Comments on: Season 4, Episode 5: The Field Where I Died

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:38:13 +0000

I remember at the time it came out (I find it hard to believe either the Internet or I personally am old enough to have followed the online fandom in those days, but there it is!) there was a lot of backlash towards her, people claiming she was a horrible actress and was being shoved in people’s faces (having also appeared suddenly in Millenium) due to being in a relationship with one of the writers/producers.

I personally didn’t have a problem with her acting, but the dislike for the actress could have inspired extra-double-plus loathing in this episode, the betrayal that this person they already had a problem with was being slotted in as “Mulder’s Soulmate.”

By: lenidl

lenidl — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:53:46 +0000

In reply to CBob. "Soulmate has no mention or character impact on Milder ever again." I know right? I love the show and all but it was sort of dumb to bring it up and then never mention it EVER AGAIN. Okay, so maybe I'm a little annoyed still. Someone once said this show never found a reset button it couldn't wait to hit. Yeah, that seems about right.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:16:07 +0000

In reply to Matt. (Keeping it *literally* in the family.)

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:14:44 +0000

In reply to Ray Radlein. She also went on to become Glen Morgan's wife--the writer of this episode and co-creator of S:AAB

By: jdreyfuss

jdreyfuss — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:09:09 +0000

The guy that played the cult leader also played the receptionist at the bordello in Se7en. I don’t know why, but in a movie full of memorable bit characters, he always stood out in my memory, even more than the DA with the gold tooth and Lt. California.

By: CBob

CBob — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:14:27 +0000

In reply to Yerushalmi.

For me it wasn’t so much as “soulmate isn’t Scully”, as “soulmate has no mention or character impact on Mulder ever again”. You’d think a thing like that would leave a mark of some kind on a person, but nope: after the ep is over it’s as if she never existed.

Almost as if the producers themselves looked at it and said “Eeeeaagh, nope, can’t have that. NEVER HAPPENED. MOVE ALONG.”

At least Clyde Bruckman’s prediction to Scully sorta-maybe came true in a later ep.

By: Daibhid C

Daibhid C — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:59:23 +0000

It’s terribly H. Rider Haggard…

By: Emily Sidhe

Emily Sidhe — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:54:04 +0000

One of the more interesting things about this episode is that even though Mulder accepts the validity of these past-life memories right away and remains convinced throughout the episode, the writers subversively have Mulder “remember” a past incarnation in a Concentration Camp where the Smoking Man is an SS officer, despite the fact the Smoking Man’s current incarnation would have already been born by then. This implies that Scully’s actually right this time and that Mulder and Melissa are not actually remembering their own past lives. (An alternate theory is that they are accessing Jungian racial memories that are subconciously available to all humans and have no specific meaning to them.)

By: Jacob Haller

Jacob Haller — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:09:20 +0000

‘Cult Atlas’ is a great subtitle.

By: BMunro

BMunro — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:59:03 +0000

In reply to Sensei Le Roof. "Older male authority figure": specially relevant for the reincarnations in ancient Sparta. :)