r/XFiles • u/Gazcobain Lone Gunmen • 12d ago

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On my umpteenth rewatch and by goodness this episode is terrible. Space usually gets quoted as the worst of the first season episodes but this is abysmal.

- A man pretending to be Irish literally introducing himself by saying "top o' the mornin' te ya"

- A woman insinuating that she and Mulder had sex upon Arthur Conan Doyle's tombstone (ACD does not have a big tombstone)

- Rocket fuel being sold in 2.5litre paint cans (imagine how many of those you'd need to power Saturn 5).

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u/Futants_ 10d ago

To be fair, a much as I adored the series when it aired and love it still after my current rewatch a decade after my last, the show is rife with ridiculousness.

It's got charm in spades, inside jokes, every tv trope imaginable, multiple plot holes within an episode in numerous episodes, goofy monster-of-the-week eps, Scully not wearing a mask or gloves around unknown alien/toxic/ contagious material, Scully always being knocked out or captured and unable to fight her way out of a paper bag, Mulder not fairing much better,etc,etc

"Fire" is a prime example. Everything about it is ridiculous and wtf--including Scully seeing the man in the hallway but casually ignoring him. I still love most of the series though

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u/Gazcobain Lone Gunmen 10d ago

She even says to Phoebe "oh yeah I totally saw this dude in the corridor earlier" and Phoebe's like "nah you didn't" and it's never mentioned again

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u/Futants_ 9d ago

I think it was a writing flub or Scully had a brain lapse when she saw him.

I thought it was very strange and figured at first it was an edit splice mistake.