Saturday, February 28, 2009
ZeeCafe has introduced a lovely concept called Old School Classics. This is where I get to see all my childhood favourites like Different Strokes, Who's the Boss et al.
One incredible find has been the X-files. See, when it used to air on Star World, I was just a kid and was just intrigued by the weird things that kept happening on the show and thinking Agent Scully had such pretty hair! But now as I re-watch the episodes, I'm blown away by the awesomeness!!
Chris Carter, the show's creator, instead of tying each episode with a neat little bow in the end, deliberately left things unexplained. That there is no answer to alien abductions, that conspiracy theorists may not be wacked on weed, that maybe there is some truth behind all these lovely monster stories. It's like your mother telling you the Boogey man will come if you are naughty, you are scared...yet you almost want to see the boogeyman....a sense of disbelief mingled with a tiny voice telling you 'What If?'
And the show's writers played with those 'What Ifs?'
They did not deny that there needs to be a semblance of logic to explain something like Tooms - the mutant cannibal, but in the words of Mulder...the show encourages you to believe!! just open your mind to impossibilities....
I also love the use of symbolism in the show. Whenever you look up in the sky and you saw black helicopters, it's the government..hiding things, covering up the facts. Black oil on the ground...there is an alien nearby, probably bleeding and you are about to be infected with a deadly alien virus. I mean who thinks of such stuff!!! This is bloody brilliant!
One incredible find has been the X-files. See, when it used to air on Star World, I was just a kid and was just intrigued by the weird things that kept happening on the show and thinking Agent Scully had such pretty hair! But now as I re-watch the episodes, I'm blown away by the awesomeness!!
Chris Carter, the show's creator, instead of tying each episode with a neat little bow in the end, deliberately left things unexplained. That there is no answer to alien abductions, that conspiracy theorists may not be wacked on weed, that maybe there is some truth behind all these lovely monster stories. It's like your mother telling you the Boogey man will come if you are naughty, you are scared...yet you almost want to see the boogeyman....a sense of disbelief mingled with a tiny voice telling you 'What If?'
And the show's writers played with those 'What Ifs?'
They did not deny that there needs to be a semblance of logic to explain something like Tooms - the mutant cannibal, but in the words of Mulder...the show encourages you to believe!! just open your mind to impossibilities....
I also love the use of symbolism in the show. Whenever you look up in the sky and you saw black helicopters, it's the government..hiding things, covering up the facts. Black oil on the ground...there is an alien nearby, probably bleeding and you are about to be infected with a deadly alien virus. I mean who thinks of such stuff!!! This is bloody brilliant!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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