Season 10 of The X-Files ended the way it began: with an absurdly talky, absurdly plotted, and just plain absurd conspiracy-minded hour written by series creator Chris Carter that tried to resuscitate the walking corpse that is the franchise’s larger mythology. Having established in the premiere that aliens weren’t the ones seeking to invade Earth and replace humanity — a theory that Fox Mulder, and the show itself, had spent the previous nine seasons advancing — “My Struggle II” saw the long-teased depopulation scheme finally being put into effect, with a shadowy cabal of men (and not of the little green variety) behind it all.
Specifically, extraterrestrial DNA would counter the spread of the virus and save the infected population… including Mulder. And who happens to possess alien DNA? If you guessed a certain adopted child whose name has been bandied around a lot during this shortened season, you’d be spot on. But Carter bought himself another year to find a young actor who could convincingly pass as the result of a Duchovny/Anderson union. The finale ends with a UFO hovering over William’s birth parents — the craft that will likely transport them to a long-awaited mother and child reunion. We’ll have to wait until 2017 to see whether that’s a family get-together anyone still wants to attend after this flat-footed ending. (Who are we kidding? Of course we’re all going to tune in again next January.)
And rather than super soldiers pulling the trigger, a viral outbreak was going to be responsible for reducing the planet’s population by billions. Turns out the the viral assassin had been implanted in the marked victims via the smallpox vaccine, an unwelcome nod in the direction of anti-vaxxers.
Specifically, extraterrestrial DNA would counter the spread of the virus and save the infected population… including Mulder. And who happens to possess alien DNA? If you guessed a certain adopted child whose name has been bandied around a lot during this shortened season, you’d be spot on. But Carter bought himself another year to find a young actor who could convincingly pass as the result of a Duchovny/Anderson union. The finale ends with a UFO hovering over William’s birth parents — the craft that will likely transport them to a long-awaited mother and child reunion. We’ll have to wait until 2017 to see whether that’s a family get-together anyone still wants to attend after this flat-footed ending. (Who are we kidding? Of course we’re all going to tune in again next January.)
And rather than super soldiers pulling the trigger, a viral outbreak was going to be responsible for reducing the planet’s population by billions. Turns out the the viral assassin had been implanted in the marked victims via the smallpox vaccine, an unwelcome nod in the direction of anti-vaxxers.
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