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K, Zachary

Kat, you should check out the Whisper Man on Netflix, my gf and I are loving it so far. My gf and I are big supporters of Wildlife we now own three dogs. Are new one is a hound mix named Lagthera.

Owen Kosik

Hahahahahaha we made the "Because it was striped" joke at the same time 😂😂😂

John Beebe

This is definitely considered one of the weakest episodes of s2 but I am enjoying rewatching again.

Who Are These People

Yeah, this one is not a fan favorite but I have a couple of theories why. 1.) It's more a moral story than a mystery and people have decided what they think and don't need the playthrough on it. 2.) It's not linked to any traditional mythos (animals being abducted by aliens for study) so people can't feel smart like they get the backstory and 3.) the animals being invisible and appearing in unusual locations is linked to 'time/space disruption' which is pretty flimsy of Mulder. He's usually more keyed in to "established" paranormal explanations. I think they just wanted to do a conservation episode again and thought "there's not enough material for a 45 minute episode" so they threw aliens in to pad it. All that said, it is a proper X-Files- it's an unexplained case.

Michael Gehrman

I disagree and do not think this episode was weak. This one wasn't about character development as much as a moral story about conservation and man's ties to nature. It was still a very good episode. I thought the "Man save man" line was very well done and summarized the theme of the episode. I think you may have been talking over it when the police said that Sopbie was hit by a car.

Dave_Dot_Executable

I said "... if you want to live" at the same time but I said mine with a cheesy Ahnald impression

BrakYeller

Definitely a filler episode, and probably one of the weakest episodes in the entire series IMO. The motivations are a mess, the characterizations are one-dimensional, an Mulder seems as lost as anyone else... usually at least one of our two heroes has some kind of direction or motivation in each episode. Worth noting that this was during the 1990s Michael Crichton boom... after Jurassic Park became a big deal, Hollywood was scrambling to make a film from almost every one of Crichton's books that hadn't already been adapted into a movie. This episode came out a few months before "Congo" hit theaters. "Congo" is... let's say an uneven movie with some real high points (one of Tim Curry's best unhinged performances, RIP), and it has a lot of similar themes to this film, minus the invisibility and the aliens. "Congo" put a lot of conservationist themes into media that year, so I've always thought of this episode as the X-Files' version of "Congo;" your mileage may vary. Also a fan of the appearance by Lance Guest as the eco-warrior guy; he starred in one of my favorite sci-fi films of the 80s, "The Last Starfighter." The lead guest actress Jayne Atkinson might be familiar to you as the foster mother from "Free Willy."

BrakYeller

Also also I'm pretty sure a lot of the animal vocalizations were done by veteran voice actor Frank Welker; it sounds like his work, but I can't find confirmation of that anywhere online.

Jessie Caldwell

One of my things is that I don't like men in ape suits. There have been times when it was done fairly well, like Greystoke, but even then, it's a man in a suit. Monster man-in-suits sometimes work, but we are so familiar with something like a gorilla that it will never work. Gorilla characters are one of those things that CGI solved and paid for itself. I've always felt this episode suffered from having a really good opening, and then sliding downhill the rest of the way.

James Cole

Ya! New Kat X-Files drop! Best time of the week!

RJ Inkglider

2:42 Who else is old enough to remember those roadside traffic barriers we used to call "Martians"?

RJ Inkglider

This episode was based on "Koko" the gorilla who supposedly could understand sign language. I'm not sure but I thought that was debunked as a hoax at some point. To answer your question this was right smack dab in the middle of the 90s: 1995.

RJ Inkglider

"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity" Ecc 3:19

RJ Inkglider

I'm with you Kat, I don't like it when shows use the deaths of animals in a manipulative or exploitative way.

James Cole

Totally a filler episode. It does get better. Much better.