I downloaded 9 seasons and both movies about 6 months ago and have made it to the beginning of season 9 (after Mulder disappears for the millionth time), now Im really struggling to get through it. There's only so much of the same underlying storyline that I can take, and when things just got more absurd toward the end I lost interest.
The movies sucked balls though, Mulder and Scully's relationship was totally forced, but the series had great to and fro's between them, better dialogue and cases and classic funny bits.
A typical exchange:
MULDER: It's been reported for centuries in dozens of countries. From the monsters in Loch Ness, Nessie, to the Ogopogo in Lake Okonagan.
SCULLY: And Lake Champagne, Lalavack Iceland...
MULDER: Sounds like you know a little something about the subject.
SCULLY: I did as a kid. But, then I grew up, and became a scientist.
MULDER: Well some very grown up crypto-zoologist believed it could be an evolutionary throwback, quite possibly prehistoric.
SCULLY: An aquatic dinosaur.
MULDER: A pleosaur, actually. Though admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up.
SCULLY: You know why? Because those creatures don't exist, Mulder. They're folk tales born out of some collective fear of the unknown.
MULDER: Well how many folk tales do you know that could eat a boy scout leader and a biologist?
Oh, and Mulder and Scully were both hot!
