{"id":2166,"date":"2004-01-23T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/plot-vs-monster-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:21:58","slug":"plot-vs-monster-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/23\/plot-vs-monster-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot vs. Monster of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>The more I watch of Buffy, I&#8217;m starting to notice one definite similarity between my enjoyment of that show and my enjoyment of the X-Files. Nothing terribly earth-shattering, it&#8217;s just that both series have two basic types of episode: the &#8220;plot&#8221; episode and the &#8220;monster of the week&#8221; episode. In each case, while they&#8217;re both enjoyable, it&#8217;s really the &#8220;plot&#8221; episodes that I enjoy the most.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, nothing terribly earth shattering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;John the Fisherman&#8221; by Primus from the album <em>Frizzle Fry<\/em> (1990, 3:37).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I watch of Buffy, I&#8217;m starting to notice one definite similarity between my enjoyment of that show and my enjoyment of the X-Files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[1481,8,1814],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-buffy-the-vampire-slayer","tag-television","tag-the-x-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}