I sort of thought Einstein and Miller were supposed to just be joke characters, given the extent to which they were young versions of Mulder and Scully. I mean Einstein even worse the same pants-suits that Scully used to wear. So I had assumed they were throwaway gags in what had mostly been a comedy episode. But... here they were again, in a serious episode where we were presumably supposed to take them seriously.
Certainly they played it straight.
But yes, transparent spin-off fodder. They were there in case Anderson and Duchovny were unavailable for any more episodes, and Fox wanted to make another season. And given the ratings were extremely good, Fox probably will.
(Although I'd wager the audience satisfaction numbers were awful, and most of us wer ejust watching just to see it out, in the hope it might get better.)
The UFO was pretty cool, I just wish... any of it made a lick of sense.
And yet they spent most of the episode having Scully deliver exposition. Just... none of the exposition made a lick of sense.
I noticed as well that there were a couple of Doctors with writing credits for this alongside Chris Carter, which, makes it even more baffling that the science was so badly done.
I suppose at least the reveal of Cigarette Smoking Man's motivation made a bit of sense. Kill off the masses so the Elites can inherit the earth. Even if that doesn't make sense in the shows over-arching mythology. But. I think we all accepted the over-arching mythology had become a contradictory mess sometime around season 4.
Well if you had fond memories of the X-files, then yes, for sure. The whole mini season was pretty much a lesson in why the X-Files shrivelled up and died.
Yeah it was pretty awful. 3/4 of it didn't even have anything HAPPEN. I was like, "You were given 6 hours and you're wasting it on regurgitating the same thing over and over!" If THIS had been the premiere, maybe it would have been tolerable, but to end it without even ending it, and the sloppiness of the story and jfc enough about their child already. I just don't care. Really pissed me off. They deserve better, and we certainly do as well.
It was really bizarre wasn't it, just on a structural standpoint, so many things were wrong. It was written almost as a class in how not to write 42 minutes of television. Mulder... has a weird pointless confrontation, while Scully stands around reciting scientific gobbledegook having spotted a lesion on a soldiers arm and concluding the world is being destroyed by a viral apocalypse none of us had ever heard of before because... JUST BECAUSE OKAY
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I'm WAY behind on X-Files. I'm still on episode one of this current season. I heard the second and third did better, and I don't know about the rest (don't worry, I don't mind spoilers). So, I need to play catch up.
I tried to stay generic enough to avoid specific spoilers in my rant. I mean, other than the cliff hanger ending. But I wish I'd known that going in so that when the episode just STOPPED I wasn' tlike.. what? Did my video file cut off? Is there an error in playback? Am I missing the second half?
But actually, no, that is genuinely how Carter chose to end it. Feh.
The whole thing was garbage right from the first 'new' episode. The writing sucked, the directing sucked, and not that David Duchovny was ever in danger of being recognized for his acting prowess, but they dropped to new lows. I think Morgan and Wong have become victims of their own success
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There really were times Duchovny or Anderson looked like they were only being kept on set by armed guards, so little were they invested in their lines. But I suppose at least Anderson tried sometimes. But her eyes in that final episode where she was delivering those 'I've seen one sick soldier and NOW THE END OF THE WORLD AND SCIENCE GOBBLEDEGOOK!' stuff, she was like.... yeah, very ready to be out of there
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Seriously though, UGH....and Einstein and Miller are such transparent spin-off fodder
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Certainly they played it straight.
But yes, transparent spin-off fodder. They were there in case Anderson and Duchovny were unavailable for any more episodes, and Fox wanted to make another season. And given the ratings were extremely good, Fox probably will.
(Although I'd wager the audience satisfaction numbers were awful, and most of us wer ejust watching just to see it out, in the hope it might get better.)
The UFO was pretty cool, I just wish... any of it made a lick of sense.
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Did you see this http://mlknchz.livejournal.com/439407.html#comments about the were-lizard episode?
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I noticed as well that there were a couple of Doctors with writing credits for this alongside Chris Carter, which, makes it even more baffling that the science was so badly done.
I suppose at least the reveal of Cigarette Smoking Man's motivation made a bit of sense. Kill off the masses so the Elites can inherit the earth. Even if that doesn't make sense in the shows over-arching mythology. But. I think we all accepted the over-arching mythology had become a contradictory mess sometime around season 4.
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But actually, no, that is genuinely how Carter chose to end it. Feh.
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