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The X-Files S10 |OT| The Truth Is Still Out There - Mondays 8/7c

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HUELEN10

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Who is the man at the end?

So is this show about aliens? Does the movie happen before this?


I liked what i watched.
 
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Machine Messiah

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Somnia said:
They never said there weren't aliens. There are aliens. The conspiracy about 2012 was men though not Aliens.
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So the faceless rebel aliens were rebelling against the men, not the other aliens (colonists)? I'm still not buying it. The Well-Manicured Man said that they should ally with the rebels to fight the colonists, and the First Elder said they can't resist, etc. This was all behind closed doors so there was no need to lie.
 
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SZips

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The ending was much stronger than the rest of the episode. Looking forward to the next one tomorrow now that they got all of that exposition and baseline stuff out of the way.
 
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TWrecks310

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Yeah so that was pretty bad.

I remain hopeful for the future though because they should never need to dump that much exposition in the rest of the episodes combined.
 
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The Technomancer

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Wizerd said:
It really seems like they're trying to make this more relevant than it has to be. First these themes of government surveillance and lying (which aren't new) but then fucking slide shows that are just like "LOOK FUCKING EDWARD SNOWDEN!" Maybe I'm forgetting but this show did not seem nearly as...I don't know, desperate to tie in to current events in the 90's...That being said I'm still enjoying this.
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That whole sequence is necessary. The entire concept behind the X-Files and conspiracies in general is radically different in a post-internet, post-911 world, and if the writers were smart there was no way they were going to be able to avoid addressing that, so they decided to get it out of the way right away. Now if that actually works or not we'll have to wait and see
 
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I'm going to guess that all "monsters" will be explained as likely related to government alien DNA manipulation stuff.
 
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RyanW

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I have to say I've only watched a handful of episodes of X-Files and that was several years ago so I'm a bit uneducated here but man that was a lot to take in and it was just shoved in there.

Will most likely do a Netflix binge of the original show
 
Kadin

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Okay the ending redeemed the rather terrible middle part. I'm totally in for tomorrow and the rest!
 
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User 479360

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I liked it. I didn't love it and wasn't blown away, but my expectations were also high. It was a good episode, but went a bit overboard at times.

I still don't like McHale's casting or him in The X-Files, because he doesn't fit, his acting wasn't great and his character's need to explain everything to Scully got old.

There was a ton of exposition. I just hope it pays off. It's a conspiracy nut's dream in a lot of ways.
 
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BkMogul

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Liked the ending, especially considering Aliens never blew people up before. Sucks the next mythology episode will be the finale.
 
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Grisby

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Fried Food said:
The "next in" montage has me hopeful enough to continue wachibg
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Looked really good.
HUELEN10 said:
Who is the man at the end?

So is this show about aliens? Does the movie happen before this?


I liked what i watched.
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Both movies are before this. Aliens are pretty much the main deal for the overarching plot of the series. However, the agents deal with various creature (think vampires, zombies, and whatever), hence the Monster of The Week tagline.
 
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Jacksinthe

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I don't think people realize X Files was a very campy and naive show back in the day filled with ammo for conspiracy nuts. This fits right in with TODAYS conspiracy climate. Thought it was good, thought it was X-Files.
 
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TheSeks

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Gritesh said:
Or the girls dna matches the kids
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That doesn't explain Scully carrying the kid to term though. Well, I guess surrogate would work. But why would the kid be Mulder and her's? It's been ~12 or so years?

Though I did like that Chris Carter/writers threw the 2012 end-date about the Season 9/"series finale" in and went "NOPE that's just part of the bigger conspiracy."

Thank you for that Carter. It was a stick in my craw for years.
 
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teiresias

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Somnia said:
They never said there weren't aliens. There are aliens. The conspiracy about 2012 was men though not Aliens.
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I don't think so, 2012 was always the default colonization date if I remember correctly. There was just the one time when it was almost to start earlier if the Aliens had found out they'd finally successfully made an Alien/Human hybrid.

I really don't get how any of this retcon even works - if that's what it is. The mythology is so stupid anyway I'm not even sure Carter knows what it is anymore. It's like he did the episode in S6(?) where
the syndicate is destroyed
and promptly excised any of the external alien stimuli that was involved in that from his brain. Just because
they're gone
doesn't mean the Aliens stopped their work, and there was too much dialog given without Scully or Mulder being fed false leads for it all to have been a men-only conspiracy.
 
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