This, the final episode, was perhaps one of the biggest disappointments I have seen on-screen to date.
The episode's premise was promising: Mulder, on trial for the murder of a man who cannot die, depends upon Skinner and Scully to back him up.
Unfortunately, what was a good idea quickly degenerated into a parade of characters from the show's better seasons, throwing in Krycek, Gibson Praise, Marita Covarrubias, etc. for no discernible reason except as a poorly-contrived...what? Plot point? It's like a clip episode only so, so much worse.
Then Mulder's on the run, Scully joins him, Krycek throws Smoking Man--who, by the way, has been hiding at an ancient Anasazi village?????--down some stairs and (apparently) kills him, and the episode ends with Mulder and Scully in a motel room, on the lam, with all their allies dead or wanted by the FBI. None of the fans' questions are answered (nor hardly addressed), and the whole thing has a very confused, "I'm-sick-of-this, let's-get-it-over-with" feel to it. There was so much potential, even after the last three seasons of pure garbage, and it was squandered.
Le sigh, the fans now must content themselves with watching Seasons 1 through 6 and hoping that, should Chris Carter make another movie, he dismisses Seasons 7, 8 and 9 as a drugged dream sequence. That would be the only honorable thing to do, seeing as how horribly he mangled this would-be happy ending.
The episode's premise was promising: Mulder, on trial for the murder of a man who cannot die, depends upon Skinner and Scully to back him up.
Unfortunately, what was a good idea quickly degenerated into a parade of characters from the show's better seasons, throwing in Krycek, Gibson Praise, Marita Covarrubias, etc. for no discernible reason except as a poorly-contrived...what? Plot point? It's like a clip episode only so, so much worse.
Then Mulder's on the run, Scully joins him, Krycek throws Smoking Man--who, by the way, has been hiding at an ancient Anasazi village?????--down some stairs and (apparently) kills him, and the episode ends with Mulder and Scully in a motel room, on the lam, with all their allies dead or wanted by the FBI. None of the fans' questions are answered (nor hardly addressed), and the whole thing has a very confused, "I'm-sick-of-this, let's-get-it-over-with" feel to it. There was so much potential, even after the last three seasons of pure garbage, and it was squandered.
Le sigh, the fans now must content themselves with watching Seasons 1 through 6 and hoping that, should Chris Carter make another movie, he dismisses Seasons 7, 8 and 9 as a drugged dream sequence. That would be the only honorable thing to do, seeing as how horribly he mangled this would-be happy ending.