Fire the Limerick
A man controls fire so hot,
And burns Parliament members a lot.
Mulder's afraid
Of the fire he made,
And he burns himself when he is caught.
This is really just not a very good episode. For some reason in Season 1 there are a number of episodes like this where guest characters come in that Mulder or Scully knows from before their time on the X-Files who they may or may not have been romantically involved with and who exists for the sole purpose of...? Just so we'll know that these characters had lives before The X-Files? Yeah we knew that. Do we care? Not really. It seems like when the episode doesn't suffer from this element it is in spite of the fact that they are there. This is episode seems to be one where the entire point of the episode was to introduce us to the less than impressive character of Phoebe Greene who can't seem to keep her nasty slutty hands off anything with opposite sex organs as her. No wonder Scully hates her. I do to. Annoying and unprofessional. Another thing I don't like about the episode, does it seem to anyone else that the British people in this are highly stereotyped? "By jove I believe its time for tea. What a lovely home we have mother! I want some crumpets." Ugh. The only things that redeem this episode from complete failure is the villain does a great job of being completely creepy, and Scully is a pretty good profiler. I liked seeing her full process of building the profile. And the scene in the bar where he lights himself on fire is just random enough that it is hilarious. I give this episode a 5 out of 10.
A man controls fire so hot,
And burns Parliament members a lot.
Mulder's afraid
Of the fire he made,
And he burns himself when he is caught.
This is really just not a very good episode. For some reason in Season 1 there are a number of episodes like this where guest characters come in that Mulder or Scully knows from before their time on the X-Files who they may or may not have been romantically involved with and who exists for the sole purpose of...? Just so we'll know that these characters had lives before The X-Files? Yeah we knew that. Do we care? Not really. It seems like when the episode doesn't suffer from this element it is in spite of the fact that they are there. This is episode seems to be one where the entire point of the episode was to introduce us to the less than impressive character of Phoebe Greene who can't seem to keep her nasty slutty hands off anything with opposite sex organs as her. No wonder Scully hates her. I do to. Annoying and unprofessional. Another thing I don't like about the episode, does it seem to anyone else that the British people in this are highly stereotyped? "By jove I believe its time for tea. What a lovely home we have mother! I want some crumpets." Ugh. The only things that redeem this episode from complete failure is the villain does a great job of being completely creepy, and Scully is a pretty good profiler. I liked seeing her full process of building the profile. And the scene in the bar where he lights himself on fire is just random enough that it is hilarious. I give this episode a 5 out of 10.