Ok. I personally find the new opening credits to be ok.
True, the new order should be: "Anderson," "Patrick," "Duchovny," but that's probably a contractual issue with DD and CC.
I would've liked the photo-id pictures to stay in blue/black/white, but that's just me.
The whole thing looks like the opening credits to "The Outer Limits."
Not bad, just a drastic change from the opening we know.
Anybody else have any thoughts?
Elminate that dumb shot of Mulder falling, and it'd be fine with me.
As long as the music and "The Truth is Out There" stays, the credits can be anything.
Its official, Duchovny no longer appears in the opening credits except for that shot of Mulder falling. I guess he isn't going to be back for a while.
So, what was that thing that attacked people? Was it the creature that was killed back in the 50s, or was it something different?
Good episode. Muscic was a too light, (as in comedic) in some serious scenes, but an entertaining episode with an interesting, if overused concept. This is the first "normal" episode of the season, I geuss, and the Creators (Don't you just wish that you could just read another book that uses that special phrase? *Sighs*) did a really good job establishing a good dynamic between Scully and Dogget, and showedScully's acceptance of him with the subplot arc about Mulder's desk I.D. thing. I really got the sense that Dogget cares quite a bit about Scully. I hate to say it, but I did not miss Mulder one bit, but then I'm a big T-1000 fan. If this is the shape of things to come, I won't mind a bit. Didn't see any nits, but I wasn't really looking for them. And I just want to say that the bit about the worlds first Drive-Through Humador had me on the floor. Ooops wrong show.
I just realized what the falling Mulder replaced in the opening credits ... it's the silhouette of a guy falling. Sorry, haven't really paid attention until now.
Anyway, I know it's been mentioned that as a nit that Scully or Mulder usually don't have flashlights when they need it most ... Dogett just confirmed that for us eh ... when Scully said "no" to his question. I guess neither does the detective. I'm wondering why he didn't reach for his gun when he was attacked though.
And didn't bat-man attack in daylight when he went for the old lady at the attic? That negates what the old man said that bats only attacked at night.
I wonder what was funny 'coz I could see Scully suppressing a smile/laughter when they first meet the detective at the undertaker's place. Maybe the role-reversal wherein she's the believer eh? Filling in Mulder's role/shoes.
Yeah, I agree ... nice touch with the nameplate and acceptance of Doggett as partner. I guess Scully is taking Mulder's table 'coz she said Doggett should get his own.
Oh yeah, that newspaper clipping ... it looked crisp but I found it kinda odd to be unworn. Has it always been that way in the X-Files? I've got short term memory and can't remember. ;-)
My $0.02 tonight. :-)
At least they gave an explanation for the "stoopid monster effect". You know, nothing happens, and then when M&S (now S&D) show up, the killings increase. And it was even a logical explanation!
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12th Man--you said it! Nice touch for the plot, making it logical enough for both semi-believer Scully and cop-Doggett.
I like the resonance between Scully and Doggett. He's not getting too familiar with her (every time he said "Agent Scully", I was pleased), but yes I think he does care. It kind of seems like something he's used to doing--when he's assigned a new partner, he starts to care about them because it's part of his duty, like watching their back. A neat touch with Mulder's nameplate, but it made me sad too.
I love the complexity of the main characters on this series! The new role Scully is having to take this season gives us a totally new light on her. With Mulder around, she could afford to always be the skeptic, and they could play off each other and get at the truth eventually. Now, to make the X-Files work, she *has* to take on part of Mulder's role. He *was* the X-Files; now Scully is. And she is so not comfortable with that. She has to try and stay true to herself and her principles as well as leaving herself open to 'extreme possibilities'. The Scully/Doggett relationship is not going to be simplistic, not just a rerun of the Mulder/Scully 1st season. I'm looking forward to seeing it develop.
[and this sounds cruel, but coming from me it means I've come to respect Doggett already--I would like to see one of two endings to the X-Files this season. Either Mulder returns, he&Scully get married and have a kid, and Doggett has learned enough to take over the X-Files; or I would like to see Doggett sacrifice himself in order to get Mulder back. I can totally see him doing it for Scully, if the relationship doesn't change drastically before the end of the season.]
I like the changed credits. I had missed the slow-motion M&S shot, nice to have some kind of replacement; and the toned-down Mulder falling shot is much less cheesy now (it helps to know what it replaced, thank you Shirlyn Wong). Sad not to see Mulder's badge though; we need all the reminders we can get of him this season. Seriously. I miss Mulder....
Oh--and when the guy in the cabin was telling Scully that she's marked, and she's just "a young woman," did anyone else automatically think (or yell out) "a *pregnant* young woman"? I think that was a reference to the baby, if a very covert one. From now on (esp since there was something similar in "Roadrunner") I am going to be watching for those.
In retrospect, this is an odd episode (not in a bad way, just odd). At one point, Doggett presents to Scully the picture about the "bat boy" like he believes it. Now, at this point in the series, that could make sense. Doggett hasn't been exposed to many paranormal things. There's the possibility for something interesting here--Doggett could believe in the paranormal, just not aliens and government conspiracies. Unfortunately, that element of the character is soon dropped.
Did I miss a line where the other hunters were reported killed? I didn't understand why the one hunter would go into hiding for forty years just in case there was another bat-man that might bear a grudge.
So our hunter has radar and video monitors of his island, but when he (finally) goes for a gun, it's a shotgun that has to be broken open to be loaded? (Meaning, it probably can fire at most two shots before needing reloading.) If I was that paranoid about being stalked by a monster I would keep a semiautomatic shotgun handy---and carry a pistol.
This hunter also asserts that the bat-man only hunts at night. Why, then, did he wait until after dark to go and retrieve the supplies his brother left for him?
Burning the hunter's wife's body made no sense. She died of heart failure and her body was identified. Burning the body did nothing to disguise who she was or how she died. All it did was draw attention to her death.
The scene with the local cops after the retrieval of the detective was bizarre. They basically said that Scully was messing where she didn't belong, and that they didn't want her to have anything further to do with the case. But the death of the detective and the gravediggers' report of how they found the grave clearly show that the killer was at the cemetery. That is, Scully somehow pinpointed the killer for which they were searching, and if the detective had ever learned about that whole "gun" thing or if any of those loafers had bothered to accompany him then quite possibly the creature that has been terrorizing the community would have been killed. Now these guys want the one person who seems to have a clue to back off, while they spread themselves randomly over the county and continue to let innocent people be ripped to shreds.
Quote:Burning the hunter's wife's body made no sense. She died of heart failure and her body was identified. Burning the body did nothing to disguise who she was or how she died. All it did was draw attention to her death.