I love the x-files
May. 10th, 2007 02:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalThe episode tonight (at 2 am, CDT), "Sanguinarium", features a plastic surgery unit that is becoming plagued with horrid deaths of patients as entranced doctors bore holes in their brains, pour acid on them, etc., while they're under the knife. They claim possession. Everyone starts suspecting witchcraft, and the first, obvious suspect is the rather strange, dark-haired nurse who has a pentagram on her door and bathes in blood. At one point she tries to kill a plastic surgeon, then goes into a vomiting spree of needles, and dies.
She's not the witch. Or rather, she was a good witch, trying to protect the patients.
It's the cleanshaven, cleancut, clean everything middle-aged male, WASPy plastic surgeon, the one who blamed the nurse in the first place, who just replaces his face when he's discovered and disappears to do more blood sacrifices.
While this is a weak episode in some senses - or at least, not one of the stronger ones - it gets points from me for creative use of gore and for pointing out that sometimes, the good clean kids are not safe, and the strange questionable kids are the good guys.
She's not the witch. Or rather, she was a good witch, trying to protect the patients.
It's the cleanshaven, cleancut, clean everything middle-aged male, WASPy plastic surgeon, the one who blamed the nurse in the first place, who just replaces his face when he's discovered and disappears to do more blood sacrifices.
While this is a weak episode in some senses - or at least, not one of the stronger ones - it gets points from me for creative use of gore and for pointing out that sometimes, the good clean kids are not safe, and the strange questionable kids are the good guys.
