the x-files: part two

You know, I forgot how much I love this show! Whenever I watch the X-Files I just jump around looking for my favorites. It's nice to actually rewatch the whole show from the beginning. yes, it means rewatching some episodes that I don't care for, but it also means rediscovering some I had long sense forgotten about.

So what was my favorite episode from these five? Hands down, "Ice." "The Thing" with Kurt Russell is one of my all time favorite movies, one of my all time favorite sci-fi/horror movies, and this episode not only feels like it, it's even a homage to the novella that the movie is based upon. This episode tries - successfully - to capture everything that movie provided. The parasite infecting people, the knowledge that those infected look just like their normal selves, the fear of not knowing who is infected, the fear of becoming infected, the isolation both physically and psychologically. This episode takes a closed off, remote location and combines it with someone - or in this case, something - not only picking people off one by one but infecting them one by one perfectly. On a side note I've never read the novella "Who Goes There?" but have always wanted to.

Anyway, onto the next five episodes.

Shadows - Season 1, Episode 6

Synopsis - Lauren Kyte lives in fear of a force that seems to be protecting her.

Themes - ghost, military contract, MOTW, murder, psychokinesis, strange death, suicide, terrorists, top secret, visions

Ghost in the Machine - Season 1, Episode 7

Synopsis - An A.I. program seems to be murdering people.

Themes - artificial intelligence, Deep Throat, government conspiracy, intelligent machine, military contract, MOTW, strange death

Ice - Season 1, Episode 8

Synopsis - Mulder and Scully travel to the arctic to find out what happened to a group of scientists, only to find out an alien parasite is infecting people.

Themes - alien life, arctic, MOTW, parasite

Special Guest Star - Jeff Kober

Space - Season 1, Episode 9

Synopsis - Someone is covering up sabotage at NASA. All evidence points to former astronaut Colonel Belt, who is one of Mulder's childhood heroes.

Themes - alien life, dreams, Mars, NASA, NASA conspiracy, outer space, possession, visions

Fallen Angel - Season 1, Episode 10

Synopsis - Deep Throat sends Mulder to investigate a possible downed spacecraft before all evidence is destroyed.

Themes - alien abduction, abductee, cloaking, Deep Throat, government cover up, memory loss, military, UFO