[Scutter]

I watched the first two episodes and couldn’t believe how bad it was, The dialogue was stilted and strained. The screenplay was.... just bizarre.
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[the_individual2014]

To each his own but I like it so far and they offend both sides of the political spectrum, its good seeing the two of them back in action.

[Trumpinator]

I watched the first two episodes and couldn’t believe how bad it was, The dialogue was stilted and strained. The screenplay was.... just bizarre.

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It is not that bad - but they are attempting to re-create lightning in a bottle after 20 years or so apart - plus the lead characters left the show angry over FOX and the producers cheating them from royalties - basically they sold the show to their own FOX network for syndication at a low low price which reduced the royalties they would have gotten if it was sold on the open market.

[grania]

I lasted less than a half hour. They just did not catch the sense of the original XFiles. That was the pursuit of understanding the unexplainable, and the contrast of a skeptic vs a believer in the unknown. The original stayed on the edge of reality and "what if". The tension between the two was fantastic.

The new one seemed to be camp garbage, Hollywood reducing it to a comic book with no purpose.

[katana]

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.

[tbw2]

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).

[DiogenesLamp]

I watched the first two episodes and couldn’t believe how bad it was, The dialogue was stilted and strained. The screenplay was.... just bizarre.

Yes. Both Duchovny and Anderson were stumbling on their lines, they expressed peculiar behavior in their characters, and they seemed lost.

I felt bad for them. It's like they are trying to kill off the characters or something.