@Todd As I just said on Twitter, that blows my mind. I was GIDDY the entire time. Of course, I will admit that Darren Criss is like my Kryptonite and maybe all the happy emotions maybe clouded my judgment. He used to be Harry Potter, you know.

@idiotking That is exactly what I said about last week's episode.

. . . and you're commenting on a Glee post because?

Oh, shit. I was a firstie. How did that happen?

D!!
Usually you're the critic I agree with most about this show, but I think we were watching different episodes. This was one of my favorite episodes of the show. Ah, well. To each his own.

I'm with drip. (Except for the screaming.) I wish it would just end.

Yeah, the first scene was a bit absurd, but I'll stand by my reaction, which was to be completely horrified. Any time that thing is in the shot, I'm going to be doing the opposite of laughing. It's so awful.

Surely you're joking:
"Rick's first full sighting of the undead is almost anticlimactic: a pathetic, naked half-torso crawling in the park. It's played as horrifying but funny, as he tries to cope with seeing it while feebly trying to mount a rickety kid's bicycle in his hospital gown."

"Post Modern Prometheus" is one of my top ten X-Files episodes. I've even taught it in my freshman composition course, and the kids eat it up. People don't like it?

Whoops, that was supposed to be in the thread below this one. Damn you, undeletable AV Club comments!

The "every night I save you" speech is one of my all-time favorite moments in the series. So good.

I don't even think it's about likability for Schu in this episode. He just comes across as an idiot. Or a nine year old boy on the playground on a sugar high.

This is yet another in my growing list of reasons why Myles McNutt is an evil genius. I'm keeping tabs on you, McNutt.

Todd: See, regardless of intent, the 90s internet fandom didn't care who was writing necessarily, or whether the episode was truly "standalone." Those fans knew every episode backwards and forwards and EVERYTHING mattered in the narrative of the "Mulder/Scully romance." This episode, just by existing, was a slap in…

"Soul Mates"
If you mention "The Field Where I Died" to an MSR shipper you get to see their head explode.

When I started commenting nobody had brought up the present tense thing yet. Stupid lightning fast internet people.

Writing in present tense
is academic convention. The text is "always happening." I didn't even notice you were doing it because I'm so used to it. I like it, though.

I see what you did there.

They have to go back. It wouldn't be Fringe without that wonderful crappy lab.

If it weren't for Fauxlivia's awful hair
this would totally be a full 'A' episode.