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"The X Files" Requiem (2000)
14 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
This should have ended the series., 26 July 2007
Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
Requiem is a good ending to season 7 with a few things I would have preferred a little different. I like the idea of returning to the case of Billy Miles and reminiscing a little on the Pilot episode. As I watch the episode I can't help but think about all the things that Mulder and Scully have learned in the past seven years about the alien race. It especially hit when they began talking about having seen the toxic blood before as if it were old news and Scully explains it to Billy. I put myself in Billy's shoes and wonder if they knew that last time I saw them or if they've learned about it since then. I also was very glad to see Marita Covarubias and Alex Krycek again. I love that scene when Mulder, Skinner and these two are in Mulder's office and he tries to attack Krycek and then they are standing around talking when Scully walks in. Her face says "what the hey is going on here Mulder?" Anyway probably the one thing that I don't really like is how they put the whole thing in one episode. I wish they could have done it as a two parter. But oh well. Chris Carter mentions in the special features that he didn't even write the end of the episode until they were almost done filming to avoid letting out any spoilers. I respect him for that. I give this episode a 8/10.
13 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
Season 7 Review, 5 April 2008
Author: AdnanZ
Chris Carter once said that his ideal plan for "The X-Files" would have been 5 seasons and a movie to end the series. This didn't happen because the show was now so massively successful that FOX pushed for more X Files. Indeed, we got a season 6, then a season 7. While writing the finale for season 7, with audience figures dwindling quite significantly, the fate of the show was not decided, and "Requiem" was written as a potential series finale. I'm not the only person, who despite liking season 8 quite a bit, thought that "Requiem" was a perfect final episode. True, it left some questions open, but most mytharc questions had been 'resolved' in one way or another throughout the season, and the finale was a poignant and nostalgic episode that ended on a fabulous note. Besides, the final 'Super Soldiers' section of the mytharc just shouldn't exist at all, really, and was clearly made up on the spot and muddled the mytharc and ruined some previous episode as an after-effect. Season 7, as a whole, is a serious drop in quality from the well-regarded and memorable season 6. That's not to say there aren't some great episodes, but the show is starting to feel tired and uninspired, the obviousness of nobody really feeling all too involved in the show, etc. is clear from start to finish. Still, the acting is solid as these are all professionals here, and the writers manage to come up with some really memorable and solid episodes, so this is a really good season which I feel is around as good as seasons 1 & 2.
The mythology episodes in season 7 seem to share a common purpose of tying up loose ends. A lot of fans at the time were angry at some of the explanations offered up by the writers, in particular what happened to Samantha. Re-watching the series this many years after season 7, the explanations don't seem too bad in context. What's frustrating is that they contradict previous statements on the show. The first two episodes of the season are probably my choice for the weakest pre-season 9 mythology episodes. I can't say I got excited about them at all. "Sein und Zeit" and "Closure" are both average episodes, hopelessly sentimental and sappy, but buoyed by brilliant acting for Duchovny. "En Ami", on the other hand, is nothing short of brilliant, as is "Requiem". Overall, I'd say this was probably the weakest season for the mythology outside season 9.
On the other hand, there are some great standalones. Outside of the 'highlights' which I'll mention later, there are some other great episodes here, such as "Millennium" (which has a sweet final moment in addition to zombies and Lance Henriksen), "Orison", which sees the return of everybody's most-hated death fetishist Donnie Pfaster, and "The Goldberg Variation", one that the math geeks surely treasure.
I thought the best episodes were, and prepare for some controversial choices:
"X-Cops"- calm down, forget about your expectations of what an X-File 'should be' and enjoy this hysterical and very original idea for a crossover.
"En Ami"- great writing from William B. Davis, who creates tension brilliantly from dialogue and situations, rarely resorting to action or other means. An exciting thriller with great dialouge.
"Hollywood A.D."- yes, "Hollywood A.D.". Maybe it's just my love for movies here, but this was a genuinely funny and very creative episode nicely directed and written by David Duchovny.
"Requiem"- as stated before, this should have been the series finale, as enjoyable as season 8 was.
Season 7 of "The X-Files" is not a terrific season of television, but it would have been a good final season for The X-Files. It resolved a lot of the mytharc and gave us some memorable episodes and character/relationship moments. I was one of the people who thought Season 8 was an excellent season, but with Mulder gone for half of it and the mythology arc now growing completely out of hand, it was excessive. FOX decided to continue producing the X Files with or without Chris Carter, so he stuck with the show rather than handing it over to other producers. Hence, Doggett and Reyes were introduced, the Super Soldier arc was born, and you know the rest...
