Mind Games by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1996 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Vince Gilligan Director: Rob Bowman “I think, therefore I am.” Intended as a declaration of first principles by philosopher Rene Descartes, this dictum could also serve as a definition of self: I am what I think. If we lose control of what we think, lose control of our minds (through drug abuse, injury or Alzheimer’s, for example), we become different persons. We are not who we are. “The X-Files” returns to the theme of identity (previously explored in such classics of paranoia as “Ice” and “Colony/End Game“) with an…
The X-Files: “Nisei” & “731”
Monsters by Sarah Stegall copyright (c) 1995 by Sarah Stegall “My name is Mulder. Fox Mulder” I couldn’t help it: the sight of Fox Mulder jumping onto trains, retrieving a hideout gun from an ankle holster, and fighting off a piano-wire garroting put me so much in mind of Agent 007 I was wondering if David Duchovny was auditioning for James Bond. Not that I object. While most real FBI agents lead considerably less glamorous lives than this, such cinema verite is boring drama. If we are not to have the smoldering sexual tension between Mulder and Scully back, or…