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I am deviating from my usual font style in my analysis. <sigh> The things I do for XF.
Before the movie, there were interviews with both CC and GA. As much as I'd like to tell you about them it's pretty much anything you can see on any of the MANY specials that aired before the movie. (More or less) And I fast forwarded through most of it. I will probably watch them later but the truth is I don't have a lot of time so I just skipped to the movie.
I shall endeavor to do justice to the movie and to my fellow phile's analytical posts. <sigh> I fear I shan't be successful but here goes anyway. But hopefully I can come up with reasonably cool subtitles. <BEG>
I am deviating from what looks to be becoming the standard format by giving the abbreviations first. I'll give the name with the abbreviation in parenthesis. I'll just keep a running tab of the abbreviations that are necessary to remember at the beginning of the next post. The dialogue is in bold and my comments are in the arrows. Descriptions of actions are in brackets.
Okay, now on to the -er show?
The X-Files: Fight The Future: Enter the Oilens.
North Texas
35,000 B.C
Two men <I'll call them cavemen for lack of a more scientifically precise term.> appear to be chasing a set of tracks. <No doubt looking for some tasties for the little woman and the kiddies back in the cave.> The tracks look kinda like duck tracks but larger and somewhat elongated in comparison. There are only one set of tracks. <I personally find this odd. One would think that with the other prehistoric creatures around one would find some other tracks but no. Must be thin pickings in North Texas during an ice age.>
The cavemen enter the icy cave. Caveman 1 (CM1) <Ooh very original. I know.> looks around and stumbles upon a fellow cave man who appears to be trapped in ice. <It looks like he's trapped in a plastic container of sorts. Personally, I got a flash of a scene later in the movie.> While CM1 is being nosy, something attacks seemingly from nowhere. With a quick glimpse, one can see it's not human and it's packing a seriously nasty attitude and sharp fangs. CM1 with his sharpened bone <or whatever> and torch is no match for the extraterrestrial. He ends up on the cave floor a bloody, shredded mess.
Caveman 2 (CM2) <who apparently doesn't believe in the buddy system> belatedly comes upon his companion's shredded body and after a brief inspection, continues to search the cave. <If it were me I would be so out of there. I guess it's things like this that is the reason why the cavemen died out long ago.>
It doesn't take long for CM2 to happen upon a second body. This body is obviously not human. Even in the dim light of a torch. <Even with my horrendous eyesight> CM2 showing another display of his intellect, gets close to the alien and a fight ensues. Using his superior stickmanship <or is it sharpened bonesmanship?> he manages to kill the alien, giving the alien a little superfluous air conditioning. Before he has a chance to grunt in victory, the blood from his opponent oozes onto the cave floor. It amazingly changes directions on its own, making an apparently bee-line for CM2. While CM2 watches the living black goo he happens to look down at his own chest to find that the goo is also on him. He grunts his dismay to no avail, it's got him.
[fade to black]
Well this scene basically sets up the origin of the black oil. However, it doesn't completely explain the nasty substance. Is there more than one type of black oil? This strain seems quite deadly. What about the black oil that Mulder was infected with in "Terma"? Or the oil that took over Krycek in "Apocrypha?" (Although it's a damn good thing that they didn't come in contact with that oil. ) And how did the alien from whom the black oil originated come to be on this God forsaken planet? You get one question answered and three more questions pop up.
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