Comments on: Season 3, Episode 22: Quagmire

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:25:19 +0000

Awesome comic–I am now going to have to READ THEM ALL. Hooray for Darin Morgan punch-ups! I’m still sad we didn’t get a Darin Morgan comedy episode of “Fringe” (he was a consultant on season 1).

Shameless self-plug: Darin Morgan’s comedy is a major influence on my own writing, and I’ve released a comedy webseries called WRNG in Studio City, about reporters making up fake news stories. The boss, Tess, is smart and skeptical, and the host, Stan Blather, is a tall man prone to loopy ideas. You know, if you like that dynamic. 🙂 Click my name for link.

By: Andy L

Andy L — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 01:31:28 +0000

More evidence for my theory that the quality of an X-Files episode is directly proportional to the amount of time Mulder and Scully spend on a boat.

At first I thought there were multiple variables in determining episode quality, but now I’m pretty sure it’s just boat-time.

Here’s my equation so far :

Q(5*) = TB * k

Where
Q : Quality of Episode (out of five stars)
TB : Time on boat (in seconds)
k : Undetermined constant. (More research is indicated.)

By: Liddle-Oldman

Liddle-Oldman — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:55:22 +0000

I sort of thought that, with Chris Carter, a rational, comprehensible, even possible explanation *is* a stunning surprise development.

By: BMunro

BMunro — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 02:59:33 +0000

In reply to Josh. Well, presumeably the monster has been there for a while, so there should have been earlier reports of human-eating if it were the guilty party. (Of course, perhaps the monster we see is actually an escaped creation of the Secret Government or a lost alien pet and isn't the _historical_ Millikan county lake monster, which is hiding out at the earth's core with lord Kinbote)

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:58:32 +0000

Aren’t the writer/aliens technically giving each other a High Four?

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:45:30 +0000

In reply to Bryan. Wow. And the reviews are just icing on the cake. Soooo, apparently the shipper name is Quee-Ish. You win. Now I think I may have seen everything.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:26:28 +0000

In reply to Josh. Also, the final reveal of the lake monster is confusing in that we don't know if it was the one eating people, or the alligators were. And if it was the sea monster, then won't people continue to be eaten? Good job Mulder and Scully, you really fixed that one!

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:24:41 +0000

I love the scene with them on the rock (and your jab at it had me in stitches), but my biggest problem with this episode was that if it turns out they were in shallow water the whole time, how did the boat completely sink?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:33:57 +0000

Kate, I couldn’t resist the challenge of that search:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7640993/1/I-Do-Not-Know-How-Your-People-Mourned

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:48:27 +0000

I’m still surprised that I’ve never seen Queequeg-Ishmael shippers on tumblr, which I guess only proves that tumblr has shippers of everything but Moby Dick. I bet there’s fanfic for it out there somewhere.

And being from Gen. Y, 9-11 defined my high school years and we only got to watch that safety video with the one kid getting acid on him or something and having to strip down to get in the chemical shower while his lab partner watched him like he was watching a porno or something…Voyage of Mimi sounds cooler.