Best And Worst Seasons?

[Guest A Stranger]

I think season four is the best season. It was able to develop a mytharc that really worked in an organic waythat was great drama as well as just great sci-fi better than any other year. It has some of my all time favorites and the overall tone is the best. "Paper Hearts" is by far my favorite episode, it , like the season in general, was able to touch on all the elements that made the series great without segementing them in the way they usaully do. I found season four to be the the most serious, sad, and dramatic year.

But it's a close call in some areas.

I would rate it something like: 4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 1, 8, 7, 9

[ethsnafu]

Hark! What goes there? A poll I haven't voted on no less. Allow me to rectify that.

I voted for season five but I changed my mind so many times when trying to decide. I couldn't choose between seasons three, four and five but episodes like Bad Blood, Redux 1/ 2, Folie a Deux, The Pine Bluff Variant, Patient X / Red & Black, Detour, The End made season five my gun-to-the-head choice.

I have to say I love them all for one reason or another and the only season I don't enjoy as much as the others is season eight.

It's a very consistent show in terms of entertaining the viewer when you think about it.

Eth

[Guest WaveCrest]

You've voted in EVERY poll here Mark? How many polls are there in total here?!

I've gone for, and this may be a surprising choice, the sixth season as my favourite season of The X Files. It contains my all time favourite episode ("Drive"). I could say I liked the variety of standalone stories and mytharc episodes, and the move to sunnier California. But then I think of the other seasons and the Vancouver years with the dark, cloudy and rainy locations which I loved.

[ethsnafu]

Hi Richard,

I haven't voted in them all, I just like to think that maybe I have.

Couldn't agree with you more about "Drive" I absolutely love that episode and with it every time hoping it will end differently. Vince Gilligan is a superb writer and that really shows in "Breaking Bad" as well as the episodes he did for "The X-Files" and "The Lone Gunmen". "The Rain King" is another favourite of mine as is "Arcadia" "Milagro" and quite a few from that season. That's why it's so hard to pick when it comes to the "X-Files" it really didn't get that much wrong from my perspective.

Eth

[Guest WaveCrest]

I do have a fondness for the first season. While I haven't seen all of the episodes, of the ones I've watched there were plenty which I would call classics.