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My dad and I LOVED 'Prime Suspect'.

I hated just about everything in this episode. I love Lauren Ambrose but she got on my last nerve from the get-go. Agent Miller just seemed like a dumb little puppy, and I don't get why everyone thinks he is so "hot". I hated the whole Mulder tripping, it was as if DD had asked for some reason to show him doing Pulp Fiction and a reason for him to take his shirt off. I hated the stereotype of Texas and Texans, like the girls walking across the street. No. Way. That. Happens. Ever. Anywhere. However, I must admit that I was in a Starbuck's on Saturday in Dallas, no less, where we are very urban and unlike our neighbor to the west- Fort Worth, where you do see white men in boots and cowboy hats all the time- and a Starbuck's Cowboy walked in with boots and jeans WITH CHAPS SEWED INTO HIS JEANS! and a cowboy hat. Most boots and cowboy hat wearers in Dallas are not white people... And NO ONE wears chaps in Dallas. And no one in Texas wears chaps sewn into their jeans... That said, I grew up in Garland and I fled from there the moment I got a chance. It can be quite truly a racist little town. But I also noted that none of this was filmed anywhere near Texas, just like in 'Fight The Future' where "North Texas" had mountains off in the distance. That kinda sloppy direction irritates me. Then I watched James Franco's newest thing on Hulu, where it was at least filmed here, and I had a few gripes about that one too..... I loved the last two minutes with Scully and Mulder walking hand-in-hand. Hated that Lumineers song though. Mulder hearing the trumpets of the Apocalypse fits well, I thought. Leads us to what's in store next week, and probably a nice, fitting allegory on the state of affairs here in The US- Justice Scalia dying and the GOP wanting to block a possible new SCOTUS appointment... Taylor Swift winning another Grammy..... Donald Trump.... yea, the end times are nigh....

I am very much along the same lines as you. I am from Dallas so we got to see them filming. My complaints are about how they didn't do the signage right (you can still see the yellow "walk/don't walk" boxes on the poles, which weren't there in 1960...) And yes, the County Admin offices are there, as is the Sixth Floor Museum. I visited my county commissioner a couple months ago and had to direct some tourists to the museum entrance. We in Dallas have been striving so hard for 50 years to shed our image as "The City of Hate" and we have been trying to attain "world class" status since then. It's sad, really, and a few years ago when they did the Big 50th, it was a silly invite-only scheme and they closed down Dealey Plaza to do it. Very much Dallas. Very insecure. Then a few weeks later they were filming for the new movie 'LBJ' and they brought in signage to replicate what was there in 1963. My grandfather was a Dallas cop and my mother witnessed the assassination, so I, too, am obsessed with this, as are most Dallas natives. But back to this episode- I have never read the book and I like most things Stephen King. I love the whole idea of history does not like intrusions. I do not entertain the fantasy that the Vietnam war would have been avoided if JFK hadn't been killed, but it is certainly fun to speculate on these ideas. I am mostly "meh" about James Franco, but I think he was fine in this. I look forward to more, and I hope that previously will write more recaps on it.

Apologies. Did not mean to be rude and/or insulting. I'm commenting on the broad idea on this particular forum about how horrible and hated the whole "William" storyline is. I don't think it's a bad thing. The tone that I have read from people who seem very genuinely knowledgeable in the past four or five pages have left me wondering how any of these people can call themselves true fans, when they are constantly complaining about it. It's part of the canon. There wasn't any sex or pressure for M&S to be sexual partners, regardless of whatever offscreen fan-based dialogue might have been then. I'm not here to fangirl, I'm here to listen to other genuine critiques of this (and other) episodes in this little mini-series. MOST of what I have read has been very grating, and very ugly about CC's writing skills. And, I won't apologize for this, but I care more about what the writers and creators of this show have to say than about the commenters here. I'm just trying to defend what I view as a true continuation of the series on the whole, than what I see as fans complaining about how much they hated season 8 and the direction that these six episodes are going in. Is all.

'Unfortunately, there was both. The offscreen sex was fine (in retrospect ;). However, the stupid "Who's the daddy"-angle once Mulder was back from the dead was tedious and unnecessary. I remember the heated discussions on the board about the ifs and whens of possible offscreen conversations between Mulder and Scully about Mulder's potential fatherhood as if it had been yesterday." Why should I- or anyone else, for that matter- care one whit about whatever heated discussions on this (or the TWOP board or whatever else fan board) were had about this NOW? And especially "possible offscreen conversations"? This devolves into just stupid, I'm sorry, but just stupid. Nobody cares! This is a show. On broadcast television, and one that did the impossible thing of defining a generation... I and millions of others love this show for what it is, warts and all. I WISH the X-Files would do a show ala "Portlandia" where they go into the what-if and all about how social media has changed everything and all. Social media nowadays IS THEY KEY TO EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

Thank you. Those points are well articulated. I also want to pause for a moment to remind everyone what other shows were on teevee back in the early-mid 90's...... The X-Files also happened to be a show about the male and female leads respecting each other without the tension of having to also sleep with one another. And, William was conceived in that prototypical X-Files weirdness, also without S-E-X and subsequent tension. It's one of the things that makes this show special and one of the reasons I get so irritated with commenters hating that whole William story arc.

