Dreamland II (2)

Season 6, Episode 5, Aired
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Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realises that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. ''Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in it's wake and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.moreless
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  • Mulder and Morris are still switched over, while Scully tries to figure out how to switch them back

    8.2
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    By JaCkKbAuEr2424, Apr 06, 2011 Report Abuse
    The two part episode comes to a strange end as we're left with a story that strays pretty far away from the whole myth arc that the show has built up until this point and instead focuses on mixing some sci-fi elements with a whole bunch of humor. I must say, I enjoyed the way the show was able to continually poke fun at the fact that Mulder and Scully have never hooked up, even if it's not actually Mulder trying to hook up with Scully, but sometimes, humor in a show grounded in serious subjects can pull us out of the story a bit, and that's almost what this episode did.

    The episode picks up basically where Part 1 left off.. Mulder is being arrested after Morris (in the form of Mulder) ratted him out to the Area 51 people. However, Scully figures out that Mulder is telling the truth, and we get a long drawn-out plot involving Mulder and Scully trying to get in touch with the source located at Area 51. It felt as if this two part episode could've easily been crammed into one episode, but instead, we get some random stupid scenes involving Mulder and Morris' wife. Did we really need all of that stuff?

    For a two part episode, we also learn surprisingly little about any myth arc stuff. The source that Mulder meets actually admits he doesn't know if aliens exist or not. When in the heck are we going to learn if aliens exist in this show? I'm getting confused after being jerked around so much by the government people, Cigarette Smoking Man and now these Area 51 people.

    I'm hoping Season 6's myth arc improves more, because the way that the end of Season 5, the movie and the Season 6 premiere began, I have high hopes for it.. now we just need some pay-off.moreless

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  • better than it's prequel

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    By KennyRogersLove, Mar 14, 2009 Report Abuse
    Ok I will post some random notes first:

    -I really like the teaser with the home videos
    -I love the look scully gives morris when he asks her to come over for dinner
    -grandma top gun Haha!
    -Special tramp Dana Scully
    -When you see them in the mirror above the bed and Morris says "maybe I like to read the New York Times backwards", that is actually Mulder's voice too not just his reflection. Never noticed that before.
    -Baby me and you'll be peeing through a catheter.
    -If I shoot him is that murder or suicide?

    This is a great follow-up to one of the other great episodes of the series. I really enjoy the teaser with Morris Fletcher voice over giving a biography of Mulder while we watch home-videos of Mulder as a child stomping on his Spock ear that won't stay on. Classic. From here we jump back to the final scene of the last episode with Mulder being taken away screaming "He's not me!" There are so many fun scenes to watch with different interactions like Mulder in the cage with grandma Top Gun driving each other crazy. Then Fletcher's feigned sense of sympathy when Scully gets suspended. I really like the scene in the general's office when Mulder gets off the hook because he gave Scully the wrong flight data recorder and he is completely clueless at first but then slowly starts to play along. I realized while watching that Mulder is better at pretending to be Fletcher than Fletcher is at pretending to be Mulder. Then all of the Scully and Fletcher scenes in Mulder's apartment are also great. I thought it was hilarious when Fletcher is telling Scully that she'll just have to get used to him being there because he doesn't know how to change it back and she tells him to contact his source and see if he knows and Fletcher tells her he doesn't know how to get a hold of him and she's just out of luck and then as soon as he finished saying that the phone rings and its the source. Such a great subtle touch of irony! I loved it. I also really enjoyed listening to Fletcher sing "Let's Get it On" in Japanese and Spanish with the special features on the DVD. Finally the entire scene at the little A'LE'INN with everyone hiding in the bathroom from different people and the same people is great. I think I liked this episode better than the first one but they both are great. I really think that stories and situations like this are what TV is all about even if they seem cliched. I give it 10/10.moreless

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  • Even better than the first part...

