@@JBSpookyReview The sooner people accept this fact, the easier life may be for them. We went through it in real time. I don't think we've never gotten over it. ;)
Yesterday I had season 1 playlist as background noise, watch season 4-1, next thing I knew I was having a dream about hiding from green blooded Terminator. Good xfiles days, thanks for the video
Overall I really like this episode and the introduction of the bees. They did X so dirty though, he should’ve been kept on for a bit longer. Steven Williams is such a cool person too! I was lucky enough to have briefly met him last year and he gave me the nicest compliment ever 😊
Really enjoying these recaps, got me back into the show. Can I make one suggestion? Instead of putting the trailer for the episode you’ve just reviewed at the end, use the trailer for the next episode as, well, a trailer for your next episode.
Canadian accents have become a favorite. Being GenX, I watched a lot of Family Ties. I used to love the way Michael J. Fox would say, "sorry." I vaguely knew he was Canadian, but I never connected the two things. It wasn't until about 10 years ago when I met some Canadian people that I realized... OH! They all talk that way! I love it.
Well you already answered what I was going to posit, but I suspected the weakness of this episode was trying to tie the movie in with the show, assuming the movie happened between season 3 and 4. Finding out the movie comes much later really sorta kills that argument, so while I appreciate more mythology with the bounty hunter and the addition of the bees, really this has no reason to not be a much stronger episode.
At that point they already knew a movies was gonna happen between s5 and s6, so they kinda needed to get their mythology storylines together so everything can culminate in the movie.
I beat you to this one and caved in and saw it, episode had like 20 confusing MAJOR plots in one hour, none of them fleshed out lol. And boom, next week, a typical monster episode I still remember as a kid cause of how horrifying it was. That episode and a random episode staring T-1000 mulder replacement where a Native American monster ate his body to cure him of death. That concept just stuck with me. If you’re gonna eat my whole body to regurgitate me back to life, can I at least have a sedative…
They probably had to kill Jeremiah because he (or all of them) wasn't reliable anymore and there was a risk of exposing the project through him. Besides that, the Bounty Hunter is been sent by the colonizer-aliens, not the syndicate, this is the only time they kinda give him orders (i mean the last scene where he heals Mulders mother). I think they make arrangements and give information to the aliens, but they're not the supervisors of the Bounty hunter or the clones, otherwise they wouldn't need their own human assassins (not sure if your question about the sought-after healing abilities has been answered by this). Yeah i agree 100%, killing X off so early was a bad decision. I mean he wasn't the most versatile character, he basically just did the same thing every time, but he was way cooler than Marita, who never achieved his toughness and credibility. I like how he was always a bit angry and strict with Mulder but saved his life at the same time. RIP.
Chris Carter told Steven Williams 'X' that 'nobody really dies on x-files' after he was killed off.......he was in one more episode (the usual suspects) in season 5 and then never returned again as far as I recall. Guess some people really do die in x files.
He returned as a "ghost" in the last episode of the 9th season and also appeared in the first game which came out around 97/98 i think (it has FMV sequences so he really acted there)
Poor X! I loved him so. Plus, I hate blood. I can't take that scene. And for the life of me, I never had figured out what those scrawled letters meant until you just said it. DUH! Ha ha, I loved Maria too.
