2/10
What do I want to be today?
22 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
By this point Carter couldn't decide what he wanted X-Files to be: sci-fi about alien technology and aquisitiveness, fantasy/horror about superbeings with superpowers, quasi-religious blend of all the above....

So, the solution must be to throw in bits of The Invaders, T2: Judgement Day, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Xena: Warrior Princess (never hurts a fanboy to have LL running around and swimming naked!), and Rosemary's Baby, for good measure.

Hopefully this mishmosh, and the cutting-edge style of chiaroscuro lighting and, yes, the perpetually jerky camera, will detract from how increasingly ludicrous your storyline has become...

Super-soldiers that seemingly replicate out of nothing - maybe it's drawing minerals from the air...? And they can't be stopped, remember that! Unless it occurs to you to decapitate them...

They're accelerating the mutation program. How? By adding an already common additive to your drinking water! "Chloramine is harmless" (not entirely accurate on several points) - "But what if they alter the molecular structure?"

Alter how? By rearranging the orientation of the atoms within the molecule? This is something already done with some things such as certain foodstuffs and medicines, in the latter case probably to patent a "new and improved" version of a lucrative medicine whose original patent has expired. Many substances can vary structurally while still having the same molecular formula, but how does that turn a widely-used possible carcinogen into a genetic modification tool of world-dominating potential - just get everyone to drink the koolaid, and the Mother Ship will appear!

I believe! ...that I've detected where most of Q's ideas have come from.
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