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16 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :- Enjoyable X-Files' "Monster of the Week", 19 October 2006 Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA
An FBI agent from the New York City field office has an X-File: Alfred Fellig (Geoffrey Lewis), a photographer who gets to the scene - BEFORE the crime! With Mulder in hot water with Deputy Director Kirsh, Scully is sent alone to NYC to investigate the mystery. Meanwhile Mulder discovers that Mr. Fellig has been taking photographs of death for a LONG time!This is one of the best dark episodes of season 6. It's very well done and enjoyable - I've liked Geoffrey Lewis since "The Wind and the Lion", and he turns in a fine performance.Much of season 6 is self-parodic or derivative. This episode is a classic, and the equal of the best stuff from the Vancouver period.
10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :- Do I Creep You Out?, 5 February 2007 Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
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Tithonus is a very good, somewhat creepy episode. After the light-hearted beginnings of season six, it's nice to see the X-Files get back to some darker episodes from S.R. 819 through One Son. Alfred Fellig can sense when people are going to die and then stalks them in order to be able to photograph them as they die in the hopes of photographing "Death". Geoffrey Lewis gives an exceptional performance as Alfred Fellig. His demeanor is down perfect. I like the special effect of the person about to die being black & white in Fellig's view as opposed to everything around the person remaining in color. There are three deleted scenes for this episode. The first two aren't noteworthy, but the one showing Fellig taking a bath after he's been stabbed in the back several times is a gruesome image. I wish they would've kept it. Mulder is great as a secondary character in this episode, displaying his uncanny wit as he performs background checks. He anxiously volunteers to help Scully by performing a background check on Alfred Fellig, which helps him to discover Fellig's dark secret. Peyton Ritter is a bad agent, and it's a surprise he has a position in the FBI. Scully exposes this when she discovers facts that may exonerate Fellig. Ritter is upset because he says, "I thought we were trying to bust this guy.." and Scully responds, "I thought we were looking for the truth." One thing that I found very interesting is towards the end when Scully is interrogating Fellig and he explains to her his motives. She remarks that he took her picture last night when she was surveilling his apartment. Fellig then says, "No, that was different." All I have to say is, everyone is hot for Scully. All this guy photographs is death, but he makes an exception to snap a shot of Scully in her car, before he receives the premonition of her death. And finally, when Scully is recovering from her gun shot from Ritter in the hospital, Mulder informs Ritter that he is a lucky man. What I would've liked to have seen Mulder do to Ritter if Scully hadn't survived. Tithonus is another prime example that the X-Files can still be dark and gritty, even in L.A.
3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- A pleasure to meet you, … Peyton., 18 October 2008 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
Agent Scully and Agent Mulder have been pulled off the X-Files and are being punished by the FBI and are stuck doing background checks. In the midst of this, Scully is called into Kersh's office and put on a case with an up and coming new agent. The case is about a photographer who appears to have captured a crime scene photo before the crime has been reported and is thus suspected of having committed the crime. This man, we soon become acquainted with as a paparazzi photographer who does crime scene photography part time. Nosy Mulder insists that this is an X-File and Scully very quickly is inclined to agree. Each time she speaks to Mulder she goes from "its not" to "maybe" to being the first to suggest that "it is an X-File". During a surveillance of the man's apartment, Scully sees him staring at her out the window and realizing her cover is blown, confronts him. They go on a ride so he can show Scully what he does. They find a hooker who is about to die and when the hooker is being harassed by a man, Scully stops it and arrests the man. This does not save the hooker's life however as she is almost immediately struck by a semi. Even stranger about this case is not that the man seems to know who is going to die and where but that it appears that he is about 140 something years old. Scully is convinced that although the man is strange and extremely old, he is innocent of murder. Mulder later finds out that he is indeed guilty of one murder for which he was convicted in 1929 and rushes to Scully's rescue. Scully is shot along with the photographer and they arguably (explanation to come) switch roles. The man dies and Scully survives.This episode is by many, used as evidence of the theory that Scully is immortal and will never die, just as predicted by Clyde Bruckman. I don't really know myself and I doubt that we will ever get a definite answer to this enigma, but it sure is fun to speculate and look for secret references to her invincibility. I also think this episode is interesting in its similarity to the episode "Unruhe" where people's deaths can be predicted through their photographs and also in which Scully comes close to being killed. I think it would be interesting to go through and count how many times Scully almost gets killed or how many times she gets kidnapped or something. Right from the start of the series with "Squeeze" she is in mortal danger and from there it seems like every couple episodes she almost dies. But she's a fighter. When looking death in the face she just gives him a slap like she did to that pimp guy she arrested in this episode. I give Tithonus a 9 out of 10.
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