9:40 CSM has a cigarette, not just inside a hospital, but in a patient's room?! Come on, I know this is TV, but I don't think that was allowed even in the 90s!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could actually shoot the actor, Brian Thompson, and it'd take him a while to notice, so, Scully trying to body check him is hysterical. Plus, she does know, at this point, that she can shoot the guy without any fear of killing him, so, why not? The alans don't usually just soak hits, so, one in the head, and whilst it's recovering, empty your weapon into it's neck. I think Scully's packing a Cigarette Sour so, there'd something like fifteen in the single magazine, I'm lightly to amazingly sure at a foot or two range you could behead a chap with sustained kabango. I concur, no one normal could associate Scully going into Mulder's bedroom for some long hard X with a chap she barely knows, by that infamous waterbed, with anything sordid at all. Ha, I'd forgot Mulder soaks himself in petrol. I mean, I do not know what threat level you have to have before that becomes a sane option. Giant shark eating your speedboat, didn't work out well. Especially when a flare gun is added. Bees? Bees? Bees don't like smoke, Mulderinocchio, so, what, you going to walk into a building and light up? Do a quick, what was his name, Quack Young Duck… Thich Quang Duc, oh, that was danged close, but, yeah. They say when your skin nerves are gone being on fire is relatively pleasant. I do not know who they asked about this, but I think it's worth pointing out that person was a loony. When I was a young lad I had a wasps nest in my room. Whole year we shared that space. At any given point there'd be five, six wasps buzzing around. We had an agreement, it was unspoken, because, well, because they were wasps, their language skills are limited to say the least, but an understanding was reached. I didn't bother them, they didn't bother me. I'd leave a few drops of cola any time I had a can, and set it out on one end of the desk, and they'd thank me for this bounty by not arsing around where I was working. It went amazingly well. I found a new relationship with the buggers. I got stung exactly once, and that was when I stepped on one in barefeet. I had to agree, at the hastily arranged summit, that stinging me as I was accidently crushing the very life from it, was actually a fair and reasonable response. A treaty was signed, acknowledging the tragic incident, wherein the party of the first part agreed to consider floors to be inviolable terrain, and the party of the second part agreed that no further retaliation would occur, even if it did still hurt quite a bit. The next year they were gone, to a nest some other place. I hope they found a new peace, those fairly reasonable friends of mine. I mean, to be fair to them, they wear a warning sign as their whole body, it's not like they don't warn people about the pointy end. But, bees? Bees are like that but all cuddly and chumsome. Wasps are the dry acidic wit of John Cleese, bees are the avuncular chortles of Terry Jones. Who gets wierded by bees? They vomit honey, for cryin' out loud, how good's that? That'd be like prawns absent mindedly cooking up a fantastic cheese-burger. What's not to like? Petrol aftershave? Gimme a break, Muldini. Scully has cracked, at least, the code of the tie. She knows what that means, that Pendrill is down for some hot X. Of course, knowing what's coming, my brain goes back to that thingy in B5 with Ivanova lamenting [SPOILER] Those shots back to back what you did there, makes me wonder, did Scullicious start dressing as Sculdering Inferno immediately after the pilot? Because she's dressed as Clarice Explains It All Starling in the pilot. Dog snabbit I'm going to have to do a speed run of the first season, find out when she gets her own wardrobe. I do not know how Mulder gets to Maria Corvidopotulonionamilliascastrovalvacorrobundumopulis from SRSG. I mean they're in Washington, everything is a damn acronym. Skinner Rarely Sips Gin. State Replenishment Security Group. Sorry, Raymond Shoots Good. Stay Ready, Silly Goose. Some Rascal Shot Guts. Submarines Removing Sunken Galleons. And, of course, what he probably actually meant, Scully's Really Sexy Girl. On the plus side I have always liked Maria Catflaprubbermasseusealongbingbongoraveybarnstormtanktopulos. I feel sure you know that general term for caring for groups of animals is called husbandry. But, I do like the image. Given all but one bee in the whole hive is a chap, that'd be a lot of weddings. Do you, Bee, take this Bee as your awful wedding drone? Zzzz! Oh, come on, Maria (Sighs) Commandopotatochipsalsasaladburritomungojerrystupendonkeykongalullabyvalos is interesting, she's got the same smuldering as Scully. They don't do anything much with her, which I feel is a shame, but, there's at least as much potential as X. I mean I have nothing in my brain bank about X other than he's 'Exposition guy #2' Your milometer may vary closer than they appear. It may be mildly interesting, I am sure it's a conscious decision, but, TXF always went for average looking people, except for the leads. I am told David Duconkers is lovely, not my cup of tea, personally. I mean, I can name the times they had piping ladies… Mrs Kavite, Bambi, that one from that awful VR episode, Maria (I know, I made this bed) Contrapointediddlybopeepostentatiousllamatrippydiscolollapalluzodopeyitchyhappigilmorefragglerockoperabannedoctopus and, um, oh, that TXF fan agent in the episode about the monitor lizard man where Reyes goes blind. Overall, though, yes, I agree, whilst important, this episode is just lining the ducks up, it's a skipisode. 'That woman' is Admiral Necheyev. The best Admiral. The only one who's annoyed by Picard's bullshit as much as I am. It's getting a bit bizarre getting these rambling to exactly one thousand words each time.
