The X-Files Season 7, Episode 22: Requiem

This was just meant to be a season finale? Really?

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 21: Je Souhaite

Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it, along with a whole bunch of other things you didn't want because you didn't really think through the potential consequences of your wish.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 20: Fight Club

Sometimes there are episodes with interesting concepts and promising setups that turn into outstanding pieces of entertainment. And sometimes there are episodes that are 'Fight Club'.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 19: Hollywood A.D.

Skin-man calls Mulder from a bubble bath. Film at eleven.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 18: Brand X

'Brand X' was gross. And it didn't have quite enough else to keep me interested beyond the grossness the way a similarly bug-infested episode, 'War of the Coprophages', did.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 17: all things

What can I say about 'all things'? I thought this was really good when I first watched it, and the more I let it sink in, the more amazing it becomes.

A character study of Scully by Gillian Anderson. It really doesn't get better than this.

Also, she ships Mulder/Scully.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 16: Chimera

Yeah, no. 'Chimera' is not exactly going to make my list of favourite episodes, I'm pretty sure.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 15: En Ami

Scully and the Smoking Man, together at last. Wait, that sounded wrong and wasn't what I meant. Seriously, though, this could have been a great 'buddy cop' kind of caper if only there'd been more witty banter.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 14: Theef

Hey, it's 'Fresh Bones' without the racism. And that's not really much of a compliment.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 13: First Person Shooter

'First Person Shooter' took a little longer to get going than it should have, but it turned into a pretty decent episode once it picked up. I wasn't thrilled with the reason for the killer's existence and independence, but I guess it worked.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 12: X-Cops

Holy crap. 'X-Cops' was kind of a spectacular episode. The only possibly negative thing I could say about it is that the handheld video action made me quite dizzy at times. Otherwise, it was perfect.

The X-Files Season 7, Episodes 10/11: Sein und Zeit/Closure

I'm not really sure why they needed two episodes for a story that was extremely similar to a single episode they already did back in the fourth season, 'Paper Hearts'.

And like past episodes that dealt with Samantha's disappearance, I'm still not convinced that there was any actual closure here.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 9: Signs and Wonders

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

I fell for the misdirection completely in this episode. Because why wouldn't the oppressive fundamentalist preacher be guilty of raping and impregnating his own daughter and then forcing her from his church?

Well, because apparently the devil had come to town and was orchestrating the whole thing.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 8: The Amazing Maleeni

So it turns out Maleeni really was amazing, wasn't he? I loved the long con in this episode, though I guessed just before Mulder did that LaBonge was in on the con.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 7: Orison

'Irresistible', part two. And just as creepy and tense and disturbing as it was the first time around.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 6: The Goldberg Variation

OK, let's see if we can follow this. If a train leaves Boston on Sunday night at 8:15, headed for Washington at 85 miles per hour, and runs over a penny left on the tracks in Connecticut, causing the track to ripple ever so slightly, disturbing a bird that's landed on the track in Pennsylvania, and that bird then flies into the path of a 747 on its way from Newark to Los Angeles, causing one of the plane's engines to fail, and a panicked passenger calls his wife on his cell phone, and the sound of the phone ringing startles their cat, which then jumps on the coffee table, accidentally pressing the channel button on the remote to switch the TV to FOX, just in time for The X-Files, someone might have watched this episode without even meaning to.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 5: Rush

I initially liked the drug metaphor here - much better than the 'magic is drugs' on Buffy - but wasn't sure where the episode was really going or how it would be resolved.

I also kind of hoped that Mulder and Scully would enter the light and become super fast, too.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 4: Millennium

YES! This episode made me extremely happy, and if you've been reading this blog, you know exactly why.

The X-Files Season 7, Episode 3: Hungry

I'm pretty sure Joss Whedon watched this show. I'm pretty sure he saw this episode. Actually, I guess I should assume Jane Espenson saw it, decided she would copy it, but change it up to be fucking atrocious, and call it 'Doublemeat Palace'.

'Hungry' was actually reasonably OK, but for one unfortunate implication.

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

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