Another solid episode, one of the funnier episodes I can recall. lol'd hard at Mulder pulling out his green bottle after the confrontation.

That was hilarious.

thank you. my problem was I felt the seires had too many fillers..like an anime


I might give x files a try now

I really liked last nights episode. I didn't think I would half way through but then I got it and it really turned for the best

loved this episode, X-files was always at its best when they went super-weird

I was expecting another episode in the miniseries arc as well.

That is the oddest episode of a TV show I've ever seen. I can't recall a completely stand alone episode in a short run miniseries like that.

Absolutely loved it.

I have a hard time relating to those who were indifferent (or actively disliked) most or all of the MOTW episodes. Sure, the myth arc episodes were the backbone of the series - Mulder's belief in extraterrestrial life and the mystery of what happened to his sister were literally what drove the X-Files. Getting deeper into the conspiracy was what gave the show its direction.

But the MOTW episodes tended to be the most character driven and gave Mulder and Scully far more life. The two go side by side - without the MOTW episodes, you wouldn't have cared as much what was happening to these two random FBI agents. That's always where you saw them in random hotels meeting and reacting to random weirdness that wasn't as immediately as dire as a massive conspiracy against the American public, so the MOTW episodes generally allowed for more humor and a more defined sense of what made both of them tick outside of "Mulder = believer and Scully = skeptic."

After watching this most recent episode I was in the mood to watch some classic X-Files, and I immediately went to season 3. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose. Pusher. Jose Chung's From Outer Space. All MOTW epsisodes, all immediately ones I think of as some of the best and most memorable episodes (and all in one of the strongest overall seasons - I tend to think of seasons 3-5 as the pinnacle of the X-Files).

I remember the overall myth arc and enjoyed it, but if I found the X-Files was at it's most entertaining during MOTW episodes.

^well said. I've been watching a few episodes a week the past 2-3 months and I still think the MOTW eps are far superior to the myth arc ones, especially after season 5. If I had to choose my top 10 eps the only myth arc one I would include is Anasazi.

I guess I never really thought of it as a character driven show. I think it's a valid argument, but for me the only times I ever connected with them as characters is during the self-aware humorous moments like How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, Bad Blood, or this most recent episode.

Apparently I can only take their characters seriously when the characters themselves don't.

I agree that some of the absolute best episodes are MotWs, but it's not exactly fair to the mythology to do an episode-by-episode ranking of all episodes because the whole point of those was that they were open-ended pieces of one long story, so they often aren't complete or don't have particularly satisfying resolutions when viewed individually. It was more a case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts imo.

Also, in fairness, about 2/3rds of the 200+ episodes fall into the MotW category, so while everyone always brings up the great ones like Squeeze, Jose Chung, Clyde Bruckman, Bad Blood, etc, there were a lot of clunkers in there too. Anyone remember Space, Teso dos Bichos, Alpha, or Teliko? If so, it's probably not for good reasons. There's definitely a selection bias when people remember their favorites and talk about how great MotWs were. The peak ones may have been the best episodes in the series, but I'd still say the average myth arc episode was better than the average MotW. Totally agree that the series wouldn't have worked as well without the combination of the two though.

agree with this and have probably spoken to ~100 people about this in my life and never had anyone say otherwise.

I'm not a fan of the MOTW stuff, but this was hilarious. They totally pulled it off.

This was even funny from a product placement perspective. Past eps, they're driving a Ford Explorer, here Mulder's driving a Ford Fiesta

I'd agree with this.

MOTW episodes had all the peaks and all the duds. Most of the myth arc episodes seemed more relevant to the show, where as the MOTW episodes seemed more relevant to the characters.

I wasn't dissing the myth arc episodes, just saying I don't get the "LOL MOTW episodes, they were just filler" mentality when they were, as you say, at least 2/3 of the show, have most if not all of the top ten shows for the series (definitely all of the bottom ten episodes) and, at least in my view, helped round out the characters a great deal more than just focusing on the myth arc could have done.

lol this was awesome. Mulder's ring tone made me laugh.

i want to believe



i really hope they don't try to do with X-Files that they are trying with 24 (short renewed season with original cast, then reboot/continuation with new cast)

Also, ****ing cliffhanger confirmed. Damnit X-Files.

Last episode was pretty mediocre. Wasn't paying much attention at the end so I have no clue what the trash man ended up being.

Well, I guess of all the ways there might be to shoehorn in a bunch of dead characters as an attempted nostalgic throwback for the fans, that was arguably one of them.

There was about 30 seconds of a Tom Waits song in there somewhere. Think that might have been the episode's only redeeming quality.

Iunno maybe because I was a young teenager but the old ones were just more entertaining/spooky.. This new one is garbage

This HAS to be the worst x-files ep ever. And I get a feeling we'll be seeing that horrible agents duo again, which saddens me to no end.

I've been travelling, is it THAT bad that I would be better off skipping?

It was bad, but I wouldn't skip because you get some background in the two new characters who will probably show up again.

Maybe it was because I was drinking, but that just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

It wasn't the alcohol, that episode just didn't make sense.