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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Admiral688 on January 29, 2016, 09:08:18 pm ---So anyone know why the short season? Are they going to tee up a reboot with new characters?

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are highly sought after in Hollywood these days, so that was about all they could shoot. A 7th episode was written, for example, but they couldn't get everyone together long enough to film it.

No, no no! This is X-Files, Chris Carter doesn't do reboots. This is not a "fresh new take" on the x-files, it's the original show. While the pilot is a bit off, episode 2 feels like it could have been a 1999 unreleased episode. Other than the introduction of more advanced cell phones and Skinner's goatee, they haven't really changed anything. All people involved are interested in doing future episodes, but I think they are waiting on Fox's response and the ratings to come in for the quarter season.

Admiral688:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 09:30:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Admiral688 on January 29, 2016, 09:08:18 pm ---So anyone know why the short season? Are they going to tee up a reboot with new characters?

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are highly sought after in Hollywood these days, so that was about all they could shoot. A 7th episode was written, for example, but they couldn't get everyone together long enough to film it.

No, no no! This is X-Files, Chris Carter doesn't do reboots. This is not a "fresh new take" on the x-files, it's the original show. While the pilot is a bit off, episode 2 feels like it could have been a 1999 unreleased episode. Other than the introduction of more advanced cell phones and Skinner's goatee, they haven't really changed anything. All people involved are interested in doing future episodes, but I think they are waiting on Fox's response and the ratings to come in for the quarter season.

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Oh, I know the deal. I'm a big fan and can not wait to see the lone gunmen back. I didn't know what the deal was and figured they brought Scully and Mulder back as a primer to new characters in the future. I'd love to see the x files back......i gave fringe a go, but after awhile became sick of the story arcs.

Ginsu Victim:
"Mulder and Scull Meet the Were-Monster"

Wow, I loved this episode. X-Files was always fun when it was funny, and this was another gem from the writer of "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose."

From the opening with a paint-huffing Tyler Labine (Reaper, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Deadbeat), this episode never slows down. Mulder and Scully investigate sightings of a "were-lizard" that's been killing the locals, and it's up to them, with the possible assistance of a very freaked out animal shelter worker, played by Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley, Burning Love), to find the killer.

The "were-lizard," as played by the brilliant Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Short Poppies), is the highlight here. The monologue he delivers to Mulder is one of the funniest things I've seen lately. We get to see the events of the entire episode played out through his eyes and it's excellent.

Not only my favorite episode of the new series, but now one of my favorites ever. Some people are hating on it for not furthering the overall storyline, considering the small number of episodes we're getting, but the writing shines so brightly, there was no way I could hate it.

Great episode, great writing, great guest cast!

BadMouth:
I thought it was funny and I can identify with the existentialist blues of the human condition expressed in it.
There were a few things that bugged me. I think they put the monster in it's full glory out there in full daylight too much.
It was campy. Like "hey look at this guy in a rubber suit!"

The other thing was that the monster stripped his clothes off before running in the porta-jon, but when the door opens he has his clothes back on.
Of course that was during his retelling of it, so he could have been lying.
At the end I was hoping Scully would drop some hint that she really did jump his bones. :lol

I agree that the guy playing the were-lizard did a spectacular job. He added a lot to the character.

pbj:
So it gets better? Cause I watched the first episode (On Demand, kthx Fox for screwing up the DVR schedule) and even my space opera fan friends were bored by it 20 minutes into it.

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