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MeeVee Rewind: Investigating The X-Files (Season 8, Part 2)
Posted July 17th ago via TV with MeeVee
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I officially feel foolish for dreading Season 8 of the X-Files so much. Not every episode hits it out of the park, but taken as a whole, I think like 8 more than 7. The monsters of the week don't excite as much, but it has a decidedly old-school feeling of momentum and purpose. Hell, I've even decided I am - Dare I say it? - a fan of John Doggett. I don't get him, I don't necessarily understand what makes him tick, but I dig him. Robert Patrick has a knack for contrasting gravitas with explosive badass-ness that gets me in a good way.
I finished the first half of Season 8 seriously pondering how Doggett would rationalize being brought back from the dead via Native American shaman cannibalism in The Gift.' I haven't decided whether Doggett basically ignoring the whole thing evidences a plot hole the writers just didn't deal with or if it's a part of Doggett's complicated and multi-hued personality. Mostly, I just decided not to care.
The writers endeared Doggett to me by giving an explanation for his extreme skepticism. In Empedocles' we learn that Doggett's son was kidnapped and killed. Reyes was in charge of the investigation and felt some typically woo-woo vibrations about the case that he rejected. Doggett admits to her that he can't let himself believe in paranormal activity now because it would mean that by rejecting it at the time of his son's death, he might have rejected a means of saving him. The writers also make a point of showing the fiercely loyal devotion Doggett develops to both Scully and the X-Files. ...
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