Note: I haven’t seen it yet.
I’ll watch tonight with my wife. I did just preview it for a minute. I know the opening episode has mixed reviews, but my heat did just soar a bit when the opening credits hit. I can’t believe this is actually happening. New X-files episodes.
It wasn’t a bad start but in a lot of ways it was like watching an old married couple having the same argument they’ve been having for decades.
Tonight’s episode was written by James Wong, who co-wrote with Glen Morgan some of the better episodes in the show’s first few seasons.
<fingers in ears> I haven’t read the thread-- I just want to know if this is being streamed anywhere. I don’t have regular TV or cable anymore–just my Roku.
You can get the new season on Amazon for $9.99.
The parts with rushed dialogue, like Mulder & Scully talking at her car, were painful to watch.
Delayed by football. Seems like old times.
I think the first one is free on the Fox site now.
And Rance Howard as the old guy who seems to be Mulder’s new inside man. Did anybody else think he was dead? I’d swear I’d seen an obit for him at one time.
Nope, just saw Ron Howard on Graham Norton talking about his Dad a few weeks ago.
Andy Griffith died, though. Kind of Ron Howard’s Dad.
Wow - very heavy-handed on the conspiracy stuff, and not sure I like it that they essentially said everything in the original series was a lie. Mulder and Scully didn’t quite seem comfortable with one another but that’s to be expected. The two actors have had a lot of water go under their respective bridges since they portrayed these two people. I’m hoping the rhythm will come back as the episodes progress.
I was gladder than glad to see it come back, in any form. But I think I wanted something different than what they dished up for me. But then, I’ve had a lot of water flow under my bridge, too.
Wait, what?
I haven’t got a chance to watch it yet. So, how much of “everything” was a lie? Just the conspiracy stuff, or all of it all? No invasion aliens? No black oil? No bees? Mulder’s sister wasn’t abducted/sent as a hostage? Deep Throat didn’t kill an alien that crashed? We don’t have planes using alien tech (that kill their pilots)? CSM isn’t Mulder’s father? Scully didn’t have Mulder’s baby? Is the stuff we saw on screen that was alien related, but M&S didn’t see, is also in the didn’t happen category? How about lord Kimboat?
Not sure I want to watch it now.
Having been a huge fan of the original, I’m very on the fence about this. Part of it surely is that I’m no longer in my early teens, when the X Files was just the best thing ever; but still, it just didn’t capture that feeling to me. It was way too on the nose, hokey CGI UFOs like in a SyFy original movie—I honestly thought that the scene in Roswell (or not?) would end up being a deliberate fake out.
They also pushed Mulder way too hard into paranoid nutcase territory. I’d thought the O’Malley character would end up being a foil for Mulder, sort of showcasing where paranoia leads when unchecked, contrasting Mulder’s drive for seeking out the truth with O’Malleys right wing anti-government extremism—wanting to believe versus wanting to be believed—, but so far, they seem to be playing it straight, or at best, in an ‘any harbor in a storm’-kind of way.
I’m also not sure regarding the about-face regarding the conspiracy’s perpetrators. So one girl says, but it wasn’t aliens, and all of a sudden Mulder is convinced? Sure he can be gullible, but usually only when people confirm his ideas. Just didn’t ring true to me.
Also, the whole ARV-thing was just way too casual. Oh, the proof you’ve been looking for all these years? Yeah, it’s just gathering dust in this hangar. One also presumes that these paranoid in the extreme characters never documented anything on film, or rigged things such that a massive data upload to the net would occur if a certain button isn’t pressed regularly, and so on—no, the government just barges in and blows everything up, and poof, it’s just gone, likely to never play a role again. (Briefly, when O’Malley took Mulder to those people that were ‘very paranoid’ about their work, I hoped fiercely that once they take the bag off of Mulder’s head, he’d be face to face with the Lone Gunmen—cue “wait, so you guys know one another?” from O’Malley.)
In fact, for nearly the first half of the first episode, I was convinced this would be just a big fake-out—Mulder was just pretending to go along with O’Malley’s nonsense, the UFO crash was staged, the girl a hoax, and the ARV some clever special effects. For the second half, I mostly wished they’d taken that direction.
Still, there were also some bits I loved. Lots of callbacks to UFO lore—element 115, electro-gravitation, Kenneth Arnold, that was all there. Also, I thought the interaction between Mulder and Scully rang true for the most part (except in some of the forced info-dump scenes). Everybody seemed a believable future version of their old characters; Skinner hasn’t shown much development yet, but maybe we’ll get to see some in future episodes.
No, I was definitely thinking Rance Howard because he played Sheridan’s dad on Babylon 5.
Sorry, JAQ, but the OP said it was ok to talk spoilers after the first epi aired. They throw out the idea that the aliens aren’t aliens, that rather, the aliens are us. That’s as much as I’ll say since I don’t think that ruins it TOO much.
Go watch! Quickly now! We’ll wait.
We had to record it on demand because of the damned sporting event.
Muldar has no eyelashes, and shaves three times a week.
Eh…a rather drastic treatment for tinnitus! :eek:
That was even more meh than last night’s episode.
Seems like they have a conundrum. Make it true to the original series or make it hold up to the new generation of TV that we are in now. Today’s TV competition is just orders of magnitude better than the 90s was. Seems like it’s staying fairly true to the original, which I appreciate.
One episode behind…
The “conspiracy” is classic - it can be whatever you want, and it’s always internally consistent. Or, equally in-consistent.
Is Svetlana actually an alien hybrid, and Tad is the lone gunman fiting to reveal the truth, or is Sevtlana a disinformation specialist used to discredit Tad? Or is TAD the disinformation agent, continuing to confuse and obfuscate the Truth? They all fit the available facts, and a dozen other theories.
And pray tell, what are ‘they’ waiting for? They want to “take over” America. I’ll skip the why, because it’s not important. But these conspiracies always depend on things just about ready to happen. They are* soon *to declare martial law, soon to send us all to secret camp, while they are simultaneously causing global famine and hoarding food to kill us off (then why the camps?) while also simultaneously using space based weapons to keep us from emmigrating away when global catastophe comes (even though we don’t even know we CAN leave, as they’ve kept space travel tech a secret). They keep this massive mult-spiracy a secret by flying alien tech craft in the open, abducting people and forcing them to have NotAlien! babies, all the while blowing up cars with blaster rays when a simple bullet to the head would cause less notice. WHILE also feeding confusing info to Mulder (for unknown reasons) and never actually just killing him which would be the easiest solution.
It’s not even fun anymore. It’s fan service to paranoics.
Plus, wasn’t CSM killed by a missile? Surely this all-powerful conspiracy could actually kill someone, and not make a simple rookie mistake like not checking if he was actually dead? It’s not like the killer was in a rush! They were in the middle of nowhere.
So, since everything that we “believe” from the original series is a lie, then the original conspiracy was a fake. The so-called conspirators were going around acting as if aliens were invading (in 2012!) and making plans, and creating alien hybrids, and breeding bees to distrubute the alien virus, and actively hiding this “conspiracy” from Mulder and…who? And spending tons of money first making fake alien conspiracy stuff, then spending MORE money to hide all the fake conspiracy stuff! Plus, why make a huge fake conspiracy, then kill everyone (except M&S, of course) who uncovers it?
And then, the members of the Syndicate, who thought they were collaborating with these non-existent aliens, they were being fooled? To what end? Then they were murdered by notactually alien bounty hunters?
So, do the “super soldiers” actually exist? Or was that yet another layer of deception? And the alien bounty hunters? More levels to a fake conspiracy?
Wouldn’t it just be easier to get elected, and take over America the old fashined way?