Some of us don’t keep pacey with every actor, you know!

A lot of things seemed to happen on this show because they needed to happen and for no other reason. These are some of them.

“Did you buy me a zuemz?”

Given the conversation they’d already had, I kind of assumed she’d asked him to marry her.

Note: Scully died on the way back to her planet.

She whispered “We stole this bit from ‘Lost In Translation’.”

The woman who wrote the episode, Karen Nielsen, said in an interview that it was a private moment between Mulder and Scully and that we’ll never know.

I’ll go to my grave assuming it had to do with her red vibrator from the previous episode.

I liked this more than the reviewer. Certainly not a great episode, but much better than I expected. I thought Carter would send us down a horse-shit rabbit hole of conspiracy/mythology bullshit but instead he just had Mulder kill everyone on that side of the fence. I am left with some questions though....

Yes!!!! 30 rock for the win! And spot on!

To be fair, from my perspective, the “mythos” episodes have always been the weaker ones compared to the random, sometimes delightful (sometimes terrible) monster-of-the-week ones. And, though we may have held out hope that Carter would have become a better writer in the intervening years, or at least consulted with…

You! I like you.

I know. It’s a “I love the show but I’m not really sure it loves me back sometimes” kinda show.

Screw you, that Haldeman sketch was genius!

Never go with Chris Carter to a second location.

Field Trip is SO good.

That — apart from the general quality of the non-premiere/finale episodes — was the biggest (and nicest) surprise for me about this season!

I feel conflicted, too. Hell, at this point, my entire relationship with this show is conflicted. I love it, at its core (and at its best), but it also drives me fucking crazy.

Unfortunately, he still appears to have all the control. And there are still some much better writers (Morgan & Wong, and Darin; plus they had some promising fresh writers this season as well) that are loyal to him, for whatever reasons.

Season 7's Requiem really would have been a great finale. The various finales they’ve had since then really have just been increasingly lame and unsatisfying (and the last two just plain awful and insulting).