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The X Files: Fearful Symmetry (1995)
Here comes the elephant!
This episode has bad ratings here in IMDB. I think it´s unfair. This is not an episode with an uninspired plot like, for example, "Lazarus" or "Born Again." But I think this episode may annoy some of the reviewers for two reasons. One is the "message", sometimes transmitted without subtlety. The other is the fact that the plot is very strange and may be ridiculous for some. I thought it was original and refreshing, an attempt to do something different. And opened up possibilities like the "truck x elephant" scene, the autopsy, some "tongue-in-cheek" one liners in the dialogue, Mulder trying to interview Sophie, the trail of destruction of the invisible elephant, etc. There are some incongruities in the death of Kyle Lang and not everything (that needed to be explained) is explained, but the episode is original, interesting and has a strange tone that would be perfected by other writers in the third season. This was a moment when the series was growing and they were clearly trying to find new possibilities of tone and plot. It was "X-Files in an ascending curve", so I'll give it a "7.8", since this episode was a sign of things to come. I don´t think "Humbug" being chronologically so close to this episode was a coincidence...