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The Simpsons: Homer Badman (1994)
Misogynystic and Stupid
Maybe this episode was considered good and smart back in the early nineties, but it didn't age well. It's quite terrible and misogynystic actually, and to my opinion it's the worst episode since the beginning of the show. It was so unpleasant to watch and so frustratingly ridiculous.
They could have made the same point about narrative framing and media generating storms out of butterfly wings flapping using another crime, in which it actually does happen. But as for sexual crimes - and especially sexual harassment - obviously it's the other way round. If it happened - or rather: *when* it happens in real life, the babysitter will probably never tell, knowing nobody will believe her, and if she will choose to tell she'll walk through a disbelieving and slut shaming hell, not to mention that Homer actually *did* sexually assaulted her even though he *didn't mean to and didn't know he was doing it.*
They should've stick to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory plot, which was hilarious, and I've added one point for that.
The X Files: Closure (2000)
One of the worst episodes of the entire series.
Let me see if I get it straight:
Mulder remember seeing Samantha disappears. Later he finds clones of hers. Later on CSM becomes nice and suddenly brings her to him in a restaurant (and tells him - God and maybe Chris Carter knows why - that the whole alien stuff - which he dedicated his life to conceal by all means necessary - is actually true and not a conspiracy within a conspiracy), and she calls him Dad. Later on we find out that CSM is also Jeffrey Spender's father (but for some reason he murders him) and also Fox's father (is there anyone that he's not their father? Thank goodness we know who Scully's father is). On the next episodes he tells Mulder they all had to give their sons and daughters to the aliens for an unclear reson, and when his father refused they abducted her from home like he remembers, which is also coherent with the episode in which he has visions of some sort in which his mother begs and says "Please, not Samantha!" But *then* CSM says she's actually dead and *not* abducted, and again he's nice and try to get Scully to persuade Mulder not to pursue this course of investigation so he won't get hurt. And then Mulder sees a child ghost - because obviously he can see ghosts - and it leads him to her ghost so he understands she's dead and have a closure.
Yeah, right.
Oh, and there's bonus: children vanish into thin air, Amber Lynn's body is never found even though "Santa Claus" confessed all the 24 murders except for hers, but Mulder meets her ghost, Mulder's mom commit suicide for an unknown reason after burning their pictures, and then she thinks it's a good time to visit him as a ghost and finally let him know how Samantha died (even though she couldn't possibly know it according to the new non-aliens narrative).
Gosh, how lame and stupid. I'm angry.
The X Files: Detour (1997)
Amazingly dull and stupid.
It's like the awful movie Predator - a bunch of people chasing an invisible homicidal creature in the woods, falling one after the other. Its capabilities and motives are unknown.
Why did Mulder joined this investigation? What clue did he get that made him think there's an X file here? How come no one could shoot it at first from point-blank range, including Scully and "my father is an excellent shooter" guy, and Scully just did it in the cave? Why did it enter that woman's home? Fot what purpose? And why did it hunt them from the first place? I didn't buy this real estate crap. It's a huge forest.
Oh, and how exactly did Ponce de león become a tree? Evolution takes a lot more than 450 years. Try 450,000,000. And like others said - why didn't they study the body from the cave?
Poorly written, bad visual effects. I gave it 6 and not 5 only because of Scully's song, which was one if the geatest moments in the series so far.
Enterprise: Similitude (2003)
Watching position: FACEPALM!
One of ST *worst episodes ever* (and I'm not talking about ST:ENT. I'm talking about the whole franchise).
To sum things up: this episode is My Sister's Keeper: The mob vertion. Captain Archer be like: Jee, have to save my man here. What shall I do? What shall I do? Oh, Oh, Oh, wait! I know! I'll clone him, And than, after he'll regain by some kind of witchcraft all of the mommories of my dear soldier and has the exact same personality we'll slaughter him to harvest his brain. Ah, yea. That sounds about right. Give it a rest, doc. It's a ship, not a trolley!