Season average rating based on ratings for all episodes: 7.36/10
10 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
We could start sharing rooms., 20 July 2007
Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Back to the beginning! It is cool to see the agents go back to where everything began in Requiem.
An inconsistency pops up in the teaser. We see Miles' watch spinning backwards?!?What's up with that? In previous episodes, when UFOs are involved, watches stop, not spin backwards, indicating a loss of time. Are they implying that time went backwards? I don't think so. I suppose it's a writing oversight.
Poor Krycek. He winds up in the craziest places. Missile silos in South Dakota, prisons in Tunisia. Marita would've preferred to leave him there. I guess the spark is gone, even though they shared the steamiest kiss in the entire series.
It was cool to see the audit. I'm quite surprised it hasn't happened earlier. I like Scully's smile when Mulder mentions assaulting the auditor. I think because she wishes she would have done it herself. The one problem I have with the audit though is that the auditor questions what Mulder and Scully are still investigating if they have solved everything. Why would a financial guy care about things like that? You'd think he'd just worry about the money aspect of things. Perhaps, it's just a way of combining a couple of characters in one; an auditor to run over their expenses and someone to question the authenticity of their work.
Another inconsistency is when it shows the Cigarette Smoking Man(CSM) dying. Jeremiah Smith healed him of his lung cancer. I understand that the brain surgery he had is killing him but that shouldn't affect his throat, and having to smoke through it as if he still had lung cancer.
The first deleted scene for this episode gives out a lot more information. It's too bad they cut it.
I like how Chris Carter leaves clues throughout the episode of Scully being pregnant. She's holding the baby with a look in her eyes. She's sick throughout the episode. It still comes as a big shock if you don't catch the clues.
Requiem is full of nostalgia. The Lone Gunmen return, albeit for a pretty useless cameo. It's cool to see the return of the Alien Bounty Hunter. A question I have is when he impersonates the personalities of the people, like Det. Miles. Then other times he doesn't, like Ray, Theresa's husband. I find it inconsistent how he acts when impersonating other people.
The wiggling effect is cool when Gary and Scully encounter the UFO. It looks like they borrowed that effect from 'Rush' earlier in the season. However, I don't think that could have been good for Scully's baby.
I found it interesting how Marita Covarrubias refers to CSM as Cancer Man to Mulder, as if it's common knowledge that is what he should be called.
I like the music towards the end. Good job, Mark Snow.
I don't like using pregnancy as a plot device. But, on the other hand, Scully's been longing for children most of the series. So it does fit the yearnings of her character. It's just sad to see the show start in the "baby" direction.
The inconsistencies in the episode are a bit annoying. I mean, come on, Chris Carter wrote this stuff to begin with, and he ignores it in this episode for cool shots. That's the only reason those things I mentioned are like that, for cool scenes. Chris Carter should have stuck with the original ideas. For that, Requiem doesn't receive full marks.
Chris Carter wrote Requiem not knowing whether or not the series would end after this episode. Like, I said before, this episode is full of nostalgia and most of the main recurring characters are brought in for a (seemingly) last hurrah. This would have made a nice end to the series, leaving the fate of Mulder in doubt, in true X-Files fashion.
6 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
A beautiful ending for an unsure beginning, 18 March 2007
Author: Ryan R. (Rx861) from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
**Possible Spoilers** Requiem is probably my personal favorite season finale. Unsure if the production would continue for more seasons, this finale was written in such a way that it could act as the series finale. Facing financial cuts of the department, Mulder and Scully are obligated to go back to square one 7 years from the beginning of the X-Files, to Oregon. Running into familiar faces strange things pick up with a double twist in both their parts. The last 5 minutes are worth the entire list price for the season set. Mark Snow's score for this stands out beautifully and Scully's last words are also worth the time (and money) spent watching every episode from the season one to this instant from start to finish.
"It has to end sometime. That time is now", 16 November 2009
Author: Furious_Fenner from United Kingdom
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
For lots of people, Requiem is essentially the spiritual ending for the X Files and it's certainly far more rewarding and powerful then The Truth. And as far as going back to your roots is concerned, this is a very well plotted and executed episode.
