As amusing as your footnotes are, I think it’s more likely that Chris Carter is able to write good X-files episodes. He wrote a couple of decent non-alien plots in season 6. If he hadn’t spent so much time on the alien plot line he could have written more like Improbable - I don’t know how many people watched the post Scully and Mulder episodes but this was the best of them, if you can get past the lack of S&M.
Tom 21 May 2006, 05:51 AM
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He’s not a bad writer, but he’s never made me sit up and take notice as much as in this story. So far. Though I’ve seen season five and six before, I hadn’t quite become the sort of person who checked the writer’s credit at that stage, so I’m quite willing to believe that there’s some good stuff coming up. I am far too dependent on S&M. I’ve only bought the DVDs up to season six, having a pretty good idea that seven stank. And then the cast switching begins.
I should point out however that using later episodes as evidence only feeds into the ‘eating Darin Morgan’ theory. You’d have to find some earlier ones to completely refute it. ‘Improbable’ sounds good though.
The tv.com page for this story is worth checking out — some interesting tidbits. For example; Cher was asked to appear because she was a big fan, but she thought it might be too tacky. Then she saw the episode and regretted it.
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andy
21 May 2006, 05:08 AM
As amusing as your footnotes are, I think it’s more likely that Chris Carter is able to write good X-files episodes. He wrote a couple of decent non-alien plots in season 6. If he hadn’t spent so much time on the alien plot line he could have written more like Improbable - I don’t know how many people watched the post Scully and Mulder episodes but this was the best of them, if you can get past the lack of S&M.
Tom
21 May 2006, 05:51 AM
He’s not a bad writer, but he’s never made me sit up and take notice as much as in this story. So far. Though I’ve seen season five and six before, I hadn’t quite become the sort of person who checked the writer’s credit at that stage, so I’m quite willing to believe that there’s some good stuff coming up. I am far too dependent on S&M. I’ve only bought the DVDs up to season six, having a pretty good idea that seven stank. And then the cast switching begins.
I should point out however that using later episodes as evidence only feeds into the ‘eating Darin Morgan’ theory. You’d have to find some earlier ones to completely refute it. ‘Improbable’ sounds good though.
The tv.com page for this story is worth checking out — some interesting tidbits. For example; Cher was asked to appear because she was a big fan, but she thought it might be too tacky. Then she saw the episode and regretted it.
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