the x-files s/d

it's a little-known fact that half of the lone gunmen were from new zealand

one and a half of them?!

no, all three of them were kiwi from the waist down

http://www.xfilesnews.com/news/latest-news/783-exclusive-more-casting-news-for-xfilesrevival

reyes in too

Dean Haglund moved five mins walk away from me recently, and thus announced to 30 people in a cabaret bar in Marrickville that the Lone Gunmen are going to be in the new show.

interlocutor: [inaudible question about them being dead]

"Ah! Shows you haven't been reading the Season 10 comic book from IDW, co-written by Chris Carter"

different interlocutor: "but is that really canon?"

apparently it's more canonical than the Lone Gunmen tv show!

rip you horrible lost classic of cheesy tv

Kumail Nanjiani has a small role. He talks a little about it on this week's X-Files Files podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1K0e2Juvf0

First minute of the new episode: http://doyoustillbelieve.com/

I felt right at home with the monologue

Anyone watch the first two episodes? First one seemed pretty bad. I dunno. Watching on my phone, holding baby on lap.

we've been posting about it over here: Oh look the last ever episode of the X-Files is on!

Going through the entire library at the moment, (thanks free Prime trial!)

Up to season 6 currently.

Generally gotten bored of the extra terrestrial story too, started to prefer the stand alone eps now.

Really enjoyed the Peter Boyle episode, that's my S choice so far

D's though, there are so many I haven't decide yet.

X-Files is probably the most mediocre (on average) show that I'm genuinely fond of. The highs are great but so much of the rest is just not good.

I have always preferred the standalone monster of the week episodes, that's the x files for me

A certain distance into the run f the show every episode felt like fan fiction

And especially the latest season

I love how the motw episodes sometimes completely contradict anything that might be happening with the 'real' story.

The genie episode for instance, just lol

I'm slowly working through the series on Netflix from the start. Being a fan of the series, I'm really surprised how few of the early episodes I have seen. 'Blood' with William Sanderson was a really great one that I don't remember seeing.

Mark Snow's music is really great, even though I think a ton of people knicked his style later on. I think the stripped down version of the title theme is much better than the later more ornamental version.

Blood was the first episode with Darin Morgan involvement.

also helped by William Sanderson being awesome

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/arts/television/the-x-files-in-a-familiar-groove-review.html

this makes me happy:

In the five episodes of the new season made available to critics, the winner is the fourth, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.” It was written and directed by Darin Morgan, who also provided the best hour of the show’s revival season in 2016, “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” and authored celebrated old-school episodes like “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’” back in the 1990s.

“Forehead Sweat” guest-stars Brian Huskey (“People of Earth”) as either a madman or a fellow F.B.I. agent from an alternate dimension who is intimately familiar with the show’s heroes, the alien-chasing feds Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Mr. Morgan uses this premise to provide the ultimate in fan service — constructing an elaborate meta-story that recapitulates the history of the series, with a cracked version of “The Twilight Zone” as a framing device, and wallows in specific references to past “X-Files” installments (including “Clyde Bruckman’s”).

DELITE

honestly I might only watch the Morgan episode this time out

I am surprised beyond words to learn that the Morgan episode is the standout. Please stop with all the surprises.

Geez, Hollywood, just give the guy his own show or something already. It's only a couple decades past due.

Wtf is going on

Wasn’t the virus released at the end of last season? Am I misremembering?

Mulder driving and narrating like he’s Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun movies, CSM was the dad all along, new conspiracy leader guy looks like budget Steve Bannon, Scully falls a lot, something about magic alien cum and Skinner, Annabeth Gish, Barbara Hershey?

the x-files, at least for this episodes, is all about driving around recklessly in cars and bumping your head hard enough to retcon the bad last episode of the previous season

🎵We didn’t start the fire🎵

Uh, X-post

Forgot to mention unconscious Scully communicating in Morse code with her brain scan, lol

And everyone’s favorite character Jeffrey Spender showing up and uh, yeah that’s kinda all he does

Mulder Macgrubering Scully’s would be pillow assassin

I’ll give it this, it wasn’t uneventful!

I was hoping the “maybe this all didn’t happen (yet)” would apply to those stupid Scrappy Doo agents, what’s-his-name and Einsteinbut no such luck

So wait did the end of last season not happen? What happened in it?

This episode apparently retconned the previous episode into a “hasn’t happened yet” alternate/possible future sent as a vision to Scully from she and Mulder’s psychic part-alien son, William. Who is apparently not Mulder’s son but a product of genetic engineering and artificial insemination by CSM (aka Cancer Man, aka CGB Spender, aka Carl Gerhardt Bush, aka Mulder and Mulder’s half-brother Jeffrey Spender’s biological father) using “alien science” either taken from or given to the government by extraterrestrials, who may or may not had plans to colonize the earth, depending on which version of the conspiracy you believe. This all may be a lie or half-truth or a smokescreen or the actual truth.

Pretty straightforward!

I skipped the finale eps last year bc they sounded dumb. can I skip this one as well?

skip to your heart’s content, my son.

i feel like CSM's 'plans' now just got lifted wholesale from Utopia.

he wants to be a showrunner of a failed reality tv experiment?

I think akm is referring to the short-lived British conspiracy thriller of the same name

Wait, shit, was this on last night or something? Goddamnit, man. They've really done very little marketing for this thing. Like, I knew it was returning but I thought it was still six months to a year off until I saw a commercial sometime around Christmas.

I've had facebook ads constantly, they must... know

The truth is out there. The promotion..not so much

In the five episodes of the new season made available to critics, the winner is the fourth, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.” It was written and directed by Darin Morgan, who also provided the best hour of the show’s revival season in 2016, “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” and authored celebrated old-school episodes like “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’” back in the 1990s.

Oh thanks, "Were-Monster" was one of my favorite episodes of anything last year, and I couldn't get through any of the other episodes, sounds like it's the same this time around.

Dagoo!!!

"I think akm is referring to the short-lived British conspiracy thriller of the same name"

yes.

not coming back after this season.

http://www.slashfilm.com/the-x-files-ending-2/

I kept waiting for the Ford commercial to end.

This episode reminded me a bit of the work of Neil Breen

https://youtu.be/u-fYWAwc8Q0

Caught up on the last two. Tonight's episode was okay, but I can state unequivocally that the season premiere is the worst X-Files episode I've ever seen. By some distance. If Carter refuses to keep his fingers out of the pie, it's probably for the best that it's ending.

No, seriously: it was really, really fucking bad.

It's funny that the second episode was about people being uploaded into virtual reality because I kept thinking during the premiere, 'oh, this is such an OTT awful episode that they're going to eventually reveal that everyone is stuck in some kind of simulated purgatory' but no.

Damn, I'm sorry to hear that it's terrible, although I feared the worst. Maybe better I just don't watch.