X-Files 07x09, "Signs and Wonders"
--but first a quick catch-up. I really loved "Irresistible" but "Orison" (07x07) was just... uncomfortable and upsetting. And I think Scully was entirely justified, as the fact that the immediate peril is over and the guy is (back) in custody doesn't make everything okay.
"The Amazing Maleeni" (07x08) was okay, I liked the circuitous plot but overall it wasn't fantastic.
HOLY SHIT I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING and this is far and away my favorite of the season, despite that one bit of serious body horror toward the end. :\ (I also have a favorite fic that references this one.) Good thing my office is far away from other people so no one could hear me cackling like a loon at Mulder's joke about snake-handling Catholic girls. XD (I completely expected something along that line, and would have disappointed if the writers hadn't delivered, but it didn't make it any less funny.) And then later at Mulder's "oh shit" expression as he and Scully realized why the snake box was empty, and then even later as Mulder was examining the medical evidence on the floor. He'll taste any damn thing he finds, but blood makes him turn green. XD
Though--were there some small pythons among the snakes on Mulder at the end? Some of them really didn't look like pit vipers.
ETA: It annoyed me deeply that Scully was so easily overpowered by yet another psychopath so soon after "Orison."
And here's that fic, "Early to Rise"
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"The Amazing Maleeni" (07x08) was okay, I liked the circuitous plot but overall it wasn't fantastic.
HOLY SHIT I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING and this is far and away my favorite of the season, despite that one bit of serious body horror toward the end. :\ (I also have a favorite fic that references this one.) Good thing my office is far away from other people so no one could hear me cackling like a loon at Mulder's joke about snake-handling Catholic girls. XD (I completely expected something along that line, and would have disappointed if the writers hadn't delivered, but it didn't make it any less funny.) And then later at Mulder's "oh shit" expression as he and Scully realized why the snake box was empty, and then even later as Mulder was examining the medical evidence on the floor. He'll taste any damn thing he finds, but blood makes him turn green. XD
Though--were there some small pythons among the snakes on Mulder at the end? Some of them really didn't look like pit vipers.
ETA: It annoyed me deeply that Scully was so easily overpowered by yet another psychopath so soon after "Orison."
And here's that fic, "Early to Rise"
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