Oh guh, Krycek. And his death was so... so... blunt and inelegant and NOT befitting his character. It was almost an afterthought, like they said, "Oh, we don't really want to bother with resolving his character arc, so let's just kill him. Here - write in a handgun for somebody and we'll give him an execution-style death in a parking lot." WTF!? *smacks Chris Carter around*

I was on-and-off with the alien thing. My favorite part was really when Mulder was convinced it was all a government/military ruse. (Which is a fun little toy to play with since he and Roy are going to be getting into lots of trouble together.)

And, uh, yes. I hate monster stories because they almost NEVER get finished. Although I suppose I should be encouraged: the only one I ever did finish was an X-Files. So maybe I'm capable of finishing this one. ;-) (Of course, I also had an aggressive beta who would email me and say, "Hey, slacker, where's the next part?" *G*)