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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- Good Season Opener, 11 March 2006 Author: alex-ross77
Following on from Biogenesis (Season 6 Finale), Scully desperately tries to discover the secrets of the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast in West Africa, while Mulder lies in hospital with Skinner and a returning character hoping that they'll find a way to save him.This mythology episode is a personal favourite of mine because it continues with an interesting topic, over how we came to exist and whether our ancestors were aliens or not.The only let-down is Diana Fowley (played by Mimi Rogers), a character that I've never really been fond of, who goes around arguing about Mulder being her one true love and that she'll take care of him.6/10 - Maybe not the best X-Files opener, but 'The Sixth Extinction' will manage to get your attention.
11 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :- Uncle Sam Propaganda Mills and Swanky Addresses, 10 April 2007 Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
I've got several problems with The Sixth Extinction. So why do I give it a rating as high as a 7? Because it's still interesting and entertaining to watch. I don't like some of the inconsistencies from previous seasons. In season four's Tunguska, Mulder is infected with the alien virus via the black oil. He then is given the vaccine that apparently cured him. I guess not, since they're they're saying that Mulder's exposure to the artifact activated the virus within him. I felt it was a contrived reason for bringing Kritschgau back to the show. Before he was just a DoD lackey who helped dissuade Mulder from his belief in aliens. Now, he's apparently some expert in ESP, that Mulder already knew about. Mulder's in a psych ward, yet he found access to a red marker to write "HELP ME" on a piece of clothing to give to Skinner? In my Biogenesis review I mentioned how creepy Dr. Barnes was and that he was well cast. Several months later, they bring him back to the show, but now he's just plain annoying. He is given really lame dialogue that grates at the ears, and he's no longer creepy, just annoying. I also don't like the idea that apparently aliens just want to use Navajo to record all religious text and DNA sequences on their spacecrafts. Why? They can't write it somewhere else? Barring numerous shots of Scully's chest which may have helped me get through this episode easier, I still like this episode. I don't like the direction that the mythology is going, but the action contained within The Sixth Extinction still makes for an entertaining hour of television.
Now he's the proof-- he's the X-File., 22 November 2009 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
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Well its been a long time since I reviewed Biogenesis, so watching this episode felt a little like starting a book in the middle. But that aside, I enjoyed this episode. Most of the episode focuses on Mulder's condition and Skinner bringing Kritschgau in to help find out what's wrong with him. They inject him with some chemical or other which filter's out gamma brain waves or something other so that Mulder can actually communicate. They find out that whatever is happening to Mulder is giving him the ability to anticipate the future. And read thoughts. But it is taking his brain to such a level that it is routinely killing his body. I love the scene where he is guessing which screen is showing the UFO. Anyway, for whatever evil reason, Fowley is there to stop Skinner from helping Mulder and gets him kicked out. Then Scully is in Africa with a crazy guy who starts messing with the powers of the spaceship they found to start doing Pet Sematary stuff like bringing frogs back to life and even African dudes with stubble. But when the African stubble dude comes back he then kills the scientist with the same machete. "Sometimes dead is bettah" as Stephen King's characters might say. Anyway, Scully escapes the crazy guy before all that, but then she sees some vision of a shaman or something telling her to go away. So she does. And she goes back to DC and the episode ends eventually. The story is pretty good and Kritschgau is always fun. 9 out of 10. Losing a point simply because the whole African ghost guy was completely irrelevant to anything in the episode.
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