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Date Posted: 15:06:14 02/04/00 Fri
Author: devlin
Subject: I wanted to enjoy it in the way you describe
In reply to: C-shantal 's message, ""It didn't really happen...it was all in our heads?"" on 20:33:44 02/03/00 Thu

I was looking forward to that Christmas holiday feeling. I liked it a lot when the 'ghosts' weren't there. It was great to see M&S interacting and all that weirdness happening to them. It seems to me that three-in-a-row off the wall eps is pushing it. I would have liked Triangle, Dreamland and Ghosts to be separated out a bit. I know, I should take them individually, but there is a feeling of someone (CC) just experimenting and experimenting and I want to see something that I recognise. I did love Dreamland, though.

I disagree that the characters don't go anywhere. That was why I was disturbed actually. All those psychological truths and funny though they might be, I keep thinking of Mulder's face when the male ghost was challenging him. When he suggested that Mulder was afraid of the loneliness, Mulder didn't reply. I thought it was sad :(

Maybe I approached it wrong. I sound as if I have no sense of humour. I did find a lot of it amusing (honest!) Like when Scully screamed and fainted! Or when the female ghost called Mulder "Masher" and he called her "Frump". It was a good set, I thought, with the weird way the rooms kept opening out into each other. I was spooked by the M & S bodies under the floorboards. You said the word 'macabre' and that was just right.

I got to thinking particularly - how come Scully didn't ask Mulder to her Mum's for Christmas in the first place? She asked him "Don't you have someplace to be?" and he didn't. She might have asked him to be spend time with her. A bit mean, Scully. Luckily she made up for it at the end, when she came round to his apartment. I thought then that she found a great excuse for not going home after all. In Christmas Carol, she found it awkward at home, so maybe she wasn't looking forward to the trip herself.

I *got* the shooting thing - just didn't like it.

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Sure it was a humor episode, but.... -- Cookie monster, 12:27:27 02/05/00 Sat
- Cookie, Re: Scully screaming -- detoured, 01:43:19 02/06/00 Sun
  - Got the keys? Got the keys! -- Cookie monster, 00:15:56 02/07/00 Mon
    - Keys -- detoured, 15:44:43 02/09/00 Wed
      - The Friends reference.... -- Cookie monster, 12:26:34 02/10/00 Thu
        Sounds only vaguely familiar. I'll look for that on the rerun! NimChandler (NT) -- detoured, 00:59:33 02/13/00 Sun
Mulder's sadness... -- detoured, 01:38:31 02/06/00 Sun
- I just thought it was cruel to make Mulder sad right in his face! -- devlin, 14:31:22 02/06/00 Sun
  - Re: I just thought it was cruel to make Mulder sad right in his face! -- nic, 13:56:16 02/08/00 Tue
    - In between, they always forget the myth arc -- devlin, 16:44:10 02/08/00 Tue