@@JBSpookyReview Only for the, like, last five or six. My brain hates me, y'see, so when it spotted I was at something like 983 it said 'that's wrong, add seventeen words.' and now I cannae stop. However, my brain also doesn't like to cheat, so I do 1000+ and then edit down, so, not putting stuff in solely to hit the grand. I am also aware that if I only did this for TXF then by the time you've done every episode, I would have put down enough lettery things to make up a fairly large book. I could have spoken about the time I accidently ordered two entire circusses for an event and had to find some amazing way to fit them both into the grounds of the school we'd technically thieved, but the wasp thing seemed more pertinent. I'll save the circus thing for the next episode that has a circus in it. I feel certain there's at least one more coming.
The green blood is toxic, except when it comes out from the back of the neck, or the alien/clone/hybrid is dead. Then again, the ABH wasn't properly stabbed in this one (I mean, he didn't die, so Mulder didn't pierce him in the right spot)... so I don't know how to explain it. Maybe since they were outdoors, it was ventilated enough not to be harmful?
This is one of the big inconsistencies. The green blood of the alien rebels (see One Son/Two Fathers) is seemingly non-toxic (which could be explained with them not being infected with the alien virus). In "Without" Scully kills a bounty hunter and just chills next to him while he is melting.
Yeah, removing Steven Williams was a big loss for the show. I mean, I'm glad he at least got a decent send-off, but Laurie Holden doesn't Holden a candle to his X.
Is that actually the line a bee stung me AY, the guy who played teeth talking guy reminds me of actor Nick Vera. If they cloned Mulders sister, why didn't they make a story line that Fox finds out he also has 'clones' and finding out he is out there..... literally!
I'd appreciate an explanation why the neck poker thing didn't kill Brian Thompson, we see about 3-4 races of aliens in the show and what really made him different from Jeremiah Smith or the guy posing as a black baseball player
I don't know if this helps, but when I watched this episode I went back to other alien/bounty green blood episodes and I determined a theory. I deduced that the base of the neck of the alien had a special "life-force gland" in which it regulated the blood and acted as defense. If the alien got damaged/hurt to where the skin was broken and their blood was exposed, the gland at the back of the neck sent an immediate "rapid defence response" signal to cause their blood to coagulate quickly, however to anyone around it (such as humans who weren't part of the same makeup) the act of this coagulation would cause a toxic byproduct that would act as a "defense mechanism" to those who were nearby. However, due to the makeup, the gland at the base of the neck was vulnerable in itself. If that got damaged or pierced, it could not send the biomechanical signal defense mechanism within the blood, therefore it could not have the toxic side effect. Although bare in mind during hybridisation experimentation, similar experiments may not work exact same way (Emily Sims comes to mind).
From what i read Mulder just didn't hit the right spot, but yeah this whole thing is very incosistent. In season 8 Scully kills the Bounty Hunter with a precise shot in the neck (but according to earlier episodes you need a Stiletto to kill them, probably because it is made out of a special metal, maybe the magnetite that kills alien super soldiers in season 9). The essence of all those aliens is Purity, the alien virus. Well tbh, it is never really established what the true nature of the aliens is. According to Chris Carter's comments on the DVD sets, at first the ABH (alien bounty hunter) was a single alien, then he decided to make them a race (see the first episodes of season 8, the UFO scene). My personal theory is, they are either a closely related/very similar species of aliens or they are modified/cloned/hybridized grey aliens. We know that his "true face" (see episode Unnatural) is that of a grey alien, but we don't know if it's the exact same grey aliens (the colonizers) or if they are different species. We know for sure he is infected with the alien virus, because the alien rebels (who look identical to him, Thompson even plays one of them in Patient X, so they're probably the same species) have closed their face openings to not get infected with the black oil/alien virus. So either the ABH is kind of a bred assassin, a modified grey alien who can shapeshift into humans and therefore is perfectly suited for the job of monitoring the alien clones, or he is from a different species of grey aliens with shapeshift abilities that got sort of overtaken by the colonizer-grey alien with their alien virus (which is probably the more plausible theory, because of the later addition of alien rebels who seem to be the same species but managed to not get infected).
