The thing about Manners isn't that he's powerful - it was that he so obviously enjoys being used by what he perceives as a Higher Power.

Mister Elevator to Hell Guy for the Senior Partners, you know?

Well, yeah...he's gonna be honored to have Kay abuse him...and she is, of course, his superior in any respect you could name."because she's not like the rest of us...she's a hero." as Giles said about some young Slayer, back when.(Which makes me get pissed off at NBC PTB all over again...straight-up women heroes are rare, rare, on TV.) We've got Kay, Dana Scully, Buffy, Xena...wow, used up one whole hand...)

Hell, I'd have been happy with more than a double handful of women characters for mainstream TV who were drawn as complex human beings, without having the "I must have a baby!" shite grafted on. They screwed up Scully with that, wrecked Jamie Buchman on "Mad About You" by suddenly having her needing to reproduce, and the list goes on....

The desire never bothered me terribly with Scully, maybe because I came into the show late enough that "Scully would like to be a mother some day" felt to me like a basic part of her character.

The implementation, er, not so much. I particularly enjoyed the Stealth IVF and her letting random strangers stay in her apartment with her infant son despite knowing that said infant son was a target for Bad Guys. I mean, it takes work to be a more clueless parent than Angel, but I think she may have managed it.

Katie, I was fine with the "abducted by aliens, child (Emily) comes back later, born to die" thing.

It was the "my eggs! They took my eggs!" that bugged. Because even with her faith thing going on, Scully was an intense pragmatist most of the time - hell, that was her big appeal, her balance to the darker Mulder.

And it never felt right to me. But I was an X-Phile from the third episode or so of season one ("The Jersey Devil" was the first one I saw, and I was hooked.)

Oh, and after all the grief she went through, Scully just ups and puts the baby up for adoption??? Huh??

Still, Robert Patrick could have saved the show. Such will always be my cry. Dagget vs. Cancer Man. If I didn't already have several mind sucking fics ...

Yeah, miracle baby, all that shite, probably alien complications, here, I'll just shove him off on a nice family in Texas somewhere.

By the time that show ended, I had lost all respect for Carter. Mostly, IO think, because he'd so obviously lost all respect for us.

Carter's great cry of "Continuity? We don't need no steekin' continuity!"

Man should be slapped. I volunteer.

Robert Patrick. Yum.

My friends and I waited for 2 seasons, hoping he would get to use the line "Have you seen this boy?"

When Daggett had to cut the thing that hte pod people put into Scully, when he knew that there truly was some mighty weird shit out there ... that's when I fell in love with him.