Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="fabio"]<i>Babylon</i> opens with a praying Muslim. He goes for a drive in small town Texas, tries to smile at hot chicks, is intimidated by mean racist rednecks. He meets another Arab, they psych themselves up with a prayer before entering an art gallery with an offensive exhibit of Mohamed, the place explodes. Ah ha! Surely this episode will be that the guys weren't bombers, and the agents will have to struggle against overwhelming evidence to uncover a paranormal phenomenon that was the real cause? Nope. Very first scene after commercials they reveal that they were wearing suicide vests and cut to another Arab building more of them. So what does happen? Two FBI agents walk into their office, clearly meant to be young versions of Mulder and Scully. Tons of awful meta jokes are made. Idiotic plots are hatched to try and interrogate the surviving bomber in a coma. Mulder teams up with Young Scully and Scully with Young Mulder to kick off some inept wacky jealousy plot. At this point, the episode is merely bad. This was a foregone conclusion knowing that it was written by Chris Carter Carter who took a look at brilliant meta humor episodes like <i>Jose Chung's From Outer Space</i> and said, "I can do that!" The problem is that Darin Morgan is a genius and Chris Carter is the George Lucas of TV. The last time someone thought they were Darin Morgan, we got Stephen King trying to be funny in <i>Chinga</i>. What kicks it up into being one of the worst episodes ever is what comes next. Mulder figures that if he takes mushrooms, he can communicate with the comatose bomber. Young Scully gives him some (which we later find out were placebos), and what follows is a drug trip sequence where Mulder goes line dancing. It makes the Spiderman 3 dance look dignified and restrained. Somehow, while out at clubs line dancing under the effects of a placebo, Mulder has a vision where the bomber tells him the address of the bomb maker. The FBI raids the place, and arrest the bomb maker giving suicide vest classes to half a dozen recruits. How many fucking suicide bombers are lurking in this small Texas town? Carter writes every single Texan and Homeland Security agent as xenophobia incarnate where we're supposed to laugh and tsk tsk their ignorance, yet <i>every single</i> Muslim turns out to be a suicide bomber! Then they end the episode with a ham fisted speech that we shouldn't give in to fear and hate. Huh? Which is it then? Fuck that was awful. And next week is the finale, a mythology episode written by Chris Cater. The only thing to look forward to is seeing how that one manages to be even worse.[/quote]