Not a fan of this one. In fact, I preferred the premiere to this one.

I wasn't saying I was expecting it to be perfect. I recognize that there were a LOT of less than perfect episodes in the original series. Even with its imperfections, this one worked for me in a way that last week's episode, which I also liked, didn't.

I had pretty much stopped watching the show before the William thing happened, but I am not finding it any more difficult to relate to Scully than to Mulder's quest to find Samantha, another person we never actually met.

I suspect that was intentional, though.

I lived in the Rittenhouse Square area for two years and it didn't look like that. But it was close enough as an approximation.

I agree it is far from perfect. The resolution on the MOTW was underwritten. But on the whole, I thought it carried a lot of the weight of the original series, and I was happy to see it.

A B-? Couldn't disagree more. The X-Files has always been about loss and the sacrifices people make for a cause, and the ways we come to terms with those sacrifices. This episode focused on themes that have been prevalent throughout the entire series.

Ah, okay, by the time I read it, it had been changed to Lydia. I don't know how anyone could mistake poor Kitty for Lydia.

Most underrated scene is Mark talking about the feast of an omelet, blue soup and "congealed green gunge."

Who confused Kitty with Lydia?

I honestly have no issues with Jenna Coleman, I think she did the best with the material she was given. To me, it's the writing.

I'm fine with giving the companions more shading. But my argument is not that they shouldn't try to give the companions more depth, it is that IMO they failed with Clara. They couldn't decide who she was and they kept trying to force us to believe she was on par with the Doctor. It felt unearned, and IMO it…

I didn't watch many of the David Tennant episodes, so I can't comment on Rose but Clara worked my last nerve the last two seasons. I fault the writers, and not Jenna Coleman, who I thought was doing as good a job she could with such an inconsistently written character. But they could never get a hold of the…

That has long been my argument for that song. And yes, I really do think.

And that's why she apologized - because she recognized that she invited ridicule. But that is not the same as doing the ridiculing herself.

No, she didn't. She had a conversation about the Christmas card in which a guest made some disparaging comments but Melissa Harris Perry herself never "made fun" of either Romney or his grandson.

"As any hotline operator can attest, the Yuletide season is noteworthy for the spike in suicide attempts it annually garners."

Yes, ugh. I hate telling co-workers I was on my second job out of grad school when 9/11 happened when they are talking about how they were in middle school.

My mother is an older Italian-American woman, and she hates Sinatra. Not because of his voice, though, because she didn't like the fact that he hung out with gangsters and because she foisted his - in her words - "no talent son" on America.

Reality Bites came out when I was in college and even then I hated Ethan Hawke's character and thought Ben Stiller's character was the better bet.