The problem with Alien 3 is that it's kind of an unholy mish-mash of unseasoned Fincher and studio-head idiocy, which is why he disowned it. It's not exactly a bad film, but if you read up on all the treatments they solicited from guys like William Gibson, David Twohy, and Eric Red, you can tell it could have been so…

That thing they showed in the preview for next week's ep looked like a guy in an alien costume to me.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a TattleCrime happening.

"They'll fix you. They fix everything."

Turns out Emily Perkins was in Insomnia too, in a small part.

Now I want a standalone ep of all the characters trapped in the cube, because…well, how could it not be perfect?

"And now the two of them are basically dating, while Hannibal bangs Alana on the side."

That's an interesting question: how many times do either Scully or Mulder get shot during the show?

If I remember right, they made the backup gun a plot point in "Paper Hearts," after Tom "Tooth Fairy" Noonan took off with his sidearm. Otherwise it basically disappears after the "Nisei" / "731" two-parter.

All good choices. I also want to give a shoutout to a couple of one-off writers: Charles Grant Craig, who wrote "Oubliette," one of my personal faves (despite, as theMorr1gan reminded me, Scully being kind of a bitch), and William Gibson & Tom Maddox, who wrote "Kill Switch," where everything kicks major ass. (Yes,…

Was that not already a given?

Bowman and Gilligan are definitely out. RIP Manners. I wonder, though, if Glen Morgan and James Wong wouldn't be willing to jump on board. I mean, what else do they have going on at the moment?

I once listened to his commentary for the Millennium pilot. The most interesting thing (maybe the ONLY interesting thing) was when he mentioned that, as opposed to hiring "normal" looking actors and actresses, he finally got to cast beautiful women - as strippers in a peep show club. Oh, and lamenting the fact that…

Still kinda keen to hear people's thoughts on both the best writer(s) and best director(s) the series had.

Just wondering if anyone else tuned in to NBC at 10 last night and found themselves watching baseball.

It's been established that Vince Gilligan was arguably the best writer on the show. But does anyone ever debate who the best director was?

I read on a discussion board that du Maurier, before the end of the season, has at least one interaction with another character, possibly Jack "I am BEDROCK!" Crawford, which would mean she has to be real.

"Although you may not feel like it, I need you to smile."

Oh, see.  Oh, see Will.  Crazy, crazy Will.
See Hannibal.  See Hannibal smile.  Smile, smile, smile.

At first I was put off by the overtly surrealistic touches of this episode - the crumbling glacier, the close-up of blood spreading across the orderly's fabric - but once I realized what they stood for, I came to see that this was probably the series' strongest episode, and I admired its…I dunno, bravery in going into…