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  THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE   “I’m done chasing monsters in the dark.”   The theme!!!! After so long!!!   This will be good, no?   First, I don’t care what was cut out. If I have to search for the story you really wanted to tell, I’m already put off. Carter is now working (2025?) on a director’s cut but it seems a director’s cut was already put out? It’s R rated or something? Carter wanted more horror? A two headed mutant dog? More grossness? More Dahmer type horror? NO, thanks.   Not a minute in and I’m already bored. The visuals are stunning but who cares about that? I have a MILLENNIUM feel again from this: a woman driving alone on a snowy road while listening to music, an isolated house, a dog, her parking in a garage and being attacked there, all very MILLENNIUM. Then there’s the men poking the ice and dogs and helicopters which feel like the 1980s THE THING, among others such as Steven King’s rip off movies. Next thing you kno...

  Star Trek Storylines That Disappeared Without Explanation BY DYLAN ROTH    AUG. 2, 2021 5:04 PM EST   Paramount Pictures When the original "Star Trek" series premiered in 1966, audiences didn't have much reason to expect long-running story arcs or a strict continuity from a television series. With very few exceptions, each episode of the original "Trek" introduces its own new alien cultures, planets, and guest stars whose stories are tied up neatly in about 50 minutes. Even major character developments like the death of a loved one or having your entire memory permanently erased by an evil space probe are totally forgotten in the next episode, and that was totally normal by the standards of 1960s television.   This had changed by the time "Star Trek" made the leap to the big screen in 1979 and returned to TV in 1986. Reruns and home video had made viewing audiences more sophisticated — they had a memory, now the stories had to as well. ...

  THE X FILES season four and five plus FIGHT THE FUTURE (the first movie) 74           1              "Herrenvolk"‡ R. W. Goodwin               Chris Carter     October 4, 1996            4X01     21.11[21] Pursued by an Alien Bounty Hunter, Jeremiah Smith takes Mulder to a farm where he finds several girls who are clones of his sister.   Better than I remember but all the mythology storylines about the conspiracy…feel…sort of a cheat as they almost don’t reveal much. Here, we get something and I do like Roy Thinnus. He’s playing Jeremiah Smith, a name from LOST IN SPACE. We know Carter was an Irwin Allen fan (he even shows a bit of LAND OF THE GIANTS-THE MECHANICAL MAN in MILLENNIUM-WEEDS). The Hunter is unrelentless and s...