The X-Files Season 6, Episode 20: Three of a Kind

So, 'Three of a Kind' was obviously a followup to 'Unusual Suspects', and was similarly excellent. Also amusing, because really, any episode that features the Lone Gunmen as main characters is bound to involve hilarious hijinks.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 19: The Unnatural

Baseball and aliens and racial tension. Three things that I never thought I'd be talking about all in one single post, but this is The X-Files, after all.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 18: Milagro

I don't know what other people thought of this one, but I found it to be an outstanding episode. The obvious one to compare it to is 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space', but it also had elements of another of Darin Morgan's excellent episodes, 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose'.

It wasn't quite up to the standard of either, but it's still one of my favourites so far.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 17: Trevor

Note to television writers: If you aren't going to reveal the meaning behind the title of an episode until more than halfway through, maybe don't make it the name of a person?

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 16: Alpha

One thing I had observed in seasons five and six was that for the most part, the episode quality had vastly improved over the early seasons. The good episodes have always been good, but the bad ones in seasons one and two were a combination of forgettable and unforgettably atrocious.

'Alpha' reminded me of some of those runs of awful episodes in the first two seasons.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 15: Arcadia

I can't really tell if this was a pro-Mulder/Scully episode or a very anti-Mulder/Scully episode. Either way, they pretended to be a married couple and they were hilarious about it.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 14: Monday

It's Groundhog Day! Only less silly. And less well paced.

But it is Monday. A lot.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 13: Agua Mala

What the fuck did I just watch?

The X-Files Season 6, Episodes 11/12: Two Fathers/One Son

So, new plots now, right? It looks like we get all the resolution we'll ever need to the plots of the first five seasons in 'Two Fathers' and 'One Son'.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 10: Tithonus

It is a testament to the great writing of this series that they can recycle ideas and turn them into a pretty spectacular episode.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 9: S.R. 819

Another Skinner episode? And it's gross and veiny? Actually, the skin effects reminded me of the 'Fringe' pilot episode. I'm not even sure what to think of this one at this point. We'll probably have to revisit it later and see how it connects to events that happen over the rest of the series.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 8: The Rain King

There is nothing about 'The Rain King' that wasn't weird. It wasn't bad, but it was really really strange.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Summer Break

OK, I know it's cheating, but it's partly because I feel like I've exhausted a lot of my Friday Feature ideas and I haven't yet got my hands on a copy of 'The Springfield Files'. I do have more ideas for what to write, but I think this will be a good time to take a break from writing something every Friday only do periodic Friday Features until I can come up with enough ideas to do them weekly again. Plus, I'm pretty busy this summer and haven't had as much time to write as I'd hoped.

Some of the ideas I'm saving, primarily because they kind of have to wait until near the end. They wouldn't really make much sense right now.

So next week, there will be an episode post on Friday because of reasons, and a Feature the following Friday, and then who knows? By that point, I should be getting close to season seven, which means there won't really be that much of the series left. Well, there will, but three seasons feels more manageable somehow, but it's still about 15 weeks' worth, depending on two-part episodes and such.

Since I sometimes only get a chance to watch four episodes in a week, I won't be doing regular episode posts on Fridays to substitute for missing Features. Some Fridays just won't have a post.

In hindsight, what I should have done is write individual posts for those first 16 episodes that I ended up bunching all together - and four Friday Features - before I figured out how I wanted to write this blog. Then I'd have had a month long backlog to work with.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 7: Terms of Endearment

Well, this was uncomfortable and kind of gross, wasn't it? 'Terms of Endearment' wasn't bad, just super uncomfortable all the time.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 6: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

I think this was a Christmas episode as only The X-Files can do it. It was also pretty amazing.

The X-Files Season 6, Episodes 4/5: Dreamland

What the fuck did I just watch?

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 3: Triangle

Yes! Time travel! Only not really? Either way, another brilliant episode to start off season six.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Canada

This show is very clearly filmed in Vancouver. Or rather, was - I figured I should do a post about Canada now that the show has moved to Los Angeles, right?

It's not really obvious to me from the geographical features - I've never been to Vancouver, and I've only been to Seattle once, but Canada definitely looks a lot like parts of the U.S., too.

No, it's clearer from a lot of the guest actors.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 2: Drive

OK, this was an outstanding and super tense episode. It reminded me somewhat of two Fringe episodes, 'The Box' in one particular way that, like in that episode, didn't initially make sense to me, but later turned out to be kind of awesome and 'Johari Window' in a slightly more apparent way.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 1: The Beginning

The Beginning. Welcome back to the regular old small screen X-Files, where everything is a disaster right from the start! This felt like mostly an establishing episode, since I would assume the movie was expected to bring in some new fans. So we get re-introduced to a lot of the characters and plots and sets - which are new sets in L.A. now.

The X-Files: Fight the Future

I've now seen the first X-Files movie. And it wasn't entirely what I expected, which was more or less an extended episode in HD with better special effects and swearing. It was at least a little more than that, and I feel like they did a good job of telling a story that just wouldn't have fit on the small screen. Maybe not quite epic, but definitely cohesive, and definitely something that answered a LOT of questions about the series. And actually opened up one other major question.

Now what?

The X-Files Sesaon 5, Episode 20: The End

Well, I suppose this really is 'The End', isn't it? Only it's not, because there are still four seasons and two movies left.

Spoiler alert: It's not the end.