The X-Files : Season X (Spoilers!)

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Ambiguous endings are a staple of the X-Files, especially the stand-alone episodes.

i've been enjoying those comics for the most part. i'm curious if IDW will continue with its own comic continuity or begin something new that follows season 10.

From the solicits, it looks like they're dropping their own continuity and tying the new book into the revival.

 

[Random_Spock]

My opinion about the first episode:

Its a rough start for the new season. You can see that the people in front and behind the camera got a bit rusty. The dialogue was wooden/forced and the acting uneven; Duchovny and Anderson still feel a little disconnected, the chemistry isnt quite there yet. In the first episode it hasnt clicked.

And the second:

Much better episode than the first one. But it felt pretty cut off, it didnt really have an ending. I still quite dont know what the point of it all was.

But I noticed Gillian Anderson made the choice to play the current Scully in a depressive, disconnected mood. During the flashback scenes Anderson played the Scully from the 90s, so much closer to how Scully was in the old episodes. Scully lost every happiness in the last years.

Boy, I have to get used to Duchovny's much darker voice now. He permenantly sounds like he just got out of bed a minute ago. He had a much softer voice back then, it has gotten much rougher.

Mulder and Scully appear pretty depressed right now. It seems to be closely connected to their son.

Yea I agree about the dialogue in the first ep. Disagree about the chemistry though. Thought there was more of it there than there was in the second ep. It felt strangely absent during it and it was very distracting.

Ambiguous endings are a staple of the X-Files, especially the stand-alone episodes.



From the solicits, it looks like they're dropping their own continuity and tying the new book into the revival.

Actually that's not the case. CC considers the comics to be separate from the revival, going from an interview that I read earlier last year.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

IDW is rebooting the X-Files comic in April, with Mulder and Scully drawn like their modern appearance in the revival.

Carter was talking about the current X-Files comic series that'll be wrapping up either next month or in March.

 

[Random_Spock]

Ambiguous endings are a staple of the X-Files, especially the stand-alone episodes.



From the solicits, it looks like they're dropping their own continuity and tying the new book into the revival.

Actually that's not the case. CC considers the comics to be separate from the revival, going from an interview that I read earlier last year.

IDW is rebooting the X-Files comic in April, with Mulder and Scully drawn like their modern appearance in the revival.

Carter was talking about the current X-Files comic series that'll be wrapping up either next month or in March.

Ah I see.

Another new one.

To be honest, I find the plot in the comics to be more promising than what's happened in the new episodes.

 

[Greg Cox]

If we're talking tie-ins, this is where I shamelessly mention that a second volume of X-FILES short stories, edited by Jonathan Maberry, goes on sale in February. And, yes, I have a story in Volume 2.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

To be honest, I find the plot in the comics to be more promising than what's happened in the new episodes.

I've enjoyed a lot of what they've done in the comics, with the rather large exception of Doggett and Reyes. Just an unpleasant and odd story for those two characters.

If we're talking tie-ins, this is where I shamelessly mention that a second volume of X-FILES short stories, edited by Jonathan Maberry, goes on sale in February. And, yes, I have a story in Volume 2.

Can you give us any details on your contribution, Greg? When you set the story or the characters you chose to feature, that sort of thing.

 

[Random_Spock]

I've enjoyed a lot of what they've done in the comics, with the rather large exception of Doggett and Reyes. Just an unpleasant and odd story for those two characters.



Can you give us any details on your contribution, Greg? When you set the story or the characters you chose to feature, that sort of thing.

Yea their story was rather odd. How do you like Reyes' possible inclusion for the new eps?

 

[Starbreaker]

There was a short clip of Annabeth Gish and Gillian Anderson in the revival behind the scenes. She's definitely in an upcoming episode.

 

[Random_Spock]

There was a short clip of Annabeth Gish and Gillian Anderson in the revival behind the scenes. She's definitely in an upcoming episode.

Yea. It'll be interesting to see how she's incorporated. Just hoping it's not what I'm thinking it might be.

 

[RoJoHen]

Mulder and Scully appear pretty depressed right now. It seems to be closely connected to their son.

I definitely noticed this as well, which is another reason I'm wondering if William will make a comeback.

His adoption always seemed a little odd to me. I understand the reasons that Scully gave him up, but much like the kids in "Founder's Mutation," William was a special case. He wasn't a normal boy, and I always wondered how a normal family would deal with his inevitable weirdness and how they would keep him a secret.

 

[tomalak301]

Yea. It'll be interesting to see how she's incorporated. Just hoping it's not what I'm thinking it might be.

I hope they have a line about where Doggett is. Say that he moved, or got transferred to another department, anything, but I hope they bring him up, even in passing. Looking forward to seeing Rayes again.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Yea their story was rather odd. How do you like Reyes' possible inclusion for the new eps?