As the series progressed it made less and less sense and I was just waiting for them to resolve the series. I was kind of disappointed when they decided to keep the show going with season 6 as I wanted them to make more films.
I was noticing how good she looked throughout as well. I was going to say something about it, but I've already had people complain that I'm objectifying her somehow lol.
I liked this one but I think X should have been around a bit longer, perhaps playing both sides against each other. I think he would have made a great ally/obstacle to Mulder and Scully that could have built up the tension more in the mythology. But on the other hand, Laurie Holden is easier on the eyes so there's that 😛
Chris Carter was so committed to the alien abduction storyline that he switched it to a new age ghost rescue three seasons later. Whatever works!
Hahaha he's just making it all up as he goes.
@@JBSpookyReview The sooner people accept this fact, the easier life may be for them. We went through it in real time. I don't think we've never gotten over it. ;)
Oh man that new age fairy dust story . . . after all the lead up!
@@usedscarI just pretend that never happened
Yesterday I had season 1 playlist as background noise, watch season 4-1, next thing I knew I was having a dream about hiding from green blooded Terminator. Good xfiles days, thanks for the video
I wish I had X-Files dreams. Mine always have rogue planets smashing into earth.
Looking back knowing how the story goes, it's a chore watching any of the mythology episodes 😢 nowadays I only watch monster of the week episodes 😊
3:34 Your reaction to the "teeth talker" made me laugh uncontrollably!! "DEAR GOD, OPEN YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU TALK!" 🤣🤣🤣
Hahah it's so annoying.
@@JBSpookyReview All these years I never noticed it. And now I can't unsee it. THANKS A LOT!
The next episode is my favourite! Cant wait for Home.
Oh yeah, that one was dark. I think Season 4 overall was one of my faves.
Home might be my favourite as well. If it isn't my overall favourite, then it's in the top 5.
Thanks again for your great job JB! We do all ssstaay spooky 👽
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Overall I really like this episode and the introduction of the bees. They did X so dirty though, he should’ve been kept on for a bit longer. Steven Williams is such a cool person too! I was lucky enough to have briefly met him last year and he gave me the nicest compliment ever 😊
Oh wow, what did he say?
@@JBSpookyReview I was cosplaying as Scully and he said I looked like Gillian 🥹
Oh wow that's quite the compliment.
@@JBSpookyReview it made my year lol
We're waiting for it.....SOON!!!! Who says you can't go home again?
Thomas Wolfe?
Remember when they named an episode in seaosn 10 "home again" and it had nothing to do the season 4 episode. That was bullshit.
@@JBSpookyReview I re-watched S10 a while back and still had the thought “Oh man! A sequel to Home” and then remembered that didn’t happen.
Really enjoying these recaps, got me back into the show. Can I make one suggestion?
Instead of putting the trailer for the episode you’ve just reviewed at the end, use the trailer for the next episode as, well, a trailer for your next episode.
I've had someone make that suggestion before and while I have considered it, I'm too OCD to change things now haha.
thanks for the video brother! Can't wait for Home.
Yeah I can't wait to do it either.
@@JBSpookyReview GOOD LUCK WITH YT CENSORS ON THAT ONE LOL
Canadian accents have become a favorite. Being GenX, I watched a lot of Family Ties. I used to love the way Michael J. Fox would say, "sorry." I vaguely knew he was Canadian, but I never connected the two things. It wasn't until about 10 years ago when I met some Canadian people that I realized... OH! They all talk that way! I love it.
Haha that's just how we talk.
@@JBSpookyReview It's adorable!
NOT THE BEES!!!
The bees are the worst.
My favourite thing to see in my feed.
