X-Files Coming Back

[Jiggy_12]

Last nights episode can be defined in 3 words. Mulder on Mushrooms.

That was fantastic.

[CaptainCrunch]

That part was hilarious, it was a decent episode, but it felt like they were trying to spin off a series with the new agents.

It looks like they're in the season finale as well.

[getbak]

That one scene was great, but overall I thought the rest of the episode was pretty weak.

[Jiggy_12]

Yep it looks like they were trying to pass the baton in the event this gets carried further.

Not a fan of the new scully though, new Mulder is ok.

[gottabekd]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

Yep it looks like they were trying to pass the baton in the event this gets carried further.

Not a fan of the new scully though, new Mulder is ok.

I wondered if that were the case at first, but decided that would be ridiculous. The characters of Miller and Einstein were a one-time thing, a fun little gag between the fans and the writers.

Now, I wouldn't rule them out doing a full-on X-Files reboot. TV audiences still eat up procedural cop shows and the X-Files name would have a built-in audience. But I doubt they would just copy+paste the characters with younger actors. I think having a character called Einstein would be too cheesy, hence why I think the writers chose that name--to make it clear that they weren't trying to spin up a new series with these characters.

[sadora]

Not very happy with that episode. Felt rushed and just not very well thought out. Too many ideas and none felt well fleshed out when it was all over. The Shrooms/Placebo thing seemed like a stretch...and Mulder's stoned sequence was so cliched and just plainly bad.

Here's an article that better describes all the things wrong with that episode.

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-xfiles/c...-145558198071/

[Swift]

What a terrible piece of #### that episode was. When we were shown a young Muslim guy praying, I thought to myself "Isn't it terrible that the media and entertainment world has conditioned us to immediately think 'terrorist'. I'm sure The X-Files is going to mess with those preconceptions" Nope! It devolved into the usual "all Muslims are terrorists" bull####. The opening genuinely made me angry. I can't imagine being a Muslim sitting at home watching TV and film where the only representation of your culture is as evil jihadis.

And then we got a godawful attempt at comedy. Carter must've been on some shrooms himself when he wrote this stuff, because who else would honestly think "You know what we need in this episode about terrorism? Mulder linedancing!"

This whole comeback has been a bit of a letdown honestly. Some cute moments, but the overly comedic tone has been grating. I've always thought of Bones as being a more comedic descendant of The X-Files, but this season has been The X-Files doing Bones doing The X-Files, right down to the plinky plonky quirky score that dominates scenes.

[gottabekd]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

What a terrible piece of #### that episode was. When we were shown a young Muslim guy praying, I thought to myself "Isn't it terrible that the media and entertainment world has conditioned us to immediately think 'terrorist'. I'm sure The X-Files is going to mess with those preconceptions" Nope! It devolved into the usual "all Muslims are terrorists" bull####. The opening genuinely made me angry. I can't imagine being a Muslim sitting at home watching TV and film where the only representation of your culture is as evil jihadis.

Yea, from that opening, it wasn't clear that they were suicide bombers (didn't see any hints of a suicide vest). I thought that was going to be the point of the episode: redneck Texas drawing conclusions about muslims, only to find it was aliens or something X-filesy. But no, I guess it was just about straightforward terrorists.

[Fire]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

What a terrible piece of #### that episode was. When we were shown a young Muslim guy praying, I thought to myself "Isn't it terrible that the media and entertainment world has conditioned us to immediately think 'terrorist'. I'm sure The X-Files is going to mess with those preconceptions" Nope! It devolved into the usual "all Muslims are terrorists" bull####. The opening genuinely made me angry. I can't imagine being a Muslim sitting at home watching TV and film where the only representation of your culture is as evil jihadis.

Yeah, I thought they were going to try to be clever. When the Muslim guys went into the building I thought it was going to turn out they were just nervous about a job interview. Then building explodes.... ok I guess not.

[Icon]

I think my brain's deleted any X files memories of episodes that weren't along the main plotline, because I don't really remember it being such a cheesy/goofy scifi comedy.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

That part was hilarious, it was a decent episode, but it felt like they were trying to spin off a series with the new agents.

It looks like they're in the season finale as well.

Yeah, and that final conversation they had between the two of them at the airport or train station was just painful. Trying so hard to reinforce the Mulder/Scully paradigm.

But, it was a decent episode, the faux drug trip was fun.

[cDnStealth]

Last night's "season" finale was rushed garbage. This whole return has bugged me. It's been weak and disjointed throughout. You can have filler episodes in a 20+ episode season. But when your show is only coming back for six episodes then perhaps you should stay on point.

[Hessen]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Last night's "season" finale was rushed garbage. This whole return has bugged me. It's been weak and disjointed throughout. You can have filler episodes in a 20+ episode season. But when your show is only coming back for six episodes then perhaps you should stay on point.

My thoughts exactly. Series is now 2/5 for me.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by cDnStealth

Last night's "season" finale was rushed garbage. This whole return has bugged me. It's been weak and disjointed throughout. You can have filler episodes in a 20+ episode season. But when your show is only coming back for six episodes then perhaps you should stay on point.

I pretty much stood up at the end of the episode, gave my TV the finger and yelled "I'm done"

That was the worst piece of garbage that I've ever seen. They completely rushed their newly created storyline, threw in an environmentalist justification, and then ended it the same way that they ended the V TV series.

Its unbelievable that they managed to create a cure to a super plague in several hours, then stated hope is on the way. For who How are you going to manufacture enough of that crap for the whole world. And then the most important person in the whole thing to the cure, goes wandering off to cure her boyfriend and his errrr replacement.

Then they took the cool villain from the series, and made him a nut job extremist who was well, not so cool and mostly just crazy and it sounds like he wanted to save Scully's life so he could have some of that good sex with her.

WTF was that crap. I'm now left with the feeling that the next X-Files is going to take place in a post apocalyptic depopulated world, where Scully and Mulder wander from town to town fighting monsters and spreading the cure.

And UFO's.

Soooo stupid and badly done, and Scully's acting in that last one was horrible.

Oh and HD in super close up is not her friends, we didn't have to drive into her pores.

-1000000000000/10

[getbak]

What a mess that was.

They either should have made all six episodes about this new mythology and really told a complete story ... and given it a real ending, not a cliffhanger; or they should have just done six monster of the week episodes and had fun with it, while ignoring the mythology stuff.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Seriously how do they justify ending this on a cliffhanger too?? When there was no assurances that a new season was coming? Story-wise it had promise, but should have been stretched over the 6 episodes instead of having one crazy whirlwind episode? So much at stake just to shove into a single hour.

BAH!

[undercoverbrother]

I struggled to watch the show this time around.


I don't know if it is me or the show.

[Regulator75]

I'm in the minority... I enjoyed it.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

I'm in the minority... I enjoyed it.

It was the most promising episode, but I think they would have been better off with slower pacing (at least two episodes, not including the very first one) and providing closure. There's a chance it doesn't get renewed, in which case we're left with nothing.

That being said I did really like that lizard man (man lizard?) episode. Highlight of the season for me.

[Fuzz]

Ugh. That was...bad. Not sure what they were thinking on that one. And Fox was barely in it! More sarcastic Fox, less Scully super scientist please.