TV: The X Files

[verb_to_trust]

I definitely feel for good or bad 7 seasons of playing Hank Moody has leaked into his take on Mulder.

[epilogue]

I definitely feel for good or bad 7 seasons of playing Hank Moody has leaked into his take on Mulder.

Could be. I haven't watched any of that show, so I can't say. But I won't dispute you on it.

[LoathedVermin72]

I really cannot stand the Lauren Ambrose character. It's like Reyes all over again.

[LoathedVermin72]

Oh Christ, and now Reyes is back too. Fuck.

[LoathedVermin72]

Boy, this revival really fell apart after the first three episodes.

[LoathedVermin72]

Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.

Well if it doesn't return then you won't have a choice but to be done with it.

[LoathedVermin72]

Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.

Well if it doesn't return then you won't have a choice but to be done with it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.

Well if it doesn't return then you won't have a choice but to be done with it.

:/

[verb_to_trust]

Do you think Kanye is an alien human hybrid?

[LoathedVermin72]

He's a demigod

[Simple Torture]

I really cannot stand the Lauren Ambrose character. It's like Reyes all over again.

Oh Christ, and now Reyes is back too. Fuck.

What an amazing series of posts.

[Simple Torture]

I tried to write a long post about my feelings over the finale--working in things like fantasy booking (i.e., using the same bones of the episode, but tweaking the reveal of information so it was more exciting), connecting it to the first episode in productive ways, and so on--but I had to stop halfway through because I was just so disappointed in this episode. There were a lot of things that were wrong with it: their insistence on pushing these young agents so they can spin them off eventually, bringing back a character like Reyes who's so inconsequential, Mulder and the CSM having the same conversation for the umpteenth time. But, by far, what bothered me most about this episode was that it stands as an example (there are many others from the original one) of the X-Files getting away from the unexplainable, the eerie, and the uncanny--the stuff that shouldn't be true but at the same time it has to be: Fluke Man, Clyde Bruckman, Bryan Cranston's exploding head, Duane Barry, Leonard Betts, Eugene Victor Tooms, and all the rest. None of these episodes pivoted--like last night's finale did--on being really good at science; the drama came from Mulder and Scully trying to reconcile the impossible with the very small understanding of the universe that they had. The X-Files is about perspective, and that's why everyone loved "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," it's why everyone lists "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and "Bad Blood" as some of their favorite episodes, and it's why Kurosawa's Rashomon continues to influence some of the greatest art of today: to paraphrase Socrates, the "truth" that's inevitably out there in the best of The X-Files is the fact that we know nothing, and this finale comes off as very "know-y" (as Carter's worst episodes tend to do). I'd give the whole season like a C+

[darth_vedder]

I haven't watched the finale yet, but that 5th episode was pretty bad. The first 4 were ok though. I'll probably get around to watching the finale this week.

[doone]

So that really was the finale? I thought maybe there'd be one more...

[contamination]

Really disappointed in this season. Disney should have done this.

[verb_to_trust]

William b Davis was good at least

[epilogue]

Clunky writing. Too on the nose. But I'm just such a sucker for Mulder and Scully. I thought it was a lot of fun.

This season ranked:
1. Ep 3
2. Ep 5
3. Ep 6
4. Ep 4
5. Ep 2
6. Ep 1

[verb_to_trust]

What missed opportunity to tie things up. They have to keep going now. If not I'm going to find Chris Carter and fling my poo at him.

[LoathedVermin72]

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3. 2
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5. 5
6. 6