Post by Alucard on Jul 7, 2008 22:53:31 GMT -5
Episode 1:
Of Flukeworms and Men.
There's an episode in The X-Files (season 2) which grew to infamy due to a certain monster of the week that gained a bit of a cult following. He was called Flukeman.
And he was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen on normal television.
OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Here's a synopsis of the episode (credit: Wikipedia):
Flukeman was somehow spawned from radioactive waste taken from the Chernobyl accident. Flukeman appears to be a humanoid tapeworm (though the term "fluke" properly refers to a flatworm), and inhabits sewers and sewage tanks. The creature bites people with its suckers and injects a tapeworm (possibly an immature version of itself) into the host, which would eventually exit orally, causing the death of the person.
Mulder and a group of waste disposal workers managed to capture
Flukeman, but it escaped soon after. He then followed the creature to a sewer, and at the climax of the episode, Mulder apparently kills Flukeman, chopping it in half with a sewer gate as it tried to escape. At the end of the episode, however, we see the remnants of the creature floating in the sewers, still alive.
Mulder and a group of waste disposal workers managed to capture Flukeman, but it escaped soon after. He then followed the creature to a sewer, and at the climax of the episode, Mulder apparently kills Flukeman, chopping it in half with a sewer gate as it tried to escape. At the end of the episode, however, we see the remnants of the creature floating in the sewers, still alive.
That thing just gives me the creeps, especially considering how far fetched the concept really...isn't, when you think about it. Species mutate all the time, be it through their environment changing (due to natural occurrences or man made pollutants), these things may not be as dangerous as the Flukeman, but who's to say someday something someday might not be? Hell, I remember reading that cracked article here a while back that explained how killer bees were basically man made (lolwhoops!), with the increased interest in human and animal genetics over the past few years...where could we screw up again, and when we do, how bad will it be?
(Edited for copy/paste accident early on in the post)
Of Flukeworms and Men.
There's an episode in The X-Files (season 2) which grew to infamy due to a certain monster of the week that gained a bit of a cult following. He was called Flukeman.
And he was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen on normal television.
OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Here's a synopsis of the episode (credit: Wikipedia):
Flukeman was somehow spawned from radioactive waste taken from the Chernobyl accident. Flukeman appears to be a humanoid tapeworm (though the term "fluke" properly refers to a flatworm), and inhabits sewers and sewage tanks. The creature bites people with its suckers and injects a tapeworm (possibly an immature version of itself) into the host, which would eventually exit orally, causing the death of the person.
Mulder and a group of waste disposal workers managed to capture
Flukeman, but it escaped soon after. He then followed the creature to a sewer, and at the climax of the episode, Mulder apparently kills Flukeman, chopping it in half with a sewer gate as it tried to escape. At the end of the episode, however, we see the remnants of the creature floating in the sewers, still alive.
Mulder and a group of waste disposal workers managed to capture Flukeman, but it escaped soon after. He then followed the creature to a sewer, and at the climax of the episode, Mulder apparently kills Flukeman, chopping it in half with a sewer gate as it tried to escape. At the end of the episode, however, we see the remnants of the creature floating in the sewers, still alive.
That thing just gives me the creeps, especially considering how far fetched the concept really...isn't, when you think about it. Species mutate all the time, be it through their environment changing (due to natural occurrences or man made pollutants), these things may not be as dangerous as the Flukeman, but who's to say someday something someday might not be? Hell, I remember reading that cracked article here a while back that explained how killer bees were basically man made (lolwhoops!), with the increased interest in human and animal genetics over the past few years...where could we screw up again, and when we do, how bad will it be?
(Edited for copy/paste accident early on in the post)
