I guess I am in the minority, but I really prefer the mythology episodes over the stand-alones.  I heard 8 of the ten episodes will be the monster of the week stories, but with an evolving story arc that the 1st and last episodes will cover.  I also understand that this season may end in another cliff hanger.\nIf I had my way, they would ALL be mythology episodes.  That's the main important story in my opinion and the monster episodes just feel like bottle episodes that aren't needed.  To me they are wasting too many episodes on that, when they should be focusing on the mythology; smoking man, aliens, government conspiracies, UFOs and so on.