Reviews

Creepy! As a person already scared of robots and AI, this episode freaked me out a lot. I enjoyed it nonetheless, mostly because of the humour that it didn't fail to deliver, even there was not a lot of dialogue. Very clever episode and a nice approach to having just a few actors in an episode.

The only flaw for me was the underwhelming ending to all this terror. Also I knew from the very beginning that everything happened because Mulder refused to tip (but honestly, why would he tip a robot?? I understand why he didn't), so that was kind of predictable.

A bit sad that it was the first time we saw Scully's fancy apartment (and Mulder did too, did she just move in?), I would have loved to see how she usually handles all these speaking devices.

The end scene with Mulder and Scully in the diner was very cute.

I enjoyed it A LOT! It reminded me very much of the show Black Mirror.

Also not good. I was very scared to start S9, due to the lack of Mulder, but decided that I had to watch it anyway. And it starts off with a disappointment - Mulder is "just gone"???? What?? How?? Without an explanation? Scully seems to know something, I hope she does. It would not be fair to her if he had indeed just left.

As for Doggett, I feel like he was meant to be hated at first but eventually everyone grew to like him. He's just a good guy and he's supportive. Sometimes I have the feeling that he likes Scully a bit too much, hope that's just my impression.

I personally really like Monica Reyes. She's a good agent and she and Scully have kind of a best friends dynamic. Scully after all already pointed out that she reminds her of Melissa. Beautiful. But why did she ditch her in the morgue? She just had to answer a question.

I don't really know how I feel about everything.