Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Case 06, File 11: Two Fathers

AKA: Mulder Has Two Daddies


There's a problem that long running shows eventually hit where the plot has spiraled out of control into a mess, with so many twists and turns and different factions and motivations, that keeping track of all of it usually requires a Pepe Silvia Wall (am I trying to turn Pepe Silvia into a verb or an adjective, I forget). When you get there, you can take two paths: You can either let the plots continue to spin out of control and hope you can wrap them up eventually (this is known as the LOST path, and I do not recommend it) or you can try to prune a bunch of stuff, and usually a lot of characters along with it.