03-01-2018, 12:03 AM | #41 |
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Saw tonight's ep, the show's return from hiatus.
Ehhhhhhhhhh... It's a good hour of television, heavily Black Mirror-inspired. But c'mon. I know there's weird, self-contained X-Files episodes... but generally even in those Mulder and Scully will make some mention of, "Hey, [partner]... isn't this REALLY WEIRD and/or REALLY WRONG, what's going on around us? WTF??" There is no way they would have gotten even 5% into this episode without doing that, but they do. They treat everything in this episode as perfectly normal. By about the 2/3 mark I was 100% positive Mulder or Scully would wake up in some diner and the whole thing would be a dream. But it wasn't. It was all real.
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So much this season just seems like a waste of real estate. Some have been good, or middling, or bad, or really bad (and boy, did this season start off with a whopper of a stinker)... but nothing feels like we're getting a real arc, either story-wise or character-wise. Quote:
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I'm on ep 8, I hope 9 isn't another random before the finale, which you guys get tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get a good conclusion seen as we won't be getting any more. I'll still read the spoilers
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It's totally just another random ep. There's a couple of Mulder and Scully exchanges disconnected from the rest of the episode near the end that might be meaningful, or might turn out to be nothing.
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Kidding, did they run out of story for the main story? Lot to cram in that last ep.
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It seems final episode will have a cliffhanger.
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Yeah, it sounds like it's going to end on a big, stupid cliffhanger tonight.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-x...s-so-exclusive "In the same breath, there is a lot of life left in the show. I think you haven’t seen the end.” Also, Chris Carter has reconsidered his stance on "there is no X-Files without Mulder and Scully." So he may trudge on without Gillian. Yikes! Stop it!
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Ughhhh, so a big cliffhanger which may remain if they don't do anything more with it. As Gillian isn't coming back they will need to tie Scully up, less they turn her into an alien so anyone can play her that would suck.
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So yeah, were they trolling when they said Gillian was done? Or is Scully just going to go off-the-grid and retire to be a full mother when she comes to term?
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We'll never know. Even if Carter recants his "we'll never do more X-Files without Gillian" and does want to do the show without her... I'm not even sure the ratings were enough this season to bring about a season 12. And without Gillian? Even less likely Fox would throw money at such a thing.
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A lot of people dropped it after Mulder was gone, I lost enthusiasm too but stuck with it to the end and got used to it enough to do that, but it wasn't the same.
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I tuned in for the Gunmen until they were killed off, then came back for little things like Scully giving up William, Duggan resolving his own arc, and Mulder's return
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Haven't watched the revival seasons but they sound like a huge mess just like the last few season of the original run. How did they mess it up when it seemed so simple, a few MOTW episodes and a few mythology episodes without going to deep.
Hell, the real best scenario was if they had brought Scully/Mulder along a new generation and see if that worked, yeah it didn't work the last time they did it but there's a difference between replacing the main actors during their run and having the main actors as mentors in a new show. The old show also didn't fail because Mulder and Scully left, the mythology of the show had already become a huge mess with Mulder and Scully, I can't remember which season though. The replacements weren't that bad even if they lacked the chemistry of Scully/Mulder, the main problem with the later seasons was that they were still continuing the mythology that had become beyond stupid by that point. X-Files would've worked better if they had left the mythology a little more secret and not explaining every single thing, I easily loved the mythology the most about the show but sometimes showing less is more. Still, the show created the best character ever in fiction with Cigarette Smoking Man. |
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Watched the season finale, which will more than likely be the last time we ever see any X-Files again, ever.
Well, it's not as bad as I feared but it's still pretty rotten. Scully doesn't really do anything in the episode other than say Spoiler:
It's not like a MASSIVE cliffhanger. There are no dark events supposed to happen after this and the central threat is eliminated. The cliffhanging bits (namely, Reyes and Skinner) could have easily been tidied up in a 10 second scene.
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