Comments on: Season 2, Episode 24: Our Town

By: Hristina

Hristina — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:52:02 +0000

This particular Scully in Peril situation had a massively cute “Mulder brushes a strand of Scully’s hair out of her face” moment, though. That’s always a winner in my book.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:25:00 +0000

In reply to Manifesta. It's just regular mutation. It happens.

By: Teacups

Teacups — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:45:51 +0000

In reply to Cardy.

I found the SIP quite disappointing too. I’d been looking forward to the “town full of cannibals,” episode all damn season – or actually, since I started watching the show – and was madly hoping that they would try to have a Mulder and Scully community feast. But then when it was just Scully, the damselification kinda killed my buzz.

If Mulder was getting kidnapped just as often, it’d be a different story. But he isn’t, so.

By: Manifesta

Manifesta — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:58:35 +0000

Shaenon, speaking of twenty-legged chickens, have you read Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake? The chickens were one of the creepier elements in a massively disturbing dystopiary.

By: Cardy

Cardy — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:53:54 +0000

Honestly, the Scully in Peril aspect of this episode always made me dislike it strongly—seeing Scully strapped down to a gory head-holder thing disturbed me, and even knowing the show’s not gonna kill one of the leads in a MOTW episode, that scene just dragged out way longer than it should’ve.

Then again, the tension *was* undercut by the hilarity of Mulder parking a safe distance away, having the presence of mind to kill the lights, and THEN running to the scene of Scully in Peril. If my partner were in jeopardy, surrounded by a large number of people standing around a bonfire, and I’m only one guy with one gun, I’d be flooring the pedal and trying to scatter the crowd with the car, which might also help me from getting shot. Plus, you know, I’d get there faster.

By: WildwingSuz

WildwingSuz — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:32:17 +0000

Creepy old chicken dude drawn as Colonel Sanders just made my day. Week. Hell, year.

By: JBVO

JBVO — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:43:53 +0000

Man, I love this comic. There were quite a few that didn’t actually recap the episode, which I don’t care for as much, but they seem to be drifting back into the recap realm, which is what got me hooked in the first place. I try to re-watch the episode the weekend after I read the comic, which makes watching it even better.

By: Shaenon

Shaenon — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:24:25 +0000

In reply to David Morgan-Mar. Even scarier: it's not even the unhealthiest thing on the KFC menu. The pot pie and any meal with crispy-style chicken are fattier.

By: Manifesta

Manifesta — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:39:11 +0000

In reply to bigbearseviltwin. And that's the last time I eat fast-food chicken.

By: ck421

ck421 — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:27:46 +0000

This is my favorite episode because it is nearly science (why the immortality?), and Scully was mostly right. Scully needed to be right more often. No, Mulder, it’s not all aliens, there are weird science-based things, too.