“After reading volume 1 and putting it down, I’m back with a vengeance to try this series again.
This starts out great. I’d describe it as being like the X-Files’ “Monster of the Week” era where we’ve got a general premise, but each episode stands alone.
Then we get into the X-Files’ “Overly-complicated, hey, where’s all the monsters?” period.
My mom would watch X-Files with me and often commented on how pretty Scully was. Being raised mostly by my mom, this is the closest I came to bro-ing down with a parent over a hot babe, which is something I assume dads and sons do, sort of, at some point, but maybe not.
I remember reading that they dressed Scully in big suit jackets and shit to sort of downplay her looks, also to age her a little. She WAS pretty young at the time. But that seems dumb to me now because
A) I’m watching these FBI agents hunt down a gill man, so verisimilitude is out the window.
B) That’s like putting Arnold in a role where you want to downplay the fact that he’s ripped. Which almost never works. Junior, Jingle All The Way. No. Twins? Yes. He’s ripped, might as well just go with it. Scully was a babe, we can all just accept it.”