Oh, I do get comedy, and yes, it was a parody of itself, but that in itself does not make it good. Anyways, we not going anywhere with this discussion, I don't care to believe.

If you want bad, try watching the first episode of Beowulf: Return to the shieldlands, if you thought the ghostbusters trailer was the worst thing you will see this year, think again!

No nonono, I don't want bad. :P

Hey, I like Gotham too. Sort of. I mean, it's uneven as hell, and not nearly as good as the really good shows from the olden days, but by todays standards it's quite decent.

I'm really reluctant to watch this as the last couple of X-File seasons were so bad they scarred me permanently. Kinda like Stargate SG-1 when it started going downhill.

Well, opinions. Like I said, I find it really bad. A lot of people agree, a lot of people watch it. A lot of people agree AND watch it anyway. For me, it's one of those shows that, on my deathbed, I'm going to regret losing the hours to watch it when I could have done something else. :D

ok watched some episodes and i'm disappointed so far. reminds me of indiana jones crystal skull

I think X-Files should go back to the Nineties where the series belongs.

Did anyone here buy the recent Bluray release of all seasons of X-Files + movies (*raises hand*)

Ok, so this is sort of interesting. According ot this interview with "Agent Miller" this series was not supposed to end on a cliffhanger, or at least no on this one. They had one more episode written as the actual finally... and they didn't have time to shoot it :D

Judging by this hit-or-miss season, what are the odds the un-aired finale didn't suck?

It may have been hit or miss but it's ratings weren't bad at all. The highest ratings average of any show on FOX. Which probably means we get to see it next year.

Oh, I'm pretty sure it sucked like a black hole made of collapsed, sucky ideas for other 90s shows revivals. I don't think it would have improved the season much ifi t aired, I just found it funny that with all the fuss around the return of the Xi-Files, they didn't even manage to schedule things well enough to actually shoot the final episode :D

The highest ratings average of any show on FOX??? Tells you about the rest of the FOX programming. And, don't get me wrong--I would still watch a new season if it aired.


Yeah, I sort of felt that there was a bit of half-assedness to the season, but there were some good points.

Well, time to necro the thread as the show itself was necroed. In fact, I'm rather surprised no one did it before me. Am I the only one so attached to the show I came back for more?

My experience the season 11 is vastly different than season 10. When I was watching 10, the original run was but a distant memory. But shortly afterwards I rewatched the whole thing, all 9 season + movies. I rediscovered what made the show so superb when it was good, and what ultimately was its undoing. So, without further ado- season 11! AND SPOILERS!

Episode 1: My Struggle III

At least it's better than My Struggle I & II, though that's not exactly hard. In fact, it speaks volumes about the previous season cliffhanger that not only was a "it was all a dream!" twist the only way forward, but that I'm also not even mad at it, though I usually hate that tired cliche. It still failed to feel like proper X-files and it doesn't seem like the plot makes any sort of sense. But at least it moved at a brisk pace and agents... whatever their names are, the not-Mulder and not-Scully were relegated to a cameo. And the Cigarette Smoking Man is still awesome. The idea that he might actually be the father of Scully's child is actually a surprisng twist, and more than a little creepy. I also love the exchange "You impregnated her?!" "With science, mr. Skinner. Alien science." It takes balls to actually, intentionally write a dialogue this superbly B-movie bad, and great actors to deliver it with such gravitas.

Episode 2: This

I guess because "It" was already taken :P

It starts out great. The first 20 minutes I really thought the show got it mojo back. Ok, maybe except for the way too action-movie like shootout. But Mulder and Scully in hiding, looking over the graves of the Lone Gunmen and Deep Throat, speaking to Skinner in an underground garage aiming a gun at him, it felt like the right sort of conspiracy paranoia mixed with good nods to the original run. All of Skinner's dialogue in that garage scene was excellent (if slightly meta).

But then it all fals apart. The story makes no sense, the paranoid mood gets abandoned for hasty, anticlimactic conclusion, and in the end none of it holds up. And it's hard not to feel like the whole thing is a disservice to the Gunmen, who really deserved better than their crappy demise in Season 9, halucinatory cameo in 10 and now this. It's also interesting that while pondering Langley contacting him from beyond the grave Mulder never mentions that he actualy already spoke with the Gunmens ghosts in the original run finale.

Episode 3: Plus One

Now this is more like it. This actually feels like X-Files. Ok, way back when it would have been just an average episode, but in this revival it ranks as one of the best simply because it feels true to what X-Files should be. And it has some nice character moments. The only shame is that Mulder & Scully don't really come out as very proactive. Things happen around them and to them, but they themselves do little but talk about it and the villains elimate themselves in the end.

Probably. I personally think that show started to fall apart after season 3. When they actually showed aliens and stuff. Before that X-Files were indeed about "Truth is out there" - there were theories about aliens and conspiracies, some weird stuff was going on. But in the end in almost every episode it was revealed that truth was indeed somewhere out there. No matter what you've seen in the show there always was a feeling that the REAL TRUTH remained hidden from sight - that was the essence of X-Files appeal.

After season 3 such episode became less and less rare. And whell, I gave up on a show in about season 7, when they made an episode based on "Strange Luck" (awesome show btw), but it was rather bad and more importantly not a crossover (which I hoped it would be, since Mulder is mentioned in Strange Luck). That moment I finally admitted to myself that the show was over.