20 years too old.

We saw them at the beginning of the first episode, too, getting murdered by Savage. The wife was distinctly not Caity Lotz.

Though I suppose we could note that Earth-One is not our earth, and posit that historical development was different, if we wanted to fanwank it.

For a show about time travel, they seem distinctly uninterested in actually exploring the past.

You haven't read enough student papers with too many commas, my
friend. That sentence is awkward, but really no competition for the
horrors of the superfluous comma.

This is just ridiculous. Different people have different degrees of visual memory, and this particular situation is not one anybody would actually be expecting. The idea that it's crazy that on meeting someone in 2015 you'd not realize that she is the same girl you met for half an hour forty years earlier, and who…

Leipzig was in East Germany! There wouldn't be fancy banks there.

Young women can be thin but still have some face fat. Older women can have one or the other. Actresses generally choose the former.

Gillian Anderson is 47, not in her early 50s. Duchovny is 55. At any rate, they've both aged perfectly well. I mean, yeah, they look older. But that's kind of how the world works.

Well, not in the US. There's tons of unattractive people with pretty big careers in Britain.

Perhaps it has nothing to do with the episode because it was not actually a description of this episode that was used in promos, but rather a Scooby Doo joke?

That's a lot of exclamation marks and question marks. It's not really that complicated - he repurposed his previous idea and turned it into an X-Files episode.

Or, I mean, nobody might rescue it from its tailspin of irrelevance. Shows can last for a long time and then at some point just stop being on.

So "Great Job, Internet!" is now a place for just summarizing and linking Slate articles?

Knausgard's title was taken from Mein Kampf, though, so that doesn't really get you off the hook.

I mean, I guess a garbage Chris Carter alien mythology episode was pretty inevitable. I felt like what it really showed was how stupid and irrelevant the mythology part of the show always was to what made the show good. This episode basically encapsulated that entire part of the show in a form that was so abbreviated…

So what you're saying is because the government has done certain bad things which have actually been exposed, that means it's obviously likely that the government has done all kinds of wildly less plausible things that there is no evidence for whatsoever?

I mean, you're certainly asserting that it is extremely popular. I realize that shows I don't care about can be extremely popular (Hello NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory, etc. etc. etc.). I am dubious that this particular show I don't care about was extremely popular.

This is a case where I don't understand other people. In Season 6 the plot arc didn't come together very well, and Season 7 was not very good, period, certainly. But I thought Season 8 was considerably better, and Season 9 quite possibly the best and most consistent season of NuWho overall. The idea that it's gotten…

Yes, it's not even the worst NuWho episode titled after a supposed relation of the Doctor.