Item the first: (stolen from comic-book guy in Simpsons) THE X-FILES SHOULD NEVER END! If it does, we'll be reduced to reruns,spinoffs and lamer and lamer movies.They must blackmail DD and GA, do what they have to, but KEEP IT ON! Hey...if "Step by Step could keep going...being the lamest, most puerile show ever (even worse than "Married,w/",) then why not keep THE MOST INTELLIGENT, INTRIGUING show on for at least as long?
But if it must end. I say, give us "shippers" (I hate that word!), I mean, REALISTS, a break and let these two healthy young people in love, FINALLY have sex before they explode!! Chris Carter is a true sadist, always teasing, then pulling back. If he was a woman at a frat party, you KNOW what they guys would call him!!!!!I don't care how they do it...just do it,for crying out loud!
My scenario: Mulder and Scully get thrown off the X-files and out of the FBI,even though A.D. Kersch is later arrested for harrassing an intern. It's for the final time, and decide to go to Montana and raise a crop of dental floss...no alien/human hybrids. Mulder joins Porno Addicts Anonymous, and they both get couples' therapy to learn how to express their true feelings.
Mulder surprises Scully with the stolen vial of ova, they undergo in-vitro fertilization, and continue the Mulder/Scully lineage, with twins. The real Samantha reappears and becomes the Mulder kids' doting aunt.
All the Consortium members are dead except for CSM and Strughold (he was out in the field). Strughold decides to let bygones be bygones. He turns over all evidence of the aliens to the American and Russian governments , who destroy all the aliens (with the help of Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith), except for the rebels, who get free plastic surgery and political asylum and become major league baseball players, mostly for the Red Sox, who finally win the World Series.
Vassily Peskov is hanged, Krycek is revealed to be Mulder's long lost brother and apologizes for everything. (Teena had a really high sex drive!). Mulder punches him in the face a few times, and accepts his apology. Skinner gets a movie part playing Hunter S. Thompson in "The Great Shark Hunt" and goes Hollywood. Mulder and Scully name the babies "Melissa" and "William", after their dead relatives.(Mulder had wanted to call them "Kang" and "Kodos", but Scully threatened to shot him again.
Conrad Strughold reveals that he and Teena had a passionate affair, and that Mulder is his son. Teena admits it's true, causing CGB to commit suicide, realizing she never loved him, and that he will never get published. Mom also confesses she is really an alien. She is in love with the head rebel and marries him in a touching ceremony on Skyland Mountain. She tells Mulder, "I'll be right here<" and touches his heart. "No you won't. I hate you!" he quips. Dr. Werber claims he is cured, and everyone watches as Teena and her husband are beamed up to the spaceship.
Scully sees ghostly images of her father, Mulder's father and Melissa shimmering against the forest, waving "good-bye". She kisses Mulder passionately and Chris Carter, in a guest appearance, is arrested nearby, and dragged off. Later, he is held, as a remaining alien colonist, and then executed by the Bounty Hunter, who turns and says, "I won't be back."

Hmmmmm.....How to end the X-Files,while here it
goes tongue firmly held in cheek:
Krycek,aka Ratboy:Mulder and Scully discover that
he has been working for the Borg all this time and
is actually a 1,000 year old android named
Marvin Chameleon.

Mulder:After intense counseling sessions with
Dr.Laura,admits that he is a Pamela Anderson Lee
addict,quits the FBI and travels to Hollywood,
where he fails to get a job as a stunt double
on VIP,after which he drifts around until picked
up by a guy named Ford Prefect...

Scully:Quits the FBI to form own science center
where she meets and marries Quinton Cochran,they
have four children and ten grandchildren,the
youngest of which is named Zephron.In 2010 Scully
runs and becomes the first woman President of
the United States,her running mate is Dr.Rain
Robinson.

CSM:Quits smoking and writes tell all book.After
appearing on 60 Minutes is sued by Stephen King
for plagarism,disappears soon thereafter.

Skinner:Becomes permanent head of the FBI.

The Lone Gunman:After they find out that Oswald
DID in fact shoot Kennedy by himself,they have to
print a retraction.However they become so popular
that they are forced to move to San Francisco
where they try to start a technoclub,which goes
under,but is later bought by three sisters named
Piper,Phoebe and Prue Holloway.

Alien Bounty Hunter:Gets a job in Hollywood as
a double for ARNOLD.

Fowley:Mysteriously disappears one night only to
be seen months later as Mimi Rogers' double in
the Lost In Space movie.Later makes career as
a regular on The Hollywood Squares sitting in
the square next to Eddie from Frasier.

The Aliens:Turns out that they all just needed
direction to the nearest White Castle in Ohio,
or was it Iowa?

Chris Carter:Becomes wealthy from reruns of the
X-Files and all the X-files products and buys
FOX netork renaming it The X-Files Network.

