The Post-Modern Prometheus

It's something I meant to share but forgot to.

Uh, in the Post-Modern Prometheus, the science for it with the Hox genes and the modification of the fly or whatever, um-

Yeah

... was inspired by some research at, uh, IU, from Indiana University-

Yeah.

[laughs]

Who inspired J. Peterman's, the John O'Hurley's character in the Post-Modern Prometheus.

That's amazing.

So then, uh, when we were doing the Implanted Memories, I went, "Well, this obviously fits," 'cause, you know, there were some good answers there, and I kinda didn't want, as a fan, I didn't want them to kinda give me the canned answer that they always say, and, um, I think I did get the canned answer from David, unfortunately.

But I, and I used it 'cause he talked about Post-Modern Prometheus.

And, uh, I'm like, "Okay, Gillian, I know you're gonna tell me that your favorite episode is 'Bad Blood'" or whatever, but, but, like, what else? What else have you got?"

[laughs] Well, let me ask you about, because I'm thinking of the components of your documentaries, and obviously one of the, the big components is interviews.

Mm.

So we just had a few kind of monster of the week sort of episodes with Postmodern Prometheus-

Yeah

... and Detour, but we do know that...

[upbeat music] It's been a while since series creator Chris Carter had gotten into the driving seat, both in writing and directing.

But that is exactly what we have here with episode five of season five, titled "The Post-Modern Prometheus." And, uh, it was, as I said, both directed and written by Chris Carter.

It was also filmed in black and white, in keeping with the whole Frankenstein thematic of the episode.

And even better than that, set mostly at night, and, uh, constantly being barraged by lightning strikes.

See you next time.

See you next time for Postmodern Prometheus.

Yes.

Postmodern Prometheus.

Yeah.

Yes.