It’s just a prank, bruh.
That kind of advanced fornication is for consenting adults only.
He’d be a bad guy even if he had no superpowers and the only effect of his prank was to terrify the girls. If he’d been trying to frighten a couple of bullies or something then I’d have sympathy for him even if things went wrong, but these were his girlfriends. They liked and trusted William/Jackson, and he took advantage of that in order to deliberately cause them harm for his own amusement. He’s a repulsive little creep, and I’m even more annoyed now than I was before about the amount of time the new seasons have wasted on the William storyline.
I thought the Haley Joel Osmont episode was the second best of the season. As good as the old show, anyway.
Last night’s was an okay episode. Good to see young Skinner and more of old Skinner, especially the resolution between him and Mulder/Skully. The closet scene was kinda creepy, but there wasn’t much tension in the episode. My biggest fear was for the barking dog, just before the monster hunter fell into the pit. Then we never saw the dog again.
Watching the new one now.
Wow, this is a great episode. It was worth bringing the show back just to get a few good ones, and this one is great.
This will be forever called, “that episode where the technology went berserk”.
It was fun, but clearly not an episode they will ever reference again. I mean…that happened? They have driverless taxis in their universe?
Charlie Brooker should have been credited as a co-writer for this one.
I loved it.
This season has been so uneven for me that I wasn’t in the mood to watch it this morning. I reluctantly put it on first just to get it over with (usually I’m still half asleep when I throw my first show on from the night before). I could not take my eyes off it. It was so good. So simple, but so effective, and it fits the reboot so well in that it literally could not have taken place when the series originally aired.
It was creepy, scary, funny, sweet, and realistic enough to really make you question your own reality, while still being haha it’s just a show enough so you can sleep at night.
Finally saw it - that was fun!
Like Black Mirror, but we care about the characters because we’ve known them so long.
Great episode–one of the scariest ever, maybe because it felt much more plausible than yet another alien thing, and we didn’t have to sit through another “yes, this monster really exists” “No such thing” argument.
Limiting the dialogue was a great choice.
I felt that the opening, about the corrupted chatterbot, should have been moved to the end, and Scully or Mulder should’ve said it.
Roger Cross is is tonight’s episode. It’s his fifth X-files guest starring appearance, all as different characters. It’s been 20 years since his last appearance.
Love it. They had to joke about this on set.
He was a lead in an X-files writer’s spin-off, First Wave, too. Fun show.
Am I the first one on the internet to notice something tonight?
Almost all of the officers were old X-files guest stars reused. The casting department must have gone through the old names and figured out who still lived in Vancouver and was free.
Hilarious and a fun way to fill in roles.
Great episode.
I was disturbed by that one, which is a sign of classic 90’s X-files.
Freaking spooky interpretation of Teletubbies, and Teletubbies are freaky to begin with. I couldn’t stop looking at them though. It could be enough to literally cause nightmares. So, good episode.
So I just watched the technology-gone-mad episode yesterday, chanced a look on my phone, and a news story about Alexa randomly laughing at people pops up… :eek:
Anyway, so far, I much prefer this season to the previous one. It’s not all gold, but there’s a lot of solid X-Files in there. What I didn’t like about that episode, though, was that things were never really resolved—so whenever somebody fails to tip at that automated restaurant, all their tech will turn on them, it seems.
And was I the only one who thought “Mister Chuckle Teeth” was creepy as hell? Like Burger King “King” creepy.
You are not the only one.
I can’t believe the cop shot the sex offender guy. Literally screamed “Holy Shit!” to myself.
A great example where one design choice made the episode. It was excellent.
Yeah, he was pretty damn creepy. The faux-Teletubbies were pretty bad, too. They should have had Egger’s wife played by Bitty Schram (Sharona from Monk), since Eggers’ was played by the fellow who played Randy Disher on Monk (and those characters got married at the end of the series.