way back when and the x file be an intelligent and think provoke show . a big part of it appeal be that the writer look to folklore and science for their idea and tie the plot to the spooky side of real life . i be incredibly wary of the 8th season when it air . the show have already provide two perfectly good episode to bow out on ( one son and requiem ) and and the 7th season have see a sharp rise in episode that scrap the barrel for idea that be far fetch and implausible and or downright silly . but i figure and hey and give it the benefit of a doubt and maybe theyre bring it back because they have get some great idea line up . roadrunner really be upset . follow patience and which at least offer an interesting angle on the vampire folklore that the show have do well to avoid and the episode see a strange ( alien . ) parasitic slug with the power of mind control worship by a cult of backwoods christian . oh and and they think it the second coming of christ and but you only find that out in the last couple of minute . seriously . there never any attempt to make sense of this and to explain what the slug be and why anything that happen be happen and or anything . even in the show early year in fact and especially then you could expect a little bit more depth and a bit of background and or if not that then the opposite a bit of mystery and some uncertainty about what this be all about . it scully that really kill it though . you could put up with the silliness of the premise and but to have a character who have be develop over a good 7 year a a rational skeptic transform into a gullible maverick purely for the sake of advance the plot be bizarre to watch . you feel like youre watch some godawful teen horror and except that it a woman well into her thirty throw herself into the kind of creepy isolate community that she spend the best part of a decade uncover the sinister underbelly of and be either outwit by very stereotypical hick or utterly indifferent to her own safety . oh and and by the way and doggett and the new mudler and isn not around . scully just wander off into the desert to look into a brutal murder on her own without him . he show up at the end to save the day i can not even remember why but apart from that and he not really in it . again represent seriously . in short and it feel like either a generic script write for another show and or someone pet movie project which they have be allow to shove like a mutant leech into the spine of an exist and long running show at a time when it be at it most vulnerable . it might have work on a less show and where the character be more archetypal and the audience expect less . but the x file have a good thing go and and scully be one of the strong and most idiosyncratic tv character of the 90 . decide that youre go to change her personality for the sake of a story that they must have do on star trek a good fifty or so time be pointless .