This is the second episode in a row with very minimal Scully screen time. Was Gillian Anderson working on something else at this time? I wish choo_choo_bear still had those guide book back-stories. :P
I wish I had the answer to that. I blame FOX, or Harper Prism / Harper Collins (publishing house), and the various ep guide authors (Andy Meisler, Marc Shapiro, Brian Lowry) for not bothering to produce ep guides for the last two seasons. Why the heck did they stop at season 7? No idea.
It's something about his dialogue and the way he delivers his lines, but I don't know, he just always ends up sounding like a moron.
Yup. It's like the directors are telling him, "You gotta sound tough. Give 'em hell." And in response he's barking his lines and sounding, like you said, like a moron.
Oh, I LOVE the dream scene where Doggett goes to Scully's bedroom with the axe. The blue lighting and the flashes, where you see a different image each time the light comes back up? And the pulsing sound? The whole thing is just really neat.
If by neat you mean SCARY AS HELL, then I agree. The cinematography is pretty fantastic in that scene, as is RP's acting.
Doggett is just barely BARELY keeping it under control, because he knows how crazy he sounds (and probably feels), but he's also literally afraid for his life. He's actually on the verge of tears at one point.
Yup. I think that's RP's best acting so far this season.
Why was she even going over there in the first place? Couldn't she have called?
I'm not sure if a simple phone call would have snapped him out of the nightmare (and thus saved his life) as well as Scully being there in person to wake him up. Random thought: isn't it crazy that RP is a full 10 YEARS older than GA?
PS: I just went through imdb and perhaps GA was filming and/or promoting her film House of Mirth when this ep was being shot, thus limiting her available screen time. It's the only reason I can think of, anyway.
I wish I had the answer to that. I blame FOX, or Harper Prism / Harper Collins (publishing house), and the various ep guide authors (Andy Meisler, Marc Shapiro, Brian Lowry) for not bothering to produce ep guides for the last two seasons. Why the heck did they stop at season 7? No idea.
It's something about his dialogue and the way he delivers his lines, but I don't know, he just always ends up sounding like a moron.
Yup. It's like the directors are telling him, "You gotta sound tough. Give 'em hell." And in response he's barking his lines and sounding, like you said, like a moron.
Oh, I LOVE the dream scene where Doggett goes to Scully's bedroom with the axe. The blue lighting and the flashes, where you see a different image each time the light comes back up? And the pulsing sound? The whole thing is just really neat.
If by neat you mean SCARY AS HELL, then I agree. The cinematography is pretty fantastic in that scene, as is RP's acting.
Doggett is just barely BARELY keeping it under control, because he knows how crazy he sounds (and probably feels), but he's also literally afraid for his life. He's actually on the verge of tears at one point.
Yup. I think that's RP's best acting so far this season.
Why was she even going over there in the first place? Couldn't she have called?
I'm not sure if a simple phone call would have snapped him out of the nightmare (and thus saved his life) as well as Scully being there in person to wake him up. Random thought: isn't it crazy that RP is a full 10 YEARS older than GA?
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I just went through imdb and perhaps GA was filming and/or promoting her film House of Mirth when this ep was being shot, thus limiting her available screen time. It's the only reason I can think of, anyway.
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