From: ask-me-in-public-if-you-want-my-address@address.invalid   
      
   Yesterday night my lovely wife and I lit candles, sat close on the sofa   
   enjoyed the next two episodes of the first season, s01e02 Deep Throat   
   and s01e03 Squeeze.   
      
   s01e02 Deep Throat was fun, predictable in a sense by somebody who knows   
   the topic of the series.  I enjoyed Mulder interacting with the typical   
   UFO believer, always in an intelligent way and with the intent of   
   obtaining useful information; intellectually superior but never spiteful   
   -- differently from Scully.  A few fun moments.  In the end Mulder was   
   vindicated, of course.   
   My wife commented about bras in the Nineties, and Gillian Anderson's   
   breasts bouncing during her short run out of the hotel's reception.  The   
   happy husband I am, with eyes only for his lady, had not even noticed.   
   We went back a few seconds and watched again.  Indeed.   
   What I still remember vividly, of course, is the shot of the alien   
   spaceship over Mulder letting us at least glimpse at the grand mystery   
   “they” keep from us, and remain staring in awe.   
      
   Does s01e03 Squeeze count as the first Monster-of-the-Week episode, or   
   should we disqualify it only because of the follow-up episode with the   
   same character?  To me it counts.   
   A few very good directing ideas: I noticed the little   
   globe-in-a-snow-globe office toy in the first scene, on the desk of the   
   first victim; and then the surprise of recognising it again on Tooms's   
   trophy table on when our hero eventually reach his lair.  My wife   
   instead noticed Scully's necklace on the same table as to, announce what   
   was about to happen.  It was still a jump scare.  Great fun.   
      
      
   As a general comment I am starting to notice that the production, while   
   not improvised is not cinema-quality.  It might be that we are spoiled   
   by high-resolution displays now: but the 1990s me would have vehemently   
   disagreed.   
      
   As another minor complaint, the amount of light in night scenes is   
   unrealistic.  This was the case in s01e02 and maybe even more in s01e01   
   Pilot, in which the need of investigating by night had little plot   
   justification, and was more of an aesthetic choice.   
      
   The comparison of fingerprint by computer, with stretching and   
   superposition and the “100% match” verdict (including the same missing   
   spots at the boundary of the prints) feels so naïf nowadays.  I forgive   
   it because I love the series, the memory and this new shared experience.   
   These things I forgive easily.  We all should.   
      
   --   
   Beard   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)