Ironic title, considering where this show is headed.
I'm guessing that this is the board for the skins-'em-alive episode (sorry if I'm guessing wrong). I just wanted to point out that 1) people with flatline ekg's don't get electric shocks, and 2) if the agent at the end was intubated, he should have been on a ventilator- no wonder he coded!
Wow, Chris Carter is really reaching isn't it? In a word, YUCK!
I liked this episode. I thought it was extremely weird, which was fine with me, cuz they haven't been very weird lately, or else I wasn't paying as much attention to them as I'd thought. I also half-expected someone, probably Scully, to make an Ed Gein reference. However, the ending was rather predictable.
Has season nine been any good? living in England it could be a while before i see it, and i want to know if its worth looking forward to.
It is the same here APD. I am in Australia and the X-files isnt starting here until July. From what I have read and seen it looks pretty good, especially the mythology storylines. I can't wait for it to start and am looking forward to the series finale although it will be the end of an era.
ICK! I'm not sure if it's good that you're somewhat edgy while watching an episode just because you don't want to see a skinned body. Sigh...the teaser offered all kinds of interesting plotlines, but the script couldn't deliver it. Try again next time.
Urgh, maybe because its the halloween ep., but the skinned bodies were scary for me. I hope they don't show these details in the other ep.s.
Overall, I thought this ep. was quite good.
I liked the respectful way dogget listened to the crazy theory of reyes (better than mulder making fun of scully, without explaining his theories!). It was also well-told, from the visions reyes has, taking step for step to figure it out. And how everybody in law enforcment jumps to conclusions because someone was in prison once.
What I don't understand is: the way reyes tells it, it started with 4 miners slaying - or better skinning - another guy. This guy is reborn as sheriff, who then hunts and slays the other 4. this happened 3 times (1909, 1960, and now), and all the previous times reyes (or rather her previous incarnations) couldn't figure it out in time to prevent it. Now, even given that the wild west at the time of 18sth was very violent, why would the miners skin sb. instead of just slaying him? Sureley this is unusual?
And why does the reborn sheriff wait over 40 years before he takes his revenge? (Maybe he has to wait till everybody is at the exact age when the original crime happened?)
I'm no expert on reincarnation, but that the instant somebody dies he is reincarnated in a child born on the same day sounds too linear for me. When I read how the tibetans look for their reincarnated people, they rely mostly on dreams to find the child, not the birth date (after that come tests if s/he recognizes personal belongings).
I missed the dialogue: were all the people concerned reincarnated in the same village, or did they move to this village at some point in life? In the first case it shouldn't be hard to find out the babies born on the death date and keep some watch over them, so this whole trouble doesn't start again in some 40 years.