X-Files season 10

I hate to say, I found it to be * Meh * compared to what the old
x files use to be.

Scott DeWar said:

I hate to say, I found it to be * Meh * compared to what the old
x files use to be.

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So how was the old x-files better then the new x-files? What's the big difference, in your opinion?

It had an excitement of something new and .. . . .I can't quite put it into word, but I feel I am watching a re-run of Fringe blended with a watered down x files. Does that make sense?

Scott DeWar said:

It had an excitement of something new and .. . . .I can't quite put it into word, but I feel I am watching a re-run of Fringe blended with a watered down x files. Does that make sense?

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My take would be that I enjoyed the nostalgia and build to a climax and then..... nothing. If this was a stand alone one-off series, then I would count it as a failure. If it was the first of two or three similar short events, then it has possibilities. The problem, for me at least, is that Fox called it the former rather than the latter.

If there were terrifying space monkeys, It would garrontee being canceled.

Asmo said:

So, the episode sucked, but it was a pretty entertaining event? I'm not following, sorry.

What was so bad with the ending?

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The "craptastic" comment referred to this particular episode; the "overall pretty entertaining" comment referred to the whole 6-episode event. This whole deal has been billed not as "The X-Files Season Ten," but rather as "The X-Files 6-Episode Event." They even had their own logo referring to it as that.

As for what I didn't like about this episode:

- Cancer Man's survival strains credulity
- I never felt Agent Reyes was a suitable replacement for Agent Scully in the original series, but even she deserved better than to have "sold out" and become Cancer Man's willing lackey
- There wasn't much "mystery" to be solved in this episode; it was all very straightforward "evil Cancer Man's killing the human population off except for those he's personally selected to survive" [insert evil laughter here]
- The cliffhanger ending completely sucked, especially if this is a one-time deal and we don't get a new series picking up where this episode left off come this fall to provide some explanations
- The situation presented in the episode either comes off as "the human population is killed off" or "Scully single-handedly saves the world with her magic alien DNA" - neither of which fits in with the normal X-Files "feel" of old
- Scully's not going to be able to plausibly produce enough antidote from her alien cells to save much more than her own hospital staff, let alone the entire human population of Earth, so anything other than a "humans die off" endgame is going to come off as pretty cheesy
- Scully rushes the antidote to Mulder (driving through impassible traffic jams on a bridge to do so) to save his life, but then announces that the only thing that will actually save his life are stem cells from their missing son, William - say what? (If that's true, then Mulder's the only one who can be saved among those who don't have Cancer Man's specially-selected alien DNA? Sucks to be the rest of us.)
- The UFO showing up at the end is completely unexplained

This just didn't feel like an episode of The X-Files to me, and it ended the otherwise enjoyable 6-episode event on a sour note, especially since I haven't heard if there will be anything further coming after this. Your mileage may well vary - but I'm sticking to my feelings of "craptasticness" for this episode.

Johnathan

oh man, that's right: 6 episodes, not 6 seasons! I had it in my mind it was first of 6 more seasons!!

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My main problem with it was that (especially in the age of "modern" TV series extravaganzas like Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones) I expected this to be a tight, six episode story arc that carried and developed the existing story in some kind of meaningful way. Instead what we ended up with felt more like six, pretty much standalone flavors of fan service that had the absolute thinnest veneer of nine-eleven/anti-vax/reptilian-shapeshifter/chemtrails conspiracy theories from the intervening years sprinkled on top of it. There was no cohesion, and the characters seemed to devolve and not develop from episode to episode.

That, and I was left at the end of the event with more questions and loose threads than I had started with.

Scott DeWar said:

If there were terrifying space monkeys, It would garrontee being canceled.

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Wow, I can't believe that I missed the reference:

[video=youtube;punL9JOC90I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=punL9JOC90I[/video]

[MENTION=27897]Ryujin[/MENTION], are you a browncoat?