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The fact that Mulder and Scully aren't very good at actually ''doing'' anything to close their cases. They usually ''figure out'' what's going on, or at least advance a theory that's basically correct, but half the time the monster has already either killed a bunch of people or survives the end of the episode, which makes one wonder what happened after they've left the area. Did the fluke man in "The Host" just...stop killing people, or leave? At the end of "Ghost in the Machine," the AI is clearly still alive, looking right at the jerk FBI agent who tempts fate by saying "I'm gonna figure this thing out if it kills me!" Did the AI just change its mind? Two of the inbred hicks in "Home" got away, and it's pretty much stated outright that they're going to start again somewhere else. You'd think Mulder and Scully would pay more attention, unless the monsters of the week who aren't quite dead just stop killing people and mysteriously vanish. |
The fact that Mulder and Scully aren't very good at actually ''doing'' anything to close their cases. They usually ''figure out'' what's going on, or at least advance a theory that's basically correct, but half the time the monster has already either killed a bunch of people or survives the end of the episode, which makes one wonder what happened after they've left the area. Did the fluke man in "The Host" just...stop killing people, or leave? At the end of "Ghost in the Machine," the AI is clearly still alive, looking right at the jerk FBI agent who tempts fate by saying "I'm gonna figure this thing out if it kills me!" Did the AI just change its mind? Two of the inbred hicks in "Home" got away, and it's pretty much stated outright that they're going to start again somewhere else. You'd think Mulder and Scully would pay more attention, unless the monsters of the week who aren't quite dead just stop killing people and mysteriously vanish. |
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* Yes, these [[The End - |
* Yes, these [[The End - or Is It?]] endings bear some serious [[Fridge Horror]] if you think about it. |
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* But, wouldn't you say that being unable to completely close cases is a theme--not in those exact words, but think about? When there are only two people trying to solve the mysteries of the world and dozens of other people trying to keep them quiet, what do you do? Despite, the open-ended cases, they realize that if it weren't for them, those people have no one. Even if it isn't absolute closure, there are still answers. It is scary that some of these monsters are still alive and kicking, but Mulder and Scully can only do so much--they are superheros and they don't have all the answers. |
* But, wouldn't you say that being unable to completely close cases is a theme--not in those exact words, but think about? When there are only two people trying to solve the mysteries of the world and dozens of other people trying to keep them quiet, what do you do? Despite, the open-ended cases, they realize that if it weren't for them, those people have no one. Even if it isn't absolute closure, there are still answers. It is scary that some of these monsters are still alive and kicking, but Mulder and Scully can only do so much--they are superheros and they don't have all the answers. |
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** Exactly. Plus, watch each Monster of the Week episode. I like to try and figure out what would have happened if Mulder and Scully hadn't been there. Quite often, even in the times the Monster gets away, the pair do save lives! There would often be many more deaths if they hadn't shown up. You reference Home - that still means that only two of them got away. Mulder and Scully do make a difference, just...as much as two people with all odds stacked against them can. |
** Exactly. Plus, watch each Monster of the Week episode. I like to try and figure out what would have happened if Mulder and Scully hadn't been there. Quite often, even in the times the Monster gets away, the pair do save lives! There would often be many more deaths if they hadn't shown up. You reference Home - that still means that only two of them got away. Mulder and Scully do make a difference, just...as much as two people with all odds stacked against them can. |
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I'm really confused about "Ice." How did the lady who ends up infected with the parasite get infected? Mulder was attacked by the infected dog (though it didn't break the skin), Scully and the one doctor were exposed to infected blood, and the geologist was handling the ice cores. How was she exposed? When? |
I'm really confused about "Ice." How did the lady who ends up infected with the parasite get infected? Mulder was attacked by the infected dog (though it didn't break the skin), Scully and the one doctor were exposed to infected blood, and the geologist was handling the ice cores. How was she exposed? When? |
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* It's based on ''[[The Thing ( |
* It's based on ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]''. In that movie, the audience doesn't get to know who is infected and how they got infected, either (at least for some characters). That's the whole point, and greatly amplifies the horror. {{spoiler|At the end, you really don't know if the last two survivors are infected or not.}} |
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My major mystery of the last two seasons: did nobody working on the show realize that the alliterative words "super soldiers" sounds really silly when said over and over and over again? "So-called super soldiers" is even worse! |
My major mystery of the last two seasons: did nobody working on the show realize that the alliterative words "super soldiers" sounds really silly when said over and over and over again? "So-called super soldiers" is even worse! |
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