After 4 episodes, I’m beginning to wonder what was so important to say about the X Files universe that the show just had to be brought back. What new insights, new observations, new perspectives, needed to be examined? What previously unknown monster stories were burning up someone’s head, that needed to be told? Because I haven’t seen anything so far that makes this effort worthwhile.
other than money.
The first episode promised all sorts of weird alien conspiracy stuff. Then we get monster of the week episodes. Still great to watch, but not very cohesive.
The Banksystein thing didn’t work for me, nor the plodding pathos at the end. I feel like a broken pipe of threadshit, but so far the thing I’ve enjoyed most from this resurrection is watching the old episodes on Netflix and appreciating how good the show used to be.
The Golem of Prague was immobilized on the Sabbath by the Rabbi creator removing writing from the golem’s forehead.
The X-File golem was immobilized by getting a smile on his face, without a band aid.
But this golem came with his own garbage truck and (apparently) ghost driver. Where did the body parts go? Where did the truck go? Where did it come from?
Semi-serious question - who was painting the graffiti? At first I thought it was the golem, but was it just the one guy, just commemorating the murders? If it was a human artist, how did he get them done so fast?
This is an interesting point. The only episode that seemed to acknowledge changes in the culture was the first one and that was the weakest probably. It does feel like it was really about “90’s nostalgia is in and the leads are willing so…”
You got me.
:dubious:
I thought the graffiti was the golem. From the scene when the two guys steal the graffiti, then the image disappears and the golem materializes. I assumed the graffiti was the golem in between attacks.
This is what I thought as well.
I think it was just a shitty show, with no sense to the plot at all. Where did the garbage truck come from? Where did it go? How did everyone know to clear out and not be seen (except for the intended victim)?
This episode was just dumb. You’d think that since they were only making 6 fucking episodes, they’d make 6 good ones; it’s not like they only had 5 days to throw them together. Months and months of planning and writing and this was the best they could do? :dubious:
When the credits rolled, I actually thought I had accidentally skipped ahead on the remote. They’re really not going to explain anything about the fate of the monster, who drove the garbage truck, where the garbage truck came from, how the monster knew where to find his victims, what happened to the early creation thing that’s running around in that basement, whether that cop is going to want to know what the hell happened with all those murders…anything? Ugh.
Between attacks, I thought he was the clay figure in the basement. But I really am not sure of anything with this ep.
I think a couple causes contribute to the mess.
They were greenlit and entered production very quickly. The episodes were not written over a long period of time, but were written at a pretty quick(normal) pace.
They hired the best writers they could get(well…and Chris Carter). I think they pretty much just took the scripts provided from the talented writers they asked back. I was stunned that Glen Morgan wrote such a standard/non-sensical episode. He usually did better.
The other two stand-alones have been better episodes, though only Were Monster was a classic.
I have no explanation for who was driving the garbage truck, but the golem presumably could have stolen a garbage truck, taken whatever body parts he didn’t leave at the scene to the landfill, and returned the garbage truck.
IIRC, the artist said he had not painted the graffiti that appeared after the first murder. As Misnomer pointed out, this graffiti also apparently “came to life” and killed the art thieves/dealers.
We saw that the artist had done a bunch of sketches before making the golem sculpture, so my WAG would be that the golem can magically take the form of any of the artist’s representations of him.
If he can drive the garbage truck from the…back seat…that explains all. :dubious:
I liked tonight’s, nice stand-alone story. Mulder tripping on a placebo was awesome!
I’m not sure how I feel about this one yet, but I had been thinking it was a shame they couldn’t bring the Lone Gunmen back for a cameo (they died late in the original series) so I was happy to see them pop up in Mulder’s hallucination.
Two positives from tonight’s episode:
Lauren Ambrose and a Tom Waits song.
That totally fucking rocked! Best episode of this season by a long shot, IMO.
I recognized the Trace Adkins song Honky Tonk Badonkadonk and I recognized Tom Waits voice altho I don’t know the song. Anyone got a cite for the rest of the music in this one? I’m particularly looking to know what the dubstep song playing while the bomber was stopped in his car at the beginning of the show is and what was the first song playing while Mulder was tripping.
The Tom Waits song was “Misery is the River of the World”.
The song at the very end of the episode was “Ho Hey” by The Lumineers.