Comment Lack of Development (Score 1) 588
First of all, if you are going to bash on the episode try to be somewhat constructive.
I think that this episode suffered from lack of development, and from some of the comments that I have read I think that some of you would agree. Had they taken the time to explore the lone gunmen's role (player vs. programmer), shown what the "Goddess" char was doing to block commands, as well as making the conflict with her more complex. My suggestions had anyone asked, and no one did, would have been to make it a 2-parter where the first one developed how the Goddess had developed into A.I. and maybe broken the show up where Mulder disappeared. I enjoyed the funny parts though.
Finally (I promise), I agree that this episode drew a lot from ST:TNG and Matrix. BUT, All good writers have drawn from great ideas that came before them. To expect or believe that everything that you see is original is infantile. Very rarely, if ever in the near past, has a truly original idea come out. ST & ST:TNG both drew from past ideas that gave Gene Rodenberry (sp?) the good ideas that he had. Why? Think of your own life for a minute every thing that you are has been developed by the input you received throughout your life. Books, Visual Media, and the Spoken Word define who we are. What I am trying to say is that you might want to think about what you are "ripping off" in your own life before you start bashing what you see around you.
And, oh yea, you could have just turned it off, right?
I think that this episode suffered from lack of development, and from some of the comments that I have read I think that some of you would agree. Had they taken the time to explore the lone gunmen's role (player vs. programmer), shown what the "Goddess" char was doing to block commands, as well as making the conflict with her more complex. My suggestions had anyone asked, and no one did, would have been to make it a 2-parter where the first one developed how the Goddess had developed into A.I. and maybe broken the show up where Mulder disappeared. I enjoyed the funny parts though.
Finally (I promise), I agree that this episode drew a lot from ST:TNG and Matrix. BUT, All good writers have drawn from great ideas that came before them. To expect or believe that everything that you see is original is infantile. Very rarely, if ever in the near past, has a truly original idea come out. ST & ST:TNG both drew from past ideas that gave Gene Rodenberry (sp?) the good ideas that he had. Why? Think of your own life for a minute every thing that you are has been developed by the input you received throughout your life. Books, Visual Media, and the Spoken Word define who we are. What I am trying to say is that you might want to think about what you are "ripping off" in your own life before you start bashing what you see around you.
And, oh yea, you could have just turned it off, right?
