"Where I come from, that's what we call a whopper". ~ Mr. Ballard (NTSB guy)

Oh, for the love of mythology...

Not that these episodes were mythology per se... they were your average alien encounter stories, complete with innocent deaths and military cover-ups. No black oil, no bounty hunters, not even a mention of Samantha.

Oh, well.

Although these episodes weren't great, they weren't really too horrible either. I don't mind watching them again, but they certainly wouldn't be among my top picks for re-viewing.

After watching these episodes, I don't feel that I've leaned anything. Can I tell you how many times Mulder proposed a theory, Scully refuted it (along with everyone else) then in the very next scene, Mulder was refuting his own theory for a new one? I don't think we ever really learned what happened and who was telling the truth. Maybe that's why my head hurts. I actually try to make sense out of this mytharc crap.

So, the military was trying to shoot down a civilian aircraft- flight 549- when 549 was intercepted by a UFO that the military didn't see. Max Fenning (good to see him again- a nice continuity) was abducted from 549 by the UFO, then returned. After being returned, however, the military attempted to intercept 549 because Max had a piece of an alien energy source that his good friend Sharon Grafia stole from her place of employment. The military thought it was worth 134 lives to protect one piece of their puzzle, so they intercepted the plane, Max, alien energy source and all. After the crash, the military tried to cover up the disinformation to protect their secret.

Right?

Does your head hurt too?

Poor Pendral. Poor pathetic Pendral...

Or maybe poor us for trying to put these pieces together and figure out where it goes in the grand scheme of mythology.

Rating: together, 2 lounge chairs out of 5

"You sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday".