(February 17, 2016 at 1:52 pm)Aroura Wrote:(February 17, 2016 at 12:45 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Can anyone tell me how a guy with an explosive vest can survive it blowing up?
[don't think poca! it's TV!!]
My understanding was that he did not blow up his vest, but his buddy did. That is what the mother said, that when he saw all the innocents around, he could not go through with it. How he survived when he was 2 feet from the guy who did blow up, well, the answer is he barely did, and only briefly. His head was caved in (freaky) and he'd lost his arm and ribs on the side where the bomb was.
that's one thing I wasn't thrilled about with this episode - the whole suicide bomber stereotype felt very heavy handed and was very cliche to me in its plotting. I felt like it was playing right into the "all Muslims are terrorists" crap and was rather disappointed when the story ended up going in that direction.
At the beginning when the guy was praying and then he and his friend walked into the art show, I was hoping that the show would pull a fast one and say that they were actually there for the art show and the bombing was done by someone else but no...
It also felt a little like the terrorism angle was just a means to an end to get Mulder and Scully working with Fake-Mulder (can't remember the character's name
) and Einstein on the same patient and trying different methods of communication. In that respect it felt like lazy writing that they reached for the cliche like they did.Besides that, it always amuses me when Mulder and Scully switch places in strange ways. Scully is the theist and Mulder is, for all intents and purposes, functionally atheistic most of the time (he seems to only reference gods and theism metaphorically) - but he's the paranormal phenomenon-believer and she's the staunch skeptic.
Anyway, I also appreciated that that weird coin thing came back, so hopefully it'll be resolved in this last episode.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
