Comments on: Season One, Episode 7: Ghost in the Machine https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/ The Complete Cartoon X-Files Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:20:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.1 By: Danny in Canada https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-83 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:10:21 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-83 “Computers just aren’t as scary as ghosts. All they can do is drop an elevator on you. They can’t make the elevator fill with a hundred gallons of ghost blood.”

What kind of computers do you have that can’t generate a measly hundred gallons of ghost blood?

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By: Mike G. https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-82 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:22:34 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-82 Shirley Jackson was the best, oh yeah! Have you seen the movie version of The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting (1963 B&W version, not the 1999 regurgitation). An excellent example of understated, psychological horror.

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By: Reppy https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-81 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:39:11 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-81 This is one of the most tedious episodes of all the show. One of the worst. I have to say that the first season has some episodes I dislike. I think one of the others is Space. Soooooo boooooooooriiiiiiiing….
Season one isn’t certainly one of my favorite seasons although there is one of the best episodes ever: Ice.

I started to see the show from the third or fourth season. I don’t know what would happen If I had watched it from the beginning ahahahaha.

The thing I liked the most in this episode was Scully crawling in the ventilation ducts and trying to shoot trough the fan while she was hanging. There’s a Lot of action for Scully in some episodes ahahahaha.

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By: swingroll https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-75 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:37:09 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-75 I’m loving these. I hope you’ll keep going. The show doesn’t really come into it’s own until at least the 2nd season.

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By: woozy https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-73 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:03:15 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-73 >>>But for some reason I have trouble getting into stories about evil computerized houses, even though it’s the same concept.

That’s because the only reason to invent the computerized house concept is to give the story rational plausibility. But evil computers is completely stupid and depending on how well you know computers (and *everybody* knows *something* about computers) you can actually see the seams where the story goes idiotic.

Haunted house stories don’t need no stinkin’ rationale. They’re creepy in themselves. Although, I confess I don’t care for haunted house stories myself. But I don’t think they are idiotic.

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By: rob https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-72 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:45:31 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-72 yes it’s like anybody in starfleet higher than Captian.

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By: Jacob Haller https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-71 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:19:03 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-71 I sense that one of the writers on the show had recently read Steven Levy’s ‘Hackers’. Though it would have been even better if the geeky hacker had an elaborate toy train set running through his house.

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By: Jacob Haller https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-70 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:16:59 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-70 Mulder and Scully’s other friends in the FBI kind of suck, don’t they?

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By: rob https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/08102012/#comment-69 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:10:14 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=50#comment-69 wait wait even x-files did “evil computer”? I thought they were better than that.

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