Detour

Whilst on their way to a conference, Mulder and Scully get drawn into a bizarre case, several people have vanished in a Florida forest.

It's bad of me, but I keep on expecting there to be a dip in quality, the recent run has been quite exceptional, it's been one quality episode after another, Detour follows the trend.

It feels like the first independent episode for some time, no glimpse of a story arc, no prior knowledge was needed here, it's just a cracking, one off story.

Favourite scene was perhaps the opening moments, where Mulder and Scully bantered with the two officers, it was very funny.

Did you, as I did perhaps get Predator vibes, there were glimpses, that whole invisible figure was a chilling adversary, those red eyes also upped the horror vibe.

9/10.

Detour feels like a rather conventional and old-fashioned episode, with Mulder and Scully encountering something strange in a rural setting, getting trapped in the wilderness, and encountering a monster threatened by the expansion of civilisation. One of my favorite episodes in the woods in which Mulder and Scully are trapped in the wilderness in Apalachicola National Forest in Leon County, Florida two invisible monsters are hunting and eating people who cross their paths in the woods. Really creepy and spooky episode.

Detour is the kind of story that The X-Files has always done very well. Sending Mulder and Scully off into a remote location with a cast of expendable supporting characters can be counted on to deliver all the requisite X-Files ingredients.

On the way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully stop to help in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of three people in the woods, where a pair of invisible humanoids lurk.

Detour was broadcast between Unusual Suspects and The Post-Modern Prometheus. This episode is a really good example of the different characterization of Mulder and Scully by different writers. I love Detour to death.

Great great great episode. I love the scene at the beginning with Mulder and Scully in the car with the other two agents going off to some kind of marriage counseling partner communication seminar thing and Mulder is less than enthusiastic about it.

KINSLEY: I couldn't believe how hard it was not to use the word "but." MULDER: (In hell) I'm having that same problem right now.

Haha! I love it. I also really like the idea they use of the mothmen being chameleon like where you can't see them at all. I did think it a little interesting that they used mothmen to explain these creatures however because it didn't seem to fit with anything that I have ever heard about Mothmen at all. I haven't read a lot but what I have read or seen matches closer to what is shown in the movie "The Mothman Prophecies". Great movie by the way. But I still enjoyed this episode despite that fact. It is also one of those that you can share with your friends who are maybe easily grossed out. This is actually the episode that I used to get my father to check out more of the series. I give it a 10/10 for sure.

The premise of the episode, that of camouflaged human animal hybrid Evolved "mothmen" Running around the woods is pretty goofy. At times the monster looks silly too, with its little red eyes peeking out.

But! The episode is still very enjoyable due to a good script and because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Mulder & Scully are supposed to be going on an FBI team building retreat & Mulder's attitude towards this is hilarious. It's great to see M&S contrasted with the super lame agents - we get to see M&S as the cool kids rolling their eyes at the establishment.

I was pretty creeped out by the lair.

Come for the Mothmen, but stay for the jokes.

One of the best episodes ever and definitely the scariest so far makes "Home" look like a kids show. much like another one of my other less popular favourite episodes war of the cophophages, it just seems exceptionally goofy and fun, i wouldnt be suprised if they were the same writer, ill check