I'm not understanding why all the William-hating on this forum. If you didn't like that part of the X-Files canon back then (and stopped watching and starting writing fanfic instead), then why are you watching now? It's part of the mythology, like it or not. And a big part of the reason we never saw any hand-wringing from either Scully or Mulder back then, is because they weren't even ON the show (well, much, even, for GA) after that! So we have been left with this incomplete decade of their lives, doing god-only-knows-what (Mulder living like the Unibomber and Scully not knowing how to contact him?) What are they SUPPOSED to talk about with one another? "Hey, about that time we went to the North Pole and I rescued you from that alien ship that you never saw? Yeah, that was fun. Let's get waffles..." Really? Of COURSE they are going to stress about their son that (they) Scully gave up! I also want to know what that kid's been doing all these years. IIRC, he had some crazy wild abilities even as an infant. Did his adoptive parents assume that he's "on the spectrum" with a gluten intolerance because of all the government funded chemicals and GMO's that they are putting into the food supply, and decide not to vaccinate him and put him into an alternative school? These are also things that weren't "things" 14 years ago. And these things could very cleverly be folded into the whole government-conspiracy-alien-technology-DNA mythology of the whole show, giving it some arc for an entertaining reboot. (I would be VERY HAPPY to see more Lauren Ambrose in just about anything, but especially this!!) That said, there are some mysteries from the original show that could be revisited. Some have been explained to some extent at this point in time. Te X-Files did something that no other television series ever did, and that has been to lead an entire generation (and then some) to question a lot of things, like is the government really doing secret shady things like watching our every move, or experimenting with the weather or DNA, or putting things into our vaccinations/water/food supply? Batcrap crazy or not, this is entertainment that crossed a line into reality, which I think was handled brilliantly in the first episode of this reboot (does anyone on this forum ever listen to talk radio?) Finally, I don't want to see M&S kiss, and get married, and have twin daughters named Samantha and Melissa and live happily ever after and forget all about whatever parts we don't like. Screw that! Conflict is what drama is and what makes it good. Watching these two try to find closure and remains of their humanity in the choices they have made in spite (or because of) all the things that they have seen, makes this reboot worth it. That's my $0.02 anyway...

Sorry, I should have clarified a little better. I'm aiming at the people who come into a forum to talk about one episode of a show that's been off the air for nearly 15 years, and they ADMIT that they never watched it and then complain about how they didn't get it? Why come in here and comments at all?

Yeah I already said that: "Darin Morgan eps are always about the human condition. I believe that the transgender repartee herein was spot-on. The whole episode was about being something that you're not. As Rhys Darby's "were-man" character discovered, waking up one day to discover that you are not who you are *supposed* to be, and to want so badly to be what you are "supposed" to be, at all costs." I don't think it was ironic in the least, it was very much on-the-nose. In fact, it was sort of the whole point. As someone else mentioned upthread, the person in the mirror, etc.... It's why this show's writers are so brilliant.

I'm sorry, but I just can't with the comments from people who reveal that they never saw the series, or who cannot understand the relationships/mythologies/MOTW/canny stuff, etc., etc.... or that they only ever watched a few episodes. This show DEFINED AN ENTIRE GENERATION!!!!!!! You don't have to be an "X-Phile" to understand, but you kinda hafta be a fan to at least "get" some of the more subtle- and not so subtle- references and nods. Also, Mulder and Scully have never had any sense of happiness.

RE: the transgender comment complaints. Darin Morgan eps are always about the human condition. I believe that the transgender repartee herein was spot-on. The whole episode was about being something that you're not. As Rhys Darby's "were-man" character discovered, waking up one day to discover that you are not who you are *supposed* to be, and to want so badly to be what you are "supposed" to be, at all costs. C'mon guys, give the writers *some* credit- they are smart and funny and revered for a reason. "Also...token lesbian here" What makes you think you're a token lesbian? *I don't know how to capture comments and respond, sorry*

"I'm counting Guy's baffled declaration that the tie was "just waiting to strangle you" as another reference to "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." And don't forget in 'Humbug', didn't Jim Rose make a similar comment?

"The visual gore/creep factor has increased dramatically." F. Emasculata. Those heaving and exploding pus-filled boils on those escaped prisoners faces were disgusting!

Excellent episode. Good for some closure. M&S were both introspective. It worked very well, IMO.

Also, I haven't seen anyone mention that both William B. Davis and Nicholas Lea were in Continuum...