WMain00 posted:

Just caught up with the final episode and what the gently caress. Just what the gently caress?

I almost had a bottle of whisky out for every time the phrase "Alien DNA" was used. I reckon I would have been on the floor by the end of it. They just seemed to piss over everything. All over the original series, all over the new one, all over any sort of intelligence or pre-planning or thought process they had for it. Just literally "Hey, is this your favourite show? Well watch closely as we piss all over it."

I think my brain left at some point. I think my brain went "gently caress this poo poo," packed a bag and exited. Whoever wrote this pile of crap needs to be taken out to a wall and shot. It just didn't make sense. Everyone is going to die except anyone who has magical-alien-dna (tm) because CSM wants to depopulate the planet just cause. Then toward the end of the episode it basically throw in as many buzz words as possible. Alien DNA, stem cells, crispr-cas (apparently a relatively new thing according to my girlfriend that is commonly used in day to day science today, but the way it was used in the x-files is entirely wrong).

And then...well...what exactly is the end result? The X Files was never really designed for a sort of end-of-the world scenario series and I can't stand agent youth face and bitch-Einstein (I call her that because her character is extremely annoying and whoever thought that Einstein would be a good name also needs shot).

The entire series has been a disaster. It's been an actual real life scenario of why some favourite tv series should be just best left dead. The only one in the series who seemed to be at least trying to put some sort of heart into it was Gillian Anderson. Duchovny seemed to be sleepwalking through the entire thing, putting forward wild ideas completely irrelevant to the plot (I can only presume the magic mushroom thing was his idea). The ending was basically a gigantic poo poo. It didn't try to present itself as anything else, it just literally was poo poo, with Chris Carter presenting it proudly, as if he had made a work of art.

I do hope the Fox executives looked at this and went "Haha, nope" and that'll be the end of it. I don't think I want more X-Files anymore.

Bulky Bartokomous posted:

Ansazi and Paperclip were every bit as great as I remembered.

"No! You listen to me you son of a bitch!"

Also, D.P.O., holy poo poo it's Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black!

sticklefifer posted:

If hyperbole was energy, you could power a small city with this post.

WMain00 posted:

The entire series has been a disaster. It's been an actual real life scenario of why some favourite tv series should be just best left dead. The only one in the series who seemed to be at least trying to put some sort of heart into it was Gillian Anderson. Duchovny seemed to be sleepwalking through the entire thing, putting forward wild ideas completely irrelevant to the plot (I can only presume the magic mushroom thing was his idea). The ending was basically a gigantic poo poo. It didn't try to present itself as anything else, it just literally was poo poo, with Chris Carter presenting it proudly, as if he had made a work of art.

Chairman Capone posted:

The funniest thing about DPO is that it's Giovanni Ribisi who's bullying Jack Black.

Octy posted:

You're kidding right? Anderson was incredibly wooden throughout the show. So was Duchovny for a fair bit, but he at least seemed to enjoy himself in certain episodes. He also doesn't sound like he smokes a pack a day.

sticklefifer posted:

I'm going through the later seasons and I only realize now that I underappreciated Doggett, because like most people at the time I resented him for the crime of Not Being Mulder. I always kind of liked him anyway, but I never realized what he contributed until a rewatch. His sense of duty is great, and he's extremely good at his job. He brings a fresh perspective as an experienced former NYC cop, and stuff like him going through the entire X-Files cabinet as soon as he gets assigned are really nice touches to his characterization. Really what's missing from the show without Mulder is levity; the show gets super serious for a while as Doggett isn't exactly one for witty one-liners and banter, in the same way that the very early seasons were before the show first found its groove. Still, I like him a lot better now than I remembered.

corn in the fridge posted:

Got around the watching the last two episodes of the reboot and holy moley were they bad like impossibly bad

Loomer posted:

Since there was some Millennium talk, season 2 is one of the single best shows I've ever seen.

Season 3 is hot garbage, though, and season 1 was a bit repetitive by the end but would be perfectly at home alongside say, True Detective, if they did a HD remaster

Chairman Capone posted:

I actually wished they had gone further with Scully being the fully committed conspiracy theorist now to offset him better.

Open Source Idiom posted:

For all that Season 3 of Millennium is a total mess, (my god, the KISS episode? That's also a "parody" of the Scream films? What were they thinking???) the Tracy Middendorf episode, Dawrin's Eye, is actually pretty drat good. The Season 3 Christmas episode, The Sound Of Snow, is also really good, and would have fit in completely with Season 2.

So, like, if you include the Lucy Butler episode, and the one where they go to Emma's hometown (AKA, the only good Emma episode), that's just about 15% of the season that's worth watching.

So if anything, Chris Carter's improved with this season of the X-Files.

hangedman1984 posted:

Miranda posted:

Put me on the watching old episodes makes me realise how good they are train (and how poo poo in comparison the new stuff is). I'm really loving re-watching their relationship evolve

woodch posted:

I've been hopping around the episodes, going off a few top 10 lists and such, and having a good time. I'm impressed by how little dead space there is in the episodes I've been watching. Everything keeps moving along without any major sags.

FrakkinCylon posted:

This thread, along with season 10, has inspired my fiance and I to rewatch the series, skipping some of the lame eps of course.

We just finished Beyond The Sea, and Jesus tap dancing Christ I had forgotten how amazingly good this show once was.

Ginette Reno posted:

The X-Files is a pretty amazing show up until the Syndicate dies and then (the mytharc at least) goes downhill. The first movie is good also.

Ginette Reno posted:

The X-Files is a pretty amazing show up until the Syndicate dies and then (the mytharc at least) goes downhill. The first movie is good also.

Imo if you just watch right until that two parter where that happens and then quit you'll be pretty satisfied with the show. That's usually what I do on re-runs.