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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful: Spinning Artifacts, 4 April 2007 Author: Muldernscully from Washington Terrace, Utah
Whenever Scully does voice-overs in the teasers, I feel like I'm getting a science lesson, replete with big words I don't understand. Scully does it again in Biogenesis, the season finale for season six. I love the use of the crazy monkeys when Dr. Merkmallen is meeting with Dr. Barnes. The monkeys can sense that something is not quite right with that artifact. Why is it that animals are always the first to sense these things? After seeing the crime scene, Scully asks Mulder the question all of us are wondering; what his motives are after the syndicate has been destroyed. What do you still have left to find? --My sister-- The original quest is still alive. One thing I've always liked about the x-files is the casting of minor guest roles such as landlords or a store manager. They are very minor roles, but they get the perfect actors for them. They do it again with the landlord of Dr. Sandoz. He only has a few lines, but he is so convincing in that small role, as if he really is a landlord. Also, that Dr. Barnes is a very creepy guy. He is very well cast. I like the continuation of S.R. 819. Krycek has Skinner by the you-know-whats and he has to spy on Mulder and Scully and record their conversations. Though what Dr. Barnes needs that tape for is beyond me. It's fun to see Chuck Burks return. After the death of Pendrell, Chuck is our FBI office comic relief, though in a different way. We also get a shot of the pencils in the ceiling of Mulder's office during the Chuck scene. It's funny that they used the over-used cliché of horses neighing when trouble is approaching, this time in the form of Alex Krycek, coming to kill Dr. Sandoz. If horses can always detect trouble like that, then we need to have horses at all security checkpoints in airports instead of humans. Could've prevented 9-11, perhaps. I love the final shot of Scully standing before the spaceship submerged in water. One of the best final shots ever in an x-files episode. Biogenesis is a very fun episode. It takes the mythology in a new and interesting direction.
5 out of 6 people found the following review useful: Otherworldly, 19 September 2007 Author: Edgewalker from Tuxford, England
If you wanted to convert someone to the cause, you'd probably sit them in front of Home, Humbug or Bad Blood, Biogenesis, however, probably wouldn't cross your mind. Perhaps its time you revisited it. Rob Bowman directs the episode with such otherworldly brilliance that no matter how many times you watch it, you will always notice something you missed all the other times. The textures and colours that Rob drags out of every frame are dazzling, look around and you'll see that real life isn't half as pretty. Biogenesis has a wonderful collection of occasional characters - Diana Fowley, Alex Krychek and the brilliant Bill Dow as the brilliant Chuck Burks. Duchovny and Anderson are both on top form, a fact that doesn't stop Marty Zagon from stealing a scene from under their noses, I won't tell you what blink-and-you'll-miss-it character he plays, you'll know it when you see it...
7 out of 11 people found the following review useful: Season 6 Review, 3 April 2008 Author: AdnanZ
Season Six of "The X Files" is brilliant. It's astonishingly good, beating out even classic seasons like 3 and 4 for the title of my favorite. Sadly, it would also be the 'plateau season' after which The X Files entered into a three-season period which didn't quite match expectations, in particular the final season. Season 6 takes The X Files in a bold new direction, replacing some of the more formulaic monster of the week episodes with original, inventive classics like "Triangle", the "Dreamland" episodes (humorous quasi-mythology episodes? Unthinkable), "Drive", "Arcadia", and "Field Trip". It's a change that The X-Files needed, but it's a shame that the series grew as far astray from its roots as it did in season 7.I didn't mind the addition of more humor. Frankly, it was needed after the extremely dreary season 5. It's not overbearingly silly, and it's brilliant writing for the most part. Season 6 marked the addition of Emmy-winning cinematographer Bill Roe, who works brilliantly with the directors to create a fantastic aesthetic feel to the series, markedly different from the first few seasons, but great in its own way. The actors are now doing better than ever, with David Duchovny reaching the peak of his skill. The variety and different feel of so many episodes gives Mark Snow a chance to show off his skill and do something different on occasion.Picks for best episodes: "Drive"- great concept, great guest star in Bryan Cranston, nice writing throughout. Beautifully-done teaser that immediately lets us know there will be a break from formula here."Triangle"- hilarious, great acting, costumes, art direction, score, use of music other than the original score, and long takes that aren't just long takes, but GOOD long takes which move the episode at a great pace. Proof that Chris Carter is a capable director."Dreamland/Dreamland II"- brilliant humor-filled episodes with sections of seriousness and even slight exploration of the mythology. You have to love Mulder struggling with a wife and kids who aren't his. Plus, there's a Mulder Porn Joke. Mulder Porn Jokes are always spectacular."Two Fathers/One Son"- fascinating mytharc two-parter that could have been a reasonably effective ending to the mythology. Shame it wasn't."Monday"- The X Files as an action/thriller/sci-fi thing. Executed brilliantly."Arcadia"- Oh come on? Mulder and Scully 'married'? Perfect planned community? Monsters that kill you if your house isn't 'perfect'? "Field Trip"- What a great episode, even when you know the twist in advance.I'll never forget seeing it for the first time and being shocked repeatedly though.Sadly, the season finale "Biogenesis", while fun on its own and promising an intriguing and different (and completely unneeded, contradictory, and muddling) direction for the mytharc, is in many ways signs of things to come. The concluding episodes for this three parter are at the start of season 7, and season 7 does not start well. The Colonization arc picked up enough steam to eventually do well enough, but the mytharc would never be the same again.In short, season 6 of "The X Files" is probably one of the absolute greatest television seasons in history. It's almost impossibly good and consistently fantastic. It's a shame the series would take a dive after this, and nobody who tuned into season 7 in late '99 was expecting it not to continue this sort of excellence. Oh well.Season average based on ratings for all episodes: 8.68/10
5 out of 8 people found the following review useful: As the Season Ends, a New Beginning, 24 October 2006 Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA
Strange artifacts have been discovered on the African coast and a local professor (Michael Chinyamurindi) brings them to the U.S. for further study. When both the professor and the artifacts disappear Mulder and Scully look into the case. Strangely, even depictions of the artifacts cause violent seizures in Mulder! With Mulder increasingly incapacitated Scully goes for answers to Navajo medicine man Albert Hosteen, who is hospitalized himself. Meanwhile the Cigarette Smoking Man's secret agent in the FBI, Diana Fowley, reappears as does the villainous Alex Krycek. Finally Scully's pursuit of the source of Mulder's illness leads her to the source of the artifacts on the African coast, where she makes an astounding discovery.This, the season 6 cliffhanger finale, is a solid episode that offered X-Files viewers hopes of a new beginning for the show's UFO mythology. The sense of urgency has returned as Chris Carter took a leaf from the books of 'alien genesis' theorist Erich von Daniken; the show seemed to be moving towards a new explanation of humanity's place on earth - although not one much consistent with the ideas previously explored!
4 out of 8 people found the following review useful: Weak start to a great three parter, 9 July 2007 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
As season finales go this was somewhat of a disappointment. I enjoyed greatly the follow up episodes at the beginning of Season 7 but this one did a little too much setting up for that storyline and didn't really leave me feeling it absolutely necessary to see the next two. I think part of the problem may be that I never saw this episode before I watched The Sixth Extinction. So I already knew what was going to happen and the cliffhanger kind of lost its effect. What was good about this episode is we are returned to Mulder's brain cancer whatever thingy which later we find out is happening because of his exposure to the black virus which he has become immune to. Anyway not much else I could say other than 7/10.
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