This coming from someone who basically despises computers and how they've turned my happy little world into a slogging morass of logins and passcodes, freezes and constantly glitchy electronics, but I digress.
This episode from 1998, of all things, is simply a creative, true Sci-Fi story skillfully written and acted out. It appears in season 5 of the early X-Files, and everyone on the team is clearly on their game. They are headed for the playoffs with this one.
I don't want to reiterate the plot or story, just in case there's an X-Files virgin out there. But even if you thought Sci-Fi is dumb, and unrealistic, and always considered yourself above it (so did I) I urge you to watch season 5 of the X-Files, and especially Kill Switch.
It poses a big 'What if?' for us humans in our various stages of computer hate, acceptance, submission, and finally.... Addiction.
Further, like the best of the X-Files episodes, this story gently pokes a teeny little toungue-in-cheek and the sharpest of droll humor just to keep us viewers from taking the story's proposition, and ourselves, too seriously (Done, by the way, WAY too much circa 2022)
This fast moving episode offers us artificial intelligence that's entirely too capable; a Goth, punk, computer genius chick in tight leather pants; the three x-file geeks that improve any episode they are in; Mulder's ludicrous, erotic, and funny AI induced dream sequence; a butt-kicking, gun-shooting, Mulder- saving Agent Scully, finally; some terrific explosions compliments of this rogue AI and, of course, your government satellites.
With a sigh of satisfaction, I say to any newbie willing to visit some good re-runs while tuning themselves out from the headaches of the 21st Century, watch this episode. Many X-Filians agree, Season 5, Kill Switch, is a TV classic worth visiting again. And again.
This episode from 1998, of all things, is simply a creative, true Sci-Fi story skillfully written and acted out. It appears in season 5 of the early X-Files, and everyone on the team is clearly on their game. They are headed for the playoffs with this one.
I don't want to reiterate the plot or story, just in case there's an X-Files virgin out there. But even if you thought Sci-Fi is dumb, and unrealistic, and always considered yourself above it (so did I) I urge you to watch season 5 of the X-Files, and especially Kill Switch.
It poses a big 'What if?' for us humans in our various stages of computer hate, acceptance, submission, and finally.... Addiction.
Further, like the best of the X-Files episodes, this story gently pokes a teeny little toungue-in-cheek and the sharpest of droll humor just to keep us viewers from taking the story's proposition, and ourselves, too seriously (Done, by the way, WAY too much circa 2022)
This fast moving episode offers us artificial intelligence that's entirely too capable; a Goth, punk, computer genius chick in tight leather pants; the three x-file geeks that improve any episode they are in; Mulder's ludicrous, erotic, and funny AI induced dream sequence; a butt-kicking, gun-shooting, Mulder- saving Agent Scully, finally; some terrific explosions compliments of this rogue AI and, of course, your government satellites.
With a sigh of satisfaction, I say to any newbie willing to visit some good re-runs while tuning themselves out from the headaches of the 21st Century, watch this episode. Many X-Filians agree, Season 5, Kill Switch, is a TV classic worth visiting again. And again.