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MeeVee Rewind: Investigating The X-Files (Season 6, Part 2)

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digg_url = 'http://blog.meevee.com/my_weblog/2008/07/meevee-rewind-i.html'; When Season 6 rocks, it produces an extravaganza of some of my all-time favorite episodes. When it sucks, it's enough to make me go all drooly and cross-eyed. And when the episodes are just average, their very averageness somehow irritates me. The effect is just plain weird, bipolar even. Even the way the myth works strikes me as odd. In Season 6, the myth plateaus, tension stops building and suspense ceases to rise. It ought to be awesome to finally have some questions answered, and while it is, it's also oddly unfulfilling. The myth engine that drove the meta-plot of The X-Files' sort of runs out of gas, and it leaves the whole show feeling unmoored. The myth episodes themselves have odd structures and a lack of stylistic and thematic cohesiveness. In Season 6 opener The Beginning,' we find out that the X-Files, which got reopened during the film, have been assigned to weasly Jeffery Spender and slimy Diana Fowley. Gibson Praise reappears, after some creepy Syndicate brain surgery, and discovers that he can communicate with the newborn evil alien baby. I found Gibson particularly fascinating on this viewing, but the episode doesn't focus on him. Instead, it centers on Mulder's intense and illogical attachment to smarmy mega-bitch Fowley, a choice that made me feel stabby. Around this point that I found I'd developed a grudging respect for Krycek. He's smarter than Spender and less subversive than Fowley. The more I looked at her, the more I came to appreciate Krycek's pragmatic sort of selfishness. I just wish S.R. 819,' th...

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