The last couple of series of the X Files were pretty poor and sullied what started out a brilliant idea. It's two leads had an electricity about them and the writing was intelligent and exciting. Then we had the alien conspiracy nonsense that eventually killed a great show and its death throes really did stink out the brilliance that went before. It ended poorly and should have been left alone so those that loved the show could remember the huge amount of good episode that were thrilling and funny and cutting edge TV. Then someone thought it would be a good idea to milk the X Files one last time. Disguised as some attempt to explain what all that alien nonsense was about they decided to forget most of what had happened a la Dallas and just made up some crap about how the aliens were really nice and it was men like Smoking dude who were the real monsters.
So we had 5 episodes to attempt this before a grand finale. Four were pretty awful and one was worthwhile (the lizard one) and then the Final Insult episode 6.
For no discernible reason soldiers suddenly seem to be becoming anthrax infected lizards and everybody else has flu. The Smoking mans nose has fallen off and the world is going to end. Scully decides that her DNA is the cure and with barely 10 minutes left begins to put together a vaccine.
Then a badly beaten up Mulder and the other bloke from last weeks utter drivel end up 'two blocks' from Scully on a Washington bridge in desperate need of Scully DNA and with the world starting to die around her she realises that her son is probably the saviour of the human race. Where could he be? Maybe he is in the car three down from Scully? Or probably he is on the triangular spaceship that appears just before the end credits.
And that folks hopefully IS the end of the X Files because it has been exhumed and abused once too often. It should have ended at Series 7 with Mulder disappeared.
I have watched every episode of this programme and some garbage appeared in series 8 & 9 but this one turned out to be the worst ever. So instead of saving the best for last they did the opposite. Whomsoever wrote this crap should hang their head in shame.
One of the best TV ideas ever deserved better than this pile of utter sewage.
So we had 5 episodes to attempt this before a grand finale. Four were pretty awful and one was worthwhile (the lizard one) and then the Final Insult episode 6.
For no discernible reason soldiers suddenly seem to be becoming anthrax infected lizards and everybody else has flu. The Smoking mans nose has fallen off and the world is going to end. Scully decides that her DNA is the cure and with barely 10 minutes left begins to put together a vaccine.
Then a badly beaten up Mulder and the other bloke from last weeks utter drivel end up 'two blocks' from Scully on a Washington bridge in desperate need of Scully DNA and with the world starting to die around her she realises that her son is probably the saviour of the human race. Where could he be? Maybe he is in the car three down from Scully? Or probably he is on the triangular spaceship that appears just before the end credits.
And that folks hopefully IS the end of the X Files because it has been exhumed and abused once too often. It should have ended at Series 7 with Mulder disappeared.
I have watched every episode of this programme and some garbage appeared in series 8 & 9 but this one turned out to be the worst ever. So instead of saving the best for last they did the opposite. Whomsoever wrote this crap should hang their head in shame.
One of the best TV ideas ever deserved better than this pile of utter sewage.