X-Files Season 8 is neat!

[Hober Mallow]

By the eighth season, I really didn't care one iota for any of the show's mythology. Robert Patrick and Gillian Anderson had absolutely no chemistry together. And it wasn't just that; I found Mulder comletely uninteresting in his appearances as well. The stand-alone stories were forgettable and the mythology episodes kept getting more and more ridiculous and took the series to new lows.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the later seasons were filmed in anamorphic widescreen. I wonder what made them decide to do that? They had to have been one of the first shows to do so.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Season eight is my favorite season. It has all the energy that the seventh season lacked, and it kicks the mythology into high gear for the first time since Two Fathers/One Son from the middle of season six.

It's not quite my favourite season, season 4 takes that honour, but it's pretty close. I love the character of Doggett. And the second half of the season with Scully, Mulder, and Doggett is pretty cool.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I only watched the show sporadically sometime after season 6. It's cool to be able to go back now and watch the entire series. Man, Kirsch sure was a butthole. And in contrast to what some have said, I actually like agent Doggett. I particularly like the episodes where he teams up with Mulder. There's so much tension between the two from the start.
Mulder's immediately a huge jerk without giving him any kind of a chance.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Season 8 is my least favourite season. I consider 2-5 the golden age of the series, but even in the other seasons, there are at least a handful of episodes I can thoroughly enjoy. Well, only two in season 9 - that awesome Burt Reynolds episode, and the defacto series finale for the Lone Gunman. The only episode I like in season 8 is the finale. Part of me wishes that cowardly asshole Krychek had been around for future X-Files movies, but what happens to him in that episode is so, so satisfying. The giving birth scenes were a bit much, but the rest of the episode is solid. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much skipping the rest of the season.

 

[RoJoHen]

Man, Kirsch sure was a butthole.

He sure was.

 

[RoJoHen]

Season 9!

Okay, so, I've decided that Season 8 was awesome. Krycek gets shot in the head. Scully has a baby. Mulder and Scully make out. Huzzah!

Anyway, I've started Season 9, and I'm enjoying it as well. The last episode I watched was the one where NotLocke (haha) is a Super Soldier and goes flying into the quarry, and Mulder almost comes back on a train...but then he doesn't.

My only real complaint/confusion, and maybe someone can help me out, is why Mulder has run away. Why is his life in so much danger that he has to go into hiding? What exactly happened at the end of Season 8 that put Mulder in so much more risk than he was before? If anything, I'd say Scully and her baby are the ones that should be in hiding! Mulder has been a target since the beginning of the show. What has changed that they are all suddenly afraid for his life?

 

[Aragorn]

Man, Kirsch sure was a butthole.

And now he let's McDreamy walk all over from him and steal his job!

 

[Nowhere Man]

What planet do you live on? Seriously though, I love X-Files every season, every bit of it. Season 8 is one of my less favorite though. It's sorta like Indy Jones, even the bad ones are still good, it's fracking X-Files, what can you say?

 

[david g]

Aragorn, my feelings exactly. Like Rojohen, I really like S8. I thought that Robert Patrick was superb as Doggett, and that his interaction with Scully was terrific. I think that S8 had some of the best episodes of the series--such as the one with the crooked lawyer being hunted by a dead client, played by the black scientist from T2...

S9 I remember as really quite poor.