Season 19, Episode 6
This film legit scared me when I first watched it in theaters. Perhaps, I believed in aliens more than I expected. I remembered leaving the theater and being genuinely shook about what I just witnessed. Even today, after a rewatch for this episode, the scenes that take place on the alien craft are frightening and shot in a realistic nature to evoke a sense of the potential for an abduction, not only could happen, but could possibly be this terrifying.
And then we did the episode. I went through the notes and discovered...it was all made up. Even the movie's director, Robert Lieberman, doubted the claims of Travis Walton from the novel The Walton Experience. Inconsistencies and the validity of the abduction claims aside, the biggest disappointments in this rewatch was learning all those scary abduction scenes were created by Lieberman based on dreams he was having while prepping for the production.
What a bummer.
But don't let that fact dissuade you from revisiting Fire in the Sky. There are some decent scenes in this movie, and if you love The X-Files (like we do), this movie feels like one big stand-alone (or mythology) episode from the show.
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