Sombre, dark, tortured look on madness.. but so silly.
A new, developing trend is to have these revelatory monologues by Mulder on the subject, here he pontificates on how the abyss sometimes looks back.
But I have a specific issue with this one, which illustrates a broader failure. A serial killer, an artist, is arrested on the gruesome killings of young men which he attributes to being possessed by a horrible spirit, revealed in his charcoal sketches and clay sculptures of a gargoyle. While he's behind bars, the killings go on with the same pattern.
This is not the first time Mulder goes after a serial killer. It's the first time he hopes to catch him by 'becoming the monster', immersing himself in the killer's mind. Apparently, this is a technique taught him by a Bureau mentor, who is present. Everything about it obviously references Manhunter, one of the best movies I know on surrounding yourself with images to create the illusion, a cinematic subject.
My issue is that all of a sudden Mulder works in this way, it's a baffling new dimension to his character, trying to 'be' the killer, which I'm sure will be abandoned again in the next episode. It's such a sloppy and haphazard way to write a character, randomly pulling strings from one story to the next.
A new, developing trend is to have these revelatory monologues by Mulder on the subject, here he pontificates on how the abyss sometimes looks back.
But I have a specific issue with this one, which illustrates a broader failure. A serial killer, an artist, is arrested on the gruesome killings of young men which he attributes to being possessed by a horrible spirit, revealed in his charcoal sketches and clay sculptures of a gargoyle. While he's behind bars, the killings go on with the same pattern.
This is not the first time Mulder goes after a serial killer. It's the first time he hopes to catch him by 'becoming the monster', immersing himself in the killer's mind. Apparently, this is a technique taught him by a Bureau mentor, who is present. Everything about it obviously references Manhunter, one of the best movies I know on surrounding yourself with images to create the illusion, a cinematic subject.
My issue is that all of a sudden Mulder works in this way, it's a baffling new dimension to his character, trying to 'be' the killer, which I'm sure will be abandoned again in the next episode. It's such a sloppy and haphazard way to write a character, randomly pulling strings from one story to the next.