X-Files season 5 re-watch

Urgh sorry to have been so MIA lately, I know that I've been terrible with commenting and keeping up with my flist, we've just been having so much internet trouble still :( It went back off-line again for a while, and TalkTalk are coming back on Wednesday to take another look at the router :sighs:


Anyway! I finished season 5 of The X-Files! :D I enjoyed the number of stand-out episodes that year, you could really tell that they were having fun playing around with the format. I guess my only quibble would be that it didn't feel all cohesive as a season, it's one I enjoy more for random one-off episodes, rather than really coming together as a season to binge-watch. They could have made Mulder's lack of belief in aliens more of a throughline for the season IMO, it was interesting to see him become just as dogmatic and stubborn about not believing in the possibility of aliens in Patient X, but the show only ever brought it up in that two-parter (well other than the one off-hand mention in The Post-Modern Prometheus I guess). It could have been kind of a cool turnaround to have an entire season of this slightly bitter Mulder being sceptical about other supernatural phenomenon, and Scully having to be more open-minded to make up for it, but the show never seemed interested in going against the status quo too much with their characters, so Mulder's new (lack of) belief system is only ever an issue in the mythology two-parter sadly


And I'm sorry, but I thought that Redux was a truly terrible start to the year. It's like Chris Carter thought that he was writing a novel instead of a television episode, it's practically all told in voice-overs by Mulder or Scully throughout the entire hour?!? And even when there was a dialogue between two characters (Mulder and military guy) it seemed to go on forever. I'm genuinally shocked at how boring this was for a season premiere, it could have easily been condensed down into one episode, *nothing* happened in the first half. And it's frustrating because Part 2 was actually really great and a ton of stuff happens, so I don't know why they couldn't have condensed it down into one episode, that way they could have had a kick-ass premiere. There were a ton of really powerful moments with Scully and Mulder in the hospital (major aww at Mulder's, "I'm only half dead" <3 ),and then everything with CSM and Samantha


Detour was really fun! I especially enjoyed the idea of Mulder and Scully at a “teamwork seminar“ lol, I loved how they tied back in with that later when Mulder and Scully build a tower of bodies to escape from the hole *g* I liked how it felt like a classic old-fashioned monster tale amidst all of the new things that they were trying that year, and it's just a really fun episode for Mulder/Scully interaction too, it reminded me a lot of earlier episodes like Darkness Falls and Quagmire. Gotta love that moment when Mulder takes the first opportunity to run into the forest, and Scully looks so amused when she starts following him *g*


And then The Post-Modern Prometheus is one of my favourites of course. I just kind of let myself get swept along with the more troublesome implications of the script frankly lol, because the whole episode is structured as such a fairy-tale anyway, and it has one of the best endings of the entire series <3

( And it wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese! )