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Date Posted: 16:47:29 03/02/03 Sun
Author: Islandgirl
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"Field Trip"

This was a good ep that practically got lost in the shuffle. Originally airing during the same month as "Milagro" and "The Unnatural"-- two of the absolute *best* XF eps ever -- it was difficult to devote a lot of attention to an ep that was simply "good" rather than "great". There were several points I found interesting about it, though:
1.) Wallace and Angela Shiff (love her name! ) the young married couple whose deaths draw Mulder and Scully into the investigation, look kind of similar to M&S. Unlike the doppelgangers we'll meet in the forgettable "Fight Club" of season seven, they're not really look-alikes but the same general description -- tall, darkhaired man and smaller, redheaded woman -- applies to both couples.
2.) Mulder get's the good trip. He finds an alien and proves all his theories are correct. Except, when Scully starts agreeing with him, he finds that it's less fun than he thought it might be. For all that he might be occasionally attracted to bimbos (think Phoebe and Fowl Thing) who share his beliefs in all things weird, even in his alterted state he knows what he really wants and needs in his life is a woman who'll challenge him.
3.) Poor Scully gets the bad trip. Without her beloved Mulder, she's forced to point out the flaws in her own theories. But she eventually reaches the truth -- which she'd hinted at to the doctor at the morgue *before* she succumbed to the mushrooms -- that the "goo" they keeping finding everywhere is the key to the case. I remember that when this ep first aired one of the big questions was "How did Skinner and the doctor know where to find Mulder and Scully, and how did they know to wear masks while searching for them?" I think it was because Scully had provided enough clues before she left for the doctor and Skinner to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
4.) One thing that never gets mentioned much in discussion of this ep is the apparently telepathic nature of their final fantasy. The first hallucination was obviously Mulder's and the second was obviously Scully's. But the last part -- where they're in Skinner's office explaining their theory -- seems to be a shared one. And the telepathic link seems to remain for a while even when they've been released from the slime as, in the final scene, Mulder reaches out his hand toward Scully and she grasps it first, *then* opens her eyes to look at him.

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Maybe it's because -- CW referring to #4, 20:48:52 03/29/03 Sat
- Re: Maybe it's because -- Melissa, 22:08:01 06/02/03 Mon
  - Re: Maybe it's because -- Islandgirl, 08:19:44 06/04/03 Wed