I usually don't like these bottle eps. They're usually depressing, have a death-and-doomy feeling throughout, and though Mulder and Scully by all rights should be dead, they miraculously survive by the end. Well, this not-so-classic bottle ep was just spiffen! It was high-action yet in-depth, with the whole communication-thing coming out of it, which is what bottle eps are good for. This was a scary episode. The Files of X has desensitised me to the point where I can go through the woods after midnight and get no more than a feel ing of exhilaration when people jump out at me and set off firecrackers at my feet. But this really had me creeped out. As in sitting on the couch and beginning to knaw on the blanket. (And I do not usually knaw on the blanket to relieve my tension, thank-you-very-much!!) But besides all this wonderfull shtuff, I SO loved the not-so-subtle fun-pokeing at those communication seminars. (Now chose one adjective beginning with the same letter as your first name to describe yourself.) I have never liked any of that crowd associated with school councelors. If I have problems, I am not going to go to some bald guy who has no idea what is going on in my life. But the scene where Scully's holding Mulder and singing... I have no word, not even in my extensive compound-adjective vocabulary, that will describe what I felt as Scully sang. But though this episode was awesome, I can't help thinking that the plot was tied together too loosely. There were SO MANY times when the things could have attacked and they didn't. And how many bullets are too the clip? Another thing- this was a bottle ep that actually had something to shoot at! But the teaser, again, was completely misleading: we were made to think that, at one point, Mulder and Scully had the gun trained on each other.
I don't personally like high body counts, but I guess in this one it couldn't be helped. In the Old Episodes chat forum, someone asked: Can anyone think of a single episode in which no one died? Every time I think I have one, I remember some poor guy who was killed by a mutant or something. All of the OEMers out there came up with something like a total of six.
Overall, a pretty good ep.
Can someone actually write back this time? I keep shoving E-mails out there and getting no reply.

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