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

I'm forced to admit that this was ultimately a shit sandwich of X-Files references. A "hey we got the band back together" victory lap and possible reboot rather than an actual half-assed attempt at figuring out what X-Files 2016 would actually look like. We're surrounded by real world everyday Weird Shit apocalypse and none of that sense permeates into the reboot.

Watching the final ep after all bcz I'm housesitting and a repeat was on TV. It's already worse than ep 5 [crazy racism aside] before the titles, thanks to a three-minute recap of ep 1 leading into Scully's four-minute verbal recap of a bunch of episodes I didn't want to watch 20 years ago... with WHOOSHT! PPPEEWH! kung fu sound effects over every photo illustrating her narration.

how does holding a hanky loosely over the bridge of your nose stop you from catching a virus?

if it can, wouldn't taking it away from your face to talk make you catch the virus after all?

is Joel McHale's character's show (or shows? how many does he have?) even broadcast on TV or is it just youtube?

either way, how is the virus causing digital interference in the transmission?

Just reached the third one on UK terrestrial TV, god almighty I have missed Darin Morgan and his profound affection for the awkward despairing schlubs of the world.

(I can pretend this season stopped at 3 episodes, y/n?)

xpost I'm sure Joel has his own streaming network kind of like Baze TV and has created this virus hoax to mask its impending bancruptcy

^ this would actually be the best resolution to this plot

Andrew - no, the Glen Morgan one next week is the place to stop, it feels like a good monster of the week the same way Darin's feels like a classic Darin Morgan episode.

In a way, I kinda thought this was a test run to see how much interest there still was in the X-Files series. The way end was setup for this season, if there wasn't a huge amount of interest, you could finish the story line in a movie, if there is interest, you could expand it and keep going.

Much obliged, sic!

if there wasn't a huge amount of interest, you could finish the story line in a movie

sure, this makes sense

god this ep is just endless scenes of everyone explaining the fucking plot. like, more than normal

and does carter know how to end an episode WITHOUT someone staring into a giant beam of light

jfc

http://tvline.com/2016/08/08/x-files-season-11-episode-count-premiere-date-2018-fox/

more eps plz even if only to continue fueling my crush on gillian anderson

Fingers crossed for zero episodes written by Chris Carter. We will probably get ten. Which I'll deal with if the eleventh is a Darin Morgan joint.

Oh wait, misread the url (which is blocked at my stupid work for some stupid reason) as saying there were eleven episodes.

Ten episodes would be awesome, provided (as Old Lunch states) that as few as possible are penned by Chris Carter, and more MOTW vs mytharc. Which is basically the same as saying less Carter.

That final episode was like Carter setting up a whole new alien conspiracy arc which he'd usually dick around with for a couple of seasons except it was 40-odd minutes long. I honestly don't know wtf he was thinking.

Please don't make me remember that last episode

I'd take the original last episode before it

Mytharc eps by Carter are the price you pay for having new X-Files; at least they were clearly marked on Wikipedia months before they aired, so easy to skip.

If it was eight eps, then three Carters (two mytharcs and one weirdo experiment that might be remarkable or might flop, just like the old days), one each again from Morgan, Morgan & Wong, a promising newbie and a Gilligan would be the absolute highest improvement we could hope for, I reckon. If ten, Carter would probably cram more disease conspiracy plot in, no matter who's writing.

Obviously I'd wish for as many Morgan Minors as possible, but one wonders if he has it in him to write two in a year, given his historical pace - even last year's episode was an old script.

A Gilligan would be sick.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't rewatched any of Gilligan's episodes since BB fully opened my eyes to his talents.)

Oh, I see that that's not true. I just saw 'Pusher' the other night. I guess I didn't realize he started on the show that early.

He said he would have loved to do one this year, but couldn't work it around Better Call Saul's schedule.

might be remarkable or might flop,

I loved the mushroom trip and the dynamics of the ersatz Mulder & Scully with Lauren Ambrose in btw, as incredibly bad as the pacing and ~race~ issues were in that ep btw. But I also recently saw the teenage witches ep that Carter wrote, & enjoyed that hugely too

they need to do another season to wash the taste of this last one out. I think I liked one episode out of that run.

did he do the episode where mulder needs to keep driving or the guy's head will pop? or possibly mulders head will pop?

i watched that one "recently" (couple years back) and was p impressed

That was a Gilligan. The guy was Cranston.

also according to cranston on npr a while back, that episode was integral to his being cast as Walter White.

back again next year, per the X files FB page.

If they try a big effects scene like the nu-finale, I hope they have a higher budget

I hope they just pretend that Carter two-parter didn't happen

we all got mindwiped

100% agree

cosign

we have a third motion passes

i'd be interested in them bringing it back and making it even worse. why stop where they did; lets see just how low the x files can go

on the bright side, maybe more Dagoo

Anyone going to bother with the new season? I’ll at least watch the Darin Morgan episode.

of course I'll watch it. I don't have high expectations but maybe it'll surprise me.

Gillian indicated she's probably out after this, which is unfortunate. I hope it will actually finish then and they don't try to do another season without either her or Duchovny, there's zero point in that now.

bring back john doggett

in for Darin Morgan, happy to lay back this time unless any others get especially good reviews

nice that there are a bunch of new writers, shame that Gilligan couldn't come back too but I'd rather have Better Call Saul

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