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Umm...what happened in this episode?, 9 April 2008
10/10
Author: beth maher

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Hell, as a die-hard X-Files fan and rabid Mulder/Scully shipper, how could I give this episode less than 10 stars? Vague recollections tell me that this basically served to wrap up Chris Carter's (cancelled?) show 'Millennium', and concerned some conspiracy theory about the new Millennium, finished up Frank Black's storyline much in the same way The Lone Gunmen's story was wrapped up in the Season 8 episode, 'Jump The Shark'. But, really, after 40-odd minutes (without ads) of this convoluted storyline that kinda doesn't matter if you've never seen 'Millenium', the premise wears thin, and a happy little hospital reunion for Frank Black and his daughter is nice if not totally satisfactory. And then...the moment every Mulder/Scully fan waited for, after seven years of hints and banter and flirting. The only reason the episode is worth watching, and bumps it's rating from a 5 to a 10.

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Coda For a Conspiracy, 24 October 2006
7/10
Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA

When a retired FBI agent dies an apparent suicide one of his colleagues knows the truth - as does retired FBI agent Frank Black, former member of the mysterious Millennium Group. When the dead man's coffin is found empty, Mulder spots clues to a necromantic ritual and demands Black's aid. Black's refusal to act may doom Mulder's investigation, as the resurrection of the dead seems to be running a few steps ahead of the end times!

"Millenium" was another Chris Carter series that lasted from 1996 to 1999. Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) was a retired FBI profiler who joined a group of ex-law-enforcement consultants secretly preparing for the apocalypse. While some members hoped to guide humanity through an end times starting in 2000, an inner group of religious fanatics plotted to clear the earth of all but the chosen few.

This is a decent episode with an OK plot without anything in the way of twists. My usual post-season-4 complaint is that too much of the story is straightforward witchcraft with no possible logical explanation.

This is a stand-alone X-Files episode, which is good since "Millenium"'s conspiracy didn't exactly jive with that of the X-Files! However this doesn't EXACTLY work as a wrap for "Millenium," which left off with Frank on the run and a demon having evidently penetrated the Group's inner circle. This episode is in a way a betrayal of the whole mythology of "Millenium" as the ending suggests that the whole threat of millennial apocalypse was occult-inspired self delusion.

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Nobody likes a math geek, Scully., 11 April 2007
7/10
Author: Muldernscully from Washington Terrace, Utah

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That is some bad embalming. Millennium opens up in a funeral home with people attending a viewing. Afterwards, Mark Johnson opens up the coffin to do his resurrecting thing and you see the body. It's all blueish-gray and already looking like a zombie. I've been to several funerals, and nobody has ever looked that bad. I know that he eventually turns into a zombie and needs to look creepy, but shouldn't he be looking like a normally embalmed corpse at the viewing? Sorry for the tangent. It just stuck out to me. I don't know what to say about Millennium. While watching it, I didn't take many notes which I normally do for my review. It was an interesting story that held my attention. I don't have anything negative to say about it. It just didn't "wow" me. Now, I have never seen the series Millennium, and am therefore unfamiliar with it. Perhaps seeing the series would change my opinion of this episode. What I did like about the episode was the New Year's Eve kiss between Mulder and Scully, showing that they can show affection for each other without their world crashing down. Millennium is a good, yet unspectacular episode that I know a lot of fans watch for the last minute of the episode.

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The world didn't end., 8 February 2009
6/10
Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States

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I have very mixed feelings about this episode. I am going to try and do this review in two parts. One part as a fan of the show Millennium, and the other part as a fan of The X-Files.

As far as I understand from interviews with Chris Carter, this episode was originally supposed to be an homage to Frank Black and the fans of Millennium who were left at the end of Season 3 with an unresolved pseudo-cliffhanger pseudo-ending without any real closure to the series. That's what it was supposed to be. But then Chris Carter gave the assignment of writing and directing to people who were not involved with Millennium and who hadn't even really seen the show and who decided to make the show about zombies attacking on New Year's Eve 2000. Frank Black is hardly even in the episode let alone his daughter Jordan. On a defensive note to anyone who might be upset about Frank being in a mental institution, this is something that is hardly uncharacteristic for Frank. He was in an institution before Season 1 of Millennium we know and then between Seasons 2 and 3 he also went through a "recuperation" period after his wife's death via the chicken plague that was let loose by Executive Producers Morgan and Wong as a goodbye note. Anyway, so as an episode that was supposed to provide some kind of closure and pay homage to the show Millennium, this episode completely misses the mark and would receive a rating of probably a 4 or 5 from me out of 10.

Now hold on just a second. As an episode of The X-Files, ignoring all the homage to Millennium stuff, the episode is actually quite entertaining. The teaser is one of the better teasers with the creepy necromancer chanting scriptures as he gets naked with a corpse. Flashbacks to "Irresistible" anyone? It is the only zombie episode (at least that I can think of at the moment) and it is the first official on screen kiss of Mulder and Scully. The guest star acting by both Lance Henriksen as Frank Black and Holmes Osborne as Mark Johnson the Necromancer is superb. Frank Black is the character Lance Henriksen was born to play and no matter what I see him in he will be Frank Black. This is the first thing I had seen Holmes Osborn in but I have since seen him in other shows but I always think of him as the necromancer. The most notable other role for him in my mind was as Donnie Darko's father which he also did a wonderful job as. With just these two roles he has left an impression enough on me that if I were to ever make a movie, I would write a character for him. The zombie portion of the episode is admittedly a little weak but the end of the world cult story works well. As an X-File episode I would probably give a rating of 8 or 9 out of 10.

That being said, I have to average out the ratings for each therefore the episode gets a 6 out of 10.

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