I found it interesting that Agent Doggett was able to experience the Oliver Martin (Michael Emerson) home in both it's unaltered state and again as The Brady Bunch house. Usually you'll have a character only able to see a weird perspective in one way so as to leave others in doubt of their credibility. I also thought it was pretty cool for him to state that he was 'finally getting the hang of this job', a neat tribute to the unconventional approach one had to take for these X-Files cases.
As another reviewer mentioned, I too was bothered a bit by Scully and Dr. Rietz (John Aylward) wishing to make Oliver Martin, the former Anthony Fogelman, into a human guinea pig. It seemed out of character for Scully, simply because of all the paranormal experiences she'd experienced in the past without ever coming to the conclusion that those subjects should be put under investigation. What about characters like Audrey Pauley ('Audrey Pauley'), Darin Peter Oswald ('D.P.O.') or Eddie Van Blundht ('Small Potatoes')? They would all have been good test subjects too, to understand their unique capabilities?
But I do agree with those who were left puzzled by the fact that there were two dead victims, the result of Oliver's unintended levitation powers who went through the roof. There was no accounting for those deaths, a plot element left to simply wither away so everyone watching should just forget about.
It was interesting to note at the end of the show that Doggett had finally come to terms with his past and the death of his son, that moment when Agent Reyes took his hand and he didn't shirk away. That was a big personal leap for him. I also got the biggest kick out of something he said when both Scully and Reyes expressed their knowledge about events that occurred in episodes of 'The Brady Bunch'. In the not too distant future as I write this, I would expect that some character on some new program would be saying the same thing about 'The X-Files' - "Why are people still watching a thirty year old TV show?"
As another reviewer mentioned, I too was bothered a bit by Scully and Dr. Rietz (John Aylward) wishing to make Oliver Martin, the former Anthony Fogelman, into a human guinea pig. It seemed out of character for Scully, simply because of all the paranormal experiences she'd experienced in the past without ever coming to the conclusion that those subjects should be put under investigation. What about characters like Audrey Pauley ('Audrey Pauley'), Darin Peter Oswald ('D.P.O.') or Eddie Van Blundht ('Small Potatoes')? They would all have been good test subjects too, to understand their unique capabilities?
But I do agree with those who were left puzzled by the fact that there were two dead victims, the result of Oliver's unintended levitation powers who went through the roof. There was no accounting for those deaths, a plot element left to simply wither away so everyone watching should just forget about.
It was interesting to note at the end of the show that Doggett had finally come to terms with his past and the death of his son, that moment when Agent Reyes took his hand and he didn't shirk away. That was a big personal leap for him. I also got the biggest kick out of something he said when both Scully and Reyes expressed their knowledge about events that occurred in episodes of 'The Brady Bunch'. In the not too distant future as I write this, I would expect that some character on some new program would be saying the same thing about 'The X-Files' - "Why are people still watching a thirty year old TV show?"