Hop on into the Way-Back Machine...

We were talking about The X Files at work today and it got me in a snit all over again about how it ended.  God, it was so bad.  It was so bad.  I mean, there at the end, Chris Carter and/or the Fox executives were pretty much screaming, "KILL IT!  KILL IT!  DANCE ON ITS CORPSE AND SEE IF MORE MONEY OOZES OUT!"*  You think Heroes got bad in the end?  Ha!  Ha, I say!

And then the movie two years ago that was... sigh... such a wasted opportunity.  I knew I it was going to be disappointing when I read an interview in Entertainment Weekly in which Chris Carter said that they were trying to appeal to the generation that was raised on Hostel and the Saw movies.  The movie wasn't uniformly horrible -- Billy Connelly was awesome, and I liked the glimpses into Mulder and Scully's post-FBI life.  So much potential there, and they wasted it on a shitty, gore-splattered remake of "Beyond the Sea."

Random observation: just about everyone I know who has only seen one episode of The X Files has seen "that cockroach one."  Honestly, I've heard this from at least half a dozen separate people, all of whom decided on that basis never to watch the show again.  It's not a bad episode, it's just not the one you want to introduce the show to someone with.  (Worst episode ever?  "Home."  It's the only one I will never, ever rewatch, and somehow it always gets voted in as a fan favorite.  Hostel and Saw generation, indeed.)

Anyway, for those of you that did watch the show, what were your favorite episodes?

*Spoiler alert: it didn't.