Yeah, maybe she’s like the whales in ST:IV. Once they find her, they’ll fuck off.
Scully woke up an instant later and realized it had all been a dream.
I’m kidding of course. I’m sure that whatever Chris Carter had in mind for the ending, it was actually worse than “It was all a dream.” I suspect there was no thought behind the closing scene at all beyond “This seems excitingly mysterious, and with luck a cliffhanger ending will help get me another season or movie or something.” If and when that happens he’ll make up some explanation, but I predict it will be half-baked and disappointing.
I’m gonna bet that William is aboard the ship that showed up at the end of the last episode.
This may be a trivial, but I just can’t with Agent Einstein. Einstein is such a famous name, with very obvious connotations. Yeah, Agent E. is smart, but Einstein? I don’t know how Gillian Anderson could say that - and so often - with a straight face. Acting.
In the episode with the software guy who stabbed himself in the ear, did anyone notice that Scully pulled out the letter opener in a similar way that DuMaurier (another of her recent roles) in Hannibal pulled out the icepick/knife from one of Hannibal’s unfortunate victims? Can’t be a coincidence. 
For all we know, William is *behind *the population-culling plan.
See, he always resented being abandoned by his parents, for (apparently to him) no good reason. So he spent years, devoted his life even, to finding everything out he could. He researched the entirity of the X-files and met the few surviving syndicate members. He found the remants of the plan, which had been stopped by M&S years ago (even if they didn’t know they did - they stopped it because they destroyed the syndicate), and revived it. All in an attempt to get the attention he always craved. If he couldn’t have his parents the normal way, he’d get them by becoming what they had been hunting all those years.
So William is on the ship, and he takes them back to his secret lair, and cures Mulder. Then he tries to convince the two to join him. Mulder thinks he is complately mad, but Scully says that there is still good in him, she can sense it.
In attempting to stop William (who now calls himself Spender, after his grandfather) Mulder is stabbed through the heart, but Scully escapes, and attempts to form a group to oppose the new order of evil lead by her son.
Well, I finally got around to watching the last episode. I suppose it was telling in and of itself that it sat there on my DVR for that long without me watching it yet…
…what an irredeemable piece of shit that was. I sat there wondering how in the Hell it could have gone so wrong. Split Mulder and Scully up so they have no scenes together? End on a Cliffhanger? Waste time on those two newer cast members? Spend interminable minutes driving along that bridge of traffic, on the phone, and I sit there in disbelief, knowing there’s about three minutes left. (Good thing she happened to be on that same bridge and not the other one). Finally explain everything…and it’s a virus to cull the population by hiding it in a Small Pox vaccine? Why not just give them Small Pox? It’s almost as if they deliberately made the worst thing they could.
I think my favorite scene was where some sick angry guy in a mob ripped a street sign out of the concrete, then threw it through a window. And then Scully said something like “please be patient everybody!” to the angry mob…and it worked.
What a waste.
Just watched it on my DVR… and speedily deleted it so as not to infect the other shows I’ve recorded.
Jeez, what a big, steaming piece o’ crap. I still can’t hear “Agent Einstein” with smiling. Can’t believe Scully could sequence her DNA and whip up a cure between commercial breaks. Can’t believe The Bad Guys wouldn’t silence O’Malley’s “courageous” webcast. Can’t believe Mulder would let anybody walk off with his laptop and track him anywhere. Aaaaaand I’m dismayed that some non-zero percentage of anti-vaxer pinheads watching this episode will find further justification for their idiocy: “It was on The X-Files! It must be true!”
I did like the Scully-morphs-into-an-alien CGI just before the opening credits, but otherwise, yeesh. Very disappointing.
I will third the “finally got around to watching the last episode, it was a steaming pile” sentiment.
Yeah, I finally watched it earlier this week. I’ve simply tried my best to forget that it ever existed, though I keep checking into this thread to confirm that I really watched it in real life and it wasn’t a bad dream caused by too much whiskey and ice cream before bed. And that I wasn’t the only one who thought it was pretty much a festering pile of shit. I let a LOT of shit slide; sequencing a genome while waiting for the coffee pot to heat up, SURE, OK! It’s TV, so whatever. But Mulder doesn’t have a password on his screensaver/sleep mode was A STEP TOO GODDAMN FAR.
Bumped.
Gillian Anderson not too pleased about the lack of female writers for the next season: Gillian Anderson rips ‘The X-Files’ over all-male writers’ room
She should be more worried about the lack of viewers. I can’t be the only person that has completely given up. There is nothing they can do to make me watch any new episodes. Even if every single person on this board says the new season is the best ever, nope, done. They destroyed their credibility.