Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Case 11, File 06: Kitten

AKA: Not One Cat In This Episode, Come On


What are we to make of Walter Skinner? He is, unquestionably, the most important heroic character outside of the core duo (sorry Reyes and Doggett) but he's also a very thinly sketched character. His backstory, his broader motivations, his inner world, for a character who first appeared in Season 1, they're all pretty opaque. With the series moving towards it final ending, doesn't it seem like a good opportunity to fill in those gaps?

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Case 11, File 05: Ghouli

AKA: This Is Probably The Best Slenderman Movie I Guess


What to do with William at this point? While I don't think he's the character who got the most jerked around by the whims of the plot, he's probably the one who spent the greatest percentage of his time in the show getting jerked around by the whims of the plot. And why not, for the first chunk of his time on the show, he was a literal baby, with no agency or personality. But that was back in 2001 and now that we're rounding towards the end of the show the 2nd time, it might be time to turn him into an actual character.

Friday, July 1, 2022

Case 11, File 04: The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat

AKA: I Dunno If Its Lost Dude, I've Seen Rudy Giuliani


The temptation for me to get misty eyed as I pass by some last milestones of the series is going to be hard to resist. And I feel like I'm entitled; I started this project in July of 2015, Obama was still President. Hell, when it kicked off, I was still pretending to be a boy. It is a massive End of an Era for me. So while I'll try to avoid getting too nostalgic, I hope you'll forgive me if I do it during the last Darin Morgan penned episode of the series.