Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium and The Lone Gunmen
Robert Shearman
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 097594469X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In Wanting to Believe, acclaimed science-fiction writer Robert Shearman critiques and examines the whole of the X-Files universe, including the spin-off series Millennium and The Lone Gunmen. As such, this is one of --- if not the only --- guide of its kind to cover all 13 seasons of this extremely popular property.With this unauthorized guidebook, X-Files fans will be able to reevaluate these TV series with Shearman (World Fantasy Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, renowned playwright, writer on the new Doctor Who series and all-around nice guy) as he diligently comments upon all 282 X-Files-related episodes (and the two motion pictures), which form one of the most notable TV works of the 1990s --- and is every bit as enjoyable today. Armed with Wanting to Believe, you will not only find yourself mulling over Shearman's insights and opinions about The X-Files --- you will want to pull your DVDs and re-watch this amazing and impressive series for yourself.
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ends. Too many of the mythology stories are lacking in any one of these three props. Redux and Redux II brazenly decided to forego the whole lot of them at once. (**1/2) 5.3, Unusual Suspects Air Date: Nov. 16, 1997; Writer: Vince Gilligan; Director: Kim Manners Summary In a flashback story from 1989, a woman named “Holly” recruits Byers - a future member of the Lone Gunmen - at a computer show to help locate her kidnapped daughter, Susanne Modeski. Byers’ hacking skills enable him to obtain
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serial killer for three years. But when the deaths continue, Mulder tells Scully that when he and Patterson were students together, Patterson believed that an investigator could best catch monsters by becoming one himself. Mostow claims that a dark spirit possessed him and made him commit the murders. Mulder and Scully subsequently find Mostow’s apartment filled with sculptures and paintings of gargoyles. When Nemhauser’s body is found smothered in clay, Mulder spies clay on Patterson’s hands