Review of Ghouli

The X-Files: Ghouli (2018)
Season 11, Episode 5
10/10
17 years of X-Files converges right here
2 February 2018
On May 20th, 2001, William was born.

On April 28th, 2002, Skully gave up William for Adoption, after Former Agent Spender injected him with an 'Antidote" to his Alien heritage.

After the injection, William was not able to move the Buffalo Mobile above his adoptive Crib. And he was supposed to be "Normal". But Skully was told that the Supersoldiers/Alien Replacements would never accept that William was now a Normal Boy, and Skully had to make the hardest decision she ever made. Who knew that she set in motion events that started happening 16 years later, when Skully and Mulder started having Visions of William? And why are we even discussing William, anyway, it's not like Skully is staring to be Obsessed, seems there is a "William around every corner." And Mulder, in Political Correctness, backs off and supports her rather than starting the usual conflict.

As it turns out, Agent Spender was more of an Ally than an Enemy. In My Struggle III, we find out that he has been protecting William's location.

And now everyone is looking for William. Even CGB Spender, who has got Director Skinner fooled into doing his work for him. While Mr. Y tacitly employs Mulder to do the same even as Mulder kicks against the Goads.

Two Girls visit a beat up Ferry at night, and have a messy interaction: They both thought they were fighting a Monster named Ghouli. What is Skully's connection to it? An X-File investigation leads her and Mulder to a kid named Jackson, and some other unwanted people worm their way in. This Jackson kid is severely interesting. Who is he? Skully thinks she knows who he is.

It's hard for the X-Files to be happening in this political environment, everyone wants to interfere. This is true in The X-Files, and in the real FBI. Will CGB Spender release some memo, now?

It is interesting that the Most Obstruction Mulder and Skully are facing comes from the DOJ this year. The last time the DOJ directly interfered with an X-Files investigation? Was in the season 1 episode "Shadows", when Mulder and Skully tried to interview Lauren Kyte.

There is a lot I want to say about this episode, I can't. All we really know is that William was hidden for fear of Supersoldiers/Alien Replacements. We know Magnetite can kill Supersoldiers. And that for some reason, Spender injected William with Magnetite. After escaping the Military, Mulder hid until 2008, when he was called in as a consultant to help figure out some grisly murders related to a Russian Body Part factory. And then Skinner finally reopens the X-Files, Mulder and Skully have been tooling around amid hints of William and alternate Alien Invasion scenarios and a new threat from the Cigarette Smoking Man and some new guy named Mr. Y. But if you want to see why this is possibly the most important episode of The X-Files ever, that's up to you watching it.

I would love to see the Supersolder arc finally get topped off or even explained, even more about this thing with Langley being alive in some sort of AI. So many X-Files, so little time. And unless we can talk Gillian out of quitting, this will finally be it.

Oh Yes, Fringe was very much influenced by The X-Files as someone else suggested, the 1st half of the first season even employed Darrin Morgan who wrote the Mandela Effect episode. "The Former X-Designation" as it was put in "A New Day in an Old Town".
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