He was getting sick, wasn't he?

I still think Were-Monster was too meta-wacky to really hit the monster of the week spot for me, and Home Again was… well, too much in the generic direction. I just wish there'd have been a solid straight monster thing.

Well, those first minutes contains Scully's version of the recap Mulder does in the first episode… which ends in a rather tonally strange way.

I haven't seen the movie, but I think the flattering way to put it is that it's a Roger Ebert review? From the sound of some of the commenters, I mean.

Shouldn't that be "Clickhole radically the verbs?"

"Well, the only way this argument works is to go case by case, "and as
this is a film set near that time and place, I chose that example."

Miller makes no demonstration. She says: "but as in all interpretations, isn't there something missing… hmm, must be something about our national character, because 1980s moral panic."

Mulderine.

It's funny you started this off saying very broad sweeping categorical things about "the witch motif in fiction" and witch hunts in generals, but now it's very specifically about the Salem Witch Trials and the serious scholarship I should provide you, someone who scoffs at "minutia," so that me disagreeing with you on…

We're calling the bathroom meatworld now?

All over the place actually feels very X-Files for me, I've been discovering. I think I disliked Home Again some much because it wasn't a sequel to Home.

While researching for a dumb thead arguing with a combative wall in the review for The VVitch I discovered that Abigail Hobbs is not only the name of a character in Hannibal but that it was also the name of an accused girl in the Salem Witch Trials! A pure coincidence, I am sure.

That article Genji posted is actually pretty interesting (well, the book she mostly talks about is more so,) even though after reading it I don't see what it has to do with what Genji is saying.

Alright, so because we don't have access to the minds of these women, we can't tell if internalized gender patriarchy stuff is a factor in their actions, so therefor if it COULD or not is moot (you explained to me as much in another comment.)

I prefer the original… but this version made me love the update one much more than I did otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Seconding both! In the haunting category

Here I am, focusing on what I didn't like in the episode, and not realizing that it's a short list (things I didn't like: H.W.)

H.W. is an awful cheesy acronym, too. They'd be better off calling it Hadrian's or H-Wall or The Wall or anything but H.W. It just makes me think of Darkwing Duck.

Instead, they made that one everything-evil dealer into a literal ghoul. Like with a real cartoonish inhuman vibe (props to the actor for being able to pull it off even though the scene drags on.) So yeah, the movie makes 'the other' into an imaginary version of 'the other,' but since it's obviously trying to say…

My issue with it was that on the level of plot it always came down to the Mayor having an ace up his sleeve the whole time. Like, all resolutions were jerked ahead through contrivance.