The X-Files: The Truth (2002)
Season 9, Episode 19
7/10
Heavy going, but ties up lots of loose ends.
1 December 2022
Mulder is back, and stands accused of killing a member of The Military.

It would be thirteen years before the show would return, I remember the distain felt by many fans when the show ended here, this did feel like a natural end of The X Files.

Personally, this final installment, was not as good as I had hoped for, but still a watchable, interesting episode, which does tie up several loose ends.

It's like a role call of past episodes, there are so many faces from the past, so many flashbacks, and that's perhaps some of the problem. It's like as if too much time was spent slotting in so many faces, that the actual plot seemed to be sacrificed at times.

I wasn't particularly crazy about The Super Soldier storyline, it did go on and on, I was glad to see some sort of resolution.

On the plus side, the acting was great, and it was nice to see Skinner having such a big part, and it was of course nice to see Mulder and Scully.

On the downside, the story was maybe a little too heavy, and I felt that Doggett and Reyes were just sidelined, both having put in some cracking performances in Series 9, they just seemed to be shoved to one side here.

Interesting, just a little too heavy, 7/10.
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