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Date Posted: 16:21:05 01/19/00 Wed
Author: devlin
Subject: Triangular reactions
In reply to: Agent M 's message, "Hey Scully?! I love you............" on 15:24:00 01/19/00 Wed

Once you decide to accept the rather weird premise of Triangle, you can allow yourself to go with the flow. First let me say I was a bit baffled at the end – I’m still trying to decide what I think of the episode, whether I can label it good or bad, or where it comes in the scheme of things. It was certainly enjoyable in an unusual way. I was really taken up by it, because it was so different in style to anything else. Everything was off-beat. The music, the cinematography, the direction. Even Mulder was different. Until about half way through, I was wondering who this man was masquerading as Mulder. Luckily, he returned to himself, after a while.

So, you send your main character into a parallel universe in the past, and while he is there, he meets what must be earlier incarnations of people he knows in the present. Is this supposed to have all been Mulder’s dream after all? It seems more likely to have been a dream than a true transportation to a weird past IMO. But that’s TXF for you.

I remember when someone on the old Fox boards posed the question “Does the kiss count?” I think it most certainly did in terms of its effect on future Mulder. Future Mulder seemed to come back to life with his recent amorous adventures very real to him. The “I love you” seemed pretty genuine, even in the context of the comedy. Scully was quite right to dismiss it, though, as he had been saying some very off the wall stuff about time travel. LOL. I noticed that the kiss was still not shown in great close-up. Lots of shadow… On the Mulder psychology level. Though, his kissing ‘Scully’ was quite significant, thinking as he did that he might never see her again. A bold send off and a heroic leap into the ocean. Bruce Willis and Harrison Ford would be proud! To think that all it takes for Mulder to act on his emotions is the thought that he might never see her again.

I didn’t really enjoy the stuff with Scully at the FBI. I wanted to know why she became so completely off her head. Even when she has been very worried about Mulder before, she has never become that weird. All that running around FBI corridors and getting into lifts. And kissing Skinner! That was almost more amazing than Mulder kissing her!! And why ask Spender to help her? He hasn’t got a sudden great influence over naval satellite installations has he? Whilst bits of the Scully sequence were amusing, overall I thought it was out of place and it lasted ages. I wanted to know what the Nazis were doing to Mulder.

So I don’t know, after all that, what kind of an impression I have given about my views. I need to watch Saturday’s repeat to see how it works a second time. I loved Nazi CSM with his ciggies. At least he was consistent... and – I have to admit, I did enjoy the way Mulder grabbed ‘Scully’. Very Rhett Butler!


PS Dirty, sweaty T-shirt.. just had to add that….!

devlin

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