The X-Files Season 10 Thread

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I’d forgot that part. They come on like big bad feds, like the syndicate of old, no one can stand in our way, and then when Mulder-lite tells them to go away, they just do! Without even a hint of fight. What was that all about?

Between them, and the mysterious murdering nurse, this episode has the feel of one with massive rewrites, where whole subplots were almost completely excised, just leaving little traces to confound us all. I have assumed that the nurse call in the bomb threat. But the scene also hints that there was no real threat, that the HS guys wanted everyone out so they could do…something…to or with the bomber.

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I had asked for help identifying some of the music in S10E5 a few days ago. Fox has it up on their site but I can’t get it to play for some reason. However, I did find every song in the episode listed at http://www.tunefind.com/show/the-x-files/season-10/26411

Urban Islam by Audio Android (Focus Music Publishing / FirstCom music library ) - Shiraz drives alone in his car, and has an uncomfortable encounter with a truck driver at a stop sign.
My Give a Damn’s Busted by Jo Dee Messina - Playing in the truck when the Texans pull up alongside Shiraz at the stop sign.
Bankegah by Trad. arranged Mohammed Gomar (Extreme music library) - Shiraz and his friend drive to the art gallery.
Somethin’ Bad (with Carrie Underwood) by Miranda Lambert - Agent Einstein discovers Mulder is no longer in the hospital room, Mulder leaves the hospital.
Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus - Second song of Mulder’s mushroom moment
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk by Trace Adkins - Third song of Mulder’s mushroom moment
Misery Is the River of the World by Tom Waits - CSM whips Mulder
Secret Heart by Ron Sexsmith - Playing on Agent Miller’s earbuds at the airport near the conclusion.
Ho Hey by The Lumineers - Final scene. Mulder and Scully’s last dialog. Planet Earth.

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Not a fan of ‘Better Call Saul’?

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Never seen it. I didn’t watch Break Bad, either. I know, it’s weird.

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Just curious. :slight_smile:

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I never saw “Breaking Bad”, but I watch “Better Call Saul”.

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This is the reaction I walked away with - that there had been some last-minute Frankensteining with the plot that left scraps and clues of interesting things, but cut most of it when someone got cold feet.

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A disappointing and nonsensical episode. Agent Einstein leaves the airport and goes back to FBI HQ just for Mulder to talk gibberish to her - what part of that monologue couldn’t he have said over the phone? Skinner flies down to Texas to tell Mulder to get out of bed? Mulder trips out on placebos and line-dances? A nurse tries to kill a patient, who instantly recovers when she hits the life-support button again? Eyyyyecch.

Yeah, Federal judges don’t usually sign search warrants on that basis.

Tell me about it. And when Mulder Jr. tries to take their pictures they just turn away and walk out of the room? Baffling.

Good to see the Lone Gunmen, again, though, if only in a hallucination.

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Dafuq did I just watch?

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Well that sucked.

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Maybe Lost did not have the worst ever series conclusion after all.

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A giant steaming turd.

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Yuck. That last ep was a jumbled mess, with a lousy cliffhanger ending.

Of course, I will watch whatever Chris Carter manages to cobble together for the franchise in the future, but, damn, that was disappointing.

Although the finale rather soured my opinion on the tenth season, it wasn’t all bad. The episode with Rhys Darby was up there near the best of the classic goofier episodes, and we mostly enjoyed the other stories and catching up with Mulder and the rest. Eh, mostly.

Earlier I posted my prediction that there wouldn’t be much time in this miniseries devoted to MOTW stories, thinking that the show would focus more on the arc. I was clearly wrong about that.

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I think there was still plenty of room to throw some more shit into that episode, eh. :rolleyes:

The opening sequence ended with the phrase “This Is The End” but clearly it isn’t; this shite will be back again, I betcha.

That was some fast moving plague shit, huh? Like, a few hours and the whole world is about to collapse… power going off, the internet going under, gasoline all consumed… ddamn! :rolleyes:

I don’t remember the show being this craptacular 20 years ago; was it?

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I didn’t realize that the flu can kill within 12 hours of the first symptoms. If Scully can just science the sciencey stuff, then she could make some science solution that could cure the common (deadly within a day) cold and have everyone in the nation feeling better within about a half hour.

That episode was a big wall of text. I was exhausted just from the monologue before the commercial break. I was expecting it to be bad since they clearly intended to bookend the series, making this Pt. 2 of the first episode, but it exceeded my expectations.

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Well, that was the biggest POS I’ve seen in a while, perhaps ever. (Though I did not watch Lost.)

Did someone involved with the show actually think this was good? Like, sincerely thought it made sense? Because I wonder about them. Maybe they have alien TV DNA?

And then, it didn’t even end. I’m not sure it even stopped. It just…froze.

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I guess the anti-vaxxers and chemtrail kooks really liked this episode.

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Carter is to the X-Files like Roddenberry was to Star Trek. Please continue the series, but let someone write/direct/produce etc.; that was just awful.

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After digesting this one overnight…

So I guess the “plan” all along, from the beginning of time (Roswell) wasn’t facilitating an alien invasion, collaborating with aliens, creating alien/human hybrids, creating super soldiers ™, or anything like that, but just creating a population cull? That was it? The chosen get to live and…what? Rule over the survivors? Create a new, better world from the rubble?

And this plan has been in the works since the late 50s? That the smallpox vaccine was used as a cover to inject the population with a dormant virus(?) that could be triggered at some indefinite future date, causing immune systems to fail, which in turn causes somewhere between say, 50-90% of the population to die from regular diseases? If so, do you think eradicating smallpox helped or hurt the goal?

Further, if this has been in the works for well over 50 years, what exactly were they waiting for? Why not trigger it in the 60? The 70s? 2000? 2012? The population problem might not have been obvious enough in 1960 to propose such a radical solution, but if you’re going to do it, what are you waiting for?

And finally, if again this was the “plan” all along, then alien spacecraft, black oil, FEMA camps, controlling the world food supply, big Agra, big pharma, MK/ULTRA, super soldiers, chemtrails, controlling spaceflight…none of that is necessary! If you’re just going to kill people, don’t draw attention to it!

One “plot” point as well. So, Scully decides to give up treating people at the hospital, to not make getting the cure out her main priority, but insteads decides to drop everything and drive headlong through a gridlock to go, find, and cure the man she loves? I can buy that, I guess. We’re all selfish to a degree. OK, then when she finds Mulder and Mulder Jr, why are they all going the same direction on the same bridge? The Mulder twins were coming INTO DC from South Carolina. Why are they both going OUT of DC? (And what if the MT were on the other bridge? Scully could have cried, just looking across the vast chasm, unable to do anything.)

And of course, William doesn’t have any stem cells, any more than Scully does. What does she think she’s going to do? Make him have a baby?

It’s just yet another plot “roadblock” to keep action going. One more impediment to the progress of the characters. One more teaser, to keep us following. It’s like some bad role playing game. Can’t ever finish it. Have to keep playing. Sorry, Chris, I’m no longer buying the upgrades, not putting in any more quarters.

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Maybe they were rushed to act because Joel McHale figured it out?