We find out the Smoking Man had an illustrious career assassinating famous people before he ran Majestic 12. If you're in the minority who love the lore, you should love it. If you're in the majority, it's harder to say if you'll like it at all.
This episode suffers from a problem that befell the show in season four, it got too enamored with itself and as a result the episodes have a way of being lazily self-satisfied and far more cute than they ever are clever.
While I appreciate them throwing a bone to the audience by filling the world in more, when this show premiered it took itself seriously. It was very corny, but it took itself seriously, the people who made it took it seriously. At some point this morphed into the show's creators acting like they had been in on the joke the whole time. Laughing along at all the corny misfires, the creature features, the silliness of this show about aliens and ghosts. The series was a schlock hit for children and the overly imaginative, which is just how they planned it all along, they were so very smart.
That's what this episode is. Self aware and afraid of acting like it actually ever took itself seriously.
This episode suffers from a problem that befell the show in season four, it got too enamored with itself and as a result the episodes have a way of being lazily self-satisfied and far more cute than they ever are clever.
While I appreciate them throwing a bone to the audience by filling the world in more, when this show premiered it took itself seriously. It was very corny, but it took itself seriously, the people who made it took it seriously. At some point this morphed into the show's creators acting like they had been in on the joke the whole time. Laughing along at all the corny misfires, the creature features, the silliness of this show about aliens and ghosts. The series was a schlock hit for children and the overly imaginative, which is just how they planned it all along, they were so very smart.
That's what this episode is. Self aware and afraid of acting like it actually ever took itself seriously.