Showing posts with label The Field Where I Died. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Field Where I Died. Show all posts

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

The Field Where I Died

When I started writing the posts for my favorite funny episodes of TV shows (The Work Outing, Are We Not Men?), I knew that what I wanted to do for the serious ones. Each one was getting its own post (The Girl in the Fireplace, The Inner Light), and I knew which one would be last. If you have paid attention, I have been dropping hints leading up to the finale.

This one episode just hits me from so many directions. The Civil War. Reincarnation. Past lives. Soul-mates. How people are always connected through life and death and rebirth. Migrating souls.

My personal beliefs in many of these things might not be justified, and even if not true, I recognize them as being beautiful ideas. And in a cold, cruel, sometimes heartless world, we always need beautiful ideas.

Also, I do not think I given this episode the write up it deserves. I have written and re-written this several times, but I still do not feel I have conveyed the emotions and feelings it evokes from me.

The X Files/The Field Where I Died



Opening scene is Mulder standing in a field, while Robert Browning's Paracelsus is recited. He is looking at two Civil War era photographs of a soldier and a woman...