I think the less said about "Space", the better. The thing with The X-Files is that the production crew became such a well-oiled machine that, even if a script was weak, the episodes never looked bad. "Space" suffers from not only being poorly written but its early enough in the series that it looks poor too. The stock footage of space shuttles doesn't help either. Yet it is a testament to how the great series was (or perhaps how blinded I am with love) that it rarely, maybe never, sank this low again.
One aspect that I do like is the space entity possessing Col. Belt reminds me of an Outer Limits episode with William Shatner called "Cold Hands, Warm Heart." Shatner's character is possessed after returning from space, yet the effects done on The X-Files some thirty years later actually seem to be worse. This episode is boring, lacks suspense, and actually I'm so uninterested that I don't even want to take the time to find a picture from "Space." Since I already watched "Space" in 2007 when I was going in order to review it, and now again to archive a review over here, I really don't see the need to revisit this again. Unless I'm having trouble falling asleep.
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Definitely the worst episode of season one, it amazes me that this was the most expensive episode to produce at the time and yet looks extremely cheap compared to the other twenty three episodes around it.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! I love your remark about how this episode looks worse than a similar episode of another show from 30 years ago. I laughed out loud, because you are SO right. I actually think this may be the very worst episode of the entire series. I hate it! And I NEVER rewatch it. Bores the hell out of me. I'm glad you agree.
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I love reading reviews on how poor Space was, don't take this the wrong way but I was under the impression you couldn't be bothered to write about it which is exactly how I felt. It's just not worth our time.
ReplyDeleteI tried to write about it, honestly. Usually the episodes that are the easiest to write about are ones that are really good or really bad, so by that theory there should be plenty to say. I just couldn't. :/
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