This is apparently Gillian Anderson's favourite episode, which is saying something because I don't think she ever remembers the individual episodes after they were done filming them. This one usually makes everyone's Top 10 lists. And seeing them playing each other's versions of each other was hilarious. I also appreciated the grossness of the autopsy scenes. Oh, and first-time introduction of Luke Wilson.
So, weird fact. There was a comic book sequel to this episode published by IDW and it included Ronnie and Sheriff Harlow who were discovered by the Lone Gunman who ran the vampires away from their new town... ...with the help of the ninja turtles. No bs.
The trope you ask about, I've heard of it as the Rashomon effect. When various characters tell the same story from different perspectives, named after the Akira Kurosawa film, Rashomon. Highly recommended watch.
@@tomseville2345 while that is true, the Rashomon style, method, or effect or whatever one wishes to call it, is a specific kind of storytelling method of the unreliable narrator, which is the point I’m getting at.
I think this might be the best rated X Files episode of all, by fans and critics. And I can see why. Perfect episode, by maybe the best writer Vince Gilligan.
You have no idea how much I needed this today. This is the episode I couldn't wait for you to see. It's one of my most watched. I knew you too would love it! I was a bit worried when you both went to take a drink right at the I was drugged part. Luckily he said it before you had a mouth full of liquid.
Oh, and spring is a spooky season too! Think about it -- everything is coming back to life, including lots of little creepy crawly things. Everything is sticky, ooey gooey, and gloopy, including tree sap and tree buds. The insects come back, but before that is the larval stages of all the insects. And mud mud mud *everywhere* accentuated by the lovely bouquet of all the dog shit being revealed as the snow banks melt. And depending on where you live, warmer temperatures can sometimes include discovering dead bodies of people who went missing during the winter finally being found. Spooky is for all the seasons.
This episdoe/ the lone gunmen/ the cher episode are why i remember xfiles fondly and the scary episodes are why its one of my favorite show, including just the nostalgia 😄
OMW This brings back memories of when I was a teenager watching this at night when it first aired on TV. This is one of the BEST episodes. Also just watched your reaction to the similar different-POVs-of-main-characters/unreliable narrator episode for SPN and thinking about how much I enjoy Erick Kripke's work. I just found your channel a few days ago and I'm a fan!
Where have y’all been all my life? I love this. And I don’t even know how I got here. I have the same beef with Texas. I moved from New Mexico to Texas 3 years ago. I miss the nm fall! We don’t have a cool autumn here.
I think the beginning of this episode was one of the most shocking for me, I didn't know how they were going to solve it... I said "will Mulder's enthusiasm have to pay a bill?"
For me, this episode is an excellent (and perfectly funny) metaphor of what life is: we all live listening to other people's stories and we imagine the facts based on their perspective (as the first two parts of this episode show); but we'll never know what things really are like, unless we have a chance to witness it and form an objective opinion (like the last part of the episode, where the viewpoints end because Skinner tells them they have to go back to Texas, and there we have the opportunity to see with our own eyes what everything was like, including the Sheriff's teeth).
I mean, if I tell something to my friends, obviously I want them to empathize with me. That's what Mulder and Scully did with us for the entire episode. In her version, we tended to think that Mulder acted hysterically excited and totally inconsiderate; and in his version, we see him as a poor little puppy with a partner who intensely judges him for every word he says. FANTASTIC
and I loved that some details were specific to each other's story, like Scully's autopsies, or Mulder and the Sheriff's experience at the cemetery and trailer park... It kept the episode from getting monotonous.
This episode aired in early 1998, not 1999, and was written at some point in '97. Buffy had only been on for about half-a-year. So no crossover or referencing would be really possible...
