Scary monsters.
I saw an episode of the X-Files called Scary Monsters. (SciFi is running the X-Files all day today, because there are too many channels and not enough content.) It was a non-Duchovny episode, with Monica Reyes, although Scully was still there. (There were X-Files eps without Mulder and Scully, right?) Of course, they talked about Mulder a lot, so we could all remember he used to be on the show.
Anyway, it was really good! Clever, sometimes funny writing, good premise, genuinely scary monsters and a suitably precarious situation. I began to wonder if this was the last episode and they were gonna kill everybody off! I don't recognize the name Thomas Schnauz, but he wrote it and it was good.
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There MAY have been just a few episodes with just Reyes and Doggett, with no Scully or Mulder. But Gillian Anderson was always a cast member for the entire run, so typically even the season 9 episodes had at least a splash of Scully.
But anyway, I'm actually one of those oddballs who LIKED season 8 and 9. I thought The X-Files got its head so far up its ass about their so-called "mythology" episodes that I longed for the episodes that were stand-alone instead. And then they wove the characters of Mulder and Scully deeply into that mythology plot when they added the "miracle baby" storyline. In others words, the way they wrote the mythology made me NOT want to see Mulder and Scully anymore. So I saw the Reyes/Doggett episodes as a welcome return to the types of X-Files episodes that were GOOD.
There were a handful of episodes that Scully wasn't in during her "disappearance" too, don't forget.
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