The Post-Modern Prometheus of the show. To achieve his vision, he wrote a script that blurred the real world with the "X-Files" reality and that had a distinct fantasy element. Carter combined elements of the original story with fairy tales and elements of folk tales. In order to make the episode "as moving" as possible, Carter sought to echo elements of James Whale's 1931 film version of "Frankenstein". He later noted that, by "using modern science, I took an old style, which is black and white, and an old approach, which is a kind of James Whale approach to science fiction, and came
Prometheus Bound the abyss. The treatment of the myth of Prometheus in "Prometheus Bound" is a radical departure from the earlier accounts found in Hesiod's "Theogony" (511–616) and "Works and Days" (42–105). Hesiod essentially portrays the Titan as a lowly trickster and semi-comic foil to Zeus's authority. Zeus's anger toward Prometheus is in turn responsible for mortal man's having to provide for himself; before, all of man's needs had been provided by the gods. Prometheus' theft of fire also prompts the arrival of the first woman, Pandora, and her jar of evils. Pandora is entirely absent from "Prometheus Bound", and Prometheus becomes