Thank you for the season-by-season roundup. You lot have persuaded BB to persevere, and you have my everlasting gratitude. (Um, not that that has any actual face value. Perhaps it will give you a warm glow?)

If you need another XF vote, here's mine: Season 1 is pretty decent set-up, but it kicks off properly in season 2 with the abduction arc and about three of the most fabulous standalones.

Out of curiosity, which three? I mostly want to know so I can tell BB when she has something to look forward to.

I hated, hated HATED the mytharse development of mid-Season 5, when it became All About Scully's [spoiler], so that soured me on that one, but it still has some great telly in it.

I am really going to have to get an explanation for what this mytharc is at some point. (When people first started mentioning it, I was thinking in terms of unicorns or maybe gorgons. Obviously it's not that, but what is it?) It seems to have generated roughly the same level of hatred as some of the more major wars.

Particularly the bee.

...I'm trying to figure out whether or not I want to know what this means. I suspect not. And yet I'm so curious.

Do not approach with a ten-foot pole and asbestos gloves.

Thanks to melannen's SG1 analogy, BB and I have already decided that seasons eight and nine do not exist in our universe. They did not happen. Behold the power of canon denial!