Truthfully my first rewatch, and it made my heart happy! What a super show it was in its prime. I agree with Autumn's review; WW brings together all the good things that made X unique: the mysterious monster, the paranoia, the ship, the ACTING, the LG, in a tightly wound story that actually plays out and resolves with perfectly maintain tension. By the special effects guy!
I always like saying what everyone probably knows, that Scully's trash freakout is a homage to Gene Hackman's in "The Conversation." Likewise Mulder doing something similar though somewhat saner in EBE.
GA is a wonderful actress and she underplays a total mental breakdown with a blank face but hysteria-fueled, insectile physical moves. Her fear just builds and builds. DD was capable of putting in a good performance, and this was among his best. I think I disagree with Fish that he should have been screaming "SCULLY" as he went to identify the body. It would have made sense, but the effect would have been bad. I never thought David could emote too well (cf TFWID). Though I liked him chewing out the poor doctor in OB. He scolded, but he didn't scream.
Sure hope you guys are up on your acronyms.
I liked the nefarious (word of the week) doctor who got shot at the end. Ir was such a sympathetic and convincing performance.
Do we really believe that Mulder was colorblind? I think it was Jess Mabe who put "they let you into the FBI with that?" into a fic; she liked showing up the continuity absurdities. But I guess it's like the wedding ring; you have the option of using or ignoring it.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:31 pm (UTC)I always like saying what everyone probably knows, that Scully's trash freakout is a homage to Gene Hackman's in "The Conversation." Likewise Mulder doing something similar though somewhat saner in EBE.
GA is a wonderful actress and she underplays a total mental breakdown with a blank face but hysteria-fueled, insectile physical moves. Her fear just builds and builds. DD was capable of putting in a good performance, and this was among his best. I think I disagree with Fish that he should have been screaming "SCULLY" as he went to identify the body. It would have made sense, but the effect would have been bad. I never thought David could emote too well (cf TFWID). Though I liked him chewing out the poor doctor in OB. He scolded, but he didn't scream.
Sure hope you guys are up on your acronyms.
I liked the nefarious (word of the week) doctor who got shot at the end. Ir was such a sympathetic and convincing performance.
Do we really believe that Mulder was colorblind? I think it was Jess Mabe who put "they let you into the FBI with that?" into a fic; she liked showing up the continuity absurdities. But I guess it's like the wedding ring; you have the option of using or ignoring it.