Eve
1x10
"And you thought teaching your kids about gardening was a good idea..."
Alright, my friend Jame wanted me to review Eve, so I reviewed E.B.E. Now, I'm sure that she is just sitting at her computer, chirping away with her crickets. :) [that one's just for you Jame!]
May I please make everyone aware now that I enjoy Eve tremendously, so you can just expect this review to suck big time. I have difficulty making fun of the things I like. Actually, come to think of it, I don't have much difficultly making fun of anything... But I think this episode may be an exception to that generalization. We'll all have to see. I'll let you know when I finish typing this.
I love the word "exsanguination." It's such a neat sounding word! When my Spanish teacher gets [tries] us to find similarities between English words and Spanish words [in a crazy attempt to make us not feel so alienated by not knowing a word she's saying], she uses blood as an example alot. It's sangre in Spanish, which I actually remembered, not that I could possibly remember anything else from it. I always say exsanguination for a similar word. And then no one but Jame knows what it means, and I get to say that it's puncturing the jugular vein to make your heart pump out all of your blood. Hee hee. I'm twisted like that. I should have been named Quentin, if I were a boy. [I'd be good at it! I could rant about shades of white for hours...]
You know, the twins that play Tina and Cindy look like the bratty little girl who lives next to me. Too bad nobody takes her away and locks her up like they do to these girls.
There is nothing wrong with a child preferring to watch C-Span over Eek! The Cat! Alright! There isn't! I am not an evil psycho government creation, okay?! I just happen to like knowing what is going on in my freakin' country! Do you people have a problem with that! Plus, I don't get cable, so I had to take every opportunity to watch C-Span and CNN at friends' homes!
Ooo! The doctor at the Luther Stapes Center just said that Sally Kendrick [do you want me to type that a million times, Jamie?] was experimenting with eugenics! That's my topic! "Gattaca! Gattaca!" [shouted like Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon]
I love it when they see Eve 6. First off, I find it great that a band named themselves after something X-Files. Plus, Eve 6 is just wondrous because she's so warped. AND! [that's not all folks!] she mentions a Beatles reference. "She is me and I am her and we are all together." I am the government-experiment-gone-wrong. [Sitting pretty little policeman...]
Wow. This is just so strange. See, this has always been one of my very favorite episodes, and still is. It deals with eugenics, which is my topic from Speech class. I swear, eugenics must be my cause, or something. My favorite movie [even beating The Godfather, so be amazed] is Gattaca [which apparently, I am like the only person to have ever seen this movie...and I'm obsessed with it.]. I could talk about the evils of eugenics for hours, but I will spare you. Anyway, I should do a Twisted Psyche segment on it.
"We just knew." Yes, they are definitely like my bratty neighbor. The sounds just like a pathetic comeback line from her...if you can even call them that.
One of my all-time favorite shots of The X-Files is when Scully is walking down the row of pipes. To me, it's just very Kubrickian.
Okay. There's a school bus with school kids roaming around the countryside at this late hour [when Mulder, Scully, and the Demonic Duo go to that diner on the way to wherever.]. I'm really sure this is going to happen. Not only that, but they're at a truck stop... and it is implied that they are so lacking in supervision that two more kids could just jump on the bus [even if they don't, I still don't like where it's going].
Also, what's the deal with the annoying trucker and wife combo? How many truck drivers bring their wives to work? Also, why is it that Mulder and Scully didn't pull out their IDs BEFORE they let the kids go? So many questions...
I wish they would have made a sequel to this one. Really, even if they didn't use the Eves again, they could have given us one with the Adams.
To sum everything up, this is definitely my favorite episode of the first season, and it remains in my top five, I'd say. One day I will have to put all of the episodes in order. And actually, this review is much better now that I typed it than when it was written, even if it wasn't as scathing as the good ones generally are. It's ok.
"Standards
are always out of date.
That is what makes them standards."
-Alan Bennett-