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Originally Posted by yt 
Ravi, agree, season 5 is a good one. Those are all great episodes. I’d give anything to see the entire run for the first time.
Dr. Harford, all your criticism is valid. I have my own problems with it but, frankly, the great things about the movie outweigh the bad, even the bizarre choice to make the villains gay, make one of them an abuse survivor, and make all of their victims women. In terms of the series finale, I love CSM’s death, love everything about that character and how he meets his end. I don’t think Kersh was setting them up – I think it was Chris Carter’s sentimentality talking, not wanting a longtime character who has not been explicitly shown to be in on any conspiracies to go out as a baddie. The thing about the finale is that I first watched TXF during its initial run, having discovered it by chance early on in its first season. At that time, I thought seasons 1 & 2 were superior overall and everything after that was not good, with a few bright spots (like all the Darin Morgan episodes). I remember having a very very bad experience as the final seasons played out, as everyone else stopped watching, but I hung on until the bitter end, and I felt that at the very least, they had come through with a decent series finale. I’ve since watched the whole run twice on Netflix, and have come to like later seasons. I didn’t think Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish were as bad as I did before – in fact, I liked some of their episodes a lot. What I hated – HATED – was weepy Scully (totally out of character) and all the ridiculous plot turns with William. The show never treated him like a real baby, it was hard to watch. I like the idea in theory but I don’t think they ever made it work. Anyway, I still like the finale but wish the Lone Gunmen hadn’t been killed off earlier, another bad decision.
On XF3, evidently David Duchovny said on the Tonight Show that people should start writing to Fox to try to make it happen. 
YT, this just occured to me, but perhaps Kersh was OK with the kangaroo court because he was told that Mulder and Scully would be allowed to escape and live in seclusion, and so he didn’t know about the plans to blow them up with helicopters once they escaped. In that scenario his actions would make a kind of sense.
I sadly stopped watching the X Files in seasons 8-9. It occurs to me that if I lived in the age of DVRs and such, I’d never have abandoned it completely, but at the time it just seemed like after having missed a few eps, I’d missed too much to catch up and so I kind of shrugged my shoulders and gave up. I need to go back and watch those seasons in full at some point.
By the way, this news hit a few days ago but it’s been blowing up big in the past 24 hours: X-Files “Special” to be released this June, an official 10th Season in comic form for the show with Chris Carter’s direct involvement! (I’m reading through the Wildstorm series from 2008 which is set between seasons 2-5, but it will be great to pick up with Mulder and Scully in 2013!)
Now I’m off to write that letter!
