As a Canadian, any episode that has to do with Greyhound buses seriously creeps me out. So much so that just seeing the bus coming down the road (and knowing what was coming next) almost made me physically ill. So hard to watch, on so many levels. Hits way too close to home
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Just read the TWoP review. My favourite part was this:
"I peek back into the room, just in time to see the banana slug, like birth itself from the wound on Scully's neck. Seriously. I'm pretty sure that scene was supposed to look like some kind of crazy childbirth, with Scully's wound actually looking very much like a vagina, and I could talk all about the long history of the demonization of the vagina and, by extension, the woman, in horror films, down to the whole issue of castration and the woman as the bearer of the bleeding wound, and I could certainly tie that into the fact that the scene in which Scully gives Hank her gun (a typically masculine and phallic symbol) directly leads to her being "raped" when the banana slug is inserted into her body against her will, and then to her being basically forced to "give birth" to the slug, and, in doing so, is rendered by virtue of her femininity, totally weak and dependent on Doggett, a man, which is a typically sexist trope in the horror film, but I won't. Because I'm still too busy
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If by he you mean Doggett, then no. He doesnt find out until Per Manum.
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"I peek back into the room, just in time to see the banana slug, like birth itself from the wound on Scully's neck. Seriously. I'm pretty sure that scene was supposed to look like some kind of crazy childbirth, with Scully's wound actually looking very much like a vagina, and I could talk all about the long history of the demonization of the vagina and, by extension, the woman, in horror films, down to the whole issue of castration and the woman as the bearer of the bleeding wound, and I could certainly tie that into the fact that the scene in which Scully gives Hank her gun (a typically masculine and phallic symbol) directly leads to her being "raped" when the banana slug is inserted into her body against her will, and then to her being basically forced to "give birth" to the slug, and, in doing so, is rendered by virtue of her femininity, totally weak and dependent on Doggett, a man, which is a typically sexist trope in the horror film, but I won't. Because I'm still too busy ( ... )
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