The Great X-Files Watch 2004 - Part 10
Patient X
So we have Mulder the skeptic, Cassandra Spender, Agent Spender who is CSM's son, and Scully trying to get burned up with a bunch of other abductees. OH, and Marita and Krycek. Yummy.
The Red and the Black
More of the same, except Krycek kisses Mulder on the cheek! Ooh, shippy. I bet someone wrote a fanfic about that. So these two episodes are actually pretty good. When I was watching them, I remember thinking they may have been a better premise for the movie than the movie was.
Travelers
So I admit, this episode bored me to death, but MULDER IS WEARING A WEDDING RING! ARGH!!!
Mind's Eye
Oh Mulder, you're so cute when you become enamored with your murder suspects.
All Souls
I usually like it when Scully believes and Mulder doesn't, but in this case I didn't like it as much. For one, Mulder is a skeptic all of season five, so this episode is really no different. I liked the angel mythology in this episode, and I wonder if it's true.
The Pine Bluff Variant
This episode is really good. I mean, really really good. I had forgotten how good this episode is. Major kudos to John Shiban. In the commentary he talks about how it was the perfect time to do an episode like this, because the Mulder/Scully relationship is so strained in season five. So true.
Folie a Deux
Weak. Just weak.
The End
So, the X-Files get shut down. The office burns. There's a crazy amazing boy whose only purpose seems to be to make shippy comments to Mulder and Scully and Diana Fowley. Was Diana Fowley who Mulder was married to? Hmm.. So, onto the movie.
Fight the Future
Within the context of the series, the movie is a huge disappointment. It's a great two-part episode, but I still feel like they could have done so much more. It's also odd that they introduce Diana and Spender in the fifth season, drop them for the movie, then reintroduce them in the sixth. I guess it was too many characters for an uninformed audience to handle. Anyway. There are some fantastic things about the movie, including Kendall (Terry O'Quinn, but he'll always be Kendall to me) having to stay with the bomb and die. Great opening. Other than that, the movie is just a big setup to have Mulder go to great lengths to save Scully. Sure that packs the theaters, but in respect to the series, the blatantness is a little out of character. Yeah, I'm a big M/S shipper, but still. Anyway. I squeed at the almost kiss and the good moments between them. They were so so so so pretty in this movie. Mulder and Scully are so attractive it was blowing my mind. So in conclusion, it wasn't bad. It was actually good. But it could have been better.
So we have Mulder the skeptic, Cassandra Spender, Agent Spender who is CSM's son, and Scully trying to get burned up with a bunch of other abductees. OH, and Marita and Krycek. Yummy.
The Red and the Black
More of the same, except Krycek kisses Mulder on the cheek! Ooh, shippy. I bet someone wrote a fanfic about that. So these two episodes are actually pretty good. When I was watching them, I remember thinking they may have been a better premise for the movie than the movie was.
Travelers
So I admit, this episode bored me to death, but MULDER IS WEARING A WEDDING RING! ARGH!!!
Mind's Eye
Oh Mulder, you're so cute when you become enamored with your murder suspects.
All Souls
I usually like it when Scully believes and Mulder doesn't, but in this case I didn't like it as much. For one, Mulder is a skeptic all of season five, so this episode is really no different. I liked the angel mythology in this episode, and I wonder if it's true.
The Pine Bluff Variant
This episode is really good. I mean, really really good. I had forgotten how good this episode is. Major kudos to John Shiban. In the commentary he talks about how it was the perfect time to do an episode like this, because the Mulder/Scully relationship is so strained in season five. So true.
Folie a Deux
Weak. Just weak.
The End
So, the X-Files get shut down. The office burns. There's a crazy amazing boy whose only purpose seems to be to make shippy comments to Mulder and Scully and Diana Fowley. Was Diana Fowley who Mulder was married to? Hmm.. So, onto the movie.
Fight the Future
Within the context of the series, the movie is a huge disappointment. It's a great two-part episode, but I still feel like they could have done so much more. It's also odd that they introduce Diana and Spender in the fifth season, drop them for the movie, then reintroduce them in the sixth. I guess it was too many characters for an uninformed audience to handle. Anyway. There are some fantastic things about the movie, including Kendall (Terry O'Quinn, but he'll always be Kendall to me) having to stay with the bomb and die. Great opening. Other than that, the movie is just a big setup to have Mulder go to great lengths to save Scully. Sure that packs the theaters, but in respect to the series, the blatantness is a little out of character. Yeah, I'm a big M/S shipper, but still. Anyway. I squeed at the almost kiss and the good moments between them. They were so so so so pretty in this movie. Mulder and Scully are so attractive it was blowing my mind. So in conclusion, it wasn't bad. It was actually good. But it could have been better.