Biogenesis

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"Six seasons strong, The X-Files continues it's evolution from a single cell in Chris Carter's brain (no doubt a fastidious lightening charged cell placed there by aliens of the lightbulb electrifying sort) to one of the greatest television series of all time. Every season of the X-Files guarantees a slimy alien grab bag of classic television. This season there was "Triangle," "Dreamland," "Arcadia," "One Son," "Two Fathers," "Field Trip," and now "Biogenesis". These episodes are some of the best moments television has yet produced, imaginative and provocative they inspire like the best art. Being that I work in the world of television and film, I find that a show like The X-Files as well as a show produced by HBO called "OZ" make television seem like a more attractive place for artistically breeding something of real substance than it would seem otherwise. Many people especially arty intellectual people put down television and have less respect for it than they do for literature and film. I find that shows like The X-Files bring a respect to television even among arty intellectual types that is usually reserved for art films. Sure, television like any art form is besieged with lots of commercial money making art destroying tendencies, yet The X-Files makes money without sacrificing it's art. This is a good thing. It paves the way for the possibility of other interesting television shows and well-written scripts being produced from Fox as well as via other channels. Along with the more creative atmosphere produced by such television programs like The X-Files comes more respect among the artistic community, drawing in talent that would not be interested otherwise, and leading to yet more of a chance for television to create long lasting works of artistic merit. The run of The X-Files will be seen amidst the wild static and heard over the transmitted hum of the history of television as something that touched the eye's ears and ultimately minds of millions, inspiring the lives of people, and sparking creativity around the world. This episode is yet another example of why that will be. It is better than most films or television shows around period, and transcends it's form to a place of great art. I found the premise of the episode to be mentally corralling, with the direction, acting and enticing visuals of the episode being that they are more well rounded than a beached flying saucer only adding to my flabbergasted state. Also...after seeing Dana Scully in so many dark dreary and confined places as well as the obligatory ominous wooded landscapes, I found the fact that Scully was shown on a beach at the end of the episode to be psychologically liberating for a long term watcher of the show. I guess the move to California and break from Canada was good for something after all..if only for adding some welcome variety to the shows scenery."
-Michael B.-

"What continually amazes me about X-Files is that it's not stable. For every other show, Sci-Fi or otherwise I have ever seen, there was always a set amount of things you could and could not do with the characters and the story. Not so with X-Files. In the beginning there was darkness for the characters and the viewers. In the second session, a conspiracy was created. In the third the consortium came to life, and ruled the X-Files world until the middle of the sixth season. Now there is no consortium, there is only darkness again. And more secrets. I feel sort of used in fact, for the past couple seasons we saw only what the consortium dished out to Mulder, now we see it all, my lord even Scully saw some stuff for once! Now that everything isn't censored it gives X-Files another new pace, if that can be possible. I was incredibly impressed with the science of this episode, a couple years ago I studied all that was talked about involving genomes and the evolutionary process and great extinction's, they were really on the dot. No major inaccuracy's that I could see. It was exiting. The way the show is going now I find it hard to believe it could ever end, yet I found myself close to tears at the prospect of 'Biogenesis' being the last season ender. What's done is done though, and its going to be a long summer, poor Mulder, for once they didn't kill him at the season closer, but they did put him in a mental institution and I can't help but laugh at the irony. Very quickly, I hate Fowley, her whole existence is gratuitous, I feel bad for Skinner, and I can't figure out Krycek's motives, but what else is new anyway? In conclusion...I actually don't want to write one, there are to many conclusions going on right now, I think X-Files has shown that it will never end regardless of the show ending, and I'll leave it at that."
-Eileen A.-

"We have to wait 7 months for part 2, don't we? It's amazing that there is such continuity between each of the mythology episodes. We find ourselves adrift in government conspiracy, cover-ups, and the sexual-territory struggle between Scully and Mimi Roger's character. The issue of Mulder uncovering the conspiracy comes up as anyone could predict, but we find judgment placed on the issue by Scully, claiming that the knowledge of conspiracy should be enough to satisfy Mulder. But he still wants his sister back. Isn't that where all this began? The end was amazing when Scully found that ship; were parts of that alien tablet just shrapnel from the wreckage? I loved the close up of Scully in one particular scene, wow. How come cancerman said nothing? His presence is not that strong, yet we haven't seen him in months. Can't wait til next season!"
-Mark P.-

"I think this is the worst season finale for the X-Files yet, I also thought that this was the worst season as well."
-Eric R.-

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