GOOD NEWS: JK LOL, maybe he isn't really dead maybe he's only mostly dead. (Guess Duchovny shouldn't have demanded that pay raise.) Scully has the worst three months ever as she faces a ping-pong session of good news/bad news:īAD NEWS: …He's dead. Somewhat psychic agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) joins our heroes as supernatural healer Jeremiah Smith-and a whole slew of alien abductees-reappears. An especially nail-biting episode for all the ladies in the audience. “PER MANUM” (8.13)Īs if pregnancy isn't already horrific enough, Scully believes she and another woman are at the heart of a plot to create and steal alien babies. Kelso (Ken Jenkins) from Scrubs and Captain Gates (Penny Johnson) of Castle.
I love a good claustrophobic thriller done right, and this story, with Doggett and a team investigating mysterious deaths in a Boston subway, is a winner.
Danny Trejo also guests in this tense morality tale. Guest star Joe Morton (who also costarred with Patrick in Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is living backwards and gets a second chance to save his wife from a murderer. It's nice to see that Doggett already has Scully's back from their very first case together. Man-Bat attacks in this great “Monster of the Week” episode.
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This two-parter is plenty frustrating and doesn't really resolve anything, but it's required viewing in terms of the series mythology-and as new partner Doggett's introduction. Wherein we meet Agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick), the manhunt for Mulder only flushes out child prodigy/telepath Gibson Praise (Jeff Gulka) again, and the alien bounty hunter runs amok. So here are the highlights/must-sees from the last seasons (of the original run): SEASON EIGHT “WITHIN” (8.01) / “WITHOUT” (8.02) Still, if you've come this far, you have to see it through to the end. The frequent implications that no one-not even Mulder-can be sure who fathered Scully's child feels rather like a slight to Dana's character, given her steadfastness throughout the series. to hobble the Mulder/Scully romance and frustrate the longtime fans. Plus, the way Dana and Mulder never acknowledge what obviously happened between them off-screen to lead to her pregnancy is yet another heavy-handed move by Carter and Co. It just feels so soap opera-y the way it unfolds… It would have been a more satisfying story if handled in a reasonable way the portentousness of it comes across as a deus ex machina plot device, rather than an emotional, character-driven arc. Plus, with Duchovny bowing out of most of Season Eight and almost all of Season Nine, it doesn't even truly feel like The X-Files anymore without that fundamental Scully/Mulder dynamic. There are only so many alien/government conspiracies an audience can take. For starters, the mythology arc exhausts itself and feels repetitive at this point. (The casting of the Lone Gunmen in the roles of the Three Wise Men bearing gifts is quite a hoot.)īut there's a reason why these later seasons are more ridiculed/less beloved than the previous seven. There are a lot of Messianic, Biblical overtones here: Fox fills the role of Lazarus, while little William's birth is heralded with a bright light-and he's described by many as “the perfect human.”
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Seasons Eight and Nine are just full of miracles-like Scully's impossible pregnancy and Mulder's resurrection. Though, considering the days/weeks/months they've also lost due to alien abduction and government kidnappings, I suppose the real miracle is that they're still “kicking it in the ass,” as Kim Manners would say.
Of course, their closure rate is low: they're more often in the ICU than in the field in these later seasons. The amount of time Mulder and Scully spend in hospitals-either in their own bed or beside the other's-is both alarming and quite ridiculous. What is the point of all of this? To destroy a man who seeks the truth… Or to destroy the truth so no man can seek it?! REYES: You don't care what these people have sacrificed over the last nine years, what's been lost to their cause! You make a mockery of it, gladdened it proves your point.