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The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Scully: I can’t look into the darkness with you anymore, Mulder.  I cannot stand what it does to you, or to me.

Mulder: I’m fine with it, Scully.  I’m actually okay.  I’m good.

I watched the second X-Files movie over Thanksgiving and dug it.

4/5 stars

I Want to Believe is like a particularly slick, longish non-ET episode; unlike Fight the Future, it doesn’t develop the main mythos of the show (the conspiracy here is a relatively cozy, small-scale one), but does develop the Mulder-Scully dynamic very nicely.  Billy Connolly’s also awesome as a psychic pedophile priest helping out with the investigation.  I was really into this show as a kid, but for some reason stopped watching it after season 5.  In 2004 (I think) I revisited my favorite episode “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” with some pals, and it held up quite well.  Anyway, you don’t have to know jack about the show to follow I Want to Believe.  Dean from Dreaming Ant says he thought season 8 was rad, so maybe I’ll check that out sometime.

Be good and cuídate.