So, are all the flashback of NotAlien!MysteryBaby William just wishful thinking? None of that happened, right? I didn’t think it was clear, but it makes sense if they aren’t real memories.
Didin’t it seem to be a tactical error on M&S’s part to take the son, who is definite proof of hybrid genetic manipulation, and take him right into the secure facility of the guy who created him? You’d think the first thing he would do is secure the kid and kick M&S to the curb. Why would he cooperate with them at all?
Not convinced so far that these episodes are any better than an average episode of the original series.
They were just imagining what it would have been like if they’d raised William. This included both normal kid stuff and their fears of what might have happened to him (genetic defects/mutations in Scully’s mind, an abduction in Mulder’s mind) as he grew up. I’d quit watching the original X-Files before the “mystery baby” was born so I’m not clear on what the deal was with baby William, but they stated in this episode that Scully had put him up for adoption as an infant in order to protect him. So the scenes of Mulder and Scully with him as an older child couldn’t have been flashbacks to real events.
I really didn’t understand the alien vehicle and the associated engineers that Tad and Mulder visited in the first episode. There was no backstory to any of it or any of the folks who built it…just a “oh yeah, I know these paranoid guys who just built a working alien spacecraft”. Seemed so out of place and they didn’t go anywhere with it, aside from destroying it at the end of the episode.
Your taking that waaaay too broadly. Fox is an over-dramatic guy, and “Everything we knew is a lie!” is a super dramatic thing to say, but its hyperbole. He’s not saying that everything in the original series was a hallucination. They really did meet a guy who survived by eating cancer. There really was a human flukeworm. There really is a guy who turns himself into Luke Skywalker to sleep with mentally disturbed young women. Fox still has a date with death via autoerotic asphyxiation in his future. Everything we saw on the screen still happened. What’s changed is what it all means. Fox has found yet another layer in the conspiracy. Originally, it was just, “There’s aliens!” But that was a cover for illegal government experimentation on civilians. But that was just a cover for a secret deal the government struck with an incipient alien invasion force. But that was just a cover while the same shadowy government forces worked on developing a way to fight back against the invaders. The new conspiracy, if I followed correctly, is that the entire alien invasion story was a cover for a global power grab by some secret organization. The aliens do exist - that much is explicit, because the secret bad guys are using alien technology and DNA in their experiments. But the aliens were never hostile - they came here to help us, and we killed them and stripped them for parts.
Of course, this is the X-Files, so expect Fox to shout “Everything we know is wrong!” in at least two more episodes before the miniseries is over.
Tonight’s episode is the one in which Kumail Nanjiani will appear. Kumail is a comedian/actor (Silicon Valley) and he is the host of the podcast, The X-Files Files. The podcast has been credited with helping to convince Chris Carter and FOX that there was an audience out there for new X-Files episodes.
This one is written by Darin Morgan, who wrote the classic episodes Humbug, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, and War of the Coprophages. I have high hopes.
*then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials - searching for meaning in other human beings… Rare or lucky are those who find it - for although we may not be alone in the Universe - in our own separate ways - on This Planet… we are all… alone.
[cue the X-Files theme music] *
Cool they had a Queequeg reference. Episode was a good to average MotW, however Duchovny, (and/or Mulder,) is just… not fitting my expectations.
Fun episode. Nice twist on the were-legend. I liked the actor who played the ‘monster.’
I knew who Kim Manners was, but I had to look up the name on the other headstone. Jack Hardy was an assistant director on Millennium and the second X-Files movie.