Spoilers

“Our Town”

“Anasazi”

“The Blessing Way”

“Paper Clip”

I wanted to finish off season two of the X-Files with the final two episodes. However, episode 25 “Anasazi” left off on a cliffhanger and dropped the old TO BE CONTINUED signal. So I decided to go ahead and watch season 3 episode 1. 

Then, that episode did the same thing. It was so tense and anxious, that I had to go on to epside 2.

“Our Town” was a creepy small town that were killing people and eating them to keep themselves young. This was a truly weird episode with some frightening ideas in it. The masked fellow with the giant axe. 

Meanwhile, the next three episodes all focused on the series’ underlying mythology and the governmental conspiracy about aliens and the projects that were being run on abductees. It was three episodes of intensity and a huge reminder how much I absolutely HATED Cigarette Smoking Man. Not just as hate him cause he is an awesome villain, but HATE him- please put a bullet in his head.

These three episodes saw the deaths of Mulder’s father and Scully’s sister. We also found out that Mulder’s father was involved in the projects from the 1950s. It is implied that he chose Mulder’s sister as an abductee. 

I did not enjoy the spiritual visits Mulder had in this few episodes as they felt very clichéd. Plus, they did not look very good. They reminded us all that this was a 90s show.

The conspiracy felt so gigantic in this episode, but there were some small victories, such as Skinner telling CSM to “pucker up and kiss my ass.” The return and subsequent attempted killing of Krycek was very good too.

One has to feel for the families of Mulder and Scully as they are constantly in the line of fire or into the troubles up to their ears.

There was also a scene that got downplayed here, but leads to big things. It was when Scully discovered the chip in her neck. If I remember correctly, the removal of that chip is what triggered Scully’s bout with cancer.

Lots of great stuff here as the X-Files heads into their third season.