The X-Files : Season X (Spoilers!)
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Exactly. I watched it as it aired, and I remember towards the end thinking that it had gone off the rails. The Super Soldier stuff seemed to come out of nowhere, but it's really a very natural extension of the mythology that had come before.
There was just so much information that it was easy to forget how all the pieces fit together, especially when the truth was wrapped in so many lies. It you weren't paying close enough attention, you could easily think it didn't make any sense...which I think is funny given the nature of the show. This must be how Scully felt.
I always got the impression that the black oil was controlling the Greys. That's why there were aliens who had sewn their eyes and mouths shut to keep it out.
Check out their site, it should be up there if you have cable and keep an eye on their On Demand.
Just checked and AT&T's On Demand has My Struggle up. So the second one should be up soon.
Didn't Mulder already know that humans were involved in the abductions back in the original series? Was the only new thing that he put together in this episode that the Illuminati were trying to bring about the takeover of humanity. Can somebody bullet point the "new" revelations in this episode?
Mulder thought they were working with the aliens so they could recolonize the planet. The only humans who would survive would be hybrids and I assume the people involved in the conspiracy.
Now it seems that it was just a group of government and business leaders using alien technology and biology to take over the planet and control and/or kill the rest of us. Essentially everything Alex Jones believes but with recovered UFOs and alien DNA tossed in. Most of the more alien aspects were likely included to make anyone who tried to speak out look crazy. Mulder threw away his career and a promising future as a profiler to look for aliens and has been a laughingstock to most of his peers (pretty much everyone but Scully and Skinner).
Now it seems that it was just a group of government and business leaders using alien technology and biology to take over the planet and control and/or kill the rest of us. Essentially everything Alex Jones believes but with recovered UFOs and alien DNA tossed in. Most of the more alien aspects were likely included to make anyone who tried to speak out look crazy. Mulder threw away his career and a promising future as a profiler to look for aliens and has been a laughingstock to most of his peers (pretty much everyone but Scully and Skinner).
Okay, I remember all that--but the new theory still doesn't explain the presence of the aliens in the first nine seasons--which Mulder witnessed first hand on multiple occasions. It would seem that there are still pieces to the puzzle left to put together. Are they hoping that this current season will lead to a renewal of the series or is this strictly a one off? I would be very happy with six to ten episode seasons after this.
The theory is that the 'aliens' in the first 9 seasons were mainly the military / whomever with some actual aliens thrown in too.
Most are open to doing more episodes, but trying to pay the female co-star less money than the male partner might piss off a certain actress.
The 6th episode will be interesting.
Some of the aliens could be more alien looking hybrids. The Syndicate knew that Mulder was chasing aliens so he could find his sister, they could have arranged that he was more focused on that than the real people in charge to keep him off the trail.
Maybe. But I'm wondering about CSM. I swear he's looking rather alien like these days.
So Mulder's new theory doesn't negate the events of the first nine seasons regarding extraterrestrial presence on our planet. Didn't he say the government lured the aliens to Earth so that it could exploit alien technology? I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact line.
I enjoyed both episodes, much more than I expected. I liked the alien vs. human conspiracy twist, they can do interesting things along this plotline. I liked the "monster-of-the-week" episode even more, it was a typical, nice X-files episode, as if the show never stopped.
I am lookong forward to the rest of the season.
I am lookong forward to the rest of the season.
The original series also muddied the alien mythology many times.
The aliens were called the colonists who were returning to Earth. They were once human but were mutated into greys by the black oil, they also had human slaves and left in the last ice age.
They now return and some of their slaves who are unaffected by the black oil became Rebels who dealt a crippling blow to the Syndicate and possibly the aliens plans for colonization behind the scenes. We should also consider that the Syndicates project included retro engineering alien technology to help humanity resist them, they were simply exploring all options throughout the series.
The aliens were called the colonists who were returning to Earth. They were once human but were mutated into greys by the black oil, they also had human slaves and left in the last ice age.
They now return and some of their slaves who are unaffected by the black oil became Rebels who dealt a crippling blow to the Syndicate and possibly the aliens plans for colonization behind the scenes. We should also consider that the Syndicates project included retro engineering alien technology to help humanity resist them, they were simply exploring all options throughout the series.
I thought the second episode was... okay.
It seemed a bit too linear and neatly packed. I think in the old days this would have taken a lot longer to unravel. I'm assuming this is because of the truncated run (they don't have time to stretch things out like they used to).
The sequences with their son were quite touching and sad.
It seemed a bit too linear and neatly packed. I think in the old days this would have taken a lot longer to unravel. I'm assuming this is because of the truncated run (they don't have time to stretch things out like they used to).
The sequences with their son were quite touching and sad.
This website is pretty good in explaining the entire mytharc (first 9 seasons): http://www.eatthecorn.com/primer-0/
It goes into greater detail in the following pages but that link has the whole mytharc summed up in a few paragraphs.
It goes into greater detail in the following pages but that link has the whole mytharc summed up in a few paragraphs.
Yeah the alien mythology started out really compelling and gripping to watch, but after a while Carter piled on so many twists and new players and made it so convoluted that it just became hard to know who the real enemy was, or what Mulder and Scully were actually supposed to be fighting against.
And of course now that the entire thing, and all that we saw, is being dismissed simply as a "smokescreen" to cover up an even larger conspiracy, it's even harder for me to take seriously.
