Things Are Getting Strange
An X-Files rewatch podcast. Updates weekly. Currently exploring Season 9.
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Things Are Getting Strange
Insect Boy Biology
With Lord of the Flies, we wonder why The X-Files is now about a group of British school-children trapped on a desert island-
Wait...
We actually get curious as to whether the show's allusion to Jackass makes any sense anymore and the horror of body lice as a concept. At least we have an unscrupulous entomologist in the form of Rocky to provide entertainment in an episode reminiscent of Rain King but... Well, things are different now.
Trust No 1 demands the question of did Chris Carter actually want to still be involved in this series? Mostly because he seems quite intent on torpedoing Scully's character in a deeply frustrating and seemingly pointless episode.
Well, there is the introduction of the super-soldier's weakness, but there's some... hilarious complications with it.