I have some fun things to talk about here but first, more suicide talk. A couple weeks ago I went to a movie screening. I can’t talk about it yet but it’s fantastic and I can’t wait for it to come out! Walking home from Burbank, though, I crossed over the five and it’s very easy to think things looking over that rail. It was rather hard for me in that moment. Just a reminder, talking is always an option. I’m generally not busy…ever. Feel free to reach out here, I get it.
Now then, this post will mostly to jerk off PlutoTV and The X-Files. Recently PlutoTV, I guess launched a new channel for The X-Files. Which is just one more reason I love PlutoTV. This app just keeps getting better. I even saw the other day that there’s a channel with the Beastmaster series which was among my favorite things at that time. In no small part because of Samantha Healy’s performance as The Demon Iara…let’s say ‘inspiring’ things for a teenage Tim. Otherwise, it’s a super fun show.
The other day the episode, The Post-Modern Prometheus was on. One of my favorites and I feel underrated. First, the whole episode is in black and white. Homage to classic monster movies of the greats, Lon Chaney, Bella Lugosi, and Peter Lorre. I haven’t read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus so, I missed all the references to it until I read through the trivia section on IMDB. Some very interesting tidbits there, I recommend the read. And then there’s John O’Hurley’s performance as a mad scientist. That man is very funny and he very well pulled off this character. Now, the biggest thing about this episode is ‘the monster’, The Great Mutato. A classic ‘monster’ story, great design, phenomenal performance, and a more original story. Far and away among the greatest episodes of The X-Files and in turn television as a whole. A great part of that is the performance of Chris Owens. Before his appearance in this episode he appeared in a couple episodes of The X-Files as “Young Smoking Man” in Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, which is another of my favorites, and Demons. After this episode, he comes back as FBI Agent Jeffrey Spender. Now, I bring this up because Chris Owens, in this episode was The Great Mutato. Much of his performance was a little cartoony, dancing and singing whilst committing rape. To be clear, the extreme dichotomy of the scene with tone and action is what I say is cartoonish, not the rape. In particular, the end of the episode, he delivers a monologue about acceptance and his personal experience in his solitude. An homage to Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein. Also, the make up and prosthesis for Mutato cost $40,000(no specificity whether that dollar amount is in 1997 or adjusted for inflation) and took five to seven hours for application. Again, according to the IMDB trivia page for this episode. My point is that Chris Owens is another talented performer who most people don’t know his name.
That’s pretty much all I wanted to say this go ‘round. I’m working out getting other things done so, soon I guess. For whatever that’s worth.
