After Watching My Struggle IV, I Think Carter Needs To Leave The X Files Alone And Let Someone Else End It With Dignity.

There was so much potential in the mythology arc for revisting promising characters that were introduced in Season 9 - new alien soliders, Alan Dale's Toothpick Man, Lucy Lawless, Presidents conspiring with aliens. Instead, Carter forgets what he's written, and rushes through making new stuff up without an ending in mind in order to prolong the series. And with that we have My Struggle IV...

I was never sure whatever to approach My Struggle IV as a season final or series finale. How the hell can you expect to create a satisfying final episode without knowing if the series will continue? And wrapping up an entire series in a space of 43 minutes? What a mess...A mindless chase without a moment to pause or reflect or see Scully's reaction to the CSM being William's creator or father or whatever.
The rush (or bad writing depending on how you look at it) results in Scully's reaction to William's presumed death amounting to little more than; "Who cares Mulder? He wasn't my son really. I was just a carrier". With that, more than a decade of maternal love gone in a second. Anderson should have protested delivering such a stupid reaction. Oh and she's pregnant at nearly 50 with Mulder's child...Wow who cares? What kind of story mileage do we get out of that? Is her child going to be threatned and kidnapped or given superhuman powers? Um been there, done that. Anderson says she's not returning anyway so who cares?

And in all the rush we don't even see what happens to Skinner or Reyes. The characters that I grew up watching reduced to mere seconds of wondering if they're dead forever. I had to read after the episode aired that Reyes (that I had a teen crush on lol) is dead...apparently. Great storytelling there...

Apparently, the CSM is also dead again forever. As much as I loved his character they should never have brought him back. His death was treated as final in Season 9 - reduced to a fiery skeleton by a missile. It was a highlight. If it was so necessary they could have brought him back as a clone, or in a vision or as a hologram, or whatever...

Anyhow, the series needs to go out with some dignity and Carter ain't the one to do it. Give the job to the better series writers, create a final TV movie focusing just on the invasion and be done with it!