As someone who was there from the get go... every episode was an event, even if they stank. I’m just loving having Mulder and Scully on my TV again.

This. It occurred to me last night that the problem is how much we were all expecting every episode of this run of 6 to be awesome - the idea that every one would be either an Anasazi or a Jose Chung. But instead, we’re getting a fairly standard experience of what it was like watching the X-Files in its original run -…

Yeah, I thought this was the second-best of the new season as well. The monster of the week was pretty neat, though it was very similar to the ones from the Doctor Who episode “Flatline.” Also funny how it’s yet another X-File where the monster basically does all its damage and Mulder and Scully are sort of left with…

There were a LOT of stinkers in the original show. Even some of the episodes people seem to think were good are pretty whuhh.

Yep, I agree that Jillian Anderson rocked it. Too bad the rest of the episode couldn’t match her performance... not that it was a terrible episode, I’ve certainly seen worse from the show

I thought the episode was Rancid...

But seriously though, I think we’re being a little harsh on this season. There’s been one not good, two fairly solid, and one great episode, and it’s getting judged against the best of the best of the old seasons. They also have 6 episodes vs 20+, and they weren’t all winners in the…

How were her scenes “contrived” exactly?

Yeah, I might have been spoiled because I had heard Glen Morgan say it was a thematic continuation from “Home” to “Never Again,” in that it was about Scully’s ability to be a mother and what her work on the X-Files has cost her.

I loved the ep and thought it was the second-strongest of this revival. Not a patch on three, but the best of the serious episodes. I didn’t see it as trying to redo “Beyond the Sea” but instead merge Scully’s personal journey with a typical monster-of-the week.

What are you talking about? Plastic is still really bad. About the only significant message the above article contains is that it's not actually a garbage floe but diffuse bits and pieces that make their way into the food chain and kill animals. The thing about it not actually having been verified that a stomach…

And, on the return trip, the spacecraft can solve that pesky climate change issue.

Just be sure to cut your plastic rings before launch or they might find themselves around the neck of a helpless astronaut...

Yeah dude, if anything the Deep Water Horizon incident was UNDERhyped...there are serious problems with deformation, skin lesions, tumors etc. showing up in large percentages of the ocean wildlife in the Gulf. And its not just the oil in the water thats an issue, all the caustic chemicals they use to clean spills are…

Most, if not all, of the oil from the BP spill has evaporated, eating by organisms, etc., but that plastic?? It's going to be around for a LOOONG time.....

Um. Plastic *is* an organic substance - much of it is made from oil, and a bunch of plastic that's not made from oil is made from corn starch. Most plastic doesn't biodegrade easily, but that doesn't make it non-organic. Plus, as an added bonus: birth defects in the wildlife in the region affected by the spill are…