I almost wish that reveal wasn’t there because it seems to be distracting people from how badly executed everything else in the episode was.

My hot take, the mythology stuff *never* worked. The monster of the week episodes were and are still much more enjoyable.

I rarely so strongly disagree with an AVClub review, but I thought this episode was a steaming pile of shit. I was so bored by the end that I didn’t even care about the big reveal. It was pretty much 40 minutes of exposition interrupted by a Ford Mustang ad. 

I’m not sure I’d go as far as to say I prefer Doggett to Mulder, but I do feel he’s underrated by a lot of fans. He brought a cool new energy to the show and bounced off Scully really well.

These days, I honestly prefer Doggett to Mulder. Season eight is much better than seven.

Well said.

one other think: Plemons isn’t getting enough credit for a really subtle and quite brilliant Shatner impersonation. He has the cadence of the voice perfectly, without going the easy ott route.

I liked how in the interview with the dentist, after he said how the woman on the street had a lime jacket and the investigator said it was actually yellow, the jacket that was currently on the screen changed from green to yellow, showing the suggestibility and fallibility of memory. It was a nice touch.

 Dumbest criticism ever.

you know it’s a TV show right?

I laughed so hard at the side comment “Just press any button, they all do exactly the same thing.”

We got Nazis in the White House, bruh. I don’t think they stay out of the zipcode.

A couple of years ago my son and I were killing time while my wife was getting her hair done. We were walking towards a Starbucks to get the boy a chocolate milk when I spotted Dick freaking Enberg walking at us towards the door of the Starbucks as well. I slowed down so that Dick and his assistant would reach the…

Ooooof, this hurts. One of the most dependable voices in broadcasting, and one of those guys who was so good at this job that it was both about and not about him. He was never one to draw attention to himself intentionally, but he was so distinctive and good at what he did that he drew attention anyway.

But let’s enjoy…

My point was, regardless of Carrie Fischer’s unfortunate passing in real life, they should have wrote her off in TLJ from the beginning.

Meh. STAR WARS got its start as a flawless movie. No shitty characters, no extraneous sub-plots, PERFECT casting , lean, direct plotting, and a spectacle unlike any other ever seen.

Even Empire and Jedi are seen in terms of how they relate to that one perfect film. (Empire marvelously, Jedi...um...still pretty good)

So…

I found Rey’s motivations in this movie to be frustratingly muddled.

That’s really all I had to say. It’s not you. It is the writing. She’s a reactive character who hasn’t been given a real arc yet, which is weird since she’s supposed to be the main character of this trilogy.

Thank you for your apology.

Obviously, he needed to make some leaps to get to the awesome main plot: A slow speed chase to nowhere.

Not everyone who disagrees with you about a movie is a “weird fanboy,” and if Rey’s parentage wasn’t supposed to matter they certainly had every opportunity to just clear it up in the last movie instead of hyping it up as this big mystery to be solved.