(that bit with the family sitting down to Mother's Day dinner -- not so obviously part of the show if you're watching it on broadcast TV with commercial breaks rather than on a DVD without ads...)
Nice. I hadn't thought of that angle—it's filmed in the same lovingly super-saturated, almost Norman Rockwell American pastoral light as the first season gave the yellow house—but the scene would be even more of a shocker if you weren't expecting the next awful thing in a pre-apocalyptic world.
Not knowing what they'd do, I kept watching.
That's fair.
They backpedal and retcon the scale of the apocalypse to a local disaster, and it is awkward, and inevitably a huge let down that they didn't go the post-apocalyptic route.
I would indeed have given a post-apocalyptic third season the benefit of the doubt.
There is Frank in a reindeer-patterned fleece jacket. (...it makes sense in context, although the episode's twee-ness is... uncharacteristic.)
All right, I'm curious. What?
(The post-S3 fully-integrated-finale where characters from Millennium appear on The X-Files episode titled "Millennium" is itself a major letdown, FYI; while it's nice to see the characters again, the whole thing is utterly nonsensical with regard to Millennium mythology, as the two shows' mythologies don't mesh.)
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Nice. I hadn't thought of that angle—it's filmed in the same lovingly super-saturated, almost Norman Rockwell American pastoral light as the first season gave the yellow house—but the scene would be even more of a shocker if you weren't expecting the next awful thing in a pre-apocalyptic world.
Not knowing what they'd do, I kept watching.
That's fair.
They backpedal and retcon the scale of the apocalypse to a local disaster, and it is awkward, and inevitably a huge let down that they didn't go the post-apocalyptic route.
I would indeed have given a post-apocalyptic third season the benefit of the doubt.
There is Frank in a reindeer-patterned fleece jacket. (...it makes sense in context, although the episode's twee-ness is... uncharacteristic.)
All right, I'm curious. What?
(The post-S3 fully-integrated-finale where characters from Millennium appear on The X-Files episode titled "Millennium" is itself a major letdown, FYI; while it's nice to see the characters again, the whole thing is utterly nonsensical with regard to Millennium mythology, as the two shows' mythologies don't mesh.)
I won't seek it out.
Thanks for the input!