Oh look the last ever episode of the X-Files is on!

E2 was quite an improvement.

feels like this whole thing is a reboot so far, with most of the old episodes with alien mythology swept under the rug. episode two was decent, although apparently the alien hybrid children are the x-men

Haven't watched e2 yet, but e1 was so wack. It felt like a neverending parody sketch without a punchline. And for me most egregious was presenting that grab bag of midnight AM radio conspiracies, Mulder AND Scully teaming up with a 9/11 truther, barely batting an eye...bleuch. It was all just too stupid & on the nose for me

Yeah, the scene where Winger comes back to tell Scully important plot stuff and then ends with his mouthbreathing "and... I wanted to see you again" being followed with a scene of Scully sipping champagne in his limo is just utterly mystifying. That line worked? The old Scully would have shot him and gone home to read medical journals.

In other news, episode two was about a hundred times better.

E1 was a strong reminder of how much I hated all the conspiracy shit. I could watch MOTWs for days on end but drop some alien illuminati bullshit (without a solid MOTW) and I'm out.

omg ep2 is like night & day

yeah episode 1 didn't do more than make me thankful that my x-files influenced interest in conspiracy stuff was nothing more than a passing teenage phase, otherwise i too would be living in a world where alex ross / glenn beck were actually right about everything. but maybe that's the point! fun weirdo spooky mulder is actually a tea party loony. guess i'll watch episode 2 and find out!

uh alex JONES, that is

Alex Ross conspiracy: his dad did 9/11 / aliens / the illuminati

lol at Darin Morgan's IMDB bio photo - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604587/

same reaction as everyone else; episode one pretty bad, episode two marked improvement (although still not great). I'm still down for several more of these miniseries and would watch them if they made them.

i kind of missed how they reopened the x-files at the end of episode one though; like episode two starts and they got their suits back and they're back investigating shit like nothing ever happened?

Yeah, that seemed weird. Just back in the ol' office, taking a case, no biggie.

Gillian has so much more gravitas than DD these days that their scenes together are almost embarrassing

Not watched it but

He is now an old unemployed white dude ranting about government conspiracies, which these days means racist right-wing lunatic.

is what I'd be looking for.

lol at casting McHale as "charming"

this seemed rushed but i'm along for the ride

It's not an X-Files episode unless Mulder spends half the episode earnestly convincing Scully to take his batshit crazy line of inquiry seriously and then once she does, follows her around cracking jokes.

best thing about the debut was Annet Mahendru because

I just watched the first new episode, and it was OK, but it displayed some of Carter's worst tendencies in writing MythArc eps. Characters stating that someone or something is really important in some way, without convincingly showing how or why. Why exactly was this woman "the key to everything"? What about the multitudes of abductees M&S encountered throughout the series?

Anyway, I'm more looking forward to the Morgan(s) and Wong episodes.

second episode was good! a few pieces being moved around with the mytharc stuff but mostly felt like an enjoyable standalone episode

I couldn't make it past the first 15 minutes of ep 1.

"I have alien DNA" was the last line I made it though.

Yeah it was moronic on every level. I suspect a psyop.

Glad to hear the next episode is better!

yeah the first episode was monumentally terrible. just a badly written piece of tv, and the acting wasn't much better.

episode 2 was better. episode 3 the best of the first 3 according to a few critics, nice traditional monster of the week, big lighter and more humorous too apparently. looking fwd.

first ep should've just gotten it over with and had a montage of mulder sharing 'jet fuel can't melt steel beams' posts on social media

haaaaaa

otm

chemtrails!

episode 3 the best of the first 3 according

If anyone didn't expect episode 3 to be the best of the six, they hadn't looked at the writing credits

truth. 'Humbug' is still one of my favorite episodes

oh god this is hilarious

Keith Uhlich has ranked all 201 pre-reboot episodes:

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-x-files-episodes-all-201-episodes-ranked

I guess I wouldn't be an ILXor if I didn't say that I disagree with those rankings in the strongest possible terms

Can't check that list at the moment. Can someone just confirm real quick that number one is the episode where Deep Roy keeps crawling up people's asses? Thx.

i have seen v few eps but the Peter Boyle one is great.

(#2 on KU list)

furious to see all of these season 1 and 2 episodes so low, though i suppose it's conceivable that what i loved when i was 13 wouldn't shine so brightly now

the guy loves the show, i wdn't be too hard on him.

Peter Boyle ep was another Darin Morgan (aka writer of last night's episode) joint.

Rhys Darby in last night's episode manages to channel the Darin Morgan pathos almost as well as Peter Boyle did!

have we polled the original X-Files episodes? that would be fun.

Mrs. Chachi pointed out, while we were enjoying the first one of these: "People forget that the X-files was often pretty bad. Enjoyable, fun, watched it every week, but often pretty bad."

Last night's was really great and it was fun to watch with my wife who hadn't seen any of the old ones and only saw the first two of the new season, and had no idea how fun and campy and sentimental the show could be. While I was like "oh yeah, I remember how this feels" she was just like "wtf!"

That was really outstanding.

xxpost As someone who's generally a fan of the show, can I just say that Mrs. Chachi is OTM.

very much so

There was stuff about it that I liked (generally self-contained episodes) but even those could be overly silly or boneheaded, the show was really erratic. and on for a long time!

what the hell were those Lone Gunmen all about?

Rhys Darby in last night's episode manages to channel the Darin Morgan pathos almost as well as Peter Boyle did!

Yeah he was as perfectly cast as Joel McHale was miscast

Also I'm starting to think Fox wanted to pay Anderson half Duchovny's salary because she has half as many scenes

had not noticed that the guy from the "x-files agent everyone forgot"/mandala effect episode, which was the fourth episode of the ill-conceived second revival season, appears in the scanned x-files documents in the second episode. his badge clearly visible for a moment when Skinner opens up the scans

say Brian Huskey's name u bitch