Holy cow this was awfulness. I don’t even know where to begin. The story was cool enough–an older astronaut was haunted by a ghost he saw while on a space mission, and now he is possessed by the ghost. And I guess Chris Carter was inspired by that old Face On Mars picture (that’s what the one above is, it wasn’t a pic from the show). But the story and the show went so wrong after that.

The alien ghost looked cool, but did nothing scary. But since the astronaut was scared of it, I guess he was sabotaging shuttle parts so it couldn’t launch. LAME. Oh, and mission control looked like a basement filled with a bunch of cardboard desks and blinking lights. TOTALLY LAME. And there was no sensible reason for Mulder & Scully to have been there, but they were running around–neither used their skills here. Mulder made a leap to figure out the guy was possessed, but not in investigating anything, only in the end while explaining it. At one point, someone is sick and Mulder goes “someone get a doctor!” even though Scully is right there. LAME SAUCE. For some reason, Mulder kept like smiling and hugging the mission control lady whose boyfriend was in space at the time. Nothing ever came of that, at all. WEIRD & LAME! Meanwhile all the drama about some troubled space launch was established by people in mission control acting panicky and spouting out scientific explanations. EPIC LAMENESS.

I can’t believe Chris Carter wrote this. It makes me want to not watch anymore. Ironically, I do remember watching this episode back when it aired, it didn’t make me quit then.

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