However, the use of flashbacks feels more natural, as they genuinely add to the story as well as making the audience think “Oh my goodness they’re babies!” when suddenly confronted with 1995 Mulder, while it is presumably an unfortunate coincidence that any child of the 90s will take one look at the location ‘West Philadelphia’ and have the theme song to The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air stuck in their head for the rest of the day.
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The mini-series is still a little bit under-confident about itself, still shoe-horning in references to age and the passage of time rather than feeling free to be its own thing in the here and now, with references to Scully’s three-inch heels from “back in the day” reminding us yet again, unnecessarily, that this is a story with a lot of history. 'Home': The Entire Episode (Season 4, Episode 2) Incest, racism, and infanticide, oh my The only episode of The X-Files to receive a TV-MA rating was instantly banned by Fox after its initial. Like Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, this is an episode that feels much more comfortable in its skin, much more like just another episode of The X-Files, than the first two.
Where Home drew its horror from a twisted physicality, Home Again draws both horror and hope (Scully says “I wanna believe” again) from the idea of a mental and spiritual connection that goes beyond the physical. The episode draws a link between this creature created from the mind (in this case, with a physical body created more practically, by hand) and the connection of a mother with a child she has given birth to, even if physically separated. It may look like a golem, but it is actually a tulpa, a creature born entirely of thought and belief. In this case, the monster is definitely paranormal. Home was one of the few episodes of The X-Files in which the ‘monster’ of the week was revealed to be entirely human, monstrous only in the metaphorical sense. Now that The X-Files revival has been confirmed (we’re getting six new episodes in January of 2016, which even made David Duchovny weep with joy), many have begun their requisite binge-watching of all nine seasons.
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Her loss is felt by the viewer in a way only possible in a series that has been going since 1993, and even without her last words (interestingly, addressed to Mulder rather than Scully, ensuring that he is firmly established as part of the Scully family), her death would surely re-open the wound that is the loss of William for Scully.Īnother contrast between this episode and Home lies in the answer to the mystery of the week.
Scully’s mother, the last remaining parent (not counting Cigarette Smoking Man, who may or may not be Mulder’s biological father) was always a steady rock on this show, somehow keeping it together through one family tragedy after another, a character you always felt pleased to see on screen because you knew it meant someone was about to talk some sense at some point.