# X Files 5/5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463 "2002-05-06T01:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/21 "2002-05-07T18:42:49Z")
I loved thise episode. I thought I would really hate… But there was great acting and more Doggett depth I’m not afraid to say It was one of my fav. eps. of all time ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/22 "2002-05-08T08:19:24Z")
**PublicBlast** , his name is Gibson Praise, and I forget what happened to him, too. But IIRC he was in the upcoming episode teasers. **JohnT** , I read your previous mini-rant about Scully “abandoning” William, and I really can’t say I agree with you. Putting aside the fact that everyone and all the events in the show are ficticious, Scully was not a Horrible Mommy for putting William up for adoption–quite the opposite. Considering how the aliens and assorted bad guys always track him down by following her or going through her somehow, getting him as far away from her was a good idea. And I think you’re forgetting that in the particular episode your criticisms seem to focus on, Scully initially suspected that the guy was Mulder. If you accept that, then her not being more cautious about the “madman” is understandable. Really, until we saw him whip out the hypodermic needle, we had no reason to suspect he had any business with William. And there’s nothing else to indicate that Scully was anything but a loving, nurturing mother. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/23 "2002-05-08T11:38:28Z")
Ever since she had that kid, in almost every episode all I could think is, “Where’s her baby?” She didn’t seem to me to be the most protective mother, though she did seem to care about the baby when around it. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/24 "2002-05-08T11:50:15Z")
We’ve spent years waiting for answers re the aliens, Scully’s sister, CSM and the group he was in who seemed to be in cahoots with the aliens, the black oil, the chips in necks, the clones, the bees, etc., etc. It does not seem likely that they can explain a fraction of this in two episodes. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/25 "2002-05-08T12:46:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PublicBlast \* > **Another question: whatever happened to the kid (forget his name) who was a chess genius and who was being chased by everyone in the FBI? Last I remember of him he was in a nuke plant watching one of the alien creatures (that burst from a human parasite) turn into a traditional “Roswell gray” alien while boiling in the nuclear coolant. That’s something else never resolved, unless I missed it.** You missed it, he wad in the season starters after mulder was ubducted. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/26 "2002-05-08T13:40:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hazel \* > It does not seem likely that they can explain a fraction of this in two episodes. I asked this question after last week’s episode, and no one was interested in answering it, so I’ll give it one more try: are we all assuming here that the end of the series will be the end of _The X-Files_? Or are we expecting movies to follow? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463/27 "2002-05-08T14:33:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\* > I asked this question after last week’s episode, and no one was interested in answering it, so I’ll give it one more try: are we all assuming here that the end of the series will be the end of _The X-Files_? Or are we expecting movies to follow? \*\* Carter does expect to make at least one more X-Files movie, but that’s only another couple of hours. I still doubt he can wrap things up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-5-5/107463.md?page=1)