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First, let me say that I am a fan of 'The X-Files' I remember watching it on Friday nights and wondering why it was near the bottom of the rating pile the first season. But the show caught on and become the hit it deserved to be. David Duchnovny was the single-minded character who would take a backhoe to a desert to find the truth he so wanted to expose. Gillian Anderson was the 'smart is sexy' partner grounded in science almost to a fault. What made this show so wonderful is we saw the development of the characters and their relationship over the seasons: The resolution of Mulder's search for his sister, Scully's motherhood and the working relationship that became a friendship and then romance. Although I was not one for the ‘when will they finally kiss' moment I enjoyed the banter between the two especially in ‘War of the Coprophages.'

Now for the bad part, the last couple of seasons were a miss and hit with mostly misses. You could tell that Duchovny was at times walking through some episodes and was excess baggage at times. Scully after motherhood lost that tightly bound sexiness that made Scully. And there was no real development of Doggett and Reyes. I wish that Mulder and Scully had been written out of the series with a period (with room for more movies, of course) and the x-files taken over by Doggett and Reyes.

'The X-Files' is a great tv show with very good acting from Duchovny and Anderson. Catch it in reruns especially the stand-alone episodes of the first few seasons.

ugh, where do i begin??

I really do not like this show. I find the character of Ray Barone just a spineless jellyfish and slightly masochist for living so close to his very bothersome mother. His mother is the character I really cannot stand and Doris Roberts is very good at creating an annoying, in everyone's business mother that would make

anyone move to Iraq for some peace. And I suppose that some of the cast

would like to after having Roberts rub her Emmys in their faces.

I do like Patricia Heaton's Debra Barone who is a strong character and a must be fun to play, Brad Garrett is at times hilarious as Barone's brother and Peter Boyle is good at Barone's one dimensional father who is good for one liners.

But these pluses cannot overcome the faults I find with the show, which I admit are personal. I wish that at the end of the show Debra would divorce Ray so he could move back with his parents, poetic justice straight and true.

Definitely one of the best scifi shows on TV. If you see one scifi show on tv see this one and not just one episode, to really appreciate this show you need to see it from the beginning where Capt Sinclair takes command of Babylon 5 to the very well written future mythos of Sheridan and Delenn.

Unlike Star Trek TOS and TNG, this show has a five year storyline that absorbs the viewer and takes them on a ride that is both fun and sad. The writing is consistently strong and very well interpreted by the actors. My favorite characters are Claudia Christian's Susan Ivanova, a very strong character who can laugh at herself and Stephen Furst's Vir Cotto.

Get the dvds and see why this show is one that should be a blueprint for future scifi shows.