Talk:Fearful Symmetry (The X-Files)

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Anyone know the name of the actress who played the red-haired with ponytails girl in the beginning of this episode?

Thanks in advance!

Bianca — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bianca23br (talk • contribs) 02:13, 8 September 2007

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GA Review

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Reviewer: TBrandley (talk · contribs) 20:37, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Issues:

Infobox: Add "running time" to the infobox
Lede: Link American to Television in the United States
Plot: Seems like to many paragraphs
Production: Add "writers" and "directors"
Reception: Fox Broadcasting Company → Fox network. Only Fox needed to be linked

That's all. Great work. TBran dl ey 20:47, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I've addressed everything. Thank you for the review!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 02:20, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'll pass the article now. TBran dl ey 03:18, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unconnected to mythology?

Is this episode really "unconnected to the series' wider mythology", given that it features aliens experimenting with abduction and breeding, and it doesn't fully explain what happened, but leaves it an open question for a possibly future episode to answer? Would it be more accurate to write that it is "not closely connected" or "largely unconnected"? Lee Choquette (talk) 14:12, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Misclassified as "Monster-of-the-Week" story?

I contend that this episode is incorrectly classified as a "Monster-of-the-Week" story. It is clearly a Mythology story.

For one, there is no monster. The source of the supernatural phenomena is never determined.

By the end of the episode, the characters' only working hypothesis fits into the series' alien abduction mythology: Animals are abducted and made pregnant. The offspring are gestated impossibly rapidly, and then harvested. The animals are returned to earth in an unexplained location, and left practically sterile.

This is a rough description of what was depicted as happening to Scully in earlier Season 2 mythology episodes Ascension and One Breath. And if we look ahead to the Season 5 episodes, Christmas Carol and Emily, then it is a precise description of what happened to her. --Geronimus Prime (talk) 14:40, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Geronimus Prime: In order to determine what episodes are or are not mythos eps, we need a reliable source. For that, we've been using The X-Files mythology collections (e.g.). So while I don't htink you're wrong, changing this from MOTW to mythos would probably violate WP:OR. @Grapple X: Do you have any other thoughts?--Gen. Quon (Talk) 15:07, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gen. Quon: Admittedly, no. My contention was an appeal to deductive reasoning, rather than to authoritative sources. (I guess that's why I kept it on the Talk page.) Thank you for helping me to understand why the episode is classified as it is.--Geronimus Prime (talk) 15:52, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Geronimus Prime: No problem. I'll admit that I do agree with you, but this is an area where Wikipedia's epistemology really gets in the way. We have to go by what the sources say.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 17:49, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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