The writers of these two episodes should be embarrassed. Marjorie David and Patrick Harbinson, who wrote Via Dolorosa, and Ken Horton and Chip Johannessen, who wrote the second part, Goodbye to All That, blatantly plagiarized the 1986 film Manhunter. The killer here is beat for beat the exact same as Dolarhyde, from wearing night vision goggles to having a blind girlfriend and watching videos of his victims while said girlfriend sits next to him on the sofa. I'm surprised Thomas Harris or Michael Mann didn't take legal action. Millennium is a great show but this two-part series finale is a cheap imitation and reeks of four writers who couldn't think of anything original when it comes to the character of the killer.
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Unfortunate, but perhaps a blessing.
bombersflyup3 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Via Dolorosa and Goodbye to All That are low-key, lackluster and incomplete as a series finale double. Partly due to an unexpected cancellation, but the X-Files episode later that year resolving it's excellent. Lucy was never resolved in the X-Files episode though, from memory. Hollis was being kicked out the door earlier in the season, now taking over as the boss, yeah... okay.
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