This is a small article from the end of the year double issue of
Entertainment Weekly from December 26, 1997-January 2, 1998
I will look around for a canned picture that was with this article
and when I find one I will add it here.

6 THE X-FILES (Fox) I'm hearing com-
plaints from fans about how the "Mytholo-
gy" episodes have become glasically paced,
niggling in the amount of new info dispensed. But
as the series procedes, I realize
that I (and, dare I presume,
creator Chris Carter?) have al-
ways been in it for the richness
of the emotional, not the sci-
ence fictional, payoffs. Which is
to say, Scully's cancer remis-
sion was handeled with a lovely
restraint that has led to a re-
newed dramatic energy: The
X-Files has become, in an al-
most classical sense, a roman-
tic quest. The "monster" epi-
sodes (such as the lyrical
Frankenstein/ Cher/ Jerry
Springer entry) now carry
more human resonance, as do
the dry, sarcastic comments Mulder and Scully
make to each other to stave off the boredom of
work and the disaster of an affair.

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