1X04 JERSEY DEVIL

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Date: 07/27/02 03:08:41 PM
Name: shadow_prophet

So, um, you guys think I'm behind on these, or what? :)-0-0-0-

"8 million years out of Africa--"
"and look who's holding the door."

  --Mulder and Scully (respectively), Jersey Devil

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This episode is yet another stellar example of 1013 story-telling, and is
decidedly Scully-centric.   The parallels between Scully and the "beast
woman" are made obvious but not blatantly so, Carter effectively using
the underlying themes of the inherent nature of man (or should I say
"woman") and the natural order, throughout.

Motherhood is a workable idea used in this episode, evident with the
mention of Scully and children, the beast woman and children, setting up
the notion that we are not so different than uncivilized man.  Our primal
instincts remain unchanged, despite years of evolution.  Scully, showing
an interest in a romantic relationship (perhaps following the instinctual
need to procreate) and the beast woman, doing whatever she could to
protect her child at all costs.

As a side note, I really enjoyed this episode... and as it is usually with me,
I couldn't help but indulge in an opinion-laden sidebar of my very own
 (but when do I not?) :-P.

Random Musings:

The Jersey Devil is real :) .  At least the myth is, anyway.  Check it out
here:  http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm

Hmmm... a weekend in Atlantic City with the ever-so sumptuous, sexy,
super fine Agent Mulder --OR-- a little kid's birthday party.  Yeah.  That's
a real tuffy Scully.  Poor thing, sometimes she can be such a stick in
the mud ;) .

At the party, I couldn't help but think of Scully as a mommy--too bad
Chris Carter couldn't let this happen (for good).  First Emily, then
William, it's been a sob-fest to the end as opposed to Scully's motherhood.
And before any whiners out there even say it, I know there is no room for
little Willy in the movie.  I know this, and I accept it.  But I wouldn't
discount him outright.  He can't stay in Smallville forever, you know ;) .
In fact I can totally see Mulder and Scully dying, and William saving the
world from alien invasion.  Not the end I would want mind you, but it's a
possibility.

Mulder's meeting with the homeless dude:  I'm not sure, but due to the
magic of 3x zoom and DVD fun, the bill he gives him appears to be a
fifty, not a twenty.  And it also looked like fake money :-D .  What does
this mean?  Absolutely nothing.  I just thought it was cool B-) .

And while we're talking about that whole scene, I have to mention how
sexy DD looked when he was disguised as a hobo.  Is that messed up that
I should think that?  I mean, I dunno, he just was and I know that's wrong.
I guess that's about as wrong as thinking the exam scene with
Crispy!Spender and Scully in "William" was undeniably erotic.
Disturbing, yes, but erotic nonetheless.

Don't worry, the nurses are way ahead of you :-P .

So, The X in a nutshell:  Instinctual leanings don't have to be evolutionary.
We are not bound by nature, rather, take its advice as one would that of an
elderly mentor.  Scully, at the end of the episode, could have gone with
Rob as easily as she could've stayed with Mulder.  I like to believe it was
her instincts, rather than pragmaticism, that led Scully to follow her
partner instead of pursuing a courtship.  Perhaps that is the natural order,
after all.

--Brandi~ :)

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"Maybe we're just beasts with big brains."
--Mulder, Jersey Devil

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This post is dedicated to Leo McKern, an English acting veteran of stage
and screen who recently passed away.  He played Clang in the 1965
Beatles film "Help!".  I named my Oscar Clang, in honor of him. >O