I was just a kid, absolutely obsessed with X-Files, when they wheeled in Robert Patrick and a lot of the changes, but having watched the entire series again several times, the last just a couple of years ago, it honestly didn’t seem as bad. Sure Duchovny and Anderson kind of were the driving force behind the series, but I think they managed to deal with all of that quite well.

As much fun the “monster of the week” type episodes were early on, the further the show went on they seemed to deal with st least some kind of story arc. I think Patrick & Co were fairly good in that regard honestly. I hated the change bscl in the day, but I really enjoyed even the later seasons later on.