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Umm yeah, so I would argue that they either needed to bring in new writers with fresh ideas and go all-in with MotW episodes, or they needed to accept that they only had 6 episodes and should have committed to making both episodes 5 and 6 mythology-based at the very least. The finale would have worked a lot better IMO if it had been a two-parter with more time to gradually build up to more and more people starting to get sick, instead it just didn't work to cram all of the mythology into the first and last episodes, while completely dropping the conspiracy in the middle in order to have the usual mixture of MotW episodes that they had in the 22 episode seasons. That...doesn't work when you only have 6 episodes to play around with. If we have another season then I would say that they either need to go about structuring the season very differently (commit to either MotW or the myth-arc, not try doing both at the same time), or they need to just negotiate getting at least 10-12 episodes so that they can tell all the stories that they want to tell without having to cram everything in
Overall the series started stronger for me definitely. I was one of the few (?) that actually enjoyed My Struggle, although admittedly that was party down to the excitement of seeing Mulder and Scully again, I can't yet say whether it will hold up on rewatch :P And Founder's Mutation and Home Again were both solid episodes, while I absolutely loved Mulder & Scully Meet The Were-Monster, so it's really only the final two CC scripts that flopped for me. Babylon could definitely have been sacrificed in order to spend the last two episodes pacing out the myth-arc more carefully for a start. Idk maybe Frank Spotnitz would have made the difference as well, I believe that he was the one mostly working alongside CC on the mythology in the original series?
Mostly I'm not in a very good frame of mind at the moment because Chris Carter has since said that, while he does expect the show to return at some point, they might not even start negotiations for months. I really think that it's unfair to end a mini-series like that when they don't even know if we will be getting more episodes next year. It's bad enough waiting for resolution for a cliffhanger in an on-going television series, let alone for a mini-series when no future deals have even been worked out yet
How would everyone rank the episodes?
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Date: 2016-02-23 05:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-23 05:43 pm (UTC)And the finale was just so rushed that it was hard to feel any real sense of urgency, and there was certaintly no need for that cliffhanger. I'm onboard with them not wrapping absolutely everything up when they are obviously hoping to do more, but you don't end a mini-series on that kind of 'to be continued' moment when you're talking about negotiations for another season not happening for months, and having another project to do first :(
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Date: 2016-02-23 05:38 pm (UTC)With only six episodes, yes, the planning and spacing should have been different. I always liked the MOTW episodes, but maybe they should have only done three of them and had three mythology episodes.
Rankings? I'll use a 1-5 scale with 5 being AWESOME!
My Struggle - I'm going to give this a 4 only because I was so THRILLED to have NEW episodes with Mulder and Scully on my tv.
Founder's Mutation - 3.5
Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster - 5
Home Again - 4
Babylon - 2
My Struggle II - 3
Overall, I did enjoy it, but I just think we as fans got slightly gypped with that cliffhanger of an ending and not knowing when we'll get the answers we want (and deserve).
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Date: 2016-02-23 05:58 pm (UTC)And yeah we rate the other episodes similarly, I'd say that both 2 and 4 were solid episodes, and 3 was the one outright classic. I'd give Babylon a 1 though, other than the M/S scenes I really wasn't a fan of that one :( It especially feels like a waste when you consider the pacing issues with the finale, I really wonder why CC wanted that episode to be the fifth one, instead of just making the finale a two-parter. I guess that he wanted a shot at writing at least one MotW episode as part of the revival, but it left things feeling a bit unbalanced to have another attempt at a ~wacky~ episode with Mulder's dream and the Mulder and Scully clones, even though Darin Morgan (and Vince Gilligan of course!) were always the masters at those episodes. A really scary traditional monster episode might have been a better fit there instead actually if CC wanted to go with a MotW episode, whereas I'm not sure what his intention was with Babylon as it felt like the tone was all over the place
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Date: 2016-02-23 07:07 pm (UTC)I think Chris Carter just shouldn't write for this show any more. I know it's his baby, but I've ended up very underwhelmed by the whole thing.
I can't remember the titles of all the episodes, but I'd rank ep 3 as the best, followed by 4, then 2, then 1. Ep 6 comes next, but only because anything looks better after ep 5. :(
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Date: 2016-02-24 02:15 am (UTC)When they first announced that they would be doing mythology episodes for S10, I was kind of disappointed. I was hoping it would be six MOTW episodes. And I say that as someone who LOVED the mythology episodes in the first five seasons. But sometime after the first movie, and certainly by S8, Carter lost sight of how the conspiracies fit together and just started throwing everything he could think of into the mix (supersoldiers wtf) until it was completely incomprehensible.
Ending on a cliffhanger without knowing when or even if the show is going to come back at all is just...ugh. If there is a Season 11 (and I'm sure there will be), my one wish would be for Chris Carter to leave the writing to someone else.
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Date: 2016-02-25 07:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-24 06:19 pm (UTC)1. Founders Mutation
2. Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
(these two can switch depending on my mood, Were-Monster was funnier and I cared more about the case but Founders Mutation has the heartbreak. They just killed me with the flashbacks)
3. Home Again
4. My Struggle
5. My Struggle II
6. Babylon- Two seconds of an actor is not enough to save the episode. There was this Canadian show about making tv and a character once said they were doing their part in fighting terrorism- all their bad guys were from the Middle East. This episode made me think of that.
I'm just frustrated that we don't know for sure if we'll get another mini-series or movie to conclude things. Hopefully we'll get another miniseries, and I'm with you, trying to do a combo of Mythology/MotW in 6 episodes kind of rushed things a lot.
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Date: 2016-02-25 07:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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