Showing posts with label The X Files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The X Files. Show all posts
Back in 1993, RTÉ were censoring Beverly Hills 90210 and...
- Back in 1993, RTÉ were censoring Beverly Hills 90210 and Baywatch. I was not best pleased and wrote them a letter or three on the subject.
- Back in the 80s they used to cut The Hitchhiker to ribbons, too.
- And later in the 90s, the BBC were chopping off parts of the The X-Files. Sigh.
The X-Files 10.6
- Weakest episode of the new season. Doesn’t quite succeed in making the apocalyptic events seem credible. And there isn’t enough Mulder.
- Delighted to see Einstein and Miller back. Einstein is particularly well used. But, again, the scenes with her and Scully aren’t quite as dramatic and tension-filled as the script would hope.
- The Mulder/Cigarette Smoking Man confrontation, however, is top notch and yields some very interesting ideas.
- Some of the dialogue was stiff and unintentionally comedic. Also unintentionally comedic: the sight of Scully confronting a mob of looters with a speech about going to the hospital.
- The cliffhanger? Unsatisfying cop out ending.
The X-Files 10.5
Lauren Ambrose, Robbie Amell, Janet Kidder.
- The new season delivers another superb story, nothing like anything else so far this year.
- The guest cast (and the two guest characters) are wonderful. First, because they are fun (being clones of Scully and Mulder) but second, because they really come across as interesting and likeable agents. These are two people I would like to see again.
- It was an episode of cameos: blasts from the past. Very cool.
- David Duchovny was hilarious when Mulder got high.
- This was very different to classic X-Files stories because it was all about the main characters, but at the same time it was exactly like the way the show was when it started because it took a simple idea and created a genuinely thought-provoking tale around it. That is what the show used to do best.
- The final duologue was very on-the-nose. And maybe in the hands of less capable performers it would have failed, but these two made is sing. Chris Carter is so lucky to have them.
The X-Files 10.4
Another great episode, balancing a good case-of-the-week with a surprisingly excellent Scully b-story. Gillian Anderson terrific. 10/10
The X-Files 10.2
Much more story-driven than 10.1 but less focused overall. It didn’t really start properly until the final third when Mulder and Scully spoke with Jackie Goldman. From that point forward, the episode was very good: giving us a perfect X-Files ‘villain’. 9/10
Some gifs of Morgan Woodward in various guest star roles...
Some gifs of Morgan Woodward in various guest star roles (1979-1997).
One of my favourite character actors. And easily one of the best/busiest.
Back in the spring of 1994, FOX had two superb,...
Back in the spring of 1994, FOX had two superb, critically-acclaimed but low-rated sci-fi/fantasy shows on the air. Back-to-back. We all thought The X-Files was sure to be cancelled, but it looked like The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. might actually get a second season… :)
The X-Files 8.15
Another bad episode.
It’s bad because:
- This is no story. There are vague happenings, concerning two men in hospital. One of the men is Mulder, which is what is supposed to make the audience interested.
- A lot of Scully’s screentime is just her being sad and/or crying. She does/says nothing interesting or heroic. She’s just a wreck. Completely unable to function without Mulder. This is pathetic. And it pretty much makes no sense to me, given the history of the character. But, and this is the biggest sin… it makes for bad television and bad storytelling. Why should be tune in to watch our lead character fall apart like this?
- This episode is an example of the show taking itself, and it’s mythology, far too seriously. It manifests as various scenes of under-stated dialogue delivered with ultra seriousness. The show feels that it’s enough at this stage to put Krycek and Skinner in a scene and… we will care. Even if nothing much is actually happening. Wrong! We need something more.
Yawn. 3/10
Oh! I see my next episode, which I’m planning to watch on Aug 21st, features Adam Baldwin! Hopefully it’s better than this two-parter.
The X-Files 8.14
Judson Scott, Roy Thinnes . Thin story, slow pace, awful dialogue. Mostly it’s just Scully being really, really sad. Which is a sure sign the show has lost it’s way completely. Again, just to restate: Most of this hour is devoted to Dana Scully being miserable and unprofessional. She talks about it. And her co-workers talk about it. And about her. And everyone is deadly serious. And the dialogue never sounds like real people. Gillian Anderson gives a good performance, and the new character Monica Reyes is interesting. Those two things, and nothing else, make it almost watchable. 4/10
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