Never Again is one of the episodes I can't stand to watch anymore. As much as I am a total junkie for The X-Files, the second I see the guy getting a tattoo of a woman's winking face, I turn the channel. Why? Well, it's probably one of the more hokey episodes of the series. God love Jodie foster, but her vocal performance is cheesy, and the plot is pretty unbelievable. ***SPOILER**** The story revolves around a down-on-his-luck guy who gets a tattoo tainted ergot, which makes him hallucinate and think that the girl on his arm is telling him to kill any woman who gets in his path. Scully meets him while on vacation, after getting her own tat, and trouble ensues.
While ergot poisoning is an interesting plot point, it probably would have been better explored in a Salem Witch Trial-related episode, but instead, the writers chose to do a dippy story about a talking tattoo. ***Spoiler End***
Not only is the dialog clunky, even for an Oscar-winning actress, but but this is also another episode where Scully finds herself borderline helpless without Mulder as a result of a poor choice on her part.
Go watch "War of the Corporphages" instead.
While ergot poisoning is an interesting plot point, it probably would have been better explored in a Salem Witch Trial-related episode, but instead, the writers chose to do a dippy story about a talking tattoo. ***Spoiler End***
Not only is the dialog clunky, even for an Oscar-winning actress, but but this is also another episode where Scully finds herself borderline helpless without Mulder as a result of a poor choice on her part.
Go watch "War of the Corporphages" instead.