Comments on: Season 7, Episode 17: all things https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/ The Complete Cartoon X-Files Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.1 By: Jeffrey Wells https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18755 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:53:30 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18755 In reply to Pygar.

Always good to see more fictional mad genius!

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By: Pygar https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18748 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:02:28 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18748 https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4938 They may be taking a Narbonesque turn, on this island of mad scientists… I thought Shaenon might like to know

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By: Sensei Le Roof https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18746 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:56:34 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18746 In reply to Michael Grabowski.

We could always call them “loiler asperts”. No One Would Be The Wiser. WINK.

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By: bergerjacques https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18745 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:32:41 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18745 In reply to Michael Grabowski.

Said special season spoiler ticked me off more than any other conspiracy episode… Darth CSM was enough. It did not have to go further.

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By: Michael Grabowski https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18744 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 23:32:49 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18744 In reply to FlyingFish.

Are spoiler alerts allowed here? If you want to jump to the final final final (for now) final season from 3 – 4 years ago, it’s all about the deal with William, his origin and destiny, and how Moose & Squirrel attempt to handle it. For now, let’s just say the timing of this episode and one or more recent ones (not counting any rerun weeks in the first airing) provides some further clues.

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By: FlyingFish https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18742 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:16:47 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18742 “…so in this episode Scully apparently sleeps with Mulder, and then it never comes up again.”

Wait, really? I’d always assumed from (spoiler alert!) Mulder’s conversation with Scully when he finally met baby William that they had concluded the kid was the result of this night. Which lined up with the “destiny” theme of this episode concluding with Scully unexpectedly encountering Mulder at the end, then sleeping with him: that encounter, at that moment, made baby William possible. (I haven’t watched the series all the way to the end, so I don’t know if they later determined they were wrong about that.)

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By: Jacob Haller https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/comic/mow-39/#comment-18741 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 14:33:50 +0000 http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=943#comment-18741 This episode has a recurring thing with slow, regular clicking or tapping leading to Scully zoning out, often with a kind of electronica dance music thing going on over it, which made it feel very specifically late 90s to me.

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