Three Words
8x16
"Thankfully, not those three words."
Previously on The X-Files:
Scully is miraculously able to stand and can't truly believe it.
Bloated sea creature revealed to be Aquaman.
Doggett thinks something is 'insanity'--okay, so that's every episode.
Scully reminds us that she's a doctor *gasp*
Mulder is infected with an alien virus--hasn't that happened to everyone on this show, yet?
Doggett asks for help, but refuses to believe. Okay, maybe more like the last part.
Scully plans to save the day.
I enjoy the beginning with the guy climbing the White House fence. The only part that is confusing to me, is that he says "Aliens are taking over the United States!" Um...I thought that they would set their sights a little higher than just one country, even if that country is the most rockin' one. I mean, just move to Canada, then. Unless he's talking about illegal aliens, in which case, he's WAY behind the times because that happened years ago.
Question, why is it that nobody even remembers that some dude tried to get in the White House in April of 2001? Also, why no tagline change for this one? I'm curious.
I must say, a very enjoyable thing about keeping commercials is that you get to laugh at the dumb ones [Boot Camp: "when one recruit pushes himself too far." ::shot of fat, bald guy falling off a rope.]
Okay, Mulder was dead and buried, but he's still alive. Moo!Scully thinks he should sit down to hear that he's healed of his brain cancer/tumor/thing. Okay, that isn't really a big deal when you compare that with coming back to life, now is it? I'd be like "Yeah...and?"
Mulder is taken back to his apartment by Moo!Scully. Why does he still have an apartment? He has been dead/gone for months. You'd assume that when he was buried, Scully would get all of his crap [mental image of Moo!Scully carrying out a huge box full of porn]. Anyway, we're just going to move on as I find more and more things to question in this show. Mulder apologizes when Moo!Scully gets all 8th Season on him and says that he's having trouble processing everything. Gee, all of the people I've know who have died and come back to life have just been *fine* with the adjustment.
Mulder is going to have some really interesting interactions with the Social Security Administration, that's for sure. And credit card companies for that matter.
I love Doggett. He's so hilarious when he talks about the X-Files. "The only thing impressive about my work on the X-Files is that I even know what's going on half the time." Doggett says that Mulder created the X-Files. I thought J. Edgar created them, didn't he? Johnny should have known that since he is always bragging that he read all of the files.
Next, we get some clips from The Fugitive. Apparently, Absalom thinks Doggett is missing an arm. Then, he checks John's neck to make sure he doesn't have a worm in him like in Ice, or that he's not an alien replacement...apparently, Absalom is the only person on this show to have seen T2. Even though he's the T-1000, he fears getting shot in the head. Didn't Arnold try that already?
Skinner says that he and Pre-Moo!Scully apprehended Absalom in Oregon. What about John Doggett?! He was there, too! Give credit where credit is due, man!
Okay, Mulder is annoying me in this episode. He's so mean to poor John Doggett! It's ticking me off.
When Mulder is showing off his powers of observation, saying Howard "Morton" Salt was a multiple abductee and he probably was carrying more than just a gun on the White House lawn, Scully says "Mulder, you make this sound like it's a conspiracy." Should Mulder introduce himself to her? Has she forgotten what he's like since his trip to his UFO timeshare?
Hey, and the FBI wonders where all of their stolen laptops are? Just check out Mulder swiping Salt's hard drive. It seems easy, enough.
I just wanted to note that when Psycho-boy Absalom takes Doggett into the Federal Statistics Center, Doggett looks very T-1000 with the zip-up jacket and lighting.
A nice little 15 seconds of intensity, what the SWAT-ish guys run in and shoot Absalom [Applewhite...Hubbard...::cough cough::].
Mulder is so mean to Doggett! Doggett is like all "Nice to meet you. I saved your life." Meanwhile, Mulder is all "Hey man, it's your fault my cult leader was killed! You should have jumped in front of the bullet."
Mulder is just bad in this episode. I have decided. Not only does he shove Doggett, but he bashes my president! Well, atleast it wasn't my vice president! Mulder must be an alien replacement or possessed or something. He's just not my favorite person anymore.
Now, does anyone else notice the distinct resemblance between Krycek and Knowle? They could be brothers or atleast cousins!
It's sort of sad to know that we're still Fighting the Future. Could we maybe get a peace treaty or truce?
Geez! Now Skinner is being mean to Doggett and "wondering whose side" he's on. Alright, cool it, guys. Just because Doggett is my new favorite agent, doesn't mean I like any of you less. Except that I do for you being mean to him.
Another T2 moment when Johnny knocks on Moo!Scully's car door.
Hee hee. When Doggett ran to the room where Mulder is being a jerk, he didn't do the T2 run. That run was almost girly. Ha!
Knowle "Comrade" Rohrer is in his requisite hooded sweatshirt. He and Doggett exchange words [more than three of them], then we see that Knowle the Mole is an alien replacement, as all of Doggett's friends are. :)
This episode is quite enjoyable. Perhaps it is not great, but it is difinatively good. There are quite a few poor spots in it, but most of those involve Moo!Scully, so it is to be expected that her great heft has affected everyone adversely.
"Everything
in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it."
-L. Frank Baum-