I'm so glad!
I love these reviews my dude. And I'm super super stoked for home. One of my favorite episodes I love that backwoods inbred mutant hillbilly horror!
Yeah I cannot wait to do Home. It's definitely one of my favourites if not my favourite.
This is the last episode Mulder and Scully use the silver smith and Wesson handguns. They switch back to 226 and 228 from Home onwards.
I'm loving the gun history.
RIP X :(
I know it sucks.
your right things will open up more
apart from teeth talker 😬
Haha he feels like a Seinfeld character.
Well you already answered what I was going to posit, but I suspected the weakness of this episode was trying to tie the movie in with the show, assuming the movie happened between season 3 and 4. Finding out the movie comes much later really sorta kills that argument, so while I appreciate more mythology with the bounty hunter and the addition of the bees, really this has no reason to not be a much stronger episode.
At that point they already knew a movies was gonna happen between s5 and s6, so they kinda needed to get their mythology storylines together so everything can culminate in the movie.
The real build to the movie doesn't really begin until season 5, but you can start to see pieces forming in season 4.
I thought the movie was between seasons 3 and 4
@@harryparsons2750 nope, they started building up to the movie with season 4, the movie takes place between the episodes "the end" and "the beginning"
I beat you to this one and caved in and saw it, episode had like 20 confusing MAJOR plots in one hour, none of them fleshed out lol. And boom, next week, a typical monster episode I still remember as a kid cause of how horrifying it was. That episode and a random episode staring T-1000 mulder replacement where a Native American monster ate his body to cure him of death. That concept just stuck with me. If you’re gonna eat my whole body to regurgitate me back to life, can I at least have a sedative…
That episode is a really bizarre one. I haven't seen it in years.
They probably had to kill Jeremiah because he (or all of them) wasn't reliable anymore and there was a risk of exposing the project through him. Besides that, the Bounty Hunter is been sent by the colonizer-aliens, not the syndicate, this is the only time they kinda give him orders (i mean the last scene where he heals Mulders mother). I think they make arrangements and give information to the aliens, but they're not the supervisors of the Bounty hunter or the clones, otherwise they wouldn't need their own human assassins (not sure if your question about the sought-after healing abilities has been answered by this).
Yeah i agree 100%, killing X off so early was a bad decision. I mean he wasn't the most versatile character, he basically just did the same thing every time, but he was way cooler than Marita, who never achieved his toughness and credibility. I like how he was always a bit angry and strict with Mulder but saved his life at the same time. RIP.
I think you're 100% right.
Yeah, last time I watched this one, I totally remember thinking: "They think 70 GB is a lot. Fu*k, I'm old!"
Hahaha I know. It's fun seeing what we had to work with back then.
R.I.P. X!
Gone too soon.
@@JBSpookyReview NEVER FORGOTTEN.
Chris Carter told Steven Williams 'X' that 'nobody really dies on x-files' after he was killed off.......he was in one more episode (the usual suspects) in season 5 and then never returned again as far as I recall. Guess some people really do die in x files.
Only Characters the fans like stay dead.
He returned as a "ghost" in the last episode of the 9th season and also appeared in the first game which came out around 97/98 i think (it has FMV sequences so he really acted there)
@@muldrake good point I remember that FMV game
@@paulmcdonald1876 the game apparently plays during the third season, so it was before he died
Poor X! I loved him so. Plus, I hate blood. I can't take that scene. And for the life of me, I never had figured out what those scrawled letters meant until you just said it. DUH! Ha ha, I loved Maria too.
The letters really could have meant anything, it was so vague.
I really need to rewatch whatever episode you are covering next, I don't remember anything after the previous episode. 😅
You don't remember Home? Go watch it now! It might be my favorite episode.
THIS A GOOD ONE, LOL THE ALBERTAN WORKER
He was pretty damn Canadian.
@@JBSpookyReview looks exactly like my buddy
Perfect Timing 👍🏾
I'm so glad.
Just made my day
I'm glad I did.
now that's what i call a sticky situation
It was pretty damn sticky.
David has a new hairstyle you should off mentioned that lol 😅
Haha I should have damn.
