Scully said about a switch flicking over from friendship to something more significant, it seemed to me, we should have been in on that conversation. Frustrating…..

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