The X-Files Season 2, Episode 2: The Host

'The Host' was a really disturbing and kind of gross episode. I will never look at pipes and water treatment the same way again. Or creepy sewer-dwelling monsters, but you know, I don't really have to think about those very often as it is.

I think I would have preferred the culprit in this one to be actual aliens, because the idea of genetically mutated monsters somehow seems a little more plausible, and I sure don't want to see one of those things coming through the pipes, or in a swimming pool, or a sewage tank, or really anywhere at all.

So yeah, gross monsters combined with people swimming in shit. This is not going to be an episode I rewatch very often.

"Hey, X-Files, have you got any non-creepy or disgusting episodes to use as the second episode of the second season?"

"Go fish."

The X-Files Season 2, Episode 1: Little Green Men

So, season one has come to a close. I have no profound conclusions or even predictions for the next season. I don't know how I could possibly predict what will happen. Mulder and Scully will do stuff? There will be aliens? Who knows?

Either way, it begins now! And it begins with aliens (one prediction right!). Maybe?

Actually, it begins with a voiceover.

And more importantly, it begins with kind of a disaster, because the X-Files really have been shut down, Mulder and Scully have been separated, with Mulder working on what sounds like some busywork project they have him on until they can figure out what to do with him, and Scully teaching at Quantico.

Things cannot possibly get any worse for them, right?

The X-Files Season 1, Episode 24: The Erlenmeyer Flask

Holy shit. I don't even know how to write about this episode. SO MUCH HAPPENED in this spectacular season finale. It can only get deeper from here. How deep does the rabbit hole go?

We finally got confirmation of both the existence of extra-terrestrial life and of a giant government cover-up. I didn't think that would happen in the first season.

Oh yeah, and Deep Throat got deep sixed. WHAT.

The X-Files Season 1, Episode 23: Roland

For a show that deals with extraordinary phenomena, this episode almost bordered on the ordinary. As much as I don't believe in psychic abilities in real life, I can much more easily accept the idea of a psychic connection between identical twins than some of the other far-fetched things they've dealt with.

But also, this was a sad story about a family that was split apart because of attitudes about intelligence and its relative value in individuals.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Fashion

I've been trying to think about exactly how to structure this blog, and I've arrived at something I think both works for myself and will do justice to a show that I know an awful lot of people feel very strongly about.

I'm going to try to do this thing where I write about one episode each day Monday through Thursday (I've mostly given up on the idea of grouping episodes and only highlighting certain ones - it makes it too hard to plan - so yes, just individual episodes each day, with the possible exception of two part episodes, which I don't want to split in half).

And then I get to dedicate Fridays to other things about The X-Files that I want to talk about but that doesn't really 'belong to' a single episode. Because there's a lot of that, too, and the more of the show I watch, the more I'll discover that I want to write about.

And in this case, as I approach the end of the first season, I feel like I just have to say something about the clothes. Because come ON.