Xfiles season 8 openin6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Some of Scully's angst about having children (she's pregnant this season) could perhaps come off as misogynistic but I doubt Chris Carter hates women. At least the consistent positive qualities remained such: the terrific performances, the awesome production values, Mark Snow's amazing score, cinematography from an extremely talented DP and Mulder's wisecracks are quite amusing. Chris Carter really wants to have his cake and eat it too. Then again, these mythology episodes don't allow the heroes to have any major victories, no matter what the changes to the status quo are, because otherwise we don't get any MOTW episodes. At a price, but it wouldn't have been a very dignified send-off if it stuck. The aliens just handed him back to the FBI on a silver platter once they were done with him. Things took a turn for the better once Mulder returned though I was disappointed that the search never really succeeded. Sure enough, my preferred MOTW episode was the one where new character John Doggett (how considerate of Chris Carter that the first thing that happens to him when Scully meets him, upon noticing his badge, is splash a cup of water in his face then, when Mulder returns, have the first thing Fox does to John is shove him back in his seat) and Scully were almost complete no-shows, instead having the protagonist be a one-off character played by Miles Dyson from Terminator 2. Mulder's absence from half the season stung, the dark, humourless tone for the first half really showed just how much levity his and Scully's banter brought to the show, even back in the equally dark fourth season and a majority of the MOTW episodes were unsatisfying and forgettable. Credit where credit's due, the eighth season of The X-Files is nowhere near the dumpster fire I was expecting.
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