Absolutely, even the stuff that happened in the motw eps would scar a person. What happened to Mulder in The Pine Bluff Variant, or to Scully in Irresistible, are ridiculously traumatic events on their own, and stuff like that happened to them on the regular. It doesn't surprise me at all that when all is said and…

Yeah I don't know, I had the same feeling. And yes, as soon as the doctor appeared i exclaimed, "it's eve!!!!" Fan nod I supposed, until the young boy was named Adam. I always thought Eve was an important episode that got pushed into memorable motw territory, but was so different from the rest of s1 that it had to…

I agree, this episode felt like x-files, but didn't look like x-files. And it didn't even look like LA x-files. (Plus wasn't this mini series filmed in Vancouver?). The second ep felt very classic and by the x-files book, but looked very odd. Although it is probably just the evolution of television over time. If…

First of all, so happy to see you doing this, Zach! I started to follow the reviews here a few months back when I began my rewatch, and looked forward to the next review and comment thread almost as much as the next episode. So I'm happy to see you back at it.

The belly scene was cringe-inducing, but I had decided ahead of time to expect something gory out of James Wong's episode, after he has spent the past five years on AHS. I'm actually surprised it wasn't more gory, but then again, the x-files usually showed an amount of restraint in that department, suggested rather…

I hadn't even thought about this until tonight because it was just such a forgettable part of the episode, but I'm not sure how to feel about the kill John made for "no other gods." I had made a prediction last week that he would kill Alex for this, and I believe some people brought up the idea that instead March…

Ah yes, true, I had forgotten about that.

A thought occurred to me tonight: why do the vampires (or blood-virus-infectees, if you prefer) who live in the hotel still kill people? We have seen that they can feed on the blood of their own, from very early on with the Countess drinking from the supply of the children, and now in this episode, "mama smells…

I've wondered this, too. Maybe a) Tristan is there and we just haven't seen him yet, or b) he had no unfinished business in life. One would think that he did in that he never really got to live openly with Liz, but if you think about it, this could be played two ways: in a kind-to-Tristan version, this is not…

Ooh, I like the idea of March being his final kill, and it would of course fit the commandment. And maybe himself as the "no other gods" one for seeing March as a god? That could play well. Except for the one small detail that March is already dead…… But destroying the hotel could be a stand-in (and would it then…

Yep, just like him being the killer was obvious. I almost thought that wouldn't be the case… ALMOST… Just because I thought it was so obvious that it was meant to throw us off. But no, it was him. So I'm sure the next obvious thing will occur.

Who will the last two victims be? No other gods before me and thou shalt not kill, right?