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…
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Dark Skies: “Pilot”
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…