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X-Files Reboot
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As of that night, there was one show you had missed an easy catch up if you have a computer or iOS device. Now you've missed two shows (broadcast Monday night), so just forget it.
Yeah that Ford Explorer was getting some good views. Like when Scully almost hit the pedestrian, some kind of front camera auto-stop thing kicked in.
The car placement isn't new. I remember in 24, Jack always had the latest greatest pickup truck and all the bad guys drove toyotas.
Yeah, they've definitely been doing it for some time. It used to be more external so to say, but over the years they've been building things related to the car into the storyline (like the unnecessary and distracting pedestrian thing) and it takes away from the show by not being organic and almost forced in a sense.
I'm hoping for another 6 episodes just so they can get Vince Gilligan back. I'd like to see what he could do with the X-Files after all these years.
My DVR didn't record Sunday or Monday night's episodes. Never happened before. I smell a conspiracy. I watched the first episode on demand, with commercials, like an animal! The first episode was absolutely horrible.
1. After believing in an alien conspiracy for decades, with no proof whatsoever, Mulder just spews out this other conspiracy theory about the government. He switched sides faster then Bruce Jenner.
2. Another freaking scene where the old guy who knows everything listens to Mulder and keeps saying crap like "youre almost there" "you have almost all the pieces to the puzzle" or whatever. JUST TELL HIM WHAT YOU KNOW! What's with playing games like this?!
3.Mulder calls Scully on the phone because he has to tell her right then what he now believes in and then rambles for a moment before saying I can't discuss this on the phone and hangs up on her. Dick.
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1. After believing in an alien conspiracy for decades, with no proof whatsoever, Mulder just spews out this other conspiracy theory about the government. He switched sides faster then Bruce Jenner.
2. Another freaking scene where the old guy who knows everything listens to Mulder and keeps saying crap like "youre almost there" "you have almost all the pieces to the puzzle" or whatever. JUST TELL HIM WHAT YOU KNOW! What's with playing games like this?!
3.Mulder calls Scully on the phone because he has to tell her right then what he now believes in and then rambles for a moment before saying I can't discuss this on the phone and hangs up on her. Dick.
etc etc
Did anybody catch the reference to CNN Doctor Sanjay Gupta Neurologist ?
The one guy from India that killed himself. His last name was Sanjay. His friends name was Gupta.
That adds up to Sanjay Gupta.
The one guy from India that killed himself. His last name was Sanjay. His friends name was Gupta.
That adds up to Sanjay Gupta.
Did you ever watch the series before? That's how the whole show operates.
As far as I can tell, they picked up right where they left off and Mulder acts just the same as he did before; jumping at anything that might lead him toward something, anything. Calling Scully at the worst time with some crazy theory and then telling her he can't talk about it and abruptly hanging up, that's his MO.----
I just finished watching the second episode and I liked it just like I enjoyed the first one. I think they're doing well keeping true to the original theme of the show.
Yes, I loved the show until the last season or so. He didn't just jump at something on Sunday, he completely changed his view on everything he was led to believe for decades. Just didn't feel right at all.Did you ever watch the series before? That's how the whole show operates.
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I just finished watching the second episode and I liked it just like I enjoyed the first one. I think they're doing well keeping true to the original theme of the show.
The thing about The X Files was that, as good as it was, the show's alien story arc never really seemed to know where it was going.
Look at Babylon 5. J. Michael Straczynski had the entire five years of the show mapped out in his head, and that allowed the story to proceed in an orderly, logical manner, toward an extremely satisfying conclusion.* Chris Carter, on the other hand, seemed to be making it up as he went along. That episode where Mulder was put on trial, he gave this looooong, meandering explanation which attempted to tie every disparate piece of the show together...and it sounded lame.
And now we're going in another direction again. I'm not opposed to shows putting a sudden new spin on things; the final episode of Nowhere Man had the best switcheroo ending I've ever seen. But on The X Files we know from experience that plot twists like this never seem to get resolved.
* Yes, I know the final season wasn't part of the original story, but that's because TBS misled Straczynski into believing his show wasn't coming back for a fifth season, so he crammed the final two years of his five year storyline all into season 4.
Look at Babylon 5. J. Michael Straczynski had the entire five years of the show mapped out in his head, and that allowed the story to proceed in an orderly, logical manner, toward an extremely satisfying conclusion.* Chris Carter, on the other hand, seemed to be making it up as he went along. That episode where Mulder was put on trial, he gave this looooong, meandering explanation which attempted to tie every disparate piece of the show together...and it sounded lame.
And now we're going in another direction again. I'm not opposed to shows putting a sudden new spin on things; the final episode of Nowhere Man had the best switcheroo ending I've ever seen. But on The X Files we know from experience that plot twists like this never seem to get resolved.
Not to mention: climate change, wiretapping, wars, diseases.... We are human beings. We are perfectly capable of effing things up really good without it all being the machinations of faceless men in some sort of half-assed Trilateral Commission bent on dominating the world. Spare me the Alex Jones/Glenn Beck crap. There are enough crazy conspiracy theories in the world without Mulder being their mouthpiece.
* Yes, I know the final season wasn't part of the original story, but that's because TBS misled Straczynski into believing his show wasn't coming back for a fifth season, so he crammed the final two years of his five year storyline all into season 4.
I agree that the alien arc was never neatly tied up, possibly because Carter, et al always wanted to leave open the possibility of another X-Files movie. There were certainly many inconsistencies and some frank contradictions, especially if you compare what took place in the first movie to what was revealed in the latest two episodes. During the show's original run, I often enjoyed the MOTW episodes more than the alien ones, partly because they were so inventive and partly because they didn't have to continue the arc. The gag episodes ("War of the Coprophages" comes to mind) were a lot of fun. (It was penned by the same writer as "Clyde Brickman's Final Repose.")
My wife and I watched several seasons of the original (we're gone before Robert Patrick came along), and I have rewatched the first season on Amazon Prime ... But WOW was that first episode just dreadful, dreary, and worst of all BORING. Honestly I only made it through 30 of the 43 minutes (Hulu), but couldn't do it anymore.
I wanted to believe.
I wanted to believe.
Yeah, I find that many new series first episodes, even first seasons are rough and slow to start. But the X-Files, IMO, picks up steam and excitement fairly soon in the first season.
I chalk it up to the actors, directors and producers just trying to get a feel for the show and each other and over time, they get more comfortable with each other and find their groove and start clicking.
They deliberately used the old intro. It has been discussed with CC who said they considered a new opening but felt the old one was a good play to the series.
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To the 2010's need to remake every TV show/movie possible from the 80s/90s.
It's closer to a reboot than a continuation. The show has been dead for how long?
I think if it was a reboot, like emma stone would be scully and zach efron would be mulder.
