The Questing Beast by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1996 by Sarah Stegall Scully: “You’re so consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance in your megalomaniacal cosmology.” Mulder: “Scully, are you coming on to me?” Writer: Kim Newton Director: Any television show that combines dinosaurs and fishing gets my undivided attention. If nothing else had happened in “Quagmire”, the juxtaposition of the noble art of angling with John Bartley’s lyrical shots of a beautiful mountain trout lake would have gotten several sunflower seeds from me.…
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The X-Files: “Pusher”
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…