Yes I don't really see how feminist film can't be a feminist downer.

""Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so."

They ran selected "classic" X-Files episode on the Space channel here in Canada in advance of the new series, and it included all three first episode.

I'm not sure O'Malley was supposed to be right when he started talking about chemtrails and microwaves. That's not a thing that appears in the Scully in the field plot, right?

I think the general idea makes sense. It's the shape of the original show, really.

I didn't mean my comment as a slag on Weremonster's quality! I still feel that it's the best episode of the lot. But I think that while there's definitely endearing commentary on Monster of the Week episodes I think the meta parody Darin Morgan stuff is so heightened that it puts it into a different category…

I think that the idea was that Einstein and the doctors at the hospital had all they need to make more.

How do you feel about "Alien Einstein" or "Agent DNA?"

And a self upvoter! I feel bad for MANIMAL.

Something something it represents her ambivalence about having been tampered with, in the face of what follows (saving humanity through that same tampering) something something?

Yeah I went in fresh yet my viewing was spoiled by a lack of spoilers!

You know, I agree with you. I didn't hate the exposition episode like many did, it felt like being dunked right back into it with an acknowledgement of how crazy it is (which is missing here) but I was forgetting about the non-monster stuff about Home Again.

How I would rank these episodes:

What kind of RNA?

Well, you're not wrong but they didn't make that mistake in the other episodes that's for sure.

I know it makes sense, but visually I can't remember if the confirmed human UFO we saw in the first episode was different from this also triangular one… and if they weren't maybe making it a saucer would have helped with that.

Truth!

But how do we tell it apart from the human version?

It was. Plastic surgeons work wonders.

I'm disappointed that the apparent contagion didn't turn out to be something else, maybe smaller scale, maybe with O'Malley as an actual instigator. I thought that when we saw Mulder beat up in his car. At that point I thought it looked like he was disillusioned or something at odds with O'Malley's version.