@@JBSpookyReview Ha ha, back in the day, there were entire websites dedicated to their hair/fashion.
9:40 CSM has a cigarette, not just inside a hospital, but in a patient's room?! Come on, I know this is TV, but I don't think that was allowed even in the 90s!
Thinking back, I think it actually was allowed in hospitals.
@@JBSpookyReview Yikes! I stand corrected.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could actually shoot the actor, Brian Thompson, and it'd take him a while to notice, so, Scully trying to body check him is hysterical. Plus, she does know, at this point, that she can shoot the guy without any fear of killing him, so, why not? The alans don't usually just soak hits, so, one in the head, and whilst it's recovering, empty your weapon into it's neck. I think Scully's packing a Cigarette Sour so, there'd something like fifteen in the single magazine, I'm lightly to amazingly sure at a foot or two range you could behead a chap with sustained kabango.
I concur, no one normal could associate Scully going into Mulder's bedroom for some long hard X with a chap she barely knows, by that infamous waterbed, with anything sordid at all.
Ha, I'd forgot Mulder soaks himself in petrol. I mean, I do not know what threat level you have to have before that becomes a sane option. Giant shark eating your speedboat, didn't work out well. Especially when a flare gun is added. Bees? Bees? Bees don't like smoke, Mulderinocchio, so, what, you going to walk into a building and light up? Do a quick, what was his name, Quack Young Duck… Thich Quang Duc, oh, that was danged close, but, yeah. They say when your skin nerves are gone being on fire is relatively pleasant. I do not know who they asked about this, but I think it's worth pointing out that person was a loony.
When I was a young lad I had a wasps nest in my room. Whole year we shared that space. At any given point there'd be five, six wasps buzzing around. We had an agreement, it was unspoken, because, well, because they were wasps, their language skills are limited to say the least, but an understanding was reached. I didn't bother them, they didn't bother me. I'd leave a few drops of cola any time I had a can, and set it out on one end of the desk, and they'd thank me for this bounty by not arsing around where I was working. It went amazingly well. I found a new relationship with the buggers. I got stung exactly once, and that was when I stepped on one in barefeet. I had to agree, at the hastily arranged summit, that stinging me as I was accidently crushing the very life from it, was actually a fair and reasonable response. A treaty was signed, acknowledging the tragic incident, wherein the party of the first part agreed to consider floors to be inviolable terrain, and the party of the second part agreed that no further retaliation would occur, even if it did still hurt quite a bit. The next year they were gone, to a nest some other place. I hope they found a new peace, those fairly reasonable friends of mine. I mean, to be fair to them, they wear a warning sign as their whole body, it's not like they don't warn people about the pointy end.
But, bees? Bees are like that but all cuddly and chumsome. Wasps are the dry acidic wit of John Cleese, bees are the avuncular chortles of Terry Jones. Who gets wierded by bees? They vomit honey, for cryin' out loud, how good's that? That'd be like prawns absent mindedly cooking up a fantastic cheese-burger. What's not to like?
Petrol aftershave? Gimme a break, Muldini.
Scully has cracked, at least, the code of the tie. She knows what that means, that Pendrill is down for some hot X. Of course, knowing what's coming, my brain goes back to that thingy in B5 with Ivanova lamenting [SPOILER]
Those shots back to back what you did there, makes me wonder, did Scullicious start dressing as Sculdering Inferno immediately after the pilot? Because she's dressed as Clarice Explains It All Starling in the pilot. Dog snabbit I'm going to have to do a speed run of the first season, find out when she gets her own wardrobe.
I do not know how Mulder gets to Maria Corvidopotulonionamilliascastrovalvacorrobundumopulis from SRSG. I mean they're in Washington, everything is a damn acronym. Skinner Rarely Sips Gin. State Replenishment Security Group. Sorry, Raymond Shoots Good. Stay Ready, Silly Goose. Some Rascal Shot Guts. Submarines Removing Sunken Galleons. And, of course, what he probably actually meant, Scully's Really Sexy Girl.
