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 the Fire-Bringer than the father, namely Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War. Consequently, Zeus reconciles with Prometheus. Finally, Athenaeus (a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD), wrote of a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: "Aeschylus clearly states in the "Unbound" that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage." Some scholars have taken this to mean that in the "Unbound", Prometheus prophesies that eventually (in the "Fire-Bringer"), Zeus would reconcile with him, and institute some kind of festival in his honor. Given the title of the play, and considering that