Posted on 02/03/2016 6:57:37 AM PST by pabianice
We are three episodes into the new six episode reboot of "The X-Files," one of the past's best TV shows. At this point I have to wonder: What the Heck is going on?
Mr. Duchovney's performance is so bland and so flacid that I have to wonder what is going through his mind. No energy. Reads his lines like a telephone robocall. Looks tired and bored. The plot lines are tired and the last episode featuring a "wearhuman" was so stupid and badly written I thought it was a put-on. Bad plot, bad costume, bad writing, boring and nonsensical. And the role-reversal between Mulder and Sculley is also strange. Now she's the one who believes in the strange and he's the one who is skeptical.
It's been hard to watch this devolution.
Was Duchoveny contractually obligated to do this mini-series? Was anyone else? Even the music is bland and forgettable.
Comments?
I thought it was really great.
Freegards
I loved the 3rd episode — and you’re right, it was a “goof” show. The original series had one or two of those a season and I loved them.
I thought the “werehuman” was an interesting inversion of the usual. That is was Murray from Flight of the Conchords didn’t hurt either.
Just be glad it doesn’t totally suck like the revival of Arrested Development.
The new one seemed to be camp garbage, Hollywood reducing it to a comic book with no purpose.
My wife watched the original incarnation, but I only saw a couple of episodes. Thought they were OK, but didn’t want to invest too much time to TV at the time.
Saw the most recent episode and enjoyed it enough to try again next week.
Different strokes, as they say...
The first one was interesting, and the second one jumped the shark doing what you noted throughout the show!
Had episode 1 schefuled to record but Fox screwed the timing up. Tried watching it but it totally sucks. Would have been better bringing in fresh talent, stopped recordings.
Looking back at the original X-Files via Netflix, it always was cold and stilted, which worked back in the 1990’s. Innovative for the time but perspectives change. Both the lead actors played the roles so cool they were cold. Re-watching certain shows you notice that they may or may not have aged well. Fringe, for example, is in the same genre as X-Files but is still entertaining because of John Noble’s performance.
I tried on Netflix, but I just couldn’t get into it.
The old X-Files was pretty hit and miss too. Some great episodes, but also many stinkers. The reboot seems to be pretty much in the same mold. The main characters ARE older and definitely showing wear & tear, which makes it slightly more of a drag. So far, I think every reboot episode (in sequence) has been better than the last.
Looking back at the original X-Files via Netflix, it always was cold and stilted, which worked back in the 1990’s. Innovative for the time but perspectives change.
I understand how you feel.
I looked with great anticipation for this stuff?
I watched the original series and liked it...I watched the first episode of this mini and said, “No more”....
After missing the episode on Monday night, was able to catch it next AM on the Roku. This was a bit strange and the changing from werehuman to werewolf to werelizard, to werehorned-toad was a bit freakish, but all in fun :-)) The best line of the evening/morning = “She hit like a man” And Fox, replied “She was a man”. Look forward to next Monday’s airing; but again, there will be other important happenings that evening as well. To each his own - here the series is like a vacation of sorts from the weird world in which we all live. Stepping from a real world upside down into a fantasy world with a plot of the world turned upside down.
I guess you need an emotional connection to the principal characters which I guess you could only get from Breaking Bad. With that in place, I’ve found it very engaging, with Saul being the most sympathetic anti-hero I’ve ever come across.
Not only that, the script for the third episode was actually written several years ago, for ABC's reboot of the old '70s show "The Night Stalker" (the show that inspired Chris Carter to make The X-Files). The script was tweaked to fit the different characters, but "Night Stalker" references remained as an homage.
Alex Jones was talking about how they were talking to him about ideas for conspiracy theories.
I wonder if they intentionally made the show bad to discredit those ideas (though some of his stuff does go way out there, not all of it is).
We thought the last episode was really funny, the bits about what it’s like to be a lizard who gets bitten by a human and turns into one. Classic humor on modern day life.
Sort of glad there’s only six episodes though. I thought with the limited run they’d stick more to the main plot.
Not sure about that, but I can believe the two main actors are deliberately giving bad performances.
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