Three of a Kind

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"The love affair between one of the Lone Gunman and a mysterious woman named Susanne Modeski, who was also featured in a previous Lone Gunman episode, is the focus of this weeks throw away romance. (Relationships are prone to remain unconsummated in the open ended world of The X-Files.) The X-Files seems to be going for the supernatural soap opera stories this season, in a (hopefully) unconcious attempt at becoming a modern bolder "Dark Shadows," and to ill effect. Susanne Modeski, is featured in an extremely soft core voyeur scene and there is also an attempt to turn Scully into a drunken permissive slut. It seems that the writers are trying to stretch the characters in ways that the audience will find complacency cracking, but I was boomeranged back to qausi-somnambulance by these misguided attempts at warping the norm. While both Scully and the mystery woman are more than blind man's eye candy in terms of physical beauty, and while they also drip the ever attractive wax of the intriguing persona across the television screen, eroticism is substituted here with ineffective comedy leaving the viewer neither amused or titillated. I find the Lone Gunman and their world to be interesting, but they should have dropped the Modeski plot line and delved into something new. The series has been on for quite a while and needs a shot of thoughtful bombast. Maybe if one of the writers shot themselves in the neck with the same stuff they gave Scully, they'd get tipsy and write something that's truly worth wasting an X-Files episode on. Bringing back characters from past episodes is not as amusing endeavor as it would sometimes seem, and certainly no substitute for a good plot line and good writing, even if you do smack said characters in the ass."
-Michael B.-

"'Three of a Kind' had the same fast pace, fast talking, fast thinking, sort of flare as 'Unusual Suspects.' And I loved 'Unusual Suspects.' I'm continually impressed on how X-Files continues to expand the characters. As Mulder and Scully have grown to be better friends, we've seen another side of Skinner, and now we see into the life of The Lone Gunmen. It was surprisingly realistic. I figured I'd hate the whole love-sick Byers, and while a couple scenes were a little emmbarasing, it all contributed to the theme of the episode. The return of Susanne Modeski was great. Normally when characters make a repeat performance it turns out lacking, but the mystery and intrigue never left Susanne which helped make this episode one of my favorites of the season. I love the way the Lone Gunmen work together, they have the same sort of comfortable, familiar pace that Mulder and Scully have, a pace that I've come to expect from X-Files weather that be from the villains, the fence-sitters, or the main characters. I suppose I can't leave this review without commenting on Scully, all I can say is thank God she was drugged, after 'Milagro' I couldn't take anything else. As long as I can blame her actions on drugs I have to say that she acted really cutely. And yes, I saw our MIB from Dreamland, a nice bit of continuity that seems to say in big bold letters that yes, The X-Files is a huge journey, but it is first and foremost made of people, who will continue on. It's by this that I think the creators and producers and such are doing a good job working us Philes into the final season. Very smart, I appreciate it."
-Eileen A.-

"The Lone Gunmen? Rogue nerds that somehow found their calling via the X-Files. There was even a Dungeons and Dragons reference. Was the first Lone Gunmen episode really that popular as to bring another back from the grave of geekdom? Me thinks not. It was nice to sit down in the lazy chair of government conspiracy, and I loved the blonde getting three (fake) slugs in the chest, but without Mulder panting and drooling over a possible shred of evidence that aliens exist, I was not in tune. It wasn't my bag, baby."
-Mark P.-

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