# X-files Season 11 (open spoilers as airs) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793 "2018-01-03T13:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/41 "2018-01-26T16:31:38Z")
Thanks, everyone. Maybe I’ll take a look after all. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/42 "2018-01-26T18:20:40Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Blood is the only one I needed to look up - it’s the one with people getting messages to kill from LCD displays ([Monster of the Week - Season 2, Episode 3: Firewalker](http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2013/01/18/01182013/)) Heh, I love that one. A dude literally goes postal. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/43 "2018-01-26T21:51:46Z")
I don’t mind this season. I didn’t even mind the first episode, but can see where people are coming from. I didn’t fully understand the last one. How did Skinner recognize the guy? (I forgot his character’s name). Did he recognize him just so his accounts could be allusive? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/44 "2018-01-26T21:55:51Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I forgot his character’s name Man, what are the odds? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/45 "2018-01-26T21:56:35Z")
And how come the supposed “loony bin guys” ID’d themselves to Mulder as FBI agents? (Those were the same guys, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/46 "2018-01-26T22:10:21Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I didn’t fully understand the last one. How did Skinner recognize the guy? (I forgot his character’s name). Did he recognize him just so his accounts could be allusive? It’s the classic “maybe it really was a ghost” trope [Real After All - TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealAfterAll) ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/47 "2018-02-02T14:50:36Z")
Not crazy about the most recent episode. It began and ended well enough, but the middle kinda flagged. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/48 "2018-02-02T19:34:30Z")
I lost the plot early on - how did Mulder and Scully come to the conclusion that the kid was William? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/49 "2018-02-02T19:46:42Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I lost the plot early on - how did Mulder and Scully come to the conclusion that the kid was William? She thought that the kid _might_ have been, and Fox had a DNA test performed on the kid’s blood. He told Skinner later on that it was a match with Dana. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/50 "2018-02-02T19:47:28Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I lost the plot early on - how did Mulder and Scully come to the conclusion that the kid was William? Scully assumed it due to the dream connection. Figured it was only possible due to their familial connection. Mulder ran the DNA test on Scully’s mouth swab and “Jackson”'s hair sample. Anyways, I’m enjoying this season way more than I thought I would. So well done there writers. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/51 "2018-02-02T21:36:46Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Scully assumed it due to the dream connection. Figured it was only possible due to their familial connection. Mulder ran the DNA test on Scully’s mouth swab and “Jackson”'s hair sample. > > Anyways, I’m enjoying this season way more than I thought I would. So well done there writers. Ah. That makes sense. She had an apparently prophetic dream in the season-opener that she associated with William, so it makes sense that this episode’s dream led her to believe that the dreamer was William. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/52 "2018-02-03T01:31:17Z")
I missed part of the beginning of the episode, so I may have misunderstood something important. (I actually hope I have.) Is William/Jackson a budding young “pick-up artist” who was dating two girls at once and then decided it would be funny to use his paranormal powers to trick them into trying to kill each other? Because that was the impression I got, and I spent much of the episode wondering why I should care what happens to this little creep. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/53 "2018-02-03T02:03:49Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I missed part of the beginning of the episode, so I may have misunderstood something important. (I actually hope I have.) Is William/Jackson a budding young “pick-up artist” who was dating two girls at once and then decided it would be funny to use his paranormal powers to trick them into trying to kill each other? Because that was the impression I got, and I spent much of the episode wondering why I should care what happens to this little creep. Mrs. Mahaloth says that William did explain that he didn’t think they would full on kill each other. He thought it was going to trick them and scare them. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/54 "2018-02-03T03:48:55Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Mrs. Mahaloth says that William did explain that he didn’t think they would full on kill each other. He thought it was going to trick them and scare them. Well, I guess that’s all right then. :rolleyes: That eyeroll is for the writers, not you or Mrs. Mahaloth. I wasn’t feeling particularly invested in the mystery of William’s fate in the first place – I’d quit watching the original run of the series before Scully was even pregnant with him – and now that we’ve met him, I’m fine with the government doing something sinister to him. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/55 "2018-02-03T20:51:38Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > … and now that we’ve met him, I’m fine with the government doing something sinister to him. You made me laugh. 😃 That’s what I was thinking the entire time. What a shitty person. I just saw Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. I can’t get over how brilliant that episode is. By far my favorite episode of any TV show ever. When if aired for the very first time, I saw the first scene with Lord Kimbote, and I turned it off. I was embarrassed that it was seemingly a Mythology episode, and it looked so silly. Upon seeing it reruns though, I was in on the joke. I should’ve given it a chance the first time around. Darin Morgan vision was funny, entertaining, and poignant ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/56 "2018-02-03T20:54:45Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Well, I guess that’s all right then. :rolleyes: > > That eyeroll is for the writers, not you or Mrs. Mahaloth. > > I wasn’t feeling particularly invested in the mystery of William’s fate in the first place – I’d quit watching the original run of the series before Scully was even pregnant with him – and now that we’ve met him, I’m fine with the government doing something sinister to him. It seems like they grafted “William” into a more conventional monster of the week story. Take away Scully’s dream at the beginning (and thus the connection to William) and you don’t have to try (and fail) to make the kid less of a jerk - just let him stand as the villain of the piece. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/57 "2018-02-03T22:27:07Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > It seems like they grafted “William” into a more conventional monster of the week story. Take away Scully’s dream at the beginning (and thus the connection to William) and you don’t have to try (and fail) to make the kid less of a jerk - just let him stand as the villain of the piece. I had similar thoughts about this episode. A creepy teen who uses his paranormal powers to play brutal “pranks” on his peers seems like pretty typical MOTW stuff – it reminded me of episodes like _D.P.O._ (about the lightning guy). But this time we’re supposed to be happy that he got away? Didn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/58 "2018-02-05T06:05:37Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Well, I guess that’s all right then. :rolleyes: > > That eyeroll is for the writers, not you or Mrs. Mahaloth. > > I wasn’t feeling particularly invested in the mystery of William’s fate in the first place – I’d quit watching the original run of the series before Scully was even pregnant with him – and now that we’ve met him, I’m fine with the government doing something sinister to him. He’s a teenager, and teenager do stupid, sometimes cruel shit. Add in a superpower and it makes for a middling MOTW episode. I actually thought it was a nice bit of humanization. William isn’t a hero, and he’s not a bad guy, he’s just a misguided adolescent trying to get a handle on things. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/59 "2018-02-05T17:15:10Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > He’s a teenager, and teenager do stupid, sometimes cruel shit. Add in a superpower and it makes for a middling MOTW episode. I actually thought it was a nice bit of humanization. William isn’t a hero, and he’s not a bad guy, he’s just a misguided adolescent trying to get a handle on things. Exactly. Teens sometimes prank each other as well. William, though, is super powerful and didn’t realize his prank could backfire that badly. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793/60 "2018-02-05T17:20:58Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > he’s just a misguided adolescent trying to get a handle on things. And who only recently found out that you never put both of your girlfriends in the same room at the same time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-season-11-open-spoilers-as-airs/805793.md?page=4)