This is the episode that asks, "What if that quiet, creepy kid from your high school suddenly got a superpower?" And the answer, in true XF fashion, does not involve him putting on a spandex suit and going around doing good deeds... which I think is really a far more honest answer, sadly.
I have a sneaking suspicion one of the writers was bitten by a cow as a child, and that's why bad things happen to cows on this show.
Anyone else notice that in this episode, Giovanni Ribisi plays a kid in love with one of his teachers - and later on Friends, Giovanni Ribisi plays a kid who marries one of his teachers? That is a very, very specific typecasting, right there. This is also the only thing Jack Black has ever been in that I can actually stand to watch.
Ultimately I think this is a cool episode, and has some great visual moments, but after the emotional rollercoaster of the Anasazi Arc, it falls a little flat. Part of that may be because so much of that trilogy was about Mulder and Scully kicking ass and taking names, whereas in this episode they do practically nothing of note. They don't save anyone, they don't even get credit for catching Darin. This whole thing would have played out pretty much exactly the same if they had never shown up at all. But hey, I got to watch Jack Black die of electrocution, so I'm still calling it a win.
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