Synchrony

- This is probably not needed but as any person ever dealing with time travel will tell you, it presents a few odd situations. The classic is, ‘if you went back in time and killed your own Grandfather you would never have been born, but then who killed your Grandfather?’ Most of the time travel situations usually discussed have loops like the Grandfather situation. So time travel plot lines tend to give some - This is probably not needed but as any person ever dealing with time travel will tell you, it presents a few odd situations. The classic is, ‘if you went back in time and killed your own Grandfather you would never have been born, but then who killed your Grandfather?’ Most of the time travel situations usually discussed have loops like the Grandfather situation. So time travel plot lines tend to give some difficulties to the writers, in this episode its that if the - This is probably not needed but as any person ever dealing with time travel will tell you, it presents a few odd situations. The classic is, ‘if you went back in time and killed your own Grandfather you would never have been born, but then who killed your Grandfather?’ Most of the time travel situations usually discussed have loops like the Grandfather situation. So time travel plot lines tend to give some difficulties to the writers, in this episode its that if the older Jason Nichols is successful at stopping time travel then he wouldn’t have gone back in time, which would cause the discovery of time travel. For the purpose of this episode (and this review) I think its best that we just accept the fact that its all possible and every will end nice and good.

- Am I wrong or is this the first episode that Scully went looking for an X-file?

- I deeply enjoyed the look Scully gave Mulder after she found out that her possible big autopsy discovery was really just the security guard getting his temperature taken.

- Why did Mulder want Captain Popsicle to keep till Thanksgiving, what were is intentions exactly?

- Chryobiology how does one get into that field exactly? Parents put ice cubes into your crib when you're a kid?

- Dr. Yonichi hears that the creepy old man with him is an admirer he lets him in his hotel room, its true what they say, a little flatery goes a long way.

- Anbody else notice that when Scully was looking at Yonichi's frozen they had practically the same expression.

- Maybe the most shocking moment of this episode is when Scully is in the hospital, she managed to get through the whole scene without getting bossy, at least she was cynical.

- Couldn't the old man have used something else to kill the people? Maybe something native to our time, that wouldn't call suspiscion, hmmm... like a knife maybe?

- The old man's apartment must have been bad because even Mulder thought it was bad, at least the guy had a bed.

- Tackyons, I'm thinking Captain Kirk should be called in as a specialist.

- A world without history? What will all the history teachers do with their time?

- Hmmm... So you just punded the crap out of a plastic wall with a fire extinguisher, now two guys light on fire, what doyou do? Do you (a) put down the fire extinguisher and look stupidly through the hole you made, or do you (b) use the thing through the hole to try and put out the fire?

-Best Line: "Talk abolut being your own worst enemy" I just love the cheesyness

Rating:8 confusing references to genetics out of 10

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