A list of things that the author liked as a kid wrapped around a basic outline of a plot and a Greatest Hits collection of dystopian science fiction tropes? What sucks about THAT?

Two things:
1.) HOLY SHIT, Michael O'Neil. I didn't know ol' Ron Butterfield had it in him. What a scene.
2.) Annette O'Toole being in this, even briefly, was a pretty cool Easter egg for fans of the book, whether that was the intent or not.

Poor Ron Goldman was such a footnote to his own murder that the scene where they say he was a footnote to his own murder didn't even get mentioned in the review.

Yeah, I was just reading about that last night. I don't remember that part of the trial- I was 14, all I clearly remember watching was the verdict- but I cannot wait to see Nathan Lane in that scene.

Nick Cece Schmidt Winston Jess Coach Reagan, how is this even a discussion?

That's what ruins the movie for me. The fact that the writer-director wasn't kidding around turns it from a silly shoot-em-up into an idiotic mess.

And he is literally described in the movie as a "big, tough guy"! Come on, AV Club.

"Stephanie Tanner … has become acclaimed mixmaster DJ Tanner"
I stopped reading right there. I don't need to know any more. I'm now all in on this show. That is *brilliant.*

Those were not flashbacks, they were fantasy sequences. William was given up for adoption almost immediately after he was born, to hide him from the conspiracy. Mulder and Scully never raised him or even knew him beyond his very early infancy. They were imagining what life would have been like with him due to the case…

You might be the only person in the world who thinks the path to better X-Files is *more* alien conspiracy episodes.

Amen. The stuff about the DNA modification being distributed through vaccination programs made me genuinely uncomfortable. It's all fun and games with aliens and super soldiers and Bigfoot and whatever, but giving even fictional credence to such a legitimately dangerous fringe belief is irresponsible.

Oh, come on. That's a bit much. I didn't like the episode that much either but CSM is his greatest enemy and Scully is his best friend and the love of his life.

Also, I'm sure I'm not the first person to point this out, but are we really meant to believe that Fox goddamn Mulder, one of the ten most (justifiably) paranoid people to ever live, has a goddamn PHONE TRACKER app on his goddamn OPEN LAPTOP in his goddamn UNLOCKED OFFICE? What is that shit, Chris Carter, goddamn…

I haven't seen Spotlight but The Cobbler is one of the worst goddamn movies I've ever had the misfortune of watching. It was like a pilot for a bad CBS show.

I was actually happy about the cliffhanger because it was something happening while the rest of the episode was Jeff Winger's Glenn Beck impression intercut with a weird medical drama.

I'm not saying it didn't have its moments, but you still knew exactly which episode I meant, didn't you?

I actually thought it was super considerate of WWE to schedule his entrance for the first commercial break of The X-Files. I at least got to hear "Here comes the moneyyyyyyyyy!", lose my shit, explain poorly to my wife why that was a big deal, then switch back to Fox and not miss any of that nonsense finale.

I'll give the X-Files revival this, after having thought about the finale a bit- those six episodes had two annoying conspiracy cliffhangers, two perfectly all right episodes, one stinker, and one absolute gem, and that ratio is just about as Classic X-Files as it gets. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt…

If they're going to do young-adult-aimed X-Files books, they should be about Baby William, now a teenager and beginning to develop weird alien abilities and curiosity about his birth parents.

"Why did Mulder become a believer?"