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Kyle XY: Does Kyle Dream of Electric Fish
by Isabelle Carreau, posted Jul 17th 2007 4:19PM
(S02E06) An interesting episode title for an interesting episode. According to TV.com's Kyle XY guide, this week's title was inspired by a Philip K. Dick novel titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," which was the inspiration for Bladerunner. Could there be similarities between the book and Kyle XY?In this week's episode, Kyle discovered a new power. Stephen starts work at Madacorp. Jessi begins to have a "normal" life... and gets a boyfriend. Josh realizes that Andy is great. Lori finally sees something through. And, most importantly, a friend is revealed to be ... a foe!
Remember this moment
Kyle develops a new ability: he can move in his memories. At first, he only sees his memories in visions but eventually, thanks to concentrating to music, he can control them and even walk around in his memories. For those keeping tabs, in his first vision, Kyle saw a fish bowl, a postcard from Black Island State Park, and the urn containing Adam's ashes. We eventually found out that the fishbowl was from Adam's office and that Kyle wrote the postcard himself to trigger memories and put him on the right path to decipher the CD.
Foe-ss
Foss has been fishy from the start. Adding to that feeling is the fact that most of us remember Nicholas Lea from his role on The X-Files, meaning that we wouldn't trust him easily! In Season 1, he was a bad guy who turned out to be a good guy (so we thought). In Season 2 (so far), he was a good guy who turned out to be a bad guy. Even though I accepted Foss as a good guy, I always thought he had a double agenda. But after seeing this week's episode it's clear he not only has a double agenda but must still be working for the bad guys.Adam used extreme measures to ensure that Kyle would know that Foss was not to be trusted. But why did Adam allow Foss to enter his mansion and be in charge of security? Did Foss have something to do with Adam's death now that we know he is not who we thought he was? Is he working for Madacorp? For sure he still has some ties with them....
Emily Foss?
Nice twist there with Emily and Foss; even though it wasn't clearly laid out. If you check the picture of Foss' wife and child (on the right), you'll notice the similarities between the wife and Emily. The way she looked at the picture of Foss and Kyle from her file certainly implies that there is a connection with Foss and Emily. Plus, she has a young child and Foss had a young girl. If this hunch is accurate, does Foss know they are not dead? Maybe he was even in on their "death." Could it be that knowing his work was dangerous, Foss and Emily planned to fake Emily's and their daughter's death? I could go on and on with questions about those two. To add to the "fishy-ness" of it all, Emily goes out at the same time Foss is emptying the warehouse. I can't wait to learn more about those two and for whom he really works.The perfect date
I felt bad for Andy to go through helping Josh plan the perfect date. However, it was fun to see them interact (especially when Josh slapped his hand on her thigh in a highly unromantic manner!). Josh is the perfect example of most teen boys. This week, he showed us that birthday resolutions don't last long (his room is again a mess) and that teen boys go for the unattainable girls when there is a perfect one in front of them. At least the episode ended on the perfect note for the two of them thanks to Andy who didn't want the perfect date to go to waste.Declan and Jessi sitting in a tree... Part II
Last week, I polled readers to know if they wanted Declan and Jessi to become a couple. Looks like 78.5% of the voters did not see their wish be granted this week and Lori is partially to blame for this. I say "partially" since the two of them already had a sort of crush for one another but Lori, by talking to both Declan and Jessi, put them on the path of eventually becoming a couple (or at least trying). Nonetheless, it was nice finally seeing Jessi get out in the real world and (awkwardly) make friends and a boyfriend.
XX meet XY
Finally, they met! Okay, technically they just crossed path but it wasn't without drama as there was an earth quake the second they laid eyes on one another. Did Kyle predict the earth quake or XX's arrival when he said something bad was going to happen? I want to believe it's the latter. Am I the only one who found it weird that later in the episode (both at the Tragers' and at the cafe), Kyle didn't sense XX? Maybe he did but they didn't show it to us? Or maybe Kyle and Jessi don't sense one another all the times?What they now need to show us is them interacting with one another. For sure, they'll notice they share more than similarities.
Other scenes of interest
Other scenes of interest
- Lori playing at open mic night.
- Stephen starting work at Madacorp and crossing paths with Emily.
- Jessi remembering her fake-past.
- Kyle finding out that the warehouse is empty.
- Josh getting stood up and turning to Andy.
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