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I feel like a kid after all the presents are opened on Christmas Morning, and the tree is empty. I got what I wanted, but find that the anticipation is much better then the aftermath. I love the X-Files. Yeah, I know, go ahead and say it. I do not care. I am not sure what my attraction to it was, but I found myself excited every Sunday night that a new episode was on. Now it never will be again. I looked at the Fox Fall line up for Sunday and it finally set in. No more X-Files. Just more of the same old crap. Sitcoms. Boring ass sitcoms. Sure, I love the Simpsons, Futurama and King of the Hill, but I now realize that those were just distractions as I awaited X-Files. |
This is *really* sad, but the episode was redeemed for me by the fact that Mulder and Scully are finally together. I will now slink backwards out of this thread. |
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what happened? A whole lot of detail isn't important. I stopped watching X-Files right before Annabeth Gish (is that right) joined teh cast. There were some really bad episodes and then things got so confusing I couldn't follow it. I am merely curious so no one bust their ass on that. |
He's discovered by "supersoldier" Knowle Rohrer (Adam Baldwin) and pursued through the facility, ultimately flipping Rohrer over a catwalk and down onto electrical wires, supposedly to his death. Mulder is charged with murder and faces a military tribunal headed by Deputy FBI Director Kersh (James Pickens Jr.) to decide his fate. There's just one thing -- supersoldiers are invulnerable, which means Rohrer can't be dead. The only possible explanation for the tribunal is to continue the coverup of alien life on Earth. The trial scenes play out like a primer to the series' twisting mythology, as witnesses including Scully (Gillian Anderson), former U.N. official Marita Covarrubias (Laurie Holden), mind-reading child Gibson Praise (Jeff Gulka), Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) all testify as to what they've seen over the years. And, oh yeah, Mulder also gets some "Beautiful Mind" -like visits from dead players Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea), Mr. X (Steven Williams) and the Lone Gunmen (Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund and Tom Braidwood). Carter told Zap2it at the series wrap party that the final episode, titled "The Truth," would show that the series' mythology contained "a beautiful logic." And doggone if it didn't, at least as far as I could tell. (Disclaimer: Although a fan of the show, I am not a hardcore "X" -phile. Therefore, detailed discussions of the mythology should be best left to Zap2it's message boards.) Mulder is found guilty, but Doggett, Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) and Kersh -- who, perhaps shaken by Gibson's revelation that one of the tribunal judges wasn't human, had a change of heart -- bust him out of prison and tell him and Scully to get out of North America. Rohrer, not dead after all, pursues them. Of course Mulder heads not for the airport but for the New Mexico desert, where an Anasazi Indian pueblo houses a man known as the Keeper of the Truth. He turns out to be the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis), thought to be dead -- and now smoking through a breathing tube in his throat. The Cigarette Smoking Man reveals to Scully what Mulder had refused to divulge at his trial -- the contents of the file he viewed at the episode's beginning, which state that the final alien invasion will begin Dec. 22, 2012. After being warned by Doggett and Reyes, who tailed them, Mulder and Scully escape an assault on the pueblo by Rohrer, who dies the only way a supersoldier can -- by some unnatural reaction to the magnetite in the desert rock. The series closes with Mulder and Scully embracing in a motel room in Roswell. The last line, spoken by Mulder, is "Maybe there's hope." |
I knew I've seen that guy before! He played the jerk who got in a fight with Timothy Hutton in "Ordinary People." B-b-but...there's a Baldwin brother named Adam. He was on "Homicide." This is a different guy, and yet they're both billed as Adam Baldwin, not Adam C. Baldwin or something. That's not right. |
You forgot to say that the scene is set up just like the scene in the very first episode, with Mulder sitting on the floor and Scully on the bed. Hello! Sheesh. :) |
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In the end, who is worse, the aliens or man? I believe that man, in real life, is man's worst enemy. |
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Is it just me or has Gillian Anderson aged considerably in the past year or so? |
long ago. Millenium was a far better program in my book. |
thanks for blowing the ending for me, guys. i was waiting for the final season to come out on DVD. |
I liked Millenium because it was so completely depressing. Perfect casting. I never saw how that series ended, but i'd be willing to wager...IT WAS DEPRESSING. I missed most of the last year of X files because AT&T couldn't get their shit together to fix our cable. We just switched over to Dish Network, and I was able to catch this one. I didn't see that the Lone Gunmen got snuffed, but I kind of figured that they did when Mulder was having one of his "beautiful Mind" moments...Which leads me to wonder if instead of sauntering off into the sunset in joyous bliss, will Scully have to look forward to Mulders continuing disintegration as he succumbs to obvious symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia? How romantic... Don't worry Nate, the REAL finale doesn't happen until 12/22/2012. |
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Christopher, Billy Baldwin isn't really into his marriage, and is looking for "friends". He's in Boston now. Used to have his number, but lost it. Sorry. Give it to ya if I had it still. I don't know any of the other Baldwin brothers. |
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Yeah like you didnt know what was coming nate. BBS threads require a deliberate action to continue reading. the phrase "jumping the shark" jumped the shark a year ago. I've always been fond of 'Scully' but I've heard her on numerous talk shows and she doesnt sound as near as bright as the show makes her to be. Its always a disapointment as she sounds like a complete bim. |