I don't strictly care that the special-effects here are shoddy and the story of space mission sabotage far-fetched. Neither is really high in my list of things I appreciate in film, and I can generally supply the missing bits.
The show is generally 'hard', that is from the outside, examining illusion as having 'real' weight in the world but not the lens of seeing responsible for gravity. In this episode, we have an encounter with a 'spectral' entity in space and psychic manipulation of some sort, fantastical stuff as per the X-Files norm. What I take from it, is the evocatively done space walk with one consciousness merging inside the other (the camera), and back on earth the subjective shots which are of this consciousness taking over, distorting the lens of seeing.
The show is generally 'hard', that is from the outside, examining illusion as having 'real' weight in the world but not the lens of seeing responsible for gravity. In this episode, we have an encounter with a 'spectral' entity in space and psychic manipulation of some sort, fantastical stuff as per the X-Files norm. What I take from it, is the evocatively done space walk with one consciousness merging inside the other (the camera), and back on earth the subjective shots which are of this consciousness taking over, distorting the lens of seeing.