Yes, I would tend to agree that we give deference to people who are very attractive, which certainly defines Duchovney.

Is that "dude from Californication" David Duchovney? Because in addition to your male privilege explanation (which I agree with), I am also going to guess that he didn't get hate because of residual Mulder affection.

I agree that they definitely paralleled Dan to that guy. It's funny that she seems to pine for that guy when she couldn't get rid of Bill no matter what she did.

Sheltered white kids have always made up a huge percentage of rap/hip hop's audience. That's not a knock on rap or hip hop, just that I remember it being true that the biggest consumers of rap were white (boys, generally, more than girls) when I was in high school in the late 80s.

It was actually a video that the show made to tweak Duchovney, I think at a wrap party for the season. That's why so many of the actors and crew are in it. Somehow, it got leaked and the tapes of it floated around for a long time - a friend of mine who worked in the entertainment industry sent it to me in 1998, IIRC. …

Well, that seems to be a different argument than whether or not it made sense to include those fantasy sequences. To be perfectly honest, M&S regret over their son is the one through-line throughout all of the revival episodes, which is fine with me. That all made a lot of sense to me.

Yes, you would, if you were living with the other parent of your child. I don't have a hard time believing that after having broken up, both Mulder and Scully spent a lot of time thinking about how their lives together would have been different had they kept William and also how they would have individually spent time…

I actually totally bought that Mulder would have that phone tracker app, in large part because he is so paranoid.

Yes, was going to say the same. Of course, how she and Mulder got off the frozen tundra was a bit of a mystery but I think it was addressed in some later episode.

Okay, well, you're convinced in the rightness of your narrative despite all evidence to the contrary. Much like Mulder and O'Malley.

He's not, he was quite clearly ill.

Or "killed" Mulder, which they did like three times in the original run. This kind of reminded me of the end of season 4, I think, when we are supposed to believe that Mulder killed himself (which was not implausible, in my view).

Good lord, the personal affront that critics are expressing because of a cliffhanger. This is what The X-Files does! This is what watching the show was like in the 1990s. Good on them for staying true to the show.

"I never thought he was handsome"
This does not compute. :)

I mean, I agree she was snarly and unpleasant. But Mulder is a lovable kook primarily because he looks like David Duchovney and because Scully loves him. Put Mulder's personality into someone who is a little less handsome and with a little less charm, and you get snarly and unpleasant.

She's Scully with Mulder's personality, which is what I think they were going for.

To be fair, several hours later, the episode has stuck with me in a way that the premiere didn't. I actually like the themes that Carter was trying to explore here, I just think that the execution didn't work.

IIRC, he made his parents call him Mulder.

I thought Home Again was better than "Were-Monster," even if it wasn't perfect. That being said, I guess I don't feel as if this is any different from the original series. There were lots of episodes with half-baked ideas that didn't always work.

I was just telling a friend that Duchovney plays him that way because Mulder would be a total lunatic otherwise. I actually didn't mind Robbie Amell, but I am not sure it's worth comparing the two.