Marc wrote:
> bastXXXette@sonic.net wrote:
> > V wrote:
> >
> > > When I catch one of the older eps, they still give me the chills.
> > > Blood is really creepy--and not one that you hear a lot about.
> >
> > Is this the episode where certain people were susceptible to messages
> > transmitted via digital displays, urging them to do violent things, and
> > which played on (and amplified) their individual anxieties and phobias?
> > That was on one of the cable channels not long ago - either SciFi or
> > TNT.
> Yep - that's the one. I don't think it was the displays causing it, more
> the crop spraying. It wasn't made clear.
That wasn't too clear. Because if there was nothing special in the
displays, that would mean that everyone had more or less the same
hallucination. It's true that the *content* of the messages were
specific for each person, but they all imagined they were seeing
some violent message on a digital display.
That doesn't make much sense to me - if there were a chemical exposure
causing certain anxiety-prone people to become totally paranoid and
psychotic, wouldn't they have different symptoms? Even if they all
hallucinated (assuming the chemical had psychedelic properties),
they'd each have *different* hallucinations at least, wouldn't you
think? One person might see distortions in people's faces, another
might see bugs swarming everywhere, and another might see messages in
digital displays. But could a chemical cause everyone to imagine the
same thing? I wouldn't expect that, so that's why I thought there was
also a transmission in the displays, along with the spraying.
> Wetwired is where they did use TV signals.
Another good one, especially when Scully started to lose it.
Both of these remind me of that movie "They Live". And they all
remind me of a somewhat obscure Stephen King story called "The Ten
O'Clock People".
Bastette
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