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I saw the movie tonight after finishing the series today...I must have stopped watching sometime in season eight because I remembered some of those episodes and remembered laughing every time I saw Mulder falling in the opening credits. The last two seasons weren't as bad as I thought they would be. I think season seven was actually the worst as far as boring standalones. The entire series definitely should have ended after season five and the first movie. They explained the whole mythology at that point and the rest was just completely unimportant and confusing. I liked the episodes that subtly called back to Clyde Bruckman's prediction that Scully was immortal.

One flaw in the mythology is that Mulder figures out the aliens are coming in 2012 and everybody who isn't immune, a hybrid, or living under magnetite is gonna die. He's the only one with this knowledge. So what does he do? He gives up and goes into hiding. Um, don't you want to try and save the world? The Syndicate was the only group who had any semblance of control over this thing and they all died. The aliens are unchecked, and it was shown that they were infiltrating the government with their super soldiers. You just gonna let them win? Not a very bright future for your son, wherever he is. The new movie's theme is "don't give up", and it's odd that with just four years to go Mulder seems to just be sitting idly by, having left his quest behind him.

Anyway, the movie was okay, nothing special. There were several points where I wondered why they recast Julianne Moore in the role of Scully, and remarked that Duchovny looks like he's become the Smoking Man himself. Skinner's cameo seemed superfluous; he's really still at the FBI after all this time? If he is, why wasn't he involved in this case that brought Mulder and Scully back into the fold? And where's the backfill for the Mulder/Scully relationship? When we left off they were closer than ever, and now it seems like they had completely drifted apart and hadn't seen each other in ages. Xzibit and Amanda Peet's characters seemed like they were replacing Doggett and Reyes and I would have been more comfortable with them.

I hope the next movie is about the actual invasion. And bring back Smoking Man again. He's been shot, pushed down the stairs, riddled with cancer, and blown to smithereens, but he's gotta have a few lives left in him.

His official name in the lore was Cigarette-Smoking Man. Smoking Man for short, Cancer Man colloquially. The character's real name, or one of his names, appeared to be C.G.B. Spender.