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"This episode really took root in me. Lit nice and exquisitely dark, (it's how I like my Files served) this splendidly shadow casting supernatural Sunday night terror tantrum transfixes with it's tree bending trials and tribulations. Blackened forests are a scenic staple of this season, Mulder and Scully, becoming more forest ranger, than F.B.I. Not that I'm voicing my opposition. Dark forests are just the sort of place you would bump into a couple of government hired paranormal investigators, and just the sort of place, something black, like the ground itself, would swallow you whole. Of course, as a big fan of the show, I'm encouraged by the fact that the shows producers are shooting scripts that are oozing mudlike in their mysterious modern myth manipulation, over the well impacted writer's shoe imprints of the past, only to inspire a much needed thought provoking befuddlement in the t.v. viewer hikers of today. There is no recycling of the haunted forest of ideas at this plant, only slash and burn episodal t.v. agriculture and constant searching for innovative, nightmarish, table designs. With writers like Stephen King and William Gibson writing the next two episodes all the branches on the tree are swinging very swiftly toward the intended target."
-Michael B.-
"I didn't think this episode was put very well together, they seem to have stray details flying all over the place. Like what real significanse did that big guy with the axe have? How did Karen die? Why didn't Scully mention to Mulder that that piece of bark he found in Lisa's father's neck could have been there for the simple reason that he worked he worked with the trees, and it could have gotten lodged there quite easily long before his demise. For some strange reason though, I liked this episode, I liked the conversations Mulder and Scully had, even though I wish for once Scully could be in the action at the end. Good affects all around exept for when Mulder and the boy started to climb out of the mud, you could see all they had to do was stand up...but then again you can't win them all. The voice over in the end was really great, I got the feeling in an undertone that Mulder was talking about himself. The part about not facing your past and then in the end it consumes you. I was looking forward to the "shocking ending that you won't believe" that the previews spoke about, I've learned my lesson, never trust the previews, there was nothing shocking about it, but I still liked it with all of its faults."
-Eileen A.-
"This one actually wasn't so bad. Though the plot was slightly complex, it was very well written, and it had just a hint of shippiness added in. (Was anyone else laughing happily when Mulder said his line about turning Scully on in that tree?) Since this episode was written by two new writers, I was expecting less than what I saw last night. I was actually quite pleased. It was a wonderful break from all the conspiracys and aliens. "Schizogeny" was simply meant to be a scary, emotional X-File, and it achieved it's goal. Mulder's empathetic nature towards Bobby made me think that there is the slight possibility that he was also abused as a child. A messege that I got from this episode was that we shouldn't underestimate nature, because we have no idea what it can do to us. Mark Snow's music was, as usual, phenominal, and Duchovny & Anderson, as usual, were remarkable. I gave this episode a 9 because, dispite the slightly confusing plot, this was, overall, a successful, eerie X-File."
-Christina O.-
"This was a good episode, it's just that something seemed a little off about it. I kept thinking of old horror movies the whole time I watched it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The only problem was that it didn't seem like what 'The X-Files' should be like."
-Adam B.-
"It was ok. It wasnt the best episode I've ever seen. And it was a little bit out there. I mean killing trees? Whatever. But I liked it a lot because it reminded me of the old 'X-Files' a lot. It wasn't just about one of their lives, but actualy a case that they worked on."
-Ula B.-
"This episode was a big disappointment! It was not only predictible but even a little boring. The writers seemed to be trying to hard to make it creepy. It just ended up being silly.
Oh well, I guess you have to take the bad with the good."
-Maria D.-
"I thought it was a pretty good episode, but I'm a nitpicker and there were a few problems with the episode. There is one thing I am glad about and that is that we are back to the normal spooky stuff now, and no more emotional soap stuff."
-Kathleen B.-
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