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Date Posted: 17:25:39 07/26/08 Sat
Author: BDM
Subject:

my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!]

A shipper's dream, a big disappoint ment for everyone else. Basically a Mulder & Scully personal episode. Their bits are about all that was good and even that wasn't enough for me. The plot was weak and wasn't even an X-File. I was hoping for the stated stand alone story to be a "monster of the week" story writ large. Scare the heck out of us. This really fell so far short after 6 years of waiting and I fear that wave at the end (hope you all stayed until the credits ended) was our last look at M & S.

Sure, I enjoyed seeing Skinner and all those references only we'd get. Amanda Peet being interested in Mulder and some Scully jealousy was under played. I can't believe Mulder is forgiven so easily. He was not just tried but sentenced to death by the US government, they don't take those back over a missing FBI agent. And wasn't Scully an acessory to his escape and equally as wanted? Not to mention the film seemed a bit anti-Catholic and suggests that a pedophile can be forgiven.

Scully goes thru yet another faith crisis. Made sense that she didn't want to run off with Mulder on the case and stuck mostly to her sub-plot. Now over the last 6 years, have