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I tried different thumbnails this week, thoughts? Stick to the standard or change it up? Let me know please. Now onto the goods, this episode was very interesting and I loved learning more about the Smoking Man and his history. Always thought he was a true monster, and yes, he's done terrible things, he has also give out ties as xmas gifts to his colleagues and wrote fanfiction sooooo - the more you know guys hahaha.

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Killian Curran

This was one of the best episodes of the entire show. Great innovation here with CSM's past being revealed. Always in the shadows, but seemingly involved in all sorts of covert activities. Great scene at the start when a young Mulder's father gives him a picTture of his child. Really well done to link all of this from the past in CSM'S character. OK the JFK thing is stretching it a bit, but it just fits In so well with his character as he is capable of anything. The mysterious 'Syndicate' are seen here too with the Martin Luther King scene. His dream of becoming a prize winning author of course seems to never comes to fruition with rejections. Great also to see Deep Throat back here too, and young Scully from S1 E1. Great final scene again with the gun sight on Frohike. A super episode and always a fan favourite. When this show hits, it hits like no other superb writing here. Favourite part is when CSM is talking about life being like a box of chocolates, and the way he describes this is just so true, as for most people it is such a major disappointment with dreams never reaching reality. This show never ceases to amaze with episodes of this quality.

Robert

"What do we say to Death?", "Not today.". The smoking man is the most fascinating character ever created. There is so little that is ever shown about his background that you just want more, and when more is given you just have more questions. This episode showed a man of very deep, if misguided, convictions. We learn that he believes that history must go in one directions, and herds it there however he needs to. We see him quietly tracking world events, so that he can make sure that everything falls his way. We know more than we did, but still want more.

BatmanFanGirl

Love this episode. Really makes you feel bad for CSM.

Nate

Great episode. Totally understand why you were so quiet and just taking it all in. I'm a sucker for this type of "secret history behind history" story. I think they did a great job of showing the motivations of the CSM and his group. There is a method to their villainy. They perform these evil actions to prevent larger evils from taking place. (In their mind at least. I have my own opinions on "necessary evil") They also drop a huge bomb in a very casual line. While CSM and Deep Throat were talking, DT mentions that the security council has decreed any country which comes across a living alien, needs to kill it. As in, the United Nations Security Council. Meaning that the biggest and most powerful countries on the planet acknowledge aliens and have made it Earth policy to kill on sight. Might just be me, but that is such a big revelation to drop in such a casual way, lol.

Jason

CSM is also responsible for The Three Lions not winning another World Cup.

PongPong31

Oh man I love this episode. A lot of shows and movies these days seem obsessed with adding a sympathy layer, an origin story to every villain under the sun, attempting justification and humanising some of the worst traditional baddies. But this episode gets it just right though. It doesn't try and make converts out of anyone. It gives us tiny snippets of Cancer man's life as it played out. The terrible things he's done, the very human hopes even he feels, and heck, they made us feel bad for the guy as well, but not so much as to make us wanna root for him. And I'm sure he knew that leaving whatever organisation isn't really on the cards. They most definitely would have had him killed. Man just wanted to go out seeing his stories in print.

PongPong31

Oh and I like the new thumbnail style. It's neat!

Joe Villalobos

...and to this day the Buffalo Bills have not won a Super Bowl, lol. (Incidentally, during the episode's timeline, the Buffalo Bills had been in 4 straight Super Bowls and lost all of them.) I love how they tie so much of the latter half of twentieth-century US history to CSM's origin story. The conspiracy culture in our country is deep, and this "Christmas" special fits the depths of it. This episode does enthrall because of the Rosetta Stone-type information in the episode. The show stopped being coy for a minute here and gave us a behind-the-scenes look at what is going on in the shadows.

SORPunk

Hands down one of my favorite episodes.

Michael R

Dakara, it's not always your reaction through words and observations to what you're seeing that I'm looking for I could see it just in your facial expressions and i could feel how much you were absorbed in this episode and this story. Watching CSM giggle when talking to the publishing guy. Giggle like a kid, still blows my mind to this day.