Where, Oh Where Has My Little Girl Gone? by Sarah Stegall copyright © 1994 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter/Paul Brown Director: Chris Carter/Michael Lange I’ve started and scrapped this review three times. “Duane Barry”/”Ascension” is a very difficult arc to get a handle on. While there are problems with pacing, direction, and content, there are moments–defining moments–in this two-part series that characterize “The X-Files” more sharply than anything else that has appeared in the series so far. Someone needs to remind Chris Carter that when you begin, literally, with a scream, it’s hard to go anywhere but down. You’ve…
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The X-Files: “Little Green Men”
Humpty Dumpty by Sarah Stegall Copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Glen Morgan and James Wong Director: David Nutter “You can’t be afraid” — Fox Mulder If I had to introduce a newcomer to this show, someone who had no idea what the series was about or what its special appeal was, this is the episode I would choose. Everything is here–the search for proof of alien contact, the heartbreak over Mulder’s sister Samantha, the understated sexual tension between Scully and Mulder, the quest Mulder has set himself, and the interference from the maddening Smoking Man and FBI bureaucrats. But…