Talk:Fire (The X-Files)

Episode Recap?
Not so much a synopsis as a script! Did you get the copywrite permission?

The "episode Recap" does seem un-necessarily long. Most of the episode's have a much smaller and more consise plot section instead of the full-blown script. I removed the name "episode recap" for the time being, and will hopefully get the plot area shortened a bit. AddMan3001 (talk) 14:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

And I accidentally erased the script while trying to move it. whoever originally put it there can feel free to add it back to the page, but a shorter version that isn't the full script would be much better. For example, the recap on the episode Lazarus is much better in terms of length. AddMan3001 (talk) 15:10, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I have trimmed the plot synopsis a bit; it's still very complete, but at least doesn't read like a poetic analysis of the episode's subtext (although I know some people would benefit from same). I don't know if it's appropriate to remove the "too long" tag to indicate that I've shortened it, so for the moment I have not done so. Also, does anyone know what the story behind the production of this episode is? I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it was written as a thinly veiled "smoking = evil" message in an attempt to pander to special interest groups who may have protested the glamorization of smoking in earlier episodes. Whether such a thing actually occurred, I don't know, but it seams a plausible theory for this episode, which seems a little too thinly written not to have been a vehicle for some agenda. Oh, and why exactly is the Mulder's-underwear scene "infamous"? Wpell (talk) 07:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)