On the plus side I have always liked Maria Catflaprubbermasseusealongbingbongoraveybarnstormtanktopulos.
I feel sure you know that general term for caring for groups of animals is called husbandry. But, I do like the image. Given all but one bee in the whole hive is a chap, that'd be a lot of weddings. Do you, Bee, take this Bee as your awful wedding drone? Zzzz!
Oh, come on, Maria (Sighs) Commandopotatochipsalsasaladburritomungojerrystupendonkeykongalullabyvalos is interesting, she's got the same smuldering as Scully. They don't do anything much with her, which I feel is a shame, but, there's at least as much potential as X. I mean I have nothing in my brain bank about X other than he's 'Exposition guy #2' Your milometer may vary closer than they appear.
It may be mildly interesting, I am sure it's a conscious decision, but, TXF always went for average looking people, except for the leads. I am told David Duconkers is lovely, not my cup of tea, personally. I mean, I can name the times they had piping ladies…
Mrs Kavite, Bambi, that one from that awful VR episode, Maria (I know, I made this bed) Contrapointediddlybopeepostentatiousllamatrippydiscolollapalluzodopeyitchyhappigilmorefragglerockoperabannedoctopus and, um, oh, that TXF fan agent in the episode about the monitor lizard man where Reyes goes blind.
Overall, though, yes, I agree, whilst important, this episode is just lining the ducks up, it's a skipisode.
'That woman' is Admiral Necheyev. The best Admiral. The only one who's annoyed by Picard's bullshit as much as I am.
It's getting a bit bizarre getting these rambling to exactly one thousand words each time.
Do you seriously do 1000 words each time? hahah I'm going to have to start counting.
@@JBSpookyReview Only for the, like, last five or six. My brain hates me, y'see, so when it spotted I was at something like 983 it said 'that's wrong, add seventeen words.' and now I cannae stop. However, my brain also doesn't like to cheat, so I do 1000+ and then edit down, so, not putting stuff in solely to hit the grand.
I am also aware that if I only did this for TXF then by the time you've done every episode, I would have put down enough lettery things to make up a fairly large book.
I could have spoken about the time I accidently ordered two entire circusses for an event and had to find some amazing way to fit them both into the grounds of the school we'd technically thieved, but the wasp thing seemed more pertinent. I'll save the circus thing for the next episode that has a circus in it. I feel certain there's at least one more coming.
The green blood is toxic, except when it comes out from the back of the neck, or the alien/clone/hybrid is dead. Then again, the ABH wasn't properly stabbed in this one (I mean, he didn't die, so Mulder didn't pierce him in the right spot)... so I don't know how to explain it. Maybe since they were outdoors, it was ventilated enough not to be harmful?
This is one of the big inconsistencies. The green blood of the alien rebels (see One Son/Two Fathers) is seemingly non-toxic (which could be explained with them not being infected with the alien virus). In "Without" Scully kills a bounty hunter and just chills next to him while he is melting.
There really is no explanation for why it suddenly doesn't effect them.
@@JBSpookyReview Don't think about it too hard. It will only make your head hurt!
Yeah, removing Steven Williams was a big loss for the show. I mean, I'm glad he at least got a decent send-off, but Laurie Holden doesn't Holden a candle to his X.
No she's nowhere near as interesting.
This episode says, "You can't handle the truth" not only to us but also to most of the writer room.
Isn't that how it goes haha.
Apparently, Chris Carter couldn't handle the truth, either.
I forgot this episode takes place in Canada. I mean the 51st state, my bad. lol
There are a few that do. I think that's just so people don't point out they're pretending it's anything but.
@@JBSpookyReview The X-Files was the best revenue stream Canada ever had. lol
Loosing X kind of sucked but more Marita is ok. Bounty hunters and bees oh my
I just personally prefer X over her. But to be honest I have not watched the show in a very long time, so my memories of her are fleeting.
Yay :)
Hope you enjoyed it!
Is that actually the line a bee stung me AY, the guy who played teeth talking guy reminds me of actor Nick Vera. If they cloned Mulders sister, why didn't they make a story line that Fox finds out he also has 'clones' and finding out he is out there..... literally!
