Don't agree. Most were heading to bed because of work Monday morning.
The X-Files : Season X (Spoilers!)
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I think Scully was just along for the ride because they impregnated her. I don't think it has anything to do with "wanting" her. The CSM has always wanted Mulder, ... family relationship and all...
It wasn't just the first episode. The next 5 were all the #1 scripted show on Monday night and The X-Files is FOX's highest rated show other than Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(season_10)
First episode: 16.19 million
Last episode: 7.60 million
First episode: 16.19 million
Last episode: 7.60 million
Off the top of my head; Voyager did it a lot, and TNG continued to do it for the rest of its run. Friends did it all the time. The X-Files itself did it a bunch of times. Best of Both Worlds is hardly unique in this manner.
Interesting looking at the numbers on Rotten Tomatoes though... it appears the critics don't like the new turn with the X-files base story/mythos.
1 - 58% (My Struggle)
2 - 86% (Founder's Mutation)
3 - 100% (Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-monster)
4 - 89% (Home Again)
5 - 64% (Babylon)
6 - 35% (My Struggle II)
The "monster of the week" episode are always hit and miss, but the pilot and closer are taking HUGE hits where those episodes used to be the strongest.
Season 10 average is 58% for the critics and 76% for the fans. Not very impressive, especially considering the numbers they pulled in.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-x-files/s10/
Those numbers are incomplete and incorrect.
20.3 million viewers for the 1st episode was the final tally. The 7.6 million viewers will undoubtedly go up as did all the other as DVR recordings are watched.
Correct. I believe BoBW was one of the first to do it successfully. After that, it was used repeatedly in VOY, DS9 and ENT. TNG even continued to do it, just not as well as BoBW.
Yeah, cliffhanger season finales happen all the time. Two recent examples that spring to mind:
The brilliant Mr. Robot ended with the financial world in chaos and Elliot opening the door to...? We'll find out next season.
The Flash's excellent first season ended with a black hole forming over Central City and the Flash racing into it.
There is a season 2?!!!! Yes!!!!
J.R. Ewing thinks differently.
J.R. Ewing thinks differently.
HAHA!! Good point!!
You're ignoring a few things...
1) The first episode was after the NFC Championship game and therefore had inflated numbers. But what's interesting is that it had the best ratings since 2012 in the post-championship game slot. (The show that aired in the same slot in 2012 was American Idol, not a scripted show.)
2) The demographic is more important than the total viewers, though 7.6 million is still impressive. The demographic was consistently above 2.4 for all 6 episodes. Not much fluctuation between episodes 2 and 6.
3) All 6 weeks they were the highest rated scripted show on Monday. They are also the second highest rated scripted show on FOX.
Whether or not you liked the season is beside the point, that's subjective. Ratings-wise it did much better than expected and was a massive success.
Yeah, the season didn't lose half it's viewers, it settled down to normal Monday night numbers with the second episode then saw a bit of a drop after that with the remaining four.
Ep1 - 16.9M (After Football)
Ep2 - 9.67M
Ep3 - 8.37M
Ep4 - 8.31M
Ep5 - 7.07M
Ep6 - 7.67M
Ep1 - 16.9M (After Football)
Ep2 - 9.67M
Ep3 - 8.37M
Ep4 - 8.31M
Ep5 - 7.07M
Ep6 - 7.67M
Yanks you can disagree with me if you want but the ratings are bolstered by Football, you can tell as the second episode got several million less viewers.
I'm not saying several million viewers isn't amazing, it is, my point was there was a chance it would fail. You replied "But it got 16 million viewers!!!!!!!!!!!!", and once again... after football. Just look at the after football ratings of shows, it's inflated. 25 million people watched Glee after the Super Bowl. They didn't go to bed, they didn't go have sex, they fucking watched Glee.... after a football game. I watched that episode, it was interesting because they live in Ohio and were playing football in February with leaves on the trees.
My point is it could have failed, X-Files or not, it could have failed. Much like the second movie did. You don't even a season of a test run returning show on a cliffhanger like that.
I'm not saying several million viewers isn't amazing, it is, my point was there was a chance it would fail. You replied "But it got 16 million viewers!!!!!!!!!!!!", and once again... after football. Just look at the after football ratings of shows, it's inflated. 25 million people watched Glee after the Super Bowl. They didn't go to bed, they didn't go have sex, they fucking watched Glee.... after a football game. I watched that episode, it was interesting because they live in Ohio and were playing football in February with leaves on the trees.
My point is it could have failed, X-Files or not, it could have failed. Much like the second movie did. You don't even a season of a test run returning show on a cliffhanger like that.
I won't argue too strenuously as there are plenty of examples being named from shows that I never watched or barely remember, but I do wonder a bit if everyone is really talking about the same kind of cliffhangers here.
The Flash example, for instance, is not even remotely a part of the category that I've been talking about. Every major plot in the first season is neatly wrapped in that episode. The black hole is a tacked on problem to serve as a cliffhanger to the next season, which is exactly the way most shows seem to do it, that I know of. This X-Files ep, on the other hand, resolved almost none of the plot - it simply stopped halfway (like BoBW). Two different types of approaches.
I think you give too much credit to the so called "bolster". It some there? ... sure. But just because the Season 10 pilot brought in 20 million viewers and dropped off to less than half of that doesn't mean all those viewers were there because of the Superbowl. Pilot numbers (and for all intents and purposes due to the break this was a pilot) always drop off significantly.
My point is it really couldn't fail. The general synopsis by all the critics is about as bad as anyone could have foreseen and it still brought in 7 mill a night. Hell, if it brought in 5 mill we'd still be getting more. "The X-Files" with Mulder & Scully headlining wasn't going to fail... period.
I'm not sure why folks are all up in arms about the "cliff-hanger" anyway... good lord, he ended the series after 9 years with one. It's not like this hasn't happened before. Yes, the 2nd movie stunk, but movies are a different matter all together.
This latest ride was disappointing to me and I'll be right there to watch more if Gillian and David are still in it.
If they aren't, I'm not sure I'll be back. I'll just go take the 9-year ride again on Netflix.
This is what I hope doesn't happen with the new Trek series coming in January of 17. I'm afraid they will forget what makes trek unique and I will be disappointed.
No. It. Did. Not.
Yeah, you're right. There was never a threat of Alien invasion... never put out there...
