The X-Files Season 9, Episodes 19/20: The Truth

The end. Wait, that was season five. This is really the end. No more X-Files episodes after this. One movie. Some comics. And it's over.

Nine years of television, for us condensed into around ten months. And what a ride this has been. Let's see how it all turns out.

The X-Files Season 9, Episode 16: William

Wow, seriously, show? Why must you do this?

The X-Files Season 9, Episodes 9/10: Provenance/Providence

Nope. Big huge flaming buckets of nope.

The X-Files Season 8, Episodes 20/21: Essence/Existence

There were some good aspects to this two part season finale. And then it went to an absurdly Christian place and made me really uncomfortable.

The X-Files Season 8, Episode 18: Vienen

Maybe this is what happened to Deepwater Horizon.

The X-Files Season 8, Episode 16: Three Words

"Fight the future." Where have I heard that before?

The X-Files Season 8, Episodes 14/15: This Is Not Happening/Deadalive

Mulder's triumphant return and it's pretty much the best thing ever.

The X-Files Season 8, Episode 13: Per Manum

OK, season eight, I forgive you. You're not that bad, after all.

The X-Files Season 8, Episodes 1/2: Within/Without

Well, this is different.

The X-Files Season 7, Episodes 1/2: The Sixth Extinction/Part II: Amor Fati

Well, this was unsettling. And creepy. And disturbing.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 22: Biogenesis

Getting the band back together, are we? And for a cliffhanger of a season finale, which we haven't seen in a while. I can already tell this is going to be quite a ride.

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, Episodes 4/5: Dreamland

What the fuck did I just watch?

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 Season 4, Episode 17/18: Tempus Fugit/Max

I never thought taking Latin in high school would be relevant two decades later, but here we are. Time flies. This is the first non-English episode title I could translate.

And 'Max', well, that would just be a person's name.

A lot happened in these two episodes, and they were two of the better mythology arc episodes we've seen in a while.

The X-Files Season 4, Episodes 8/9: Tunguska/Terma

In Soviet Russia, Alex Krycek betrays everyone (seriously, he is the worst triple agent ever), as always, and loses his arm for his troubles. Maybe he should get together with Lindsey McDonald. They'd make a great team of pompous double crossing assholes with a grand total of two hands between them. Maybe Wolfram and Hart can give Krycek an evil hand, too!

And Mulder makes some epically bad decisions, one of which is trusting Krycek for even half a second, and nearly pays with his life, while Scully makes some questionable decisions and pays with her freedom.

Well, this is a huge disaster already, isn't it?

The X-Files Season 4, Episode 1: Herrenvolk

Everything dies. Well, that's bleak.

And we start season 4 with the other half of 'Talitha Cumi'. To be continued, indeed. I actually watched this more or less immediately after finishing season 3, because there was no way I was going to let that cliffhanger keep me up all night wondering what was coming.

The X-Files Season 3, Episode 24: Talitha Cumi

We've reached the end of all thingsseason 3. And it's another cliffhanger. They're going to do this a lot, aren't they? Like, every season, right?

The X-Files Season 3, Episode 20: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'

How does one write a blog post about an episode of a science fiction television show that completely deconstructs the entire premise of the series?

'Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"', another Darin Morgan penned episode, is framed in quite possibly the most interesting way of any episode up to this point, and while it does focus on aliens and generally similar mythology to the long arc episodes, it doesn't appear to actually be connected to them.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Intelligent Life

So I guess this is as good a time as any to talk about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe.

Note, I did not say elsewhere in the universe.