Don't they clone Mulder in season 8 or is that a shape shifter? I forget I rarely watch season 8.
@JBSpookyReview no that was the shape shifter guy in the hospital scene.
I'd appreciate an explanation why the neck poker thing didn't kill Brian Thompson, we see about 3-4 races of aliens in the show and what really made him different from Jeremiah Smith or the guy posing as a black baseball player
I don't know if this helps, but when I watched this episode I went back to other alien/bounty green blood episodes and I determined a theory.
I deduced that the base of the neck of the alien had a special "life-force gland" in which it regulated the blood and acted as defense. If the alien got damaged/hurt to where the skin was broken and their blood was exposed, the gland at the back of the neck sent an immediate "rapid defence response" signal to cause their blood to coagulate quickly, however to anyone around it (such as humans who weren't part of the same makeup) the act of this coagulation would cause a toxic byproduct that would act as a "defense mechanism" to those who were nearby.
However, due to the makeup, the gland at the base of the neck was vulnerable in itself. If that got damaged or pierced, it could not send the biomechanical signal defense mechanism within the blood, therefore it could not have the toxic side effect.
Although bare in mind during hybridisation experimentation, similar experiments may not work exact same way (Emily Sims comes to mind).
I can't remember where I read it, but apparently it wasn't in the exact right spot, to which I call bullshit.
From what i read Mulder just didn't hit the right spot, but yeah this whole thing is very incosistent. In season 8 Scully kills the Bounty Hunter with a precise shot in the neck (but according to earlier episodes you need a Stiletto to kill them, probably because it is made out of a special metal, maybe the magnetite that kills alien super soldiers in season 9). The essence of all those aliens is Purity, the alien virus. Well tbh, it is never really established what the true nature of the aliens is. According to Chris Carter's comments on the DVD sets, at first the ABH (alien bounty hunter) was a single alien, then he decided to make them a race (see the first episodes of season 8, the UFO scene). My personal theory is, they are either a closely related/very similar species of aliens or they are modified/cloned/hybridized grey aliens. We know that his "true face" (see episode Unnatural) is that of a grey alien, but we don't know if it's the exact same grey aliens (the colonizers) or if they are different species. We know for sure he is infected with the alien virus, because the alien rebels (who look identical to him, Thompson even plays one of them in Patient X, so they're probably the same species) have closed their face openings to not get infected with the black oil/alien virus. So either the ABH is kind of a bred assassin, a modified grey alien who can shapeshift into humans and therefore is perfectly suited for the job of monitoring the alien clones, or he is from a different species of grey aliens with shapeshift abilities that got sort of overtaken by the colonizer-grey alien with their alien virus (which is probably the more plausible theory, because of the later addition of alien rebels who seem to be the same species but managed to not get infected).
As the series progressed it made less and less sense and I was just waiting for them to resolve the series. I was kind of disappointed when they decided to keep the show going with season 6 as I wanted them to make more films.
That was the original idea. It was supposed to end at season 5 and then just be movies from there on out.
@JBSpookyReview Some episodes such as "Roadrunners" from season 8 could have benefited from the two hour run time and larger budget.
Laurie Holden got Scullyed. They took a younger actress and made her play an older character.
They hate younger women for some reason.
Omg Gillian is hot in this episode
I was noticing how good she looked throughout as well. I was going to say something about it, but I've already had people complain that I'm objectifying her somehow lol.
@@JBSpookyReview People are silly. She was one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen. And I say that as a 100% straight woman!
X getting killed in such a generic episode. Tsk! Chris was not giving his best here I think.
I love the show, but I think it's honestly held back by Chris.
Fey Episode?
I honestly do not know what fey means lol.
@@JBSpookyReview Faeries. The Little Folk. The Fair People.
I liked this one but I think X should have been around a bit longer, perhaps playing both sides against each other. I think he would have made a great ally/obstacle to Mulder and Scully that could have built up the tension more in the mythology. But on the other hand, Laurie Holden is easier on the eyes so there's that 😛
Hey now, X is a fine looking chap as well. But yeah Laurie is pretty easy on the eyes.