Right! I guess the alternative would be to give more time to those who are going to progress further in the season, and when it’s time to eliminate the first contestant, leave a reaction of “Wait, who was that? Okay.” Though I suppose you do want to highlight the mistakes a chef makes that sends them home.

My wife and I follow the rule that whoever gets the most screen time in the first episode of Top Chef is going home. It never fails us. There are simply too many chefs in the first episode to make an impression, so the editor tends to focus on the one who will be sent home, to create some kind of story arc for the…

My parents got me Go-Bots because, I think, Transformers were too expensive. I loved them. Everyone at school thought I was weird, though. I remember taping that one Go-Bot cartoon special and watching it a lot.

If you were to excise the first and last episodes of this season, Season 11 was actually a worthy send-off to the show. Pretty-good-to-great stand-alone stories, more Darin Morgan, and a lot of fans have been calling Kristin Cloke’s and Shannon Hamblin’s “Rm9sbG93ZXJz” (or “Followers”) one of the best episodes of the…

Yes, it was said in an earlier (but, sure, awful) “My Struggle” episode that the aliens no longer wanted the planet because it was dying. So it became all about the Cigarette Smoking Man’s machinations to release a virus on the human race with only the chosen few surviving.

What everyone else said: please don’t judge the rest of this (actually refreshingly good) season on the basis of its two bad mythology episodes. The other writers did what they were supposed to do, and in a few cases really excelled.

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).

I had just rewatched “Teso Dos Bichos” earlier this week, so when a clip from that episode turned up, and Reggie says “If this turns out to be killer cats, I will be so disappointed,” I was on the floor laughing.

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.”