Amph [The X-Files] The (Continuing) Event Series!

Canadian news. Not so much on that end. Whole lotta Justin Trudeau's haircut and Jian Ghomeshi trial.

 

Close enough.

 

Shrooooommmmms! Giggle giggle.

 

Every episode should have a sequence with Mulder tripping balls on placebos.

 

It was a mess. The X-Files we all love.

Now I'm going to have "Misery is the River of the World" stuck in my head. Everybody row.

Everybody row.

 

Gunmen remain dead.

 

Just watched the second episode. By the looks of it they are cherry picking the topics that you associate with the X files, an alien conspiracy one, a child with special powers, next week a monster one. So far so good I think, it's like it's just picking up where they left off.

 

Averting eyes as I'm only halfway through Mon's episode.

W... T... F?

Wow, wonderfully strange mix of humor and serious subject matter here. I can't wmember seeing a weirder episode of a show, network or cable, any time recently.

 

I kept waiting for them to subvert the straight up terrorism plot but nope. I enjoyed the doppelganger agents and the drug trip but this was pretty dire overall. Carter should really just be overseeing the show, not writing or directing. Both of his episodes have been the worst of this revival. Not especially hopeful for next week either.

 

That ending HAD to be Chris Carter's way of daring Fox to turn down another mini-series/season.

 

The ****!? Old school season cliffhanger. Bring the next one on... In 2018! I guess?

 

I loved these new episodes and feel Carter and the gang have not skipped a beat, I felt that in the two Alien Episodes Scully had a really raspy voice, heck may be she had a cold when they were filming? But the thing I loved Is I could have written this, a GOV take over splicing Human and Alien DNA to make a Super Elite of society, and kill off the rest of humanity, sounds Like what Trump wants to do If he becomes President starting with rounding up Mexicans door to door and puting them In camps and kicking them out and building a wall to keep them out on the borders, sounds an awful lot like Nazis or East Berlin In the 50's and 60's and I can see mixing Aliens in the whole thing and I don't mean Illegal Aliens ....

 

It's nice to know that the science adviser to the X-Files has been keeping up to date

 

Hmmmm.

 

I Meant it is so good it writes itself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and speaks to me and how I perceive Society to be which Is what drew me to the show to begin with all those years ago!!!!!!!!

 

1 Really Good Episode
2 Good Episodes
3 Awful Episodes

 

All of the horrible episodes have one commonality: all written and directed by Chris Carter. He really should just oversee the series. His scripts are terrible, his directing is amateurish, he makes very good actors deliver terrible dialogue and he's completely lost any semblance of sanity with the mytharc. I'm glad we got three good episodes but the three bad ones were some of the worst.

 

I liked all 6.

 

After watching this, I think my current series rankings would be...

01. Season Five
02. Season Three
03. Season Four
04. Season Two
05. Season One
06. Season Eight
07. Season Six
08. Season Nine
09. Season Seven
10. Season Ten

I'll definitely watch Season Eleven. Which is a given based on the ratings for this revival.

 

Note: X-files S10 finale SPOILERS below:

It sounds like I'm one of the only X-files fan that LIKED the finale. It was nostalgic & fitting to see the mutated?! Cigarette Smoking man, Agent Reyes from X-files S8-9; and, the epidemic plot-line was very gripping. I really dug the final scene with the UFO light shining down on Scully, and the abrupt ending.

I knew they weren't going to be able to resolve everything in a 42-minute episode, especially since they were getting close to the end and things were spinning out of control. Even if they never do another episode, it's nice to speculate on what happened.

And, though a lot of folks are complaining about the unresolved ending - even more would probably have complained if they had rushed things & tried to resolve the whole story in 42 minutes.

At least this opens up the door to a sequel. Even if it doesn't happen, though, I'm fine with the ending as it stands.

By the same token, I also enjoyed the unresolved finales of: The last episode of the cult TV series Twin Peaks (1991), the finale of The Sopranos (2007), and the last scene of one of my favorite & extremely underrated films Limbo (1999).