Born Again

I struggled to concentrate on this one, meaning only one thing, that I was somewhat bored. The opening scenes were brilliant, what a dramatic beginning, the scene on the bus was also terrific, pretty nasty, the trouble is the rest of it was just a bit flat somehow.

We've had shadows, we've had Lazarus, it's a very long first series, and somehow it feels tired here, have they recycled some of the material, or is there a bit of an obsession with Reincarnation.

It's not a bad episode per se, but it just never seems to come to life. After Darkness falls and Tooms, my expectations are high, this one was just totally forgettable. 6/10.

I saw this when I was a teenager, living in Buffalo, who constantly did origami so that was pretty funny. It was pretty obvious it wasn't filmed in Buffalo, no one has a thick NY accent and there's no Chinatown. I did appreciate the Bills banner on the bus though.

Season 1 of the X-Files is, in my mind, one of the greatest first seasons of any show ever. It was a cultural institution, giving us something we had never seen before and inspired the next generation to build on this formula (Supernatural being the most obvious example).

I have fond memories of almost every episode in the first season, but in rewatching it I realise just how weak some episodes were, especially in relation to the really strong episodes of this season, and of what will come in future seasons.

This episode, to me, is the weakest of the whole bunch and I think never should have been made. Unless you're a completionist like me, who insists on watching every episode, taking the exceptional with the awful, I would give this a hard pass. It makes no sense.

I've given it a couple extra stars because I love Scully and Mulder so much so they're adding at least 2 stars to every episode. (It goes down to 1 star when we have no Mulder for a while) Also, there's Janice too, but without Chandler she's just as pointless as this episode is.

Only on a very rare occasion does an episode of the x-files fail to generate any excitement or does the episode contain anything which is just totally boring to watch.A detective and his former partner both die in unexplained circumstances.The deaths are linked to the presence of a little girl who was there when the deaths took place.Mulder has devised a theory that a policeman murdered by his colleagues has come back reincarnated as the little girl and is exacting revenge.Now for the bizarre bit.The little girl has no connection at all and seems to just a random person chosen as the reincarnation.I think this was slightly lazy writing by the writers and this episode ranks as one of the worst in x-files history!

Born Again is a sub-standard episode from season one. It deals with the subject of reincarnation and just doesn't fly. I've never been big on reincarnation and that could be part of my apathy toward this episode. It does reference the Tooms case which is some nice continuation from the previous episode. But the positives end there. Which is unfortunate because that takes place at the beginning of the episode. I think it's ludicrous that a dead guy would chose to reincarnate in the body of a completely unrelated girl. And he waits until the girl turns eight to start exacting revenge. There's even a serious lack of witty Mulder & Scully dialogue to keep the episode afloat. If you're into reincarnation, maybe this episode is up your alley. If you're not, then at least you can learn what bradycardia is.