Mulder Returns!
I was a big X-Files fan in the 1990’s, and somewhere I still have an action figurine of David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, one of my few heroes…and so almost nothing could be better for me than when I learned that half a dozen new episodes of the show were being made, complete with many members of the original cast! The previews looked promising and true to the spirit of the original show. I was more than ready for this; it was the Holy Grail of paranormal television.
So primed and ready, I tuned to FOX at the listed time expecting to see Fox, and got…a football post-game show! It was a cruel thing to see jocks celebrating themselves when you’ve gone so many years without a Mulder fix. No doubt this was some kind of government conspiracy. Fortunately the DVR and “On Demand” gods were there, and I was able to watch the whole glorious episode later.
The first episode was heavy on exposition and the series mythology, beginning with Mulder’s cerebral, analytical monotone voice and flashing back to the seminal Roswell UFO incident, with the crash gloriously depicted. Since the series last ended, Mulder has been living a low profile life while his partner, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) has been aiding in the surgical creation of ears for earless children. The duo is reunited by a wealthy arch conservative talk show conspiracy adherent (Tad O’Malley), and Mulder appears to have mastered the scruffy cool look to perfection. From there, things get twisted and complicated, with alien technologies, genetic manipulations, and unspeakable dark conspiracies thrown into the mix.
Some episodes after the second will focus less on the confusing and mysterious X-Files mythology, with some stand-alone episodes presented that will follow the popular “Monster of the Week” format during which the series was at its most enjoyable. We will apparently, however, be getting visits from such iconic series figures as the Cigarette Smoking Man and The Lone Gunmen, who had a brief unsuccessful spin-off show of their own once upon a time.
All in all, the limited revival series is worthy, and makes us want to put on suits, grab large flashlights, and follow conspiracies and monsters wherever they may lead, for The Truth is Out There…
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January 26, 2016 at 3:04 pm
I’ve already watched the first two episodes as I type this. And only the X-FILES could make me willingly skip an all-new episode of SUPERGIRL when I don’t even have Free On Demand to re-run the latter!
Anyway; here’s what I’ve gathered so far. It turns out that the alien gang war hinted at, in the last two or three seasons of the original series (and which was supposed to prologue a massive invasion of Grays by the end of the Mayan Long Count), was but a scam within a scam. Meant to divert the attention of those too otherwise close to learning the real truth. I.e., that the only real flying saucer salvaged and reverse-engineered by Uncle Sam was the one from Roswell. Every similar thing witnessed since then has been a carefully staged hoax! Camouflage for something even worse than aliens genetically experimenting on abducted humans.
Fellow humans doing the experimentation.
This raises the question: did that well-dressed cabal of human collaborators (the original Syndic) know the truth? If not, then the even scarier truth is…they were merely pawns, themselves! High-ranking ones to be sure. But, pawns, nonetheless.
Then, what in Heaven’s name, are the real conspirators up to? Are they using preserved Roswell alien DNA to modify certain humans for survival past some ecological armageddon?
Obviously, only Parts Three through Six will answer those questions.
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January 26, 2016 at 5:46 pm
As Mulder put it, everything we’ve believed is a lie…or as Walt Kelley expressed it, we have met the enemy, and he is us! “Wheels within wheels” are spinning here, and leave it to the X-Files to keep adding new twists.
Wasn’t it a kick to see it presented that “free energy” has been available for seventy years from Roswell alien technology, but the oil companies have kept us enslaved to fossil fuels?
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January 27, 2016 at 2:40 am
Reminds me of the urban allegation that Nicholas Tesla could’ve given us the same kind of free energy. But, he was ganged up on by the pre-WWI power companies…and the rest is greedy corporate history. 😦
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