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

If the preview reviews keep tracking correctly, next one even better. Watching Ep 2 in an hour or so, looking forward to it immensely.

 

sanjay open the door

 

That was suitably creepy. Even though I've watched Duchovney on Californication and Anderson in The Fall, they are still freaking me out having aged (characters, not actors). aged well, but still. Scully doesn't quite sound like Scully (hello Leia). These aren't complaints about the shows, the actors or the ageing process, mind you.

I don't want to believe this journey is 1/3 over already.

 

Indeed.

 

Heh.

 

Reliable people said the first episodes were good. Are you okay, old man?

 

I'm really wanting to know what Everton makes of all this.

 

I agree with the age part. I'm not complaining either but I haven't quite gotten used to it. While watching episode 2 I pretended the show never ended after season 9 and they both continued doing the same thing for another 15 years.

Either way I'm happy to see Mulder and Scully back on TV, I thought it would never happen. And watching the old intro gives me goosebumps.

 

That moment when we first returned to Mulder's office in the second episode gave me chills. I know he and Skinner had a chat in it in the previous episode, but seeing it filled with general Mulderness was the best.

 

I've been waiting for others' reviews before I watched these episodes, because I'm a total tool who values others' opinions above my own. As a result, I decided to give the first one a miss, but watched the second one. Not bad! A solid 6 out of 10, which is much better than the show was doing back during the moribund last days of its first run. Here's hoping they can keep their momentum going!

 

The first one is well worth watching!

 

Nothing in Ep 1 really overwrote the old plotlines of non-Roswell aliens, but people seem to be thinking it reconned ALL the old alien encounters.

 

I loved the first two episodes, just like Star Wars TFA was on par with star wars OT the new X Files is a lot like classic X Files. really like the look of The Creature From The Black Lagoon episode in episode 3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was a big fan of The X-files back in the '90's, and recently got the 1993-2002 series on Blu-ray. I'm really enjoying re-visiting the show, especially since this Blu release is the first time that we're seeing the first several seasons in widescreen.

And, I'm really enjoying the first two episodes of the new X-files series. The show hasn't skipped a beat - Scully & Mulder fell right into their original roles as if they had never left; and Skinner was spot-on as well. The 2nd episode especially felt like the original seasons of the series. Several observations:

1) Really dig that they're using the original intro. to the series! Very nostalgic. It was a great idea to keep this.

2) The 1st episode about Roswell was fantastic, and I liked the voice-over intro. by Mulder re: his giving a little bit of history of the X-files. This episode also flowed seamlessly from the 2008 X-files film I want to Believe; in that film, it depicted Mulder living in that remote cabin by himself & Scully having gone back to practicing medicine. This was carried over into the first episode of this new series.

3) I remembered that Scully & Mulder were a couple - briefly - in the later seasons of the series. However, I had forgotten about the son they had - whom they put up for adoption to protect him. The dream sequences (in episode 2) when Mulder & Scully separately imagined what it would have been like to if they had kept the child were quite poignant.

3) Just like in the early seasons of the show, I like how they're mixing it up re: the horror/sci-fi aspects of the show. I.e., the first episode was about Roswell, so very much a strong sci-fi element. The second show also had elements of sci-fi, but also involved horrible physical mutations & mental telekenesis - so, IMHO it had more of an intentional horror "vibe".

In any case, great stuff here. Looking forward to the next 4 episodes. And, if there aren't any more beyond that, I would be disappointed - but, at the same time, happy that we even got 6 new episodes.

 

Monster of the Week episode written by Darin Morgan. Present.


http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/01/x-files-darin-morgan-mulder-scully-were-monster

 

I figured that was the Darin episode. Rhys Darby plays a character named Guy Mann. I assume he'll be a were-monster, not a swear-monster.

 

Y'know what's kind of neat about them retcon bombing the alien conspiracy mythology? "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", a fantastic episode where it's revealed that the government is flying alien saucers and faking alien abductions, was really cool but oddly kind of an oddity in the conspiracy arc since it was established that it was aliens after all. but now with the "no, it was the government using alien technology to fake it" suddenly that becomes basically the most important conspiracy arc of the old run.

 

Okay, loved that one. Moments:

Spoiler

"Would you like to question the witnesses?" Mulder looks at their photos, groans

Mulder's ringtone

Scully's callback to Clyde Bruckman

 

last nights episode, episode 3 was hilarious I loved it, my sister did not like it but she is not as big a fan of the show as me and did not follow the show from the beginning like me all those years ago in the early 1990's

 

So many great one liners, the Scully being immortal one as SW mentioned above, my favourite though was "this is the Mulder we all love" from Scully. Also a nice throwback to Jose Chung with the untrue flashback sequence between Guy and Dana. The terrible transition effects were also fabulous.

Were the gravestones an in-joke?