five thousand shades of blue
Wednesday, May 23, 2001
I have a million and one things to do before Egil's this weekend, and I'm going to not think about it and talk to you about a couple of TV shows. Let's hear it for procrastination.
X-Files: The season finale was this past Sunday, and I was actually disappointed that it wasn't the series finale (seems that Fox is going to milk this cash cow for all it's worth, much like Paramount and Star Trek). My feelings on the ending were somewhere between
Julie's and . It was kind of sweet that Mulder and Scully end up happy and together (I admit, I went "Awwww."), but at the same time, I'm disappointed that Chris Carter decided to compromise the professional relationship that was so unique to Hollywood and to TV, and went back on his promise that he'd keep their relationship "just friends". Why on earth would he even make such a promse? I also kind of think that Carter wrote himself into a corner. Really, was Scully's baby going to be an alien? And since there were no recurring characters outside of the realm of Scully and Mulder's work (Joe Accountant, Jane Librarian), it seems inevitable that the pair fell for each other (can I call this the Inevitability Factor™?).
Whatever. The show I was much more excited about was
Dark Angel, which wrapped up its first season with an episode that was a kick in the teeth. Who would have ever thought Lydecker a sympathetic character? Nana Visitor? Excellent as psychobitch! And... the best hallucinatory episode EV-ER. You can see that James Cameron was a man with a plan. I heard that early on he didn't expect the show would last the season (fortunately, his pessimism turned out to be unfounded), and I can see how things might have gone if it hadn't. Whew. Looking forward to the fall to see how Max will manage to resist Manticore's re-integration, evade the psychobitch Renfro (aka Evil Kira minus the sensuality plus blonde hair), and make it back to Logan, who thinks she's dead (well, most people who have their ventricle obliterated don't make it back to the land of the living).
is
this just not enough…?
