Posted January 31, 2016
I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet, and I'm curious what others think of it so far.
Before I begin, I have to admit that I have never seen season 9, and barely remember season 8, as I've only seen it once, long ago. I really think X-Files was only really, really good up to season 6, seven was where it all started going bad, and 8 was when I just gave up. I actually even liked Robert Patrick's agent Doggett, but the show around him was falling apart. Anyway, I'm saying all that just to explain that I'm not quite sure how well this new mini-series follows up the shows finale.
Here's what I do know- the first episode of the mini-series was downright terrible. Filled with bad, blunt force traume exposition, confused or utterly lacking character motivations, and utterly bereft of the X-Files feel and style, and a nonsensicall plot that tries to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the audience. Mulder and Scully looked and acted mostly bored, as if they themselves didn't really know why they are there and why they should give a fuck. They mostly reminded me of players in a tabletop RPG game, who follow the plot because otherwise there is no game and might as well go home, but whose characters don't really have much of a in-character motivation to do any of this stuff.
The second episode was a marked improvement, although still a far cry from the series glory days. I don't really know how or why Mulder and Scully are back with the FBI, or why the X-Files got reopened (again). I guess we just have to accept that and move on, oknowing that otherwise there is no show. It's a pretty standard X-Files episode, with the exception of how the investigation remind Mulder and Scully of their lost son, and we even get to see them imagining happy days of raising him, but also the strange dangers that might befall him. So finally, some character time and motivation, delivered rather well.
I always hated that Scully and Mulder got together, and had a kid. I always liked them best as friends, without any romantic relationship. That was one of the things that made the show so different, it was a kind relationship very rarely seen on TV, and it worked best for the show. However, since it all happened, it's good to see that the new show is sort of trying to have best of both worlds- they are no longer together, bakc to being friends, but their son is the now what Mulders sister used to be, the driving force behind their persuit of "the truth". After the first episode I was prepared to give up on the series, but the second one was just good enough to convince me to keep watching.
And I definately need to watch the orignal again. It's been too long.
Before I begin, I have to admit that I have never seen season 9, and barely remember season 8, as I've only seen it once, long ago. I really think X-Files was only really, really good up to season 6, seven was where it all started going bad, and 8 was when I just gave up. I actually even liked Robert Patrick's agent Doggett, but the show around him was falling apart. Anyway, I'm saying all that just to explain that I'm not quite sure how well this new mini-series follows up the shows finale.
Here's what I do know- the first episode of the mini-series was downright terrible. Filled with bad, blunt force traume exposition, confused or utterly lacking character motivations, and utterly bereft of the X-Files feel and style, and a nonsensicall plot that tries to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the audience. Mulder and Scully looked and acted mostly bored, as if they themselves didn't really know why they are there and why they should give a fuck. They mostly reminded me of players in a tabletop RPG game, who follow the plot because otherwise there is no game and might as well go home, but whose characters don't really have much of a in-character motivation to do any of this stuff.
The second episode was a marked improvement, although still a far cry from the series glory days. I don't really know how or why Mulder and Scully are back with the FBI, or why the X-Files got reopened (again). I guess we just have to accept that and move on, oknowing that otherwise there is no show. It's a pretty standard X-Files episode, with the exception of how the investigation remind Mulder and Scully of their lost son, and we even get to see them imagining happy days of raising him, but also the strange dangers that might befall him. So finally, some character time and motivation, delivered rather well.
I always hated that Scully and Mulder got together, and had a kid. I always liked them best as friends, without any romantic relationship. That was one of the things that made the show so different, it was a kind relationship very rarely seen on TV, and it worked best for the show. However, since it all happened, it's good to see that the new show is sort of trying to have best of both worlds- they are no longer together, bakc to being friends, but their son is the now what Mulders sister used to be, the driving force behind their persuit of "the truth". After the first episode I was prepared to give up on the series, but the second one was just good enough to convince me to keep watching.
And I definately need to watch the orignal again. It's been too long.
