By Kaylynn Kasandra
I’d be lying to say my heart didn’t ache watching Scully in this episode. It’s obvious she is still recovering from her time in the hospital. She’s trying to cope while also trying to fully understand her new intuitive skill set. For me, it was hard to watch her spilling her heart out at the side of a presumed-to-be-dead body. Mulder seemed to feel the same way. He didn’t look too comfortable when he was comforting her after witnessing her breakdown. I can’t blame him either. It’s so hard to see Scully without her head in the game. She is so distracted by her love for William that it appeared she wasn’t seeing all the pieces in the case that they were working on. But as we saw, she was way more in tune than anyone.
I for one was not surprised to see the smoking man was right at Skinner’s side yet again. This guy controls way too much! Of course this case goes back to him and his alien hybrid nonsense. But for some reason I still wasn’t expecting Scully to be right about who William is. I was just glad see how quickly Mulder connected the dots after talking to Skinner about the hybrids. He doesn’t ever miss a thing!
I found I really liked that being a hybrid, William has the same powers as some Aliens are said to have. He too can control what is projected to others, whether that be emotions or visions. Being a teenager, regardless of his Alien biology, it makes sense William would abuse said power. It’s just sad it had to be involving two innocent girls he was dating. Yeah, I said two girls. Not a good look there, William. It’s sad to me after all this build up to reveal who William is, he’s a big douche. All this teenage drama because he couldn’t date just one girl. Let that be a lesson to all of you out there. He drew the DOD and DOJ in and caused his adoptive parents’ demise all because he wanted to play with his powers.
I think he’s proving to be a pretty selfish kid. It’s sad that even after psychically reaching out to Scully he denied her the chance to see him for who he is. Yeah, she got to talk to him when he was ‘dead’ but that’s pretty messed up. That’s a parent’s worst nightmare. I can understand that he feels he needs to be alone, but he should see his mom is playing on the right team. To have sent her all those visions has to prove he trusts her on some level. But, something tells me he doesn’t trust Mulder.
It’s pretty suspect that he only talked to her when she was alone. Once in front of the hospital, another at the place he sent her to when Mulder was inside. I really hope that changes. It’s not Mulder’s fault that he isn’t his real dad. It’s also not Mulder’s fault that his real dad is a creep. He can’t pick that either.
I feel like we have a long way to go in terms of the plot. I don’t think we will be seeing William again anytime soon. I hope I’m wrong about that though. Because as messed up as his creation story may be, I want to know more about him. And, I want to know how much he knows about himself.
Written by Kaylynn Kasandra. Awkward hippie who enjoys helping people, creating things, reading, sci-fi, fantasy, and Thor. Find more from her at http://www.youtube.com/c/tiedyesmurf