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13 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :- Eat your heart out!, 24 July 2007 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
Milagro. This is an interesting episode. While Scully is the main focus of the episode we get yet another episode where there is a strange creepy guy that Scully gets woo'ed by. I quite enjoy scenes where they have voice-over of what the author is writing to narrate Scully's emotions and thoughts. Very interesting. I also like the actor that plays Padgett. While this episode is a little slower than I am used to I have to say that overall I still enjoyed the story. It only loses 2 points for slowness. Oh one other thing. Is it just me or does every single Scully-falls-for-a-psycho-killer-man episode end with a furnace? Anyway 8 out of 10.Addendum: After watching some of the interviews on the X-Files: Revelations compilation which this episode was included on, I have gained a deeper appreciation for this episode. Frank Spotnitz explains a little more about the deep relationship that a writer tends to develop with his character's. He talks about his own experiences with Mulder and Scully and how he viewed them as real people a lot of the time. This episode was an attempt to turn that idea into an X-File episode. In a sense, Padgett's obsession with Scully represents Spotnitz's own feelings.
14 out of 19 people found the following comment useful :- I Imagined It., 12 March 2007 Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
Milagro is an enjoyable episode. It's different and unexpected to say the least. I like the cinematography employed by Kim Manners during this episode. I especially like when Padgett is first viewing Scully on the elevator and the camera does close-ups on Scully's lips and eyes, just as Padgett is focusing on those features as well. I find it so interesting that Padgett doesn't mind getting caught staring at Scully. She looks at him and he just continues to stare at her. I also liked the beating heart that you could hear on the soundtrack at various times throughout the episode. I like the original(at least to me) idea of Padgett's creation becoming real because of how perfectly he imagined it. The superfluous language used by Padgett in his writing is just fun to listen to, knowing that most writers don't go to that extreme in their writing. Once again, Milagro is another episode that hinted at Mulder and Scully's love for each other, a recurring theme of season six. My drawback to this episode is the fictional creation of Dr. Ken Nasciemento. Nasciemento can pin people down and extract their hearts from their chests. Scully can resist him with her arms it shows. But bullets have no effect on him? Either he can interact with this world or he can't. It's foolish to have Scully be able to resist him with her hands but her bullets don't phase him. What if she had just pistol-whipped him? Would just her hand make contact with him? Milagro is a great episode that exposes a different aspect of Scully and how she can be viewed by other men, not just as an intelligent, FBI agent, but as a sex symbol. The conflicting qualities of Dr. Nasciemento at the end causes the episode to falter slightly. But Milagro remains a fine episode.
10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :- An intellectually stimulating episode, 17 December 2007 Author: brooke0479 from United States
"Milagro" is fascinating in that it questions the function and capabilities of an author. Reminiscent of philosopher Michel Foucault, it questions whether texts can remain independent of their authors. In fact, in this episode, the character of Phillip Padgett makes all the difference. Not only does he enter his own story, thereby removing the author/text barrier, but by doing so, he brings the text into the real world. His conversation with Mulder regarding the signification of words and the multi-layered aspect of language is further proof that "The X-Files" has some of the very best writing in television. John Hawkes makes an impressive performance as Padgett, bringing to life the solitary nature of writing. I highly recommend "Milagro" for its intellectual value. For those of you interested in this idea of authorship and identity, read "The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster. You won't be disappointed.
10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :- Beautiful, intelligent, and romantic, 3 June 2006 Author: NietzscheMarlowe from New York City, NY
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I saw this episode when it first aired, and about 4 dozen times afterword. At the time, I was aspiring to write, and was intrigued by the trailer. Basically for a few weeks, a writer named Philip Padgett (John Hawkes) has been living next door to Mulder. Padgett is very eccentric: he doesn't own any furniture except for a few lamps, a desk, a typewriter, a chair, and a bed. His moving in was not coincidence. He seems to be obsessed with Scully. He attempted to get a place in her building, but nothing was available so he moved next door to Mulder. Inspired by her beauty, Padgett writes a story which is seldom mentioned. It involves Scully, a Brazilian psychic surgeon named Ken Nacimento--who has been dead for years, and a whole lot of murder. How romantic. Somehow Padgett's story is coming to life, but there are very confusing scenes. Some suggest it is real (the murders) while others (bedding Scully; the chat between Padgett & Nacimento) suggest this is all in Padgett's head. We are never told exactly how his story can come to life; unless you count a vague statement by Nacimento that Padgett wrote him so perfectly that it brought him back to life. But if this is some delusion Padgett is suffering from, how are the murders explained? Hard not to assume this episode is all about Padgett's infatuation with Scully; the murders seem to me to just be fillers or to keep a male audience watching. Nothing is really 'solved' at the end, unless you count Padgett's fate. But that doesn't really offer much closure. We're left confused but emotionally moved, I guess that's kinda what love does.
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- Scully's Beating Heart, 11 August 2008 Author: koalablue_1993 from Australia
This episode is unique to say the least. It is really scary and weird thats for sure. Probably the weirdest episode of The X-Files ever. It shows the darker side of the human imagination, and a fatal attraction the writer Padgett has for Scully. Padgett develops an obsession with Scully and decides to write about her, which has deadly consequences. I love how the ending is so ambiguous and leaves you with more questions than answers. Was it all just imagined or did it actually happen? This episode is a classic X-File , and one of my favorites for sure. It has to be watched carefully and with full attention. Probably the best in season six.
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