The teaser itself is more of a pace setter and establisher rather than a shocker and a stunner. There's nothing new, although the return of Detective Miles comes as a shock, and it's shot brilliantly. You just know we're in for a hell of a ride.
I must profess to loving the fact that the issue of expenses over Mulder and Scully's investigation was left untouched until what at the time was considered the final episode. And the only thing I love more than Mulder beating the crap out of Chesty Short is Scully's amusement when told. For Billy Miles of all people to phone them up out the blue is a real surprise. As is Krycek's stint in a Tunisian penal colony being ended by Marita Covarrubias, last seen looking like a toilet brush in One Son. As a side note, that is one hell of a recovery, both physically and mentally. Kudos Marita C. Turns out that CSM, now dying, has summoned them for one final attempt at rekindling the conspiracy. Inevitably these two events are linked.
That would because an alien craft has crashed outside Bellefleur, and is now sitting under a cloaking device. Mulder n' Scully meet Billy, exchange some reminiscing, and we quickly establish that his father has not come out well from his encounter with the alien. The twist that he's in fact the Bounty Hunter might not come as a big shock, making the pretty cool car trunk shot less effective, but it's not blatant. It turns out that the alien craft was on a salvage hunt for abductees, and while Mulder and Scully visit Theresa Hoese (nee Nemman, her of the nosebleed), one of the local UFO geeks is sucked into the ship's shields. Used twice in this episode, the shaking shot I reckon looks brilliant. All the while Krycek pokes his nose around looking for the craft (the sum of which is sitting in his car on the phone).
Marita and CSM share some pretty insightful conversations, and it's credit to Laurie Holden that you can see her hatred for him burning while she maintains a veneer of cold, emotionless efficiency. Scully meanwhile begins suffering from sudden nausea, the cause of which will come up later. You have a wonderful scene where Mulder tries to comfort her and states for the first time his wish for her to leave him behind and try and have a better life as a result. Whether this is lucky strike number 2 for Mulder isn't clear, although I believe it is.
With their backs turned, Theresa is taken from her home, her screaming baby just metres away, and the friend of shaky boy confirms Billy's suspicions over his father. While Billy returns home to confront him, Mulder and Scully go into the woods and the latter is subjected to the same forcefield rejection. Dismissed as another episode, Mulder and Scully ultimately return to D.C with nothing when Billy is taken by the Bounty Hunter, who had finally convinced him that he was who he said he was. The scene where Billy demands to know why his father never believed him is oddly touching, and stems back to pilot clearly.
As a result, we have what I reckon is one of the best X Files moments ever, when a hesitant Skinner leads Krycek and Marita into Mulder's office. It seems they've had the same lack of luck, and are willing to sign up with M&S at the expense of the CSM. We get a scene from the Lone Gunmen and another example of Mulder trying to stop Scully from joining him at the potential ground zero. This time he succeeds, and while Scully discovers that the alien DNA means Mulder is at risk, Mulder and Skinner travel to the site and the inevitable happens. Mulder walks into the forcefield, ignoring the calls of Skinner, and joins the gathered abductees as the Bounty Hunter walks up to him and smiles vindictively. Skinner almost cries, and then another bombshell: Scully's pregnant.
Ultimately, it's always going to be the return to the beginning aspect of Requiem that will win us over, and does it must be said. There's a feeling of coming full circle that is both excellent and slight depressing (despite what they've seen and done, Mulder and Scully haven't really gone anywhere). Also, the double headed plot which utilises both Abductions and the Conspiracy is generally well handled.
The main issue is that as a one parter, it has holes where they couldn't afford time to use. Krycek and Marita's methods to find the craft aren't clear, and neither is CSM's logic behind rebuilding the project with a single crashed UFO. Mulder and Scully just seem to give up on the case after Billy disappears too. So it's far from perfect.
However, it does deliver and is an emotional, powerful episode that could well have ended the show. Scenes such as Mulder watching Scully with the baby, the bedroom scene and Skinner getting emotional are stunning, and we have the satisfaction of seeing Krycek shove Cigarette Smoking Man down the stairs. The revelation that Scully is pregnant is jaw dropping.
So basically, Requiem isn't perfect; it's uneven, and slightly constricted by the single episode it was given to resolve the story. However, there is genuine emotion, wonderful recognition of the show's roots, and a great plot and story. The music from Mark Snow is brilliant even by his standards. If Season 7 was all about closure and wrapping up, Requiem does it in spades. Powerful viewing.
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