Grow Old Along With Me by Sarah Stegall Copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall The language of television is unique. It is only tangentially related to the language of literature, and even less so to the language of science. Thus to critique “The X- Files” on the basis of “scientific inaccuracies” is a little like blaming a violin for not being a Ferrari. The appropriate forum for its critique is not science but art, and commercial art at that. Although “The X-Files ” transcends its genre an astonishing amount of the time, frankly we are lucky when it only hits the…
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The X-Files: “Excelsis Dei”
Surf the Halls by Sarah Stegall Copyright © 1994 by Sarah Stegall Written by Paul Brown Directed by Stephen Surjik Like many viewers, I have been waiting for an episode that lets Dana Scully take a case, and allows her own investigative powers to shine. So when Mulder walks in at the beginning of “Excelsis Dei” and finds her in the middle of a case, I was thrilled. Agent Scully goes to bat for a nurse (Teryl Rothery) who claims to have been raped by an invisible entity. Mulder is immediately skeptical–there’s a rare turn- -pointing out that while they…