From: tondaleo@hotmail.com
Sean Carroll wrote:
> "OscartheGrouch" wrote
>> Lukan wrote:
>
>>> Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paperclip
>>> .......... any argument?
>
>> None. I agree. I liked the three with Zeuss Faber or Piper Maru or
>> whatever a lot too, but the Anasazi trilogy was my all time favorite.
>
> 'Piper Maru'/'Apocrypha' was only two episodes, not three. (The 'Piper Maru'
> is the name of the French salvage ship on which we watch someone get
> possessed in the opening scene, in the very first introduction of the
> concept of the Black Oil. When it's not busy being Gillian's daughter's
> name. The 'Zeus Faber' is the name of a submarine during WW2 on which almost
> everyone was killed by the Oil, in the same location as the Piper Maru. We
> see that in a flashback during the 2nd episode.) Excellent episodes,
> nonetheless -- some of the most perfect, exciting, kick-ass mytharc eps
> ever. And they were immediately followed up with 'Pusher', one of the finest
> and consistently most popular stand-alones, so no doubt they do form a part
> of one of the heavy contenders for 'best three eps in a row', albeit not a
> continuous arc. Also preceded by 'Grotesque', an underrated one, but one of
> my true favourites among the more obscure eps.
>
> The only other true three-parter, besides A/TBW/PC, is
> 'Gethsemane'/'Redux'/'Redux II'. (Well, unless you count 'The End'/FTF (the
> movie)/'The Beginning'.) Though there is a decent argument I could easily
> make that, thematically and in spirit, the big granddaddy forerunner of all
> three-parters is 'Duane Barry'/'Ascension'/'One Breath', although the latter
> was separated from the first two by a separate episode. ('3' might be
> considered part of the emotional character arc for Mulder, in terms of
> showing him dealing with Scully's abduction while trying for a brief time to
> go back to work without her. But the bulk of the episode is really
> stand-alone material.) All of these are excellent, among the series' finest
> moments. (The movie arc isn't quite on the level of the others, but I do
> find that with time and repeated watchings, it's grown on me quite a bit in
> the years since they aired. Though I'm still bitter that they cut Scully
> saying 'I don't fucking believe this!' -- what, just so Mulder could make
> that dumb 'shitstorm' comment to Glenn Headley? Bastards! It's not like he
> didn't get to say a more appropriate and satisfying 'oh, shit' on the
> spaceship later on, too! But I digress.)
>
> Some other possible contenders for best 3 in a row, although none of them
> are continuous arcs:
>
> 'Deep Throat', 'Squeeze', 'Conduit'
>
> 'The Erlenmeyer Flask', 'Little Green Men', 'The Host'
>
> 'Nisei', '731', 'Revelations'
>
> 'Tunguska', 'Terma', 'Paper Hearts'
>
> 'Kill Switch', 'Bad Blood', 'Patient X' (I personally would add 'The Red and
> the Black' as a fourth)
>
> 'Three of a Kind', 'Field Trip', 'Biogenesis'
>
> Some more obscure personal favourites: 'Theef', 'En Ami', 'Chimera' (These
> are neglected gems from among the much-reviled later seasons, IMO. If people
> stopped focusing on the mytharc so much, they'd realised they missed a lot
> of good stuff in seasons 6 through 9.
>
That's right, Piper Maru was 2 parts. By that time I was locked in,
staying home to watch The X Files. Before it had been something I
watched out of curiosity on Friday nights if I'm home (Remember when it
was on Fridays, before the move to Sundays?). It was the Anasazi trilogy
that really did it for me. Pusher and the rest of season 3 saw me home
eagerly awaiting the show. Stayed that way pretty much til the end.
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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