This Monster of the Week episode is an X-Files version of Groundhog Day though it turns out a Twilight Zone episode is the real inspiration. In this episode Mulder finds himself in a bank as it is being robbed. Scully comes looking for him because he is late to a meeting. Mulder ends up shot and dying and ultimately everyone in the bank ends up dying as the bank robber detonates a bomb. Then Mulder wakes up and we start over…<\/p>\n
The premise is that time is stuck in a loop because something is happening that is not supposed to (or vice versa). In each iteration of the loop, things happen just a little differently and Mulder starts to remember just a little bit what happened before.<\/p>\n
Overall this was a very well done episode. The primary guest actors in the form of the bank robber and his girlfriend did a great job, as did Mulder and Scully as usual. The episode was suitably suspenseful as you wondered just what would be different the next time around and there were even a couple of inside jokes.<\/p>\n
However, I do have a couple of huge pet peeves with this episode. First, while I understand that Mulder’s job is to investigate unexplained phenomena in the form of the X-Files, it seems just a bit too contrived to fall into one accidentally. Mulder wasn’t out investigating an X-File, he was just going to the bank and found himself in one. I also don’t really like the fact that this was an episode where the same few scenes were repeated over and over with slight variation. It’s like a 5-10 minute episode told repeatedly with slight variations. As I said, it was well done, it’s just that the contrived and repetitious nature bothered me. Because of that, I would give this episode 3\/5 stars but if those pet peeves of mine don’t bother you, then consider it a star higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This Monster of the Week episode is an X-Files version of Groundhog Day though it turns out a Twilight Zone episode is the real inspiration. In this episode Mulder finds himself in a bank as it is being robbed. Scully comes looking for him because he is late to a meeting. Mulder ends up shot and dying and ultimately everyone in the bank ends up dying as the bank robber detonates a bomb. Then Mulder wakes up and we start over… The premise is that time is stuck in a loop because something is happening that is not supposed to (or vice versa). In each iteration of the loop, things happen just a little differently and Mulder starts to remember just a little bit what happened before. Overall this was a very well done episode. The primary guest actors in the form of the bank robber and his girlfriend did a great job, as did Mulder and Scully as usual. The episode was suitably suspenseful as you wondered just what would be different the next time around and there were even a couple of inside jokes. However, I do have a couple of huge pet peeves with this episode. First, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9978,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10114\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}