Dark Skies by Sarah Stegall © copyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall The premiere episode of “Dark Skies” is scary, thrilling, derivative, and predictable all at once. It is “The X-Files: The Early Years”, with more money than the original series from which it derives its raison d’etre. There are several significant differences, primarily of tone and approach, between “Dark Skies” and “The X-Files”, but essentially they take place in the same universe and, one would swear, with the same cast of characters. The premise is pretty simple: aliens really did land at Roswell in 1947, met with Harry Truman, demanded…
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The Cape: “Kozmo”
Dealing From the Bottom of the Deck “Kozmo” The Cape NBC, Monday, 9/10 PM Written by Craig Titley Directed by David Jackson “Don’t you ever shut up?” — Vince Clue number one for casting directors: do not make your villain look like the hero’s older brother, unless you’re trying to make some subtle point about two sides of the same coin. In tonight’s episode of The Cape, we are introduced to Gregor Molotov (seriously? Molotov? Is there an upcoming villain named “Scud”?) played by the always intense Thomas Kretschmann (FlashForward). Gregor is a bad-guy version of Vince Faraday — a student…