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I predict that will be the worst typo I make in recent history.
Don’t worry, it takes won to no won.
The X-Files — Page 3
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I too am of a mind that the Monster of the Week episodes are the best. I’ve never cared much for the mytharc.
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I too am of a mind that the Monster of the Week episodes are the best. I’ve never cared much for the mytharc.
And my Ax
JEDIT: i agree of course
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I’m tempted to make “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” my personal series finale. The preceding episodes this season have been mediocre to terrible, and the succeeding episodes will likely return to form right up to the actual finale, which is guaranteed to be a clusterfuck of absolute failure.
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I only halfheartedly watched it while getting ready for work this morning. Don’t even think I finished it. I’ll probably try to give it a proper watch tomorrow.
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Am I the only one who hates that the opening credits haven’t been updated? It’s 2018. David Duchovny’s 57. Gillian Anderson’s 49. Mitch Pileggi’s got a beard. Yet here we are, using footage shot in 4:3 stretched/cropped to 16:9, with cast photos from the '90s. It looks lazy and cheap.
Were it up to me, I’d use the Season 9 credits with updated cast photos. Then again, I’m not the auteur Chris Carter is.
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They could’ve at least done a better job with upscaling/cropping. Hell, I’d prefer a straight upscale of the original 16:9 season 5-7 cropped credits than the weird Frankenstein monster with the wrong fonts that we have now…
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Eight episodes down, only two left to go, I’m gonna go right ahead and say Season 11 is as much a dud as Season 10. Of those eight episodes, I’ve only liked three: “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat”, “Kitten”, and “Ghouli”. Everything else has been insipid.
At this point, I’m just gonna run with the idea that the last movie and last two seasons all take place in the parallel universe from the ninth season episode “4-D”. That’s why the present characterization and mytharc doesn’t align with that of past seasons; that’s why no one talks about Doggett; that’s why CSM isn’t a small pile of ash.
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Nah man, everything after season 8 simply didn’t happen. Easy peasy.
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I just finished watching Season 11. My ratings for the individual episodes are as follow:
- “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” – 8/10
- “Kitten” – 8/10
- “Ghouli” – 8/10
- “Nothing Lasts Forever” – 7/10
- “Familiar” – 6/10
- “Rm9sbG93ZXJz” – 6/10
- “This” – 6/10
- “Plus One” – 5/10
- “My Struggle III” – 3/10
- “My Struggle IV” – 1/10
My final thoughts on what has become of the show? At best, it’s a cynical farce, but I feel it leans more towards complete nihilistic abomination. This will be my final season; I won’t be making a third visit to Chris Carter’s hacktacular freakshow.
★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ (for the season)
★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ (for the entire revival)
★★★★★★★☆☆☆ (for the series in toto)
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Holy shit, My Struggle IV was that bad?! Does it at least…you know…end the series? Is there any point to subjecting myself to the rest of the season? (The last episode I watched was that awful sushi restaurant AI “I’ll kill you if you don’t leave a tip” one.)
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Holy shit, My Struggle IV was that bad?!
On its own, it’s simply bad. But taking into consideration the rest of the season, the mytharc, the entire series? It’s nothing short of vomitrocious.
Does it at least…you know…end the series?
After
Reyes dies from an unceremonious gunshot wound to the head, CSM runs Skinner down with his car, Mulder guns CSM down, and we find out Scully is pregnant with Mulder’s child (for real this time),
it ends on a cliffhanger.
Is there any point to subjecting myself to the rest of the season? (The last episode I watched was that awful sushi restaurant AI “I’ll kill you if you don’t leave a tip” one.)
Here’re the best parts of “Familiar”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8tGScPoqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3g1Ul6LMKQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygdjVm6Fvk
Now you don’t have to waste time watching what is otherwise a generic MOTW episode with a lame ending.
As for “Nothing Lasts Forever”, the plot itself’s kinda half-baked and ends with dangling plot threads, but Mulder & Scully themselves are excellent; they finally feel like their true selves here. If you want your journey with these two to end on a high note, this is your last, best chance.
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…fuck you Chris Carter.
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You mean he’s a…?
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You mean he’s a…?
Talentless hack worse than George Lucas? Yes. Yes, he is.
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George Lucas definitely isn’t talentless. He just has very specific talents when it comes to filmmaking and for some reason over the years he was deluded into thinking he was the whole package.
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George Lucas definitely isn’t talentless. He just has very specific talents when it comes to filmmaking and for some reason over the years he was deluded into thinking he was the whole package.
Hyperbolic statement, was Hyperbolic.
Anyway, point still stands: Chris Carter sucks Martian gonads.
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So, Gillian Anderson isn’t going to be returning as Scully, cementing the end of the series here.
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/x-files-season-12-gillian-anderson-end-it-1201943762/
It seems like this show went on way longer than it should have, even in its original run.
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Ah, but Carter is now open to continuing the series without Gillian.
I, for one, won’t be watching any further butchery.
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Oh god no.
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Yeah, Anderson’s been saying she’s out since before the season started airing, and Carter’s been saying that he’s willing to keep going without her.
Fuck it, I don’t care. The show ended with “Existence” (end of season 8), and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.
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X-files hasn’t been good since 2005 when I finished binging it.
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I’ll say this about the last two seasons: they’ve left me with the urge to rewatch Seasons 1-9 again, if only to work out what my personal canon really is. Don’t know if that’s bad or good, but there you go.
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I’ll say this about the last two seasons: they’ve left me with the urge to rewatch Seasons 1-9 again, if only to work out what my personal canon really is. Don’t know if that’s bad or good, but there you go.
I worry that I would ruin my memory of x-files if I rewatched it. I fear the alien storylines are painfully dated, and probably even the monster of the week (which we’re always my favorite) probably haven’t aged well.
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I’ll say this about the last two seasons: they’ve left me with the urge to rewatch Seasons 1-9 again, if only to work out what my personal canon really is. Don’t know if that’s bad or good, but there you go.
I worry that I would ruin my memory of x-files if I rewatched it. I fear the alien storylines are painfully dated
If by “dated” you mean “initially intriguing, but increasingly meandering, discordant, and pointless”, then yes, the mytharc certainly is dated.
and probably even the monster of the week (which we’re always my favorite) probably haven’t aged well.
Certainly not the ones from Season 7.