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ep 5 "Babylon"
this one reminds me of one those awful Gillian Anderson directed eps from the last two seasons of TOS...
yet, it is worth watching if only for the wonderful sequence where Mulder goes to a Texas honky tonk and dances to "Achy-breaky Heart'!
brm
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I LOVED the mushroom tripping sequence!!!
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Ive seen first two episodes. Will give it more time.
Ps i thought american horror hotel was fabulous and gaga was inspired casting.
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Well....
As I stated in another thread.......
AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
What happened? Was that a cliiff-hanger and a 100% guarantee of MORE new X-Files. or was it showing that mankind was ultimately doomed?
I know the majority of you jaded people posting to this didn't like these episodes, but I loved every single one of them!
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Feb 23, 2016 - 7:13 AM
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MikeP
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What was the deal with the alien spaceship at the end? LOL That had nothing to do with ANYTHING! lol
It actually tied in to the first episode, when the alien ship zeroed in on the woman who claimed multiple abductions and blew her up real good. That was included in the "previously" recap opening the episode.
Overall, it was a really uneven mini series. The finale tried to do way too much in the 40 + minutes, and felt too rushed with the End Of Mankind happening all of sudden. All the alien DNA deduction gobbeldygook with Scully andAgent Einstein towards the end was over the top, with that stilted jargon filled scientific dialogue Carter loves. It got to be a bit eye-rolling.
I liked the were-monster episode, it wasn't quite as successful as some of the goofy episodes from the original series, but was cute enough. The monster of the week episodes were hit and miss. Mulder's mushroom trip and the younger Mulder / Scully team felt really out of place tonally in an episode with a serious terrorist theme.
The series was at it's best dealing with Mulder and Scully themselves. The subplot with Scully's mother, and her speech about the mysteries for which she'll never get her answers, and her fears of what her son may think about her were really nice and emotional.
The network wants another mini series. It'd be nice to have it happen, and hopefully they'll be able to iron out the kinks from these six episodes.
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Feb 23, 2016 - 1:28 PM
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foxmorty
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Not really a big fan of previous poster saying many of us are too jaded for these episodes. I’m as big an X-file fan out there as there is. Was really looking forward to this, and it was a VERY mixed experiment now that it has concluded. If anything my affinity for the show probably bought it too many passes. It really is hard to go on a new journey when apparently the price of admission is to crap all over what came before. The new storyline, as it’s presented, is pretty incongruous with the previous show’s run. And that doesn’t make me jaded but is a problem.
We can point to episodes like Fearful Symmetry where the aliens are benevolently saving animals. We can point to episodes like Paper Hearts, Jose Chung and the Gethsemane/Redux trilogy that led to an entire season 5 of Mulder being skeptical about the existence of aliens. Thing is all this proceeded the first X-Files movie. That movie was sort of a big definitive statement across the board and it’s hard to get past no alien involvement or their Earth-saving intentions after you’ve seen a couple warrior aliens grow inside someone and then rip them apart being birthed.
Carter probably deserves more credit for tapping into the current zeitgeist of global warming but the fact that he couldn’t get there artfully shows a laziness on his part. There are certainly ways to do it (I can go on and on, trust me), he just doesn’t care at this point really and that may hurt him. I don’t think the anticipation will be as large going into a second miniseries.
Ultimately, the extremely abbreviated format was almost fatal to this show. In the season opener when you have Mulder immediately jumping to the most outlandish and extended ramblings that are not supported by anything only because, we have to get to that story point, it destroys pacing and credibility of good television and makes Mulder seem like a lunatic. Scully did the same thing last night. There’s no time, she thinks this is global, it is, she comes off like an idiot until two minutes later when it comes true. Back in the day they would have found some archaic way in and learned about a chem trail plane while investigating an airfield. How much more satisfying having some time to build that element in might have been.
It should be said Mark Snow did very solid work, the music is a highlight, especially in the end scenes on the bridge. But there was a time when X-Files relied on and cultivated great TV directors. It makes a difference. The fact that every writer of this miniseries directed their episode shows these to be more a vanity project then anything in service of compelling television. Carter can do a servicable, he's also prone to going extremely off the rails--case in point Babylon (remember Improbable and Fight Club, just mash them together).
But these miniseries got the show out on bluray (albeit not perfectly, that font?!). It was exciting waiting for the premiere, certainly felt like old times. Were-Monster was quite solid though a little too simple for “classic” Darren Morgan. And I am grateful that the last image we’ll ever see of Mulder and Scully is not the two agents bathing-suited and headed off in a row boat. It’s why I guess the cliffhanger doesn’t bother me as much. I’m certainly less invested coming out of this miniseries then I was going in, but I can live with a final image that is at least more true to the X-Files than that damn boat!
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We can point to episodes like .... the Redux trilogy that led to an entire season 5 of Mulder being skeptical about the existence of aliens.
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Which is why s.5 is the worst of the original run!
bro
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I thought the finale was extremely well done.
It had a truly terrifying premise that was conveyed realistically.
Yes, the script had some problems that have been mentioned before
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a nice wrap-up!
bruce
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