I also thought The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat would make a nice finale. Go back and watch Jose Chung’s From Outer Space and think of it as “the last X-Files ever,” and it could totally have worked! I like to think the mythology arc ended with the first X-Files movie anyway.

I think Glen Morgan’s “This” is very underrated (it’s the only episode this season I’ve happened to watch twice, and it holds up well on a second viewing). That said, I think the new classics have been “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” and “Rm9sbG93ZXJz.”

Yeah. After seeing older Duchovny in glasses, I think that should have been his look for both of these last 2 revival seasons.

I remember when it came out hearing an interview with Warren Beatty where he said he only wanted primary colors in the film, nothing else. It fascinated me and was the first time I’d ever paid attention to cinematography.

Agreed. My favorite Dark Horse Conan writer was Timothy Truman, but Busiek set a solid foundation for an ongoing series (which, sadly, lost focus over multiple writers over time).

“Mulder, there have been secret experiments involving alien-human DNA hybrids...”

It was funny because my wife and I went through the same thought process as Scully at the end... “He’s the doctor...oh, wait, he’s William!” At the exact same beats as the writing.

Yeah, I guess I appreciate the attempt to portray him as an individual and not just a generic teenager/projection of Scully’s hopes, but going with “asshole womanizer” is an...odd choice. I liked the episode but wonder what Wong was thinking there.

I don’t know, I doubt this is a case of Chris Carter forcing a mythology arc onto a stand-alone story. I recently rewatched the “Event Season” and, on a second viewing, came away with a much more positive impression of James Wong’s episode “Founder’s Mutation.” This is basically a sequel to that episode: what seems to…

He’s probably the best part of the movie. Otherwise, skip it and watch the documentary, which is much better (and more informative).

Oh my God; given that the episode “This” has some planted clues that it’s all a dream/virtual reality, that’s perfect.

Before Spaceballs came out, I bought the kid-oriented novelization (Spaceballs: The Book) which was heavily sanitized, suggesting a light-PG-rated MAD Magazine take on Star Wars. On opening night my very conservative parents took me, since I was pleading to go and telling them they’d love it. I was shocked to discover…

Yeah, this is the second article I’ve read stating this. It’s pretty clear only “My Struggle II” was meant to be “Scully’s visions.”

Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce > Colin Wilson’s The Space Vampires. There. I said it.

Stand-up comics talk about graphic sexual material and masturbation all the time. It doesn’t mean they do what Louis CK did off the stage. No one has “that guy masturbates in front of people” radar.

Though I certainly never got that far in the arcade version, I have a distinct memory of a huge crowd of people in the arcade gathered around some guy who was on the final dragon level. I had to hop up and down to get glimpses of it, but I was astonished someone had gotten that far, and for that moment, that arcade…

I saw it last night, and while I think they could have cut some things, in general I am glad this was a long film. It gave the story lots of time to develop all of its ideas (there is actually more going on in this film, story-wise, than the first). Still, it definitely has that same pace as the original film, which…

Yeah, this is my point - he didn’t really get to know Cowboy Bebop, even though he thinks he saw enough. Again, I am not a Cowboy Bebop fan (I’ve watched it all the way through, though), so I am not the one to sell it to O’Neal. But if you are going to set yourself up for writing this article, and only expose yourself…

If you want to flunk the class, sure. That was my point. I pulled the example at random.

Although I also gave Cowboy Bebop a college try and never really took to it, I will say that Sean’s model is a bit flawed if he can just bail on something. I mean, let’s take the term literally and pretend this is a college course and you’ve been assigned something. You can’t just stop reading Pride and Prejudice…