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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Ina"  wrote   
      
   > so i finally got to season 9 (after watching every episode starting   
   > from season 1 about a month ago...) ... and it's just really really   
   > depresses me. i'm 3 ep's away from finale, and although i've started   
   > to sympathize with the new agents, the whole season has pretty much   
   > been just painful to watch - despite the new special fx and new   
   > updated intro and all the more $ they've put in. the episodes are   
   > stale, compared to previous seasons, and it seems fatal to have the x-   
   > files team replaced by two agents who seem far less intelligent than   
   > mulder and scully.   
      
   You should have tried watching JUST the non-mytharc episodes.   
      
   Give this list a spin: 4-D, John Doe, Hellbound, Audrey Pauley, Scary   
   Monsters, and maybe Sunshine Days (haven't watched it again myself yet, so I   
   don't remember  how good it is, but at least I seriously doubt it's   
   depressing).   
      
   Second tier (not quite so good, but still hardly awful): Daemonicus, Lord of   
   the Flies, Underneath, Improbable, and maybe Release (again, just a   
   distant-memory-based recommendation).   
      
   As I've said before, the stand-alones in the later seasons (6-9) are so much   
   better and more fun than the mytharcs, IMO. The *mytharc* got depressing and   
   painful to watch because it had ugly, whiny babies dripping bodily fluids   
   all over that we were supposed to believe were 'cute', and Scully being a   
   whiny mommy who just wanted to Save the Baby (fuck the whales, and their   
   songs!), and Mulder being here but not really here and whining about wanting   
   to be somewhere else, and wanton murders of beloved characters, and a   
   candy-ass wannabe conspiracy that could never DREAM of being as awesome as   
   the original Syndicate, and blah blah blah. I've actually been avoiding   
   watching all this crap as of yet in my DVD viewing marathons.   
      
   But give Monica and The Dawg a real chance. They're fucking awesome! I love   
   the hell out of them both! (Last night I watched 'Audrey Pauley', and I'm   
   convinced they love the hell out of *each other*, too. And just like I do,   
   they wanna fuck each other, too. Maybe they already have, in fact. That ep   
   is a perfect example of why UST kicks The Ship's ass out of a tenth-story   
   window and spits on its mutilated corpse. Just look at the way The Dawg   
   breaks down crying in Audrey's arms, desperate to do something to save   
   Monica, but completely lost and helpless, and tell me ANY Mulder/Scully ship   
   scene from S6 on comes anywhere CLOSE to being as awesome and powerful.)   
   Just let them be in their own natural environment, investigating real   
   X-Files, away from all that drooling baby crap.   
      
   Mulder and Scully may have been the Great Ones for many years, and it may be   
   unfair to expect Monica and The Dawg to fill the hole they left in our   
   hearts. But I swear to Tempe, since the baby and the Ship and the abduction   
   and all that crap, Mulder and Scully actually became rather annoying to me.   
   They were NOT their old selves. They had their moments, of course --   
   especially Scully, when you got her away from the damn baby and banned her   
   from thinking or talking about Mulder. And I was glad to see them again in   
   IWTB. But they Just. Weren't. The Mulder and Scully. I fell in love with.   
   Doggett and Reyes, on the other hand, have almost never disappointed me --   
   they never got a CHANCE to, seeing as how they only existed for two fucking   
   years.   
      
   Anyway, give them another chance. Don't expect them to be the same as the   
   Old M and S. They're not M and S. They're Monica and The Dawg. Let their own   
   personal, unique charms into your heart.   
      
   Scully'sfootnote: I always disliked the new intro, too. But last night,   
   watching AP, I realised something. It may not be as awesome as the S1-7   
   intro, but it kicks the S8 intro's ASS. There's no floating space baby.   
   There's no falling Mulder. Almost all the old images from the original intro   
   are back -- in updated form, yes, but still faithful to the spirit of the   
   original. I have a hard time accepting the new, glossy, Hollywoody theme   
   song, but at least the old one is still there over the ending credits.   
   Seriously -- watch the S8 opening a few times in a row, then immediately   
   watch the S9 one, and you will never complain about the latter again.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
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