I've always been a huge X-Files fan, but wasn't able to watch episodes from the sixth season on, so I've had to catch up later. I consider this the WORST episode of the X-Files I've ever seen. I'm thinking the writers must have written themselves into a corner with no idea how to get out of it (like what happened to "Lost"). Obviously Sci-Fi requires a certain suspension of disbelief, but the story still has to make sense within the context of the imagined universe it has created. Nothing in this episode--along with the one before it--makes any sense whatsoever. One trivial but obvious example: In the midst of a crisis, Scully goes to see Michael Kritschgau, where she deletes a bunch of files from his computer that she didn't know he'd hacked, then immediately leaves. Uh...why she did she go there in the first place? There are a whole lot of unmotivated actions or ones that contradict everything we've learned about a character. I decided by the first commercial that a lot of this had to be a dream, but even dreams have a certain logic to them. The two "Sixth Extinction" episodes do not.
Review of The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
