My Struggle II
- Episode aired Feb 22, 2016
- TV-14
- 45m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
4.7K
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Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.
Julian Christopher
- Dr. Rubell
- (as Julian D. Christopher)
Eoin Bates
- Stranded driver
- (uncredited)
Annet Mahendru
- Sveta
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Amber Snow
- Driver
- (uncredited)
John Specogna
- Dr. Grayson
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAdenosine deaminase (ADA) - the gene product inhibited by the Spartan virus - is an actual enzyme. Hereditary defects in the enzyme can lead to a condition known as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), which leaves patients at risk for severe infections like those depicted. A treatment for the condition is to introduce a functional immune system into the patient via bone marrow transplant like Scully suggests for Mulder.
- GoofsThe Cigarette Smoking Man has a tracheostomy. He should not be able to speak unless a special device were attached to the tracheostomy (not apparent in this episode). Generally, a tracheostomy has to be covered to allow someone to speak. Please note that the word "tracheostomy" refers to the placement of a tube in the trachea while "tracheotomy" is just the act of cutting into the trachea. "Tracheostomy" is the correct term in this use.
- Quotes
[to Mulder]
Cigarette Smoking Man: Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.
- SoundtracksThe X-Files
(uncredited)
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Bael
Featured review
"I'm the most powerful man in the world"
So this is "The End". Some people may say "Thank Gh-d", and others like me will be depressed. Not much TV is made like this- This is Old School. Old School, but Carter does try to keep abreast of current events, just like the first 9 seasons.
As "My Struggle I" was Mulder's narrative, Part II is Skully's. This gives a nice comparison of Perspectives, as Skully has almost never seen what Mulder has seen (Her head always turned away, or she left the area, or she believed while Mulder didn't believe in one season), the believer and the skeptic always battling it out, resolving it, and solving it. Whatever "it" is at the time. This time, it's about certain events from part I. And, once again "Fringe" is mentioned in this passing narrative, another salute by Carter toward a show that could have been as great as this. Was as great as this, in some respects.
And of course, the return of the young Doppelgangers, and Monica Reyes. Skully and Einstien, the Skeptic vs the Super-Skeptic. Monica and Cancerman. "The world will go on, just in my image, not God's".
Mainly this is Skully's show, it's her kind of x-file, needing her kind of solution. Mulder has his Arse Kicking moves on with Matrix skills, for all the good it does him.
The science in this episode is very interesting, sounding almost plausible. This show has always excelled at giving good background.
The X-Files has embodied for me the best parts of Television, it doesn't take a lot to get me interested, but this show has gone way beyond interest, we get involved in it, which is why people have had such diverse reactions to it, usually because it is telling The Truth at some basic level, sometimes which we don't even know or agree with at the time. In the case of these 6 samples, we have heard things about Climate Change, overpopulation, and man's encroachment into Nature. The X-Files gets my Highest ratings and regards. It has been the subject of heated discussions and speculations for years, and I'm glad I can participate in this in even a small way.
As we go out on this episode, I try to remember all of the things I have ever loved about this show. And they all might be right here in this final offering, this one episode gets back the mysteries of Seasons 1-3, the solutions also baffling.
After my mind returns from initial shock and numbness, I may to edit this a bit, I can't put in words the emotions in me right now, it's too much.
Well, so all of the positive reviews are being down voted and the negative ones are being up voted and, the bad reviews repeated and parroted apparently by different people even though they are the same person. That doesn't mean this episode is bad it just means that there are trolls about
As "My Struggle I" was Mulder's narrative, Part II is Skully's. This gives a nice comparison of Perspectives, as Skully has almost never seen what Mulder has seen (Her head always turned away, or she left the area, or she believed while Mulder didn't believe in one season), the believer and the skeptic always battling it out, resolving it, and solving it. Whatever "it" is at the time. This time, it's about certain events from part I. And, once again "Fringe" is mentioned in this passing narrative, another salute by Carter toward a show that could have been as great as this. Was as great as this, in some respects.
And of course, the return of the young Doppelgangers, and Monica Reyes. Skully and Einstien, the Skeptic vs the Super-Skeptic. Monica and Cancerman. "The world will go on, just in my image, not God's".
Mainly this is Skully's show, it's her kind of x-file, needing her kind of solution. Mulder has his Arse Kicking moves on with Matrix skills, for all the good it does him.
The science in this episode is very interesting, sounding almost plausible. This show has always excelled at giving good background.
The X-Files has embodied for me the best parts of Television, it doesn't take a lot to get me interested, but this show has gone way beyond interest, we get involved in it, which is why people have had such diverse reactions to it, usually because it is telling The Truth at some basic level, sometimes which we don't even know or agree with at the time. In the case of these 6 samples, we have heard things about Climate Change, overpopulation, and man's encroachment into Nature. The X-Files gets my Highest ratings and regards. It has been the subject of heated discussions and speculations for years, and I'm glad I can participate in this in even a small way.
As we go out on this episode, I try to remember all of the things I have ever loved about this show. And they all might be right here in this final offering, this one episode gets back the mysteries of Seasons 1-3, the solutions also baffling.
After my mind returns from initial shock and numbness, I may to edit this a bit, I can't put in words the emotions in me right now, it's too much.
Well, so all of the positive reviews are being down voted and the negative ones are being up voted and, the bad reviews repeated and parroted apparently by different people even though they are the same person. That doesn't mean this episode is bad it just means that there are trolls about
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