I just wanted to leave a reply on this one Cookie, because I am compelled to every time that someone mentions those last two post-Duchovny seasons of the OG X-Files: I actually genuinely loved season 8 and thought it was a great return to form for the show after it took that sharp comedic bent in seasons 6 - 7. Scully and Doggett were a …
I just wanted to leave a reply on this one Cookie, because I am compelled to every time that someone mentions those last two post-Duchovny seasons of the OG X-Files: I actually genuinely loved season 8 and thought it was a great return to form for the show after it took that sharp comedic bent in seasons 6 - 7. Scully and Doggett were a great pairing, and forcing her into the "believer" role after all the years of weird shit that she'd seen was really, really fun character development. (I still remember one episode early in season 8 where the local cops are mocking her weird theories and she's so defensive and insists "I am just a SCIENTIST who has seen A LOT")
None of it would have worked without Robert Patrick; he had the gravitas and the chops to hang with Gillian Anderson. But yeah, come season 9 and the attempt to shoehorn in Reyes as a regular, it all fell apart. No offense to Annabeth Gish but she just did not have the same "main character" magnetism as Anderson did from her first scene.
I just wanted to leave a reply on this one Cookie, because I am compelled to every time that someone mentions those last two post-Duchovny seasons of the OG X-Files: I actually genuinely loved season 8 and thought it was a great return to form for the show after it took that sharp comedic bent in seasons 6 - 7. Scully and Doggett were a great pairing, and forcing her into the "believer" role after all the years of weird shit that she'd seen was really, really fun character development. (I still remember one episode early in season 8 where the local cops are mocking her weird theories and she's so defensive and insists "I am just a SCIENTIST who has seen A LOT")
None of it would have worked without Robert Patrick; he had the gravitas and the chops to hang with Gillian Anderson. But yeah, come season 9 and the attempt to shoehorn in Reyes as a regular, it all fell apart. No offense to Annabeth Gish but she just did not have the same "main character" magnetism as Anderson did from her first scene.