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Date Posted: 02:09:28 02/11/00 Fri
Author: nic
Subject: Garbage
In reply to: devlin 's message, "Terms of Endearment - Oh dear...." on 15:50:51 02/10/00 Thu

The choice of music was good - I was singing along while I'm Only Happy When It Rains was playing.

Now I'm trying desperately to think of anything else good about this ep...

Nope, I got nothin'. :o(

Dev, I think you got the plot nailed. There was no rhyme nor reason for the motivation behind the characters actions, and I think that's the reason this was so, well, boring.

The only part I didn't find tedious was the teaser - that I just found very disturbing. It's not often I find myself being very shocked by something in TXF (this is the person who thinks Home is one of the best episodes), but the awful demon thing (sorry, I found the special FX in that scene very poor, have to disagree with you there, dev) ripping a baby out of a pregnant woman, with nothing left to the imagination, made me feel nauseous.

Usually, I spend the whole ep interacting with the telly (I know, I'm a sad, sad cow!) - laughing or telling Mulder to stop chasing cars ;o) or Scully to 'Go Girl', or just general 'Fantastic!' comments (no one else is watching with me, so I don't spoil it for anyone!). I watched this whole ep in complete silence, apart from singing along to the Garbage song. I think that says more about the standard of this ep than any long-winded post I could write.

Oh, and SMH, I'm glad the 'I'm not a psychologist' line got noticed before. I knew I couldn't be the only one puzzled by that response. Not only did Mulder do a psychology degree, but the answer was in response to Scully asking him what was driving the killer. He's a profiler!!

One more thing before I give up on this ep - how come Mulder immediately jumped to the conclusion that Wayne was a demon? It annoyed me that he had no proof *whatsoever*. I know he often makes leaps, but usually they're intuitive and based on something - he just thinks a little more laterally than most. But this one, he was drawing horns on Wayne's pic after talking to the guy for 5 minutes. Does he have a special Demon Radar that we haven't been told about?

I'll shut up now. Hope next week's is better.

nic
8o)

> I take back all I said against any part of 'Triangle'
> and 'How the Ghosts Stole Christmas'. These eps were
> gems compared to the very dull 'Terms of Endearment'.
> I didn't even understand the plot! It had a very
> scarey opening, with that wild and crazy devil
> apparition but those SFX were about the best thing in
> it. If I summarise the plot, can someone make sure I
> grasped the point: Wayne, the every day devil kept on
> (marrying and) impregnating women in the hope he would
> eventually produce a baby which didn't have those tell
> tale devil characteristics. When these mothers and
> babies let him down, he killed them. But, he met his
> match when one of his wives was more of a devil than
> he was and actually wanted a demon spawn. Is that
> right?
>
> I was interested in one thing - we found out just what
> Spender does with the 'on-spec' XF cases which come
> across his desk. He shreds them. This bit of plot
> development was the only scene I enjoyed. OK, Mulder
> was on screen, too and thank goodness for him. I had
> to resort to Mulder ogling to see this weak plot
> through to the end. Did anyone enjoy it more than me?

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Replies:

Demon Radar...LOL!... -- detoured, 02:28:41 02/11/00 Fri
- I'm only happy when it's complicated -- nic, 02:45:36 02/11/00 Fri
  - Dammit!! They're=their nimpedantic (NT) -- nic, 02:48:34 02/11/00 Fri
  - You're not alone, nic! -- SanFranPhile, 21:10:14 02/11/00 Fri
    - You go girl! -- Scully'sMyHero, 06:54:39 02/12/00 Sat
      - Don't get me wrong, SMH... -- SanFranPhile, 07:31:06 02/12/00 Sat
    - Fox Mulder: Leg End in his own lifetime -- nic, 14:11:17 02/13/00 Sun
    - Nope, you're not alone -- Cookie monster, 07:30:45 02/14/00 Mon
  - I admit I do too... -- detoured, 02:10:57 02/12/00 Sat
    - DD comments.. -- c_shantal, 08:17:07 02/12/00 Sat
      - Embarrassing comments... -- detoured, 00:17:39 02/13/00 Sun
        LOLOLOL!! nimmy -- hairytoes, 14:48:41 02/13/00 Sun
        Re: Embarrassing comments... -- c_shantal, 17:30:39 02/13/00 Sun
      - I have my own opinion about -- hairytoes, 14:45:59 02/13/00 Sun
        Right. I don't know which one it was but not a recent one. nim (NT) -- c_shantal, 17:35:53 02/13/00 Sun
    - You did? Wow! -- hairytoes, 14:57:25 02/13/00 Sun
  - don't hold your breath on rain king! nim -- cvl, 07:26:35 02/12/00 Sat
    - It wasn't so bad.... -- Cookie monster, 05:50:36 02/13/00 Sun
      - I liked rain kind too! NIMMY NIM NIM (NT) -- sam, 06:09:29 02/13/00 Sun