Lately I've turned very cynical. Maybe I'm
getting on in years, but I see plot holes in everything. The X-Files was no
exception.
Does Chris Carter think we don't remember the
show anymore??
The government conspiracy vs. alien conspiracy.
The problem isn't that both conspiracies couldn't exist but rather Mulder's,
and to a slightly lesser extent Scully's responses and reactions in this S10E1
and E02 don't make sense given what they both went through previously. For
example, there is a sequence where what is said is that aliens fighting aliens
and bursting into flames was hogwash and nonsense. That's really hard to cast
aside like that when it was clearly experienced in the old series 14 years ago,
but Mulder is apparently ready to write it all off as "misdirection". The alien bounty hunter was misleading? Being
trapped in the huge UFO in Fight for the Future was misdirection? What the
hell? Do they think we are all morons? It doesn't make sense that Mulder and
Scully would experience what they did and then so easily chalk it up to lies
and misdirection. They may not have understood all that happened and why but
their direct experiences weren't “wrong” and invalid. I’m not sure, I enjoyed
it in weird way (more than I did with Star Wars). It was entertaining, sort of.
But total guff too. The dialogue was bad and basic and written for a dumb
audience as well. Maybe it's Fox's influence. But it was ok because honestly,
who didn't expect it to be a guff x-files new series made to make money? The
last two seasons of the old series were not that good anyway, i.e., they were flat
out rubbish and Duchovny had long buggered off from it. Although it's still crap,
but because it’s not the kind of crap I'd turn off, I'll still be watching the
other 4 episodes left. "The Last Witch Hunter" or "Kurzel's Macbeth", now there's crap I turn off and draw the line.
