Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

Getting a ten-episode eleventh season of The X-Files , I have a hard time complaining or griping about the content. I get Anderson for one more season, the character of Scully my favorite all-time female character on television programming. And she certainly hasn't failed me. Although Duchovny has been a bit open to returning, I'm content with this season being the conclusion of the series. The episode, This , features another outre storyline involving a select group "transitioning" to a "digital simulation" after death, stored in a huge NSA Manhattan high-rise machine, controlled by Erika Price (Barbara Hershey), becoming "slaves" where their "new reality" might seem to be ideal, Langley (of the deceased Lone Gunmen!) informs Mulder and Scully it is all a lie that needs to be shut down. Russians arrive at Mulder and Scully's looking to execute them and a digital simulation representation of Langley appearing on Mulder's phone pro

I have had this sitting inactive since the summer of last year. It is not as much a review as a collection of thoughts and plot developments listed. So I might revisit these episodes with something more satisfying in the future. The Blessing Way Mulder nearly dies but is healed of his wounds thanks to help from the Navajo and their chief representative/mentor, Albert Hosteen (Floyd Red Crow Westerman) The FBI believe Mulder is dead, and Scully is suspended from her job without pay due to her association with him, the loss of files the Cigarette Smoking Man desperately wants, and quiet involving any information Mulder might have had, as if concealed out of respect to him. She realizes her life is in danger (told to her by the Well Manicured Man (John Neville) because he feels his “consortium” is acting “impulsively”), and Skinner seems to be the errand boy of the CSM (he’s always in the office taking a drag), not cooperating with her over a possible shooter responsibl

*** / **** “He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us.” Stranger in a Strange Land provides some insight into the tattoos on Jack’s left shoulder, flashbacking to his time in Thailand (Phuket) when he meets the delicious Bai Ling (as Achara) while taking in a lush beach sunrise (and having a go at a kite where he epically fails). Jack and Achara hit it off and sleep together, with him later following her into a secret location where she performs tattoos on locals. She’s got this keen insight into people, understanding “who they really are”. Achara is only supposed to work on her own people, although Jack insists he receive tattoos to define his “true self” as well. She does so reluctantly. Jack shrugging her against a wall in her parlor aggressively is a bit disconcerting, I thought.  ____________________________________________________________ After reading about how ill-received this episode is with Lost fans and critics, I was a bit surprised it is considered

*** / **** A night watchman is shot dead while at his desk and the video recording system was off during it! Liv will certainly be depended upon by Clive to help him solve this murder, that's for sure.  Liv and Major kissing at the end of the previous episode doesn't go anywhere in Love & Basketball , of course. Liv worried about Major becoming a zombie through a cut or passage of fluids puts the kibosh on any good lovin'. But gaining back friendships puts Liv back in good spirits. The brains of the night watchman give Liv a particular fondness for and knowledge of basketball. Included in this new personality is a severe dislike for the Knicks as fan Clive soon learns! Gilda is to somehow get some of Liv's blood for the Super Max experiments, realizing Major might just be her way to do so. Liv giving Major a pep talk is the absolute highlight, coaching him up as he looks on from his disheveled bed, perplexed but amused. And Clive beating the shit out of

**** / **** With Desmond’s wicked clairvoyance and Charlie’s obsessive jealousy, it is a wonder if this will become some toxic brew certain to cause more harm than good. Saving Claire from being struck by lightning with a makeshift rod and then running from inside the jungle to rescue her from drowning after she’s caught in an undertow while swimming has just further driven Charlie towards the edge of the cliff. Turning the key and the results of this are explored more in this Desmond-themed episode of Lost , Flashes Before Your Eyes . On my mind just Monday morning was when the third season would get Penelope more involved. Desmond doesn’t have any romantic interest in Claire. His love is for Penny. The signal going out after Desmond turned that key at the end of the second season hadn’t yet been revisited in the third season. Penny was sort of abandoned until the time was right to further elaborate on Desmond’s character. I was looking forward to this episode. I personal

** / **** The black smoke monster just doesn't do anything for me. That this is what kills Eko in The Cost of Living is especially disappointing. Eko's story concludes in this episode, and I feel a great void in such a loss to the show. Bernard remains and it is almost like the second season is diminished by the loss of so many from the tail section of the Oceanic. There were characters that had a past, found themselves on this island, and are gone. Eko left Nigeria with blood on his hands and person, ruining Yemi's church by destroying drug scum with a machete taken from them. Despite the fact that he was defending himself and these dirtbags were trying to lop off his hands, it seems Eko was judged and executed for his history. He killed someone as a child so Yemi would be kept from such trauma. He took his place momentarily after Yemi was killed, even leaving for England for "further Catholic studies". Eko continued to survive, following the image of Yemi t

***½ / **** Juliet told Jack she was a fertility doctor. But she’s no garden variety fertility doctor. No siree. If anything she’s a genius in the fertility field and how this really damn good episode of Lost ties her to Ben and the island works out masterfully well. Not in Portland is quite the clever title which functions also as a twist when Juliet learns that the location for which she’ll be allowed the freedom of “private research” isn’t in Portland, Oregon, but on a particular island. Recruited by Nestor Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) to come work for a private company, with Ethan From, of all people, accompanying him, Juliet has to turn them down due to her husband (Željko Ivanek) having evidence of theft of drugs from the hospital they work (to help her sister get pregnant). A comment regarding her husband getting hit by a bus in order to be free of his influence to stop her from fertility research work and how it actually happens right before Juliet’s eyes is quite