El Mundo Gira is not a well done X-Files episode. Starting with a very outlandish premise and never fostering it into a unified whole that works is close to the best synopsis. At a migrant worker enclave a strange death occurs associated with a possible meteor exploding during which a strange yellow rain falls. A young man is believed to be the murderer, a creature of South American folklore called the Chupacabra a(sp?). His brother must avenge the death because the victim was his girlfriend. No one cares, even the INS, as it's just another illegal alien...Except, Mulder, of course, does.
Mulder and Scully arrive on the scene to which the phrase "move along, nothing to see here" suits Scully. Not Mulder as he sees the connection to something far more sinister and extraterrestrial. Mulder coops Scully to do an autopsy and the culprit is found to be a fungus, athlete's feet gone wild if you will. It shouldn't be killing, but it shouldn't be spreading at an exponential rate in lab cultures either. Plainly there's something "out-of-this-world" going on and it's carrier, the young man whose brother suspects as his girlfriend's killer, must be found. The story gets more virulent as well as silly as the accused escapes and spreads the good stuff on his way.
Nothing here gels in a compelling way. Ruben Blades is wasted guesting as the in-charge INS agent. He plays it nonchalant to the extreme while the ham-fisted illegal alien cast overplays their South American parts with bad Americanized Spanish accents and pseudo fear. The myth-arc extraterrestrial tie in is best forgotten except it seems to promote that there are more than just the, in contrast, sophisticated Greys visiting us.
This episode can be skipped. Or, just see where it goes...You probably won't care too much however. Weak.
Mulder and Scully arrive on the scene to which the phrase "move along, nothing to see here" suits Scully. Not Mulder as he sees the connection to something far more sinister and extraterrestrial. Mulder coops Scully to do an autopsy and the culprit is found to be a fungus, athlete's feet gone wild if you will. It shouldn't be killing, but it shouldn't be spreading at an exponential rate in lab cultures either. Plainly there's something "out-of-this-world" going on and it's carrier, the young man whose brother suspects as his girlfriend's killer, must be found. The story gets more virulent as well as silly as the accused escapes and spreads the good stuff on his way.
Nothing here gels in a compelling way. Ruben Blades is wasted guesting as the in-charge INS agent. He plays it nonchalant to the extreme while the ham-fisted illegal alien cast overplays their South American parts with bad Americanized Spanish accents and pseudo fear. The myth-arc extraterrestrial tie in is best forgotten except it seems to promote that there are more than just the, in contrast, sophisticated Greys visiting us.
This episode can be skipped. Or, just see where it goes...You probably won't care too much however. Weak.