Totally off-topic from IWTB, but did anybody happen to catch the "Scully sisters" reunion on Crisis last week? Admittedly, it's not a great show, but it was neat to see Melinda McGraw & Gillian Anderson together again.

Yes! I second that! Monster of the Week is fantastic.

I would love to have asked this of Chris Carter during his recent reddit AMA - why not do a short run on Netflix or Amazon (or, heck, even Fox) of 5/6/8 episodes, like a cable/BBC format? Maybe he's coming from an older mindset where that conjures thoughts of chintzy miniseries like The Thorn Birds and what-not, but…

Leonard Betts is the closest I've come to having a fictional TV show make me actually almost throw up. Is there a special award for that?

…And surprising, considering that Silence of the Lambs seemed to be an early influence on TXF. You'd think they might have remembered the protests around that movie concerning the Ted Levine character (sorry, the name is escaping me) leading audiences to wrongly equate being transgendered with being a murderous…

I'll start by saying thanks again to Todd and Zack for these reviews, which have made my Saturday afternoons for the past few years now. And thanks for winding it up with a discussion of IWTB, a movie I have a lot of conflicting feelings about. I was in X-Files apostasy when it came out, having lost the show's…

Yes! There should be a third category for those odd, almost-comedic-but-still-kind-of-creepy episodes. Mytharc, MOTW, and Quirk. Well, that sounds like the worst law firm ever, but…something like that.

Zack and Todd, I just wanted to say (very belatedly because I was traveling last week) thanks for hanging in there with all nine seasons. Reading these has been a weekend highlight for the past couple of years. Really looking forward to the second movie wrap-up next week!

THANK YOU. The homophobia/transphobia/general ignorance in IWTB is inexcusable. But I'll save my full rant for this weekend.

I really hated Mulder's Silence of the Lambs thing. Partly because it felt so tonally off. And also because I have this weird thing about shows/movies/bands referencing stuff that they're already clearly influenced by. The way Scully was a huge nod to Clarice Starling in the early eps, it just felt kind of obvious…

IIRC, Breaker Morant was indeed one of the inspirations for the courtroom scenes, according to the DVD commentary. Sorry, I'm too lazy to go find the dark hole in the backyard where I buried my Season 9 DVDs to confirm this.

Todd - great write-up, as always. You nailed it, as far as the central theme of The X-Files being loneliness (I might modify that to "alienation," personally, but that lends itself to some rather easy puns.) I like the idea of Sunshine Days being the series finale, but at the same time, I agree with my fellow poster…

Second that vote for X-Files Season 10 - if you're a fan of the show, you will be a fan of the comics. The most recent one, "More Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man," is beautifully drawn. I'm also 100% on board with the Lone Gunmen not being dead - Jump the Shark is second only to Trust No1 for leaving me feeling…

It's such a weird rumor - I mean, it came up out of the blue something like two years ago, right? As opposed to, say, 1997. I've actually seen an entire Tumblr blog devoted to "proving" this theory that they're together in real life. While DD & GA do have a chemistry, haven't any of these "snoggers" ever been in a…

On the other hand, her other son is named Oscar. Maybe she was secretly in a relationship with Jack Klugman.

Same here - I feel like the Mulder and Scully relationship in IWTB is so dead on for how I perceive their characters. They care deeply for each other, but they're still sort of dysfunctional and holding each other at arms' length. That said, the actual case bugs me so much. It's so homophobic, so transphobic, so…

…Trivial, but isn't the "Something Smells Goooood" apron from the Dreamland episode, when Morris Fletcher (as Mulder) invites Scully over for the romantic dinner?

I need help reacting to the fact that I have a weird crush on Vince Gilligan as an ornery cowhand now.

It was Sneakers, right?

Honestly, the best thing I can say about this show is that, because of the subway posters, I get to see Gillian Anderson on the way to work every morning. Hi, Gillian.
* spills coffee, runs into guy on platform, guy looks annoyed and audibly snaps newspaper *