The X-Files takes a hard left turn back to monster of the week goodness!
Somehow we wound up discussing the sadly never arranged Fire vs D.P.O. face-off which would pit a recovered Cecil L'Ively against the still seemingly still-powered Darin Peter Oswald. As far as we know no one's tried this in any official release...
Kim is pleased with unexpectedly accurate defibrillator depiction but disheartened by the utterly implausible fulgurite scene.
Does Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose need anything more to be said about it? It tends to either top or come very close in lists of the best X-Files episodes, and its incredibly hard to argue against that. We make our best efforts to say anything new...
Revisiting the episode reveals a thoroughly downbeat and bleak episode riddled with black humour, great jokes and characters. And some setups for the future. Scully has a dog now and apparently doesn't die. Mr Bruckman is somewhat less accommodating towards Mulder...