Carter Talks ‘X-Files’ Finish
Chris Carter is talking once again about what we can expect from the seventh season of The X-Files as well as his feelings about the abrupt cancellation of his Harsh Realm series.

While talking to the LA Times, the X-Files creator and exec producer revealed that he would still like to see the series continue, though he does cite that perhaps the only way to do so would be if both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were on board. As far as the seventh season is concerned, Carter let out that the finish of the sixth season cliffhanger "reinvests and redefines Mulder with a new spirit in his quest." Furthermore, suggested by recent rumors that Scully and Mulder will finally have that long awaited kiss, Carter also revealed that the personal relationships and subsequent romantic tension between the series' two leads will also be explored throughout the season. Carter says, "And there are a lot of great stories left to tell."

Realistically though, Carter is said to be moving the series towards its conclusion, saying, "As always, I want to tell good stories, scare people, leaven it with some funny episodes, expand and possibly wind down the X-Files mythology." Among the pack will be previously reported kiss and the return of Millennium’s Frank Black played by Lance Henriksen, which may well be a New Year’s Eve themed episode Carter mentions that finds Scully and Mulder and "in a position that men and women find themselves in at midnight." Regarding Frank Black, Carter says, "We're going to wrap him up in a way we weren't able to do with the series."

Having said all that, Carter also revealed that it wasn’t until series co-executive producer reminded him that the series might actually end this year that the reality of the situation actually set in. Carter explains, ""I was all excited by an idea, and after I told Frank, he said, 'We may be telling our last few stories here. ' If this indeed is our last season, there are a lot of things that we have to do. I have some big ideas."

Still, in spite of this upbeat attitude about the final (?) season ahead, there are potential stormclouds on the horizon. Carter revealed to the paper that Fox studio chief Sandy Grushow had approached him about the possibility of another season of Fox’s most successful TV series. On the other hand, there’s Fox Entertainment prez Doug Herzog, who Carter publicly lashed out at after the abrupt cancellation of Harsh Realm. Herzog is reported to not have sought out Carter regarding X-Files, with the producer maintaining that he’s "not a fan of the show"… something which Herzog refused to comment on to the paper.

Perhaps even worse is Carter’s comment on who ultimately controls the series’ fate, since Fox actually owns the show. Carter says, "I don't know what their plans are, [b]ut it's their show. They can put it on without any of the principals being involved." Carter adds, "I really don't know how the Harsh Realm situation will affect The X-Files, but it hasn't created any greater desire for me to work harder to create a TV series for a network that is unwilling to promote it and unwilling to take a chance."

The preceding was from:
http://www.cinescape.com/indexnew.html

Soon, that's all I'll say.

Soon, that's all I'll say.

Fox Mulder is ultimately discovered to in fact BE an alien. A little bit of irony there, eh?

...I think it ended on Sunday, with that crappy season opener.

The last season should take on an elegiac, different tone, and if this IS the last season, it did it well. No pretentious monologues, no soppy banter, no Conspiracy guys schlepping together, just people doing what they believe is right.

The real Mulder should have been revealed to have died after he was abducted. The other Mulder was a sham, and he should return so that Doggett or Scully can kill him. Doggett will bring down Kersh as the season goes on, and manage to stop the current Conspiracy heads. However, I do not believe the Colonization plotline should actually end. There should be an uncertainy about it. Scully should retire from the FBI, and her baby should be revealed to be a major red herring. Doggett and Reyes can manage the X-Files from then on.

What I wouldn't MIND is to see the X-Files continue for one more season sans any and all Conspiracy/alien stuff, just Monster of the Weeks, but with Doggett and Reyes. That way, they can solicit lots of great sci-fi and horror writers, and since these two characters have no real continunity, it can be done like an anthology. Also, the characters cannot really be stereotyped to "believer and unbeliever," like Mulder and Scully were at times. It's worth a shot (at best last season, the Scully/Doggett episodes did the same thing, I thought).

How it should end:

Mulder returns from his abduction, and gets fired.
Scully has a baby, and the Lone Gunmen bring presents.

In otherwords, without Mulder, there is no X-files.

PS If the X-files were canselled, would 9pm on Sundays be the ex-X-files time slot.

Just end it, kill it now! It's only on because FOX keeps promising Chris Carter to finance his next series.

HOW IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED:

Mulder finds his sister (ALIVE).

Mulder and Scully (somehow) stop the alien invasion.

End of series. Fade to black. Cue the movies (which would be stand-alone entities unrelated to the UFO storyline).

That would have met the goals of the series.

Oh, I think it should end with Mulder meeting Christov.

I think it should end with finding out all the "dead" people are actually still alive and kicking behind the scenes: Krychek, CSM, Mulder's dad. Oh, and let everybody get some - especially Skinner. That poor guy has been noogie-deprived for too long.

Scully wakes up and finds the Lone Gunmen in her shower, and realizes it was all JUST A DREAM...