The vast majority of us X-Files fans would like to pretend that the series ended when David Duchovny left the show.  Really, you can’t just remove a series’ raison d’etre and expect to create a spin-off within the same series.  We like to pretend that the post-Mulder seasons in which the exhausted writers fell into typical the-unborn-child-is-the-answer-simply-because-the-leading-character-is-a-woman plot trope (see also Battlestar Galactica and the earth-shattering disappointment that was hapa Hera) was just a bad dream, or wishful thinking, or a bad story written by Jose Chung, or anything other than what it actually was.

The only saving grace, then, appears to be that our very own Jane Lynch was in an episode in the series’ limp towards its finale.  In season 9, she plays someone named Mrs. Lokensgard, mother of a boy who apparently attracts flies better than honey.  The episode is called “Lord of the Flies,” and it’s coming to a DVD near us.  This is our first step towards completing our goal in the Jane Lynch Project.  Stay tuned …