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    By CaptainHarkness, Aug 21, 2008 Report Abuse
    This picks up where the last one left off and sees Mulder being taken in by the men in black. Meanwhile Scully finally figures out that Mulder and Fletcher switched bodies. After getting a flight recorder from an informant Scully takes it to our old friends The Lone Gunmen. She tells them about the body switching and they didn't believe her at first but then Fletcher convinced them. You could tell Frohike really didn't like Fletcher, he even called him a punk a*s. Good old Frohike. This episode was just as funny as the last one if not funnier. Like when Mulder asks Scully If I kill him is that Murder or suicide. That cracked me up. I thought the end kinda sucked because no one remembered what happend. It would have been more interesting if it was only Mulder that remembered but oh well. So far this was the best non mytharc episode in the series.moreless

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  • Not the best X-files episode ever, still humorous enough though!

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    By tvaddict1974, Oct 06, 2007 Report Abuse
    Not the best X-files episode ever, still humorous enough though! This is the second of a two parter, and while it wraps everything up nicely from the first episode (time starts to correct itself!!), it was full of jokes, funny bits, and a comical story line that is too far from the usual for the purist X-file fan. Even though the duo have been removed from investigating the x-files, they still find themselves in area 51. The head of the 'men in black' wanting to leak secrets to Mulder? These guys would be arch enemies except when it suited the black ops government figure to want Mulder to know information. Also in this episode we find out where Mulders' bedroom is. (He uses it as a storage closet!) A bit of a filler episode but in keeping with the writers comedy theme for this series.moreless

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  • Switchback

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    By Anon67683, Apr 01, 2007 Report Abuse
    More of the same. This episode begins with a strangely savage send-up of the Samantha story arc. It's perplexing and a bit disconcerting that the writers choose to parody this aspect of the Mythology when it hasn't yet been resolved, but I suppose nothing was off limits in the quest for laughs.

    Reading previous reviews, I suddenly realized that this two-parter was meant to be part of the Myth arc. Yikes! I hadn't even considered these as Myth episodes. If this is the future direction of the Myth arc, then let me off the bus now.

    And the ending, yeah the ending. Trite, convenient, unconvincing and contrived. Did I miss any other suitable adjectives?

    Still, an entertaining episode that I will probably rewatch a few times just for the funny bits. Doesn't mean I have to respect it, though.moreless

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    • A scene of the episode takes place in a bar called the "Little A'Lie'Inn". In Rachel, Nevada there is actually a restaurant/bar/motel called "Little A'Le'Inn", complete with UFO and time capsule just off a road called "The Extraterrestrial Highway". Edit
    • The cover story on The Lone Gunmen newspaper that Morris/Mulder reads is titled "Monica - Minx Or Mandroid," which is yet another humorous reference to the Clinton/Lewinksy scandal of the 1990s. Edit
    • The slip up takes place during the scene after the information leak was notified of the switch between Mulder and Fletcher at the Little A'Le Inn Bar. When Mulder/Fletcher enters his office, the leak says "we shouldn't be seen together." In this scene, over the informants left shoulder, it is possible to see the sound guy for about two full seconds. Edit

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    • The "mandroid army' scoffed at by Fletcher is a sly flashback to the season 3 episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". Edit
    • This is the first episode that we see Mulder's bedroom. The question where Mulder slept was discussed rather vividly in the past on the Internet. Edit
    • Scully says to Mulder-in-Morris's-body, "I'd kiss you if you weren't so damn ugly" which is what Zira (Kim Hunter) said to Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes. Edit

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    • Morris(as Mulder): You're gonna miss me when I'm gone. Frohike: Yeah, fat chance laughing boy. Morris(as Mulder): Back-off sneezy. Edit
    • Morris(as Mulder): If you boys only knew how many of your stories I dreamed up while sitting on the pot. Frohike: What stories? Morris(as Mulder): Oh, I'm sorry Melvin, that's classified. Frohike: The name's Frohike you punk ass. Edit
    • Morris (as Mulder): Baby... Scully: 'Baby' me, and you'll be peeing through a catheter. Edit

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    • As he is leaving the Lone Gunmen's place, Morris/Mulder contemptuously tells Frohike to "Back off, Sneezy." This is, of course, a reference to the diminutive character from the Disney Snow White story, whom Frohike does actually resemble. Edit

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