Comments on: Season 2, Episode 9: Firewalker

By: redwood.dragon

redwood.dragon — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:43:39 +0000

“The ‘fungus’ part of the ep was stupid, but at least they let Scully do something brilliant to rescue herself at the end of the episode. It was as if someone had that one scene in mind and wrote the entire story to lead up to that one moment. ”

You said it sister @Diane Castle! 100% behind yah!

Started reading the comic, my jaw dropped, and couldn’t stop laughing LOL! Thanks Shaenon!

By: Avery

Avery — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:18:20 +0000

You didn’t plug your f*****g awesome story on Escape Pod!

By: Prof G

Prof G — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:27:03 +0000

It’s a “sporadic” feature. Very nice.

By: Zen

Zen — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:39:41 +0000

Hey, wasn’t this the one with Josh Lyman?

By: Diane Castle

Diane Castle — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:00:52 +0000

The ‘fungus’ part of the ep was stupid, but at least they let Scully do something brilliant to rescue herself at the end of the episode. It was as if someone had that one scene in mind and wrote the entire story to lead up to that one moment. (Hint.)

By: Jacob Haller

Jacob Haller — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:00:15 +0000

In reply to Eric S. Smith. I haven't watched 'Firewalker' yet, but another common element of 'Ice' and 'Darkness Falls' is that at the end of the episode the thing that Scully and Mulder are fighting against is destroyed by some other branch of the government.

By: Eric S. Smith

Eric S. Smith — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:22:05 +0000

In reply to Jacob Haller. There’s an X-Files subtype in which Mulder and Scully get trapped somewhere remote and almost die. It’s established by Ice, the arctic episode that’s definitely derivative of The Thing, but includes less Thing-y stories like Darkness Falls with the mites, Dod Kalm with the ghost ship, Firewalker, and even How the Ghosts Stole Christmas.

By: Jacob Haller

Jacob Haller — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:23:33 +0000

Also, it must be pointed out that those killer mushrooms are pretty adorable.

By: Jacob Haller

Jacob Haller — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:21:17 +0000

Mentioning the arctic episode from season one reminded me: the arctic episode was obviously based on John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, and then when i saw the MITES! episode I thought, basically the same plot as the arctic episode, but I think that if you just saw MITES! without knowing the arctic episode existed then you wouldn’t think, “Oh, this is a rip-off of The Thing.” So maybe imitation leads to creativity sometimes? As an all-too-often uncreative-feeling songwriter, I can take some hope from that.

By: Occam

Occam — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:29:58 +0000

Did you also have Marshall McLuhan waiting in the wings?