Scully plays the skeptic on The X-Files to provide us dramatic tension, but the early 90s nature of her character just doesn't age well. She's supposed to be a law enforcement agent but she has her mind made up about everything before she even hears about it. She's the kind of officer who would get about 100 innocent people locked up for life during a full career. She declares AI is decades away from existing when the greatest computer genius in the world says otherwise, and of course the NSA believes him, but she knows better. Her character doesn't work because she lives in a world where these strange things are real such that an intelligent person would recognize them as such, much as intelligent people in this world realize what's true for us.
Also this episode is totally that stupid 80s horror idea of the "technologically integrated" building where every metal surface is connected to the electrical grid if the computer wills it, and objects can be moved by CPU telekinesis. Like the horror gym that kills people with gym equipment they watched on Red Letter Media. There's a reason they quit using that plot.
Also this episode is totally that stupid 80s horror idea of the "technologically integrated" building where every metal surface is connected to the electrical grid if the computer wills it, and objects can be moved by CPU telekinesis. Like the horror gym that kills people with gym equipment they watched on Red Letter Media. There's a reason they quit using that plot.