Should have had the monster selling car insurance instead of cell phones.
I guess, but I loved that he and the customers have no idea what he’s talking about. “Look how it has so many gigapixels and is so rectangular.”
Still sells phones well.
Sounds like the Geico gecko.
Loved the scene where Mulder is monologuing about all the weird shit he’s seen, and what he knows Scully’s responses will be, point by point, as Scully sits on the bed saying nothing and looking bemused.
I can think of a much better career option for him: Monster.com - Wikipedia
That may have been my favorite line of the entire episode: “You can see by its shape that it’s very rectangular.”
“That’s how I like my Mulder.”
I loved this one. It’s Mulder getting his groove back, rediscovering the joy of monster-hunting. And it was great fun catching the easter eggs and references on the way through too.
X-Files meet Scooby Doo… I like it.
Almost completely lost on tonight’s episode. Kind of get the golem, okay, fair enough. But the whole denouement went over me like a flock of geese.
That episode was surprisingly gory for broadcast television. Mr. Gaeta’s undoing looked straight out of Mortal Kombat.
So the guy walks out at the very end…I don’t know…can’t put it all together.
Trashcan episode = very meh.
The editing, lighting, music, etc. during the school board lady’s killing didn’t work at all; it was all very cliche and poorly done. The art guy’s deaths were stupid and had only the flimsiest (and not at all believable) justification.
In fact, the more I think about it, the worse my opinion of this one gets.
That wasn’t even equivalent to a mediocre ep from TOS. Not only did the “not really a” gollem not make any sense, but the strained parallels between the homeless, the trash, and Willam were painful to endure.
Next week looks to be a bizarro-world M&S. Woot. Good use of the limited time available in 6 episodes.
I liked last night, but it definitely would be a largely forgotten episode within the original 202 episodes. Standard MoW episode, but I still enjoy seeing regular X-files.
So far, only Wereman stands out as an episode that would hugely thought of and talked about if it had aired originally.
I see that I’m not alone in thinking that this was the weakest of the new efforts.
I liked it more than the first one, actually.
I’m sick of hearing about William. I’m a huge fan of TOS, but I don’t even remember Scully having a brother named Charlie.
I was disappointed with episode 4. With only 6 episodes in total, I feel like a whole episode was wasted, when we could have had something really good.
I thought the Monster of the Week stuff was okay (not great, and a bit too gory for my tastes, but okay), and the storyline about Scully’s mother and William might have been okay in some other context, but I felt like these really did not work well together.
I also feel like I’m expected to already know and care a lot more about William than I do. I’d stopped watching the original run of The X-Files before Scully even became pregnant with him. I had heard something about her having a baby at the time, but had mostly forgotten that and didn’t even know that William had (I guess?) been conceived the old fashioned way with Mulder as the dad rather than being the result of another alien abduction or something.
Thanks, I was going to ask, “Who the hell is William?”
My Grandfather’s name.
William the Bastard became William the Conqueror. It is all about good press.
A so-so episode. Trash golem was just an average spooky/weird unstoppable killing machine for X-Files. Trash, garbage and American disposable culture were the anvilicious themes.
I don’t remember any previous reference to Charlie Scully, either. I see they had the same actress back to play the mom, though. Why not try to revive her after she came to? She was off life support at that point - seemed to be rallying.
Next week: A taller, dark-haired male FBI agent who loves weird stuff is paired with a redheaded female MD agent who’s a skeptic. Now where have we seen that before…?
I liked it until… it just kinda ended. Even this show usually has a bit more resolution than that.