I thought two were great, two were good, one was meh, and one was awful. And so long as Mulder and Scully are on my screen, I will take that ratio.

Agree totally with your assessment of the second movie. It's plot is meh but the stuff between Mulder and Scully is great.

In my first go around (when it originally aired), I watched through season 7. People ding season 6 and 7 but you'll still have an enjoyable experience watching through to them.

Yes, totally agreed. It had some clunkers, and feel free to skip them.

Yes, it is. Though some of it is very much rooted in the 90s, at its core, the show is about love and loss and finding meaning in one's life. The relationship between Mulder and Scully is pretty much unparalleled, IMO. (But I was and remain a huge fan, so I admit to a huge bias).

I think that Carter tends to be more of a big picture guy but yes, having done a rewatch recently, he actually wrote a number of really good episodes.

While I agree that Carter is more of a concept guy, you're really kind of way off when it comes to Anderson and Duchovney. Anderson has had a major career resurgence (The Fall, Hannibal, American Gods) and Duchovney has been both busy with acting (Californication, his cameo in Twin Peaks) and writing and his band…

Yes, I agree. There was an innocence among those teenagers that is missing in this group. And even Laura herself had a core of goodness, which was illustrated by the fact that her doppelganger, Maddie, was nothing but sweetness and light.

I was thinking something similar re your second point. I think Lynch wants us to see how Twin Peaks is now, and it's not gotten better with time, it's gotten worse. Whatever you think of his mysticism, Lynch is seemingly aware of the decline that has taken place in this country, especially in rural communities.

No, the scene where she puts the lipstick on and he mocks her for it. She's proud of her silly little trick and he has to make her feel bad for it. The thing is, if I thought the movie wanted us to side with her, I would feel better about it. But it's pretty clear to me that Hughes is siding with Bender because it's…

Bender absolutely humiliates Claire for no reason other than his own need to feel superior to her. For many reasons, as a woman, I have always found that more horrifying.

Sixteen Candles is often also cited (because of the intimation that Anthony Michael Hall had sex with Jake Ryan's blacked out girlfriend), though to my thinking, The Breakfast Club - and Judd Nelson's negging of Molly Ringwald - is much worse.

Beauty and the Beast's message was actually pretty progressive for the era (and certainly among those three movies). Belle was bookish, and honestly, she was pretty much trapped in a village with a handsome buffoon - at least she actually chose The Beast, as opposed to being forced into a marriage with Gaston.

Manscaping is a curse.

Things have drastically changed since the early '80s - it's rare to go to a Mass these days without Communion wine offered. (Though recently, most people don't seem to be keen on taking it).

"Rhetoricing." I amend, do come back when you're not making up words while also offering warmed over Catholic insults that Martin Luther would have rejected as old and tired.

The Church offers low-gluten wafers or, as the article states above, they can fulfill the obligation by just drinking the wine.

It's not the "weird thing." Catholics believe in the sacrament of the Eucharist, Protestants don't. They believe in the primacy of the Bible. It's the main difference between these two Christian traditions. So Protestants aren't as into the details about Communion because they are more focused on the Bible. But for…

1. The Catholic Church is doing a pretty miserable job maintaining a "monopoly."

Sigh. Papal infallibility is the most misunderstood thing about Catholicism. The pope is only supposed to be considered "infallible" when speaking ex cathedra (about matters related to the Church). He can't just declare the sky is purple, and say, "I'm infallible."