For those hording toilet paper

Episode 1 of the eleventh season of The X-Files is equal parts frustrating
and exciting. With wicked fast pacing, funnel-to-mouth plot development, and heroes fraught with peril it felt like Carter and company wanted to cram a lot in a small period of time. It could be quite exhausting. But The Great Exposition really had me rolling my eyes as William B Davis and Annabelle Gish share this lengthy conversation about Mulder, Scully, son William, and Bender where the Cigarette-Smoking-Man speaks in this unrealistic dialogue that completely felt as if some author was speaking florid before a class of students. His monologue is similar as he goes on and on about history in the US since the days of JFK all the way to now. His involvement in how government was shaped by those like him, and his plans to return the planet to it's savage origins through global extinction. How his enemies are legion, and those out to hurt him will go after William. That he's in love with Scully and needs to avoid his son, Mulder. Scully and her seizures and clairvoyance seeing the horrible future she must stop, with both her son and Mulder's help. It is a lot to absorb, that's for sure!