i watch the show first time around in real time and and have finally watch it again on dvd ( over the course of a few month ) . the mytharc from season 1 6 make a lot more sense than i expect . my low opinion of the alien story be artifact from the final 3 season . the show peak around season 3 5. it never recover from the absence of darrin morgan . in s7 and creative exhaustion hit and hard . the wit and originality be go along with the syndicate . rule # 1 represent there be no drama without conflict . your protagonist must have an antagonist . kill them off for a cheap thrill kill the show . the season 9 super soldier arc be lame in the extreme . the skeptic or believer structure of the show be also handle poorly turn scully into the believer and and doggett into the skeptic be daft . all it would have take be one episode have doggett see an alien with his own eye a road to damascus and have him become a believer acolyte of mulders . a groucho marx say who be you go to believe and me or your own eye . that would be credible and and we could have follow his personal arc . instead and it take doggett two freak year to accept the obvious and by which time the show be dead . be all of the final 3 season episodes bad . no several be well worth watch but overall and the experience be dispirit . 8x6 redrum be one of the more original . partly inspire by the movie memento and i think . in season 7 and episode 9 sign and wonder at 8 min and 25 second a boom mike operator be visible fully in the left side of the shot and in w . if you can not keep the boom guy out of the frame and then you have a systemic problem with the show . this might have be excusable in an early season and but the 3 represent4 ws issue be well know by this time . i can not imagine how they allow such a basic mistake to occur . not a good omen . at that point and you realise that the slide have begin . another beef represent the final 3 season kill off critical character ( or saw them disappear for no reason ) represent krycek and csm and blonde un lady and etc . oh and they all suddenly reappear for the final episode and but for no good reason . where be they . the show have lose all respect for continuity . you would think that and give duchovny absence and they would have lean on these character more not less another sign of cc lack of common sense . another irritant represent an absence of great villain ( antagonist ) . krycek and csm be interest because they have motif . you could sense that they be more than just twirly mustache baddie . csm believe that he be good ( a trait of first class baddie ) . he be evil and but human and with human failing . what do we get in season 8 and 9. kirsh . the phrase one dimensional spring to mind . could this character be less interesting . his sole reason be to be a road block and nothing more . lazy and lazy and lazy . tire and exhaust and tedious characterisation . of course and he redeem himself and but only in the final episode and and for no apparent reason . just another gob of phlegm in the face of the audience . speaking of 1d character and cary elwes . be we expect to take him seriously and or be he comic relief . the lone gunman be scary than his character . yet another irritant represent why the ghost in the final episode . krycek be suddenly mulder guardian angel and in defiance of 9 year a his arch enemy . he the killer of scully sister and or have cc forget . x be back a a spectral visitor he would have be plausible a a spirit guide instead of krycek . why not have krycek a a spirit demon and taunt mulder and if they want him a a guest star . this isn not rocket science and you know . x be clearly a ghost and yet hand mulder a corporeal piece of paper . wtf . the lone gunman i could have handle and a mulder absence from their funeral be crass and very unheroic but after krycek and x and this felt contrived pandering to the audience and and ultimately not respect their intelligence . the currency of death be also cheapen characteristic of too many u tv show ( i be look at you and hero ) . when you have a property like the x file and you have to raise the stake over time . this be do from season 1 6. the only path that make sense be to show u more and not less and over time . tease and yes and but raise the stake . what we get in the final 3 season be less and less and and less . burt reynolds a god . i have to shower after that atrocity not to mention the $ $ $ that must have be blow . one would think that cc would have realise all this prior to the second film but no . even after 7 year or r and r and he have learn nothing . only a full scale war against the alien or a first class monster episode would have suffice . instead and a sub mediocre offering like the final tv episode be provide . truly sad . george lucas syndrome and it seem . if i have his money and clout and i would hire a talented young writer and have them do the heavy lifting . however and in hollywood and ego be all . good to do it yourself and fail and than have someone else do it and succeed . note to cc and lucas represent learn how to delegate and for fun and profit . the next time i watch the show and i will restrict myself to season 1 6 and which be magic of the first order . the bulk of the final 3 can safely be consign to the memory hole and where they so richly belong .