Darren McGavin actually showed up on a couple episodes as a former agent and x-files investigator, blowing the possibility of a true x-files/Kolchak crossover, alas.

Oh, and uh … hi! waves:: Been reading since just after Shaenon started on season 2, just finally getting around to posting. I am actually one of those few that never saw the series, but always wanted to get around to it eventually. Finally am, thanks in a big part to the interest reading this webcomic has stirred up. ::tips hat to Shaenon::

Started a couple weeks ago, moving slowly, currently up to s3e11, so almost caught up to the strip and going to have to decide if I want to keep going and watch ahead, or cut it back to one a week and keep in sync. 😀

Actually, I think calling them “sex workers” is more dehumanizing than calling them “hookers”. A hooker sounds alive, like a person … a “sex worker” sounds like something you might actually be able to order at Cost Co. Over time we change some of our language in an attempt to be more civil, but as a result we end up doing the opposite.

You would think after all these years we would learn that in most cases the best answer is to just take our hands off and let the system run itself, eh?

New project for after Darths & Droids?

The people I watched this episode with had a debate as to whether we were supposed to believe that Skinner’s wife was still alive at the end of the episode.

The X-Files is on Netflix here: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_X-Files/70136138 , is on Amazon Instant here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Blessing-Way/dp/B001C9RL5K/ , and is on Hulu here: http://www.hulu.com/the-x-files

I also respect sex workers. I didn’t think of “hooker” as pejorative, but if sex workers feel it is, I’m happy not to use it.

I’ve learned a lot from the comments to Shaenon’s comics, and I appreciate people reminding us that there are “evolving standards of decency.”

Supposedly this episode got written because Mitch Pillegi was upset about the number of times he got his ass kicked this season. I guess he saw being framed for murdering prostitutes as a step up.

It’s fine. People are free to criticize.

I didn’t get into the details of the Shadow Government Escort Service going on in this episode, but it’s a whole weird thing on its own.

Yup. Kolchak: The Night Stalker, too.