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I just jumped into the episode about 10 minutes late and didn't really grasp what was going on. I figured the show was all confusing bunk that I was better off not bothering with, particularly as I had to spend so much time jumping away from the action so my parents didn't catch me watching it. Also, I had real trouble with telling narratives through cross-cutting and … a number of things, actually. So I was looking forward to watching "The Calusari," figuring I'd at least understand what the hell was going on.

And, honestly, I'm not sure I did. This is another one of those X-Files episodes where the show throws a bunch of possible theories at the audience, then seems to pick one of them and follow it, but the theory it picks never makes a lot of sense. Somehow, our murderous child is plagued by an evil twin whose soul was never separated from his, so he has to be saved by a bunch of old Romanians. The evil twin thing never makes complete sense, particularly since the nicely creepy opening scene involved what appeared to be the actual kid killing off his younger brother.

I do like it when the show leaves things open to interpretation, but this episode maybe needed a little less in the way of chaos and a little more in the way of explanation. Let's put this another way: "The Calusari" is an episode with a lot of great and spooky moments, but it's never an episode with a cohesive and scary story, so much as it's an episode where stuff pretty much just seems to happen to the characters, stuff that they shrug off pretty quickly.

First, Charlie seems to be totally OK with evil unseen twin Michael bumping off his little brother. But then he gets more and more upset with Michael as the episode goes on. And the way the story lurches from seeming like we're seeing a ripoff of The Omen to some sort of evil, noncorporeal twin storyline feels like, well, like the writers just didn't want to rip off The Omen.

But there are some really great moments here. Scully's theorizing, for once, seems sort of like something that could happen, as she pulls out Munchausen by Proxy, which is at least a natural response to what's going on and a nice counterpoint to Mulder's "Ghosts did it! And that opening teaser is genius, right down to the way the balloon descends to hang out over Charlie's shoulder as we look up at him from a low angle though I doubt a kiddie train would have that much trouble stopping.

X-Files was a gutsy show when it wanted to be, and killing off a baby isn't something you see on TV every day. Furthermore, I always love stories where there's a lot of crazy rituals and old men and women who warn that if they aren't allowed to complete these rituals, terrible things will happen, and there's plenty of this throughout this hour. At the same time, I'm not sure everything hangs together.

The references to the guys being able to create something out of nothing never has an adequate payoff. Neither do the chickens, which just kind of come out of nowhere, kill Grandma, and then leave. I wanted more backstory about the Calusari and about the grandma, and I just didn't get it. Grandma seems kind of crazy, as though she just accused everyone of being the devil and got lucky this time, and then she's able to pull it over to get her Romanian friends over to handle all of this.

And then Charlie's mom also has a firm command over magic ritual? It's a messy, chaotic story that could have been much better developed, and too many things that happen in it seem to be happening just because the writers thought it would be cool if they happened. It's a long string of cool moments, then, without a good deal of stuff holding them together in between. There's also a good deal of theorizing about the nature of "evil," which feels like one of those things the show would do from time to time, without really having a coherent reason for doing so.

If Hitler was somehow doing what he was doing because of an evil ghost twin, well, I guess that explains SOMEthing, but I'm not sure the random references to real life evils belonged in the episode either. This is also an episode where Mulder and Scully are mostly just tourists through the story, seeing a bunch of crazy stuff and then mostly seeming to forget about it. Now, there are good episodes like that as I mentioned two weeks ago, "Die Hand, Die Verletzt" fits this template , but it's awfully hard to do a good one where the two are sidelined too much.

And, honestly, "Calusari" has the two of them several steps behind the old Romanian dudes too often. Trondheim notices red fluid leaking. What is happening to Mulder and Scully is pretty much exactly what is happening to the boat — their own biological decay completely inseparable from the decay of the vessel that houses them.

His scripts tend to elevating something inanimate to consciousness or reducing people to something inhuman. Ghost in the Machine is the story of a consciousness that develops without an organic body to house it. His last solo script for the series, Kaddish , is about a golem sculpted from lifeless clay and imbued with a make-shift consciousness. Sleepless is about attempts to turn ordinary soldiers into soulless killing machines.

Grotesque is about human bodies that become clay sculptures. The X-Files is a show that explores America in the wake of the Cold War, but it is also fascinated with the legacy of the Second World War and the way that the national identity was altered and shaped by those events. However, the show is much more interested in theories and cases spawned from military history and legacy. It is a military vessel that disappears, prompting the investigation.

When Mulder provides a history of the region, he cites a long list of missing navy vessels that went missing while passing through. In , at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, a fleet of Soviet minesweepers left from here for Havana. All six vessels vanished without a trace. One suspects that paranormal phenomena are not the only things that could account for the disappearances. After all, the conspiracy storyline offers an alternate history of America in the twentieth century, where various failures and errors in judgment are accounted for as part of a vast faceless conspiracy involving aliens and colonisation.

The reality was most likely much more mundane, with the ships moving through a channel concealed from the Germans during the war in the Atlantic. However, the myth — which began in the fifties and was spurred on by a science-fiction film — is much more attractive than the probable reality. The decaying USS Ardent captures a peculiar sense of nineties ennui, the feeling that the United States had vanquished its military opponents and that ships like the Ardent would be unlikely to worry about being destroyed in combat or naval warfare.

Instead, the ships would survive long enough to be decommissioned, rusting and decaying. You might be interested in our other reviews of the second season of The X-Files :. This was another good episode. You have inspired me to watch The X-Files! It has been sitting in my queue on Netflix for a while now. I am on S01E10 so far. Taking me back to good times when I was teen in that late 90s. Loved that one. Max Fenig is heartbreaking.

One of the shows that proved the alien mythology was workable. Alien mythology is pretty intense but it did work here. I would say the primary reason why The X-Files never offered any answers is because the writers themselves were fundamentally incapable of it.

Epstein, Harold Weisberg, and Sylvia Meagher—people whose entire careers were premised on asking questions but refusing to ever answer them. You are commenting using your WordPress. Clyde Bruckman: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.

Mulder : Why are you telling me that? Clyde Bruckman: Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business. Trivia : Scully 's father and the man Mulder thought was his father were both named William.

Scully and Mulder's son was also named William. Chosen answer: Yes. Separate from membership , this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site.

You can unsubscribe at any time. Skinner: Use your head Scully. It'll save your ass. Scully : Save your own ass, sir. You'll save your head along with it.

The initial footage of the episode was taken from the movie Airport a Columbia Airlines jumbo jet. Most mistakes of Best movie quotes Mistakes in current releases Movie quotes Movie trivia Oscar nominees Most mistake-prone directors Plot summaries and movie spoilers Random movie. Andy Benham 5. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - S3 - E4 Continuity mistake : Clyde Bruckman commits suicide by placing a plastic bag over his head until he asphyxiates.

Ascension 2 - S2 - E6 Continuity mistake : When Mulder is in the tram car ascending the mountain to rescue Scully , he pulls all of the things out of under the top left-hand seat, but when the scene moves to Krycek in the booth, you don't see any of the things that Mulder threw out. Fallen Angel - S1 - E10 Continuity mistake : When Mulder helps Max lie down he notices the scar behind his right ear but when he tells Scully about it later he says that the scar is behind his left ear. While Mulder ponders bizarre military experiments and mythology, Scully looks for explanations in chemistry and oceanography.

Her work takes on new urgency once it becomes plain that whatever killed the crew is now affecting them.

Usually a poor makeup job or special effect would not be worth commenting on, but in this case the makeup effects were central to the story line and could not be overlooked. I spent far too much time trying to figure out what the makeup was supposed to be telling me: they were diseased?

A special effect which shouts for attention, good or bad, is out of proportion and should be cut back. For example, a man as lean as David Duchovny will become thinner with age, with his ears and nose becoming more prominent as the fat beneath the skin fades away. Gillian Anderson fared a little better: she looked faded and worn and dried out. Her movements in particular had the stiffness of old age. She came across as a tough, no-nonsense old lady still sharp enough to solve the mystery and still tender enough to sacrifice herself for Mulder.



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