The 5 out of 10 is for the new seasons I would give the original series an 8 or 9 from what I can remember. It's been quite a while since I watched the X -Files, but what I do know is that it was an intelligent show with, you know, an actual story line. In Season 10 they did an OK job of picking up on the story line of Scully and Mulder's child who had special abilities of some kind but she gave away, along with the new storyline about an incurable illness. Ok, let's go with that. Nope, Season 11 is something totally different, let's just forget the last 6 episodes ever happened, and we'll just keep investigating some X-files while we wait for something to happen. But the problem is there IS no investigating. Lines like "Do you know how they're doing that?" or "How is this happening?" answered by "No Mulder, I don't know" followed by....nothing. No tests, no cool gadgets...I guess we'll just wait until the next person gets gruesomely murdered and hope something magically solves itself. By the way, we'll make it more gruesome and bloody than the original ever was and hope that covers the fact that we have no storyline.
I love that they brought back all of the original cast, Mulder and Scully still have nice chemistry....but... keep watching hoping that I will be soon, but so far, I'm not that impressed.