X-Files

[frelling_tralk]

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?

Comments

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

I haven't started watching yet because I was waiting for it to end so I could binge-watch, but I've read so many mixed opinions about it that I'm kind of curious how will I feel about all the episodes.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I started off feeling pretty positive, but admittedly the final two episodes were a bit of a downer for me, I'll be interested in hearing what you think of them all :) It seems like its the casual fans who enjoyed it more at first for the pure nostalgia of seeing Mulder and Scully again actually, whereas the more dedicated fans tended to get understandably annoyed at how the previous mythology was being contradicted and rewritten. I'll admit that I was always a more casual fan when it came to the conspiracy though, so I've been happy to hand wave a lot of that stuff and just focus on getting more M/S scenes. I am M/S trash as they say on tumblr these days :P

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

I was never into Mulder/Scully (I love their friendship though), so I really wonder what will I focus on after I finish watching XD It's difficult to predict.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Heh well I'm trying not to say too much that's spoilery, but I wouldn't say that the majority of M/S scenes were all *that* shippy actually? It's pretty traditional X-Files most of the time when it comes to them working on cases together as very close co-workers, I think you should enjoy that aspect of it. Just putting the two of them in a scene together is enough to thrill my inner shipper, so my perspective is probably skewed *g*