We Need to Talk About the Firewalker in the Room

Content warning for Red Museum - mentions of sexual assault.Scully's going back into the field in the next two episodes of The X-Files season 2.It is... not easy to talk about Firewalker without frequent allusions to Ice back in season 1. So we didn't even try to avoid it. Weirdly it also has an opening which doesn't match how it ends, but Ice does it so much better (and doesn't concern itself with people wandering around in temperatures three times the boiling point of water).Also for an episode called Firewalker, the robot itself is almost incidental.Red Museum is a confounding episode. Starting with a great cold open, the episode spends half its run-time setting up a lot of weird supernatural weirdness. And then without warning turns into a conspiracy episode which feels like it should be a much bigger deal all things considered.But no.Support the show