I think it's fitting that she (or Doggett) be included. A lot of fans see them as the Coy & Vance of the X-Files series, but their time on the show deserves to be acknowledged in some form. I hope she plays a significant role in the story (and, while she's at it, gives us a brief update on Doggett, too).

Yea. It'll be interesting to see how she's incorporated. Just hoping it's not what I'm thinking it might be.

If you're thinking that she may turn out to be CSM's new assistant or now working against M&S in some way, then I share your concern. Something in that vein would totally sour the character, both currently and retroactively.

 

[The Habs Fan]

It was still in its infancy. And he never had a show bible. That's one reason why the XF has gotten on my nerves at last after all these years. Guess I'm tired of writers/show runners doing just that.

I remember reading somewhere that the mythology was all planned out from season 4 to the middle of Season 6 (concluding in Two Fathers/One Son).

At the time, the plan was to continue The X-Files after season 6 with movies only. But FOX ended up renewing The X-Files for television 3 more times. All 3 times against the wishes of 1013. So it did get more and more convoluted the longer it went, but to be fair it worked perfectly up to the end of One Son. I still think it all works together, but you can tell that they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel creativity-wise with the mythology episodes near the end. Especially with the Supersoldier story-line. Season 7, the mythology was spinning its wheels a bit since it was all tied up in the middle of season 6. Season 8 had a great ongoing story about the search for Mulder and the beginning of the supersoldier story-line. Then they ruined the Supersoldier story-line in Season 9. But again, Season 9 was the third season in a row they didn't really want to do.

 

[Marsden]

I wouldn't mind if Doggett has already passed on, as in deceased. He was another person that was willing to do what was necessary at the risk of his life, maybe he didn't make it. It happens.

I thought Doggett was great and I would have watched him for a lot longer if they kept making X-Files with him, the only thing I didn't like was his supposed attraction to Reyes, I think they were trying to recapture that M & S thing but I found that to be false, everything else about him I thought was great and I liked how he could work with Skinner, Scully and the others. He wasn't a believer like Mulder, but he wouldn't shoot down someone for believing something without actually checking it out himself.

 

[Greg Cox]

Can you give us any details on your contribution, Greg? When you set the story or the characters you chose to feature, that sort of thing.

Thanks for asking. Mine is your basic monster-of-the-week story set sometime during the fourth season, before Scully's whole cancer plot kicks in. It's "classic" X-FILES: Mulder and Scully investigating strange goings-on in a college town in the Pacific Northwest . . ..

The title is "Mummiya," which may give you a hint where I'm going . . ..

 

[RoJoHen]

I thought Doggett was great and I would have watched him for a lot longer if they kept making X-Files with him, the only thing I didn't like was his supposed attraction to Reyes, I think they were trying to recapture that M & S thing but I found that to be false, everything else about him I thought was great and I liked how he could work with Skinner, Scully and the others. He wasn't a believer like Mulder, but he wouldn't shoot down someone for believing something without actually checking it out himself.

My favorite thing about Doggett was his relationship with Scully, especially in the beginning. After so many years of skepticism and denial, now Scully has finally seen enough to become the Believer, only now Mulder isn't there to appreciate it. She is now faced with Doggett, who is just as skeptical as she was 8 years earlier. I thought it was such a fun twist on the original Mulder/Scully dynamic.

 

[JD]

I've read through several overviews of the show's mythology on Wikipedia and TXF Wiki, and it never seemed that confusing to me. I have to wonder if it possibly makes more sense if you read through it in one or a few sittings, than if you spend years only gets a few small bits and pieces here and there. Even reading through it, it seemed like that they suddenly went through a big shift in direction in Season 7 or 8.

 

[RoJoHen]

I have to wonder if it possibly makes more sense if you read through it in one or a few sittings, than if you spend years only gets a few small bits and pieces here and there.

This really is true. The mythology was just so spread out with so many standalones and monster episodes in between. Many of the details were easy to forget over the course of 9 years.

And yeah, Season 7 saw big changes, mostly because this was around the time that David Duchovny was getting kind of tired of the role and wanted to pursue his movie career, and I think it was in Season 6 that they killed off the Syndicate, so the nature of the conspiracy was forced to change.

As I said earlier, I felt that the mythology was very confusing the first time around when I watched it as it aired. When it become available on Netflix, I was able to marathon the show in a much shorter span of time, and suddenly everything made perfect sense.

 

[JD]

A while back they did a set with just the mythology episodes, and I've often wondered how well it would flow if you just watched the myth episodes.

 

[RoJoHen]

I actually did that a couple years ago, and it works really well. There's a website somewhere that has a list of them.

It's probably the reason why I have absolutely no problem understanding the mythology anymore. It is complicated, but it all fits together.