I hate cliffhangers...
May. 13th, 2001 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpTonight's episode of The X Files was fine, but there are so many questions left to be resolved next week that it's annoying. The teaser at the end of the show ("one life will begin...another life will end") just tightens the screws.
Very little makes sense, which is why (as I've said many times previous) I like the series. You'd think that folks'd want to shoot Alex Krycek as soon as look at him, but there he is, providing us viewers with yet another view of the world. I would not be surprised to see him turn out to be a hero when all is said and done.
In any event, there is nothing left to do but clean away the dirty dishes and wait until next Sunday. I suppose any news of Yet Another Season will not be announced until we're well into reruns. Frankly, I like the series even more ever since Robert Patrick was added to the cast. (The only thing I'd like better is to see Mulder set himself up as a consultant and work the X files under contract with the FBI..at a concomitantly higher rate of pay, natch. But I've got NASA on my mind, I guess. :^)
Cheers...
Very little makes sense, which is why (as I've said many times previous) I like the series. You'd think that folks'd want to shoot Alex Krycek as soon as look at him, but there he is, providing us viewers with yet another view of the world. I would not be surprised to see him turn out to be a hero when all is said and done.
In any event, there is nothing left to do but clean away the dirty dishes and wait until next Sunday. I suppose any news of Yet Another Season will not be announced until we're well into reruns. Frankly, I like the series even more ever since Robert Patrick was added to the cast. (The only thing I'd like better is to see Mulder set himself up as a consultant and work the X files under contract with the FBI..at a concomitantly higher rate of pay, natch. But I've got NASA on my mind, I guess. :^)
Cheers...
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Krycek, plot-driven character
Date: 2001-05-13 07:53 pm (UTC)Not entirely bad, but not really good, either. In some ways, he's a more realistic character than Mulder. Well, maybe not... I dunno.
Anyways, he's on the side of the humans. I'm glad that the others have open-enough minds to listen to what he says. I still have to laugh at last season's finale, though - when Mulder lunged at Krycek to punch him, not once but twice. Very silly.
Re: Krycek, plot-driven character
Date: 2001-05-14 07:32 am (UTC)But frankly, when that black car ran down Billy Miles I would not have been terribly surprised to see "Deep Throat" driving, or the Cigarette-Smoking Man.
Cheers...
Eep!
I personally blame J.R. Ewing for these drawn out season finales and cliff hangers. If he hadn't been shot by Kristin, then none of this would be going on right now! :P (My mom and I used to watch Dallas on Friday nights when I was a child)
The waiting is killing me! I want to know who the father is, and all the banter in the show is not helping! Ack.
Re: Eep!
Date: 2001-05-14 07:36 am (UTC)As far as season-ending cliffhangers are concerned, I'm sure someone would have thought of it in the intervening years. My understanding is that the whole tactic came about as the result of a contract negotiation with Larry Hagman, who played J.R. in the series. The theory went: if Hagman tries to squeeze too hard, his character dies.
I just hope next week's show isn't part two of a season-closing cliffhanger.
Cheers...
Re: Eep!
Date: 2001-05-14 08:10 am (UTC)Well, if we wind up with a an end of season cliff-hanger, then they have to give us another season, eh?
Re: Eep!
Date: 2001-05-14 11:09 am (UTC)It'd be just like the producers to leave everyone high and dry; kind of like the ultimate job of leaving loose ends untied.
Cheers...
Re: Eep!
Date: 2001-05-14 12:00 pm (UTC)