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hairy_hen said:

Didn’t the last episode of The X-Files actually show Cigarette Man’s body disintegrating in an explosion? How can he come back from that?

I know he’s been apparently dead before and come back, but seriously.

The aliens beamed him out of the explosion. Duh.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

hairy_hen said:

Didn’t the last episode of The X-Files actually show Cigarette Man’s body disintegrating in an explosion? How can he come back from that?

I know he’s been apparently dead before and come back, but seriously.

The aliens beamed him out of the explosion. Duh.

Could be a clone.

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Well, the tenth season is finished. My opinions are as follow.

CONS:

  • There weren’t enough episodes. Granted, Duchovny and Anderson already had a lot on their plate and couldn’t work much more into their schedule. Still, it would have been nice to have gotten six more episodes or so.

  • The second-to-last episode with the comatose terrorist was pretty weak. It reminds me of one of the typical Season 7 episodes. The Lone Gunmen cameo was pretty cringeworthy, too, though I did enjoy the rest of Mulder’s wacked-out trip.

  • I don’t like Agent Einstein and am pretty much indifferent to mini-Mulder (can’t be bothered to recall his name). If they’re meant to be the new Mulder & Scully, then Carter’s barking up the wrong X-file.

  • To be honest, I’m not at all that bothered by the new direction the mytharc has taken; I rather like the idea of rogue human elements within the government abusing stolen alien technology over the Colonist stuff from the earlier seasons. However, I think Carter should have ran with the idea then instead of shoehorning it in now without any clear notion given of how it all fits together with older episodes.

  • Needed more Skinner.

  • Would have liked to have seen more Reyes.

  • That’s some skin graft ol’ Smokey got there.

PROS:

  • Everything else. I enjoyed seeing Mulder & Scully back together on the small screen again.

Here’s hoping an eleventh season follows soon – a longer season.

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Yeah, that about sums up my thoughts on it. You don’t need to do a full 23 episode season but at least 10 would be nice. Five was too short. I couldn’t stand Einstein at all. You can be skeptical without being a jerk about it. I guess that serves to show what a great job Anderson did when the show started. To make that kind of character likable.

But yeah, I would definitely have preferred the return of Reyes and Doggett instead of Miller and Einstein. Heck, I would have even taken Xzibit over them.

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I really want to get excited, but season 10 left an even worse taste in my mouth than season 9 and IWTB did…

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Is there going to be more emphasis on the Mytharc this time or is Carter going to dick around again?

[JEDIT]

According to Wiki, Season 11 will have eight standalone episodes and two Mytharc episodes. My guess is Carter’s just going to continue doing what he’s always done: drag the Mytharc along for as long as he can with no real plan or goal in mind.

Times like these I’m glad I’m not a Mytharc fan. If I was, I’d be really annoyed by Anti-Straczynski’s showrunning.

[RETURN OF THE JEDIT]

Miller & Einstein are returning.

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Yeeeaaahhhh…this might be the first season of X-Files since I was 10 that I’m not going to watch live.

It’s okay, I’ve got the eight good seasons (well, seven good seasons plus season 7) and the one good movie on Blu-Ray, and the remaster was good enough overall that I can overlook how they butchered the opening credits sequence and title card fonts, so unless I hear that season 11 turned out amazing, I’m good.

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Ha! Fight the Future was my introduction to the series, so it might just be nostalgia, but I thoroughly enjoy it.

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I’m not saying it stands alongside the all-time greats of cinema but it’s practically flawless. The music, the cinematography, the story, the acting, and pretty much everything else is perfect to me. I really don’t think there’s a thing about it I’d change if I could.

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I found it meh, and I really liked the first 7-ish seasons of the tv show.

[shrug]

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I found it boring and another exercise in loose continuity*.

*First the black oil’s presented as a sapient intelligence that takes possession of human hosts, then it’s a virus that sends people into catatonia, then it’s alien semen. I guess its effects are whatever the hell Carter wants them to be at any given moment.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

I found it boring and another exercise in loose continuity*.

*First the black oil’s presented as a sapient intelligence that takes possession of human hosts, then it’s a virus that sends people into catatonia, then it’s alien semen. I guess its effects are whatever the hell Carter wants them to be at any given moment.

Bolded that last bit since it’s the most accurate description of The X-Files as a whole I’ve ever seen.

For the record, I think season 8 was the best season of X-Files after Fight the Future. It was a great return to form after the “meh” season 6 and the mostly-abysmal season 7. They should have ended it with 8 and either not introduced the super soldier stuff, or kept 8 as it aired, took a few years off, and done a movie or two to wrap up the super soldier plotline.

Season 9 was hot garbage all the way through, I Want to Believe was aggressively average and handwaved the series finale away in terrible fashion, and the only thing worthwhile about season 10 was the Were-Monster episode.

For a while I pretended the show ended with Mulder’s abduction in the season 7 finale and disregarded season 8 onward because I remembered hating it when it aired, but I rewatched everything in the lead up to season 10, and season 8 turned out to actually be pretty damned good. So as it stands now, season 8 is the ending for me unless season 11 turns out to be absolutely goddamn amazing.

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Granted, and as with most of the mythology information, it’s not given to us in a transparent fashion or all that elegantly but… The black oil in the movie is the alien’s life force. It contains both consciousness and the building blocks for making new aliens.

The point was made in the movie that the syndicate had no idea the oil would do anything other than control those it infected and this new information very quickly changed their outlook on how they would try to stall the invasion.

The black oil was also very separately the alien “blood” in some episodes and ACTUAL fuel oil in “Piper Maru”, “Apochrypha” and “Vienen”. It was just a medium for a body-jumping alien consciousness that was able to be used as it was similar enough to the alien’s own black oil blood stuff.

(I think!!!)

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ChainsawAsh said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I found it boring and another exercise in loose continuity*.

*First the black oil’s presented as a sapient intelligence that takes possession of human hosts, then it’s a virus that sends people into catatonia, then it’s alien semen. I guess its effects are whatever the hell Carter wants them to be at any given moment.

Bolded that last bit since it’s the most accurate description of The X-Files as a whole I’ve ever seen.

For the record, I think season 8 was the best season of X-Files after Fight the Future. It was a great return to form after the “meh” season 6 and the mostly-abysmal season 7. They should have ended it with 8 and either not introduced the super soldier stuff, or kept 8 as it aired, took a few years off, and done a movie or two to wrap up the super soldier plotline.

Season 9 was hot garbage all the way through, I Want to Believe was aggressively average and handwaved the series finale away in terrible fashion, and the only thing worthwhile about season 10 was the Were-Monster episode.

For a while I pretended the show ended with Mulder’s abduction in the season 7 finale and disregarded season 8 onward because I remembered hating it when it aired, but I rewatched everything in the lead up to season 10, and season 8 turned out to actually be pretty damned good. So as it stands now, season 8 is the ending for me unless season 11 turns out to be absolutely goddamn amazing.

I got more enjoyment out of Seasons 9-10 than you did, though I do agree Season 8 was the best of the latter seasons. It even reignited my interest in the mytharc until Season 9 quenched it again.

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The longer the black oil/mythology/whatever stuff went on, the less I cared. The standalone episodes were always my favorite.

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TV’s Frink said:

The longer the black oil/mythology/whatever stuff went on, the less I cared. The standalone episodes were always my favorite.

I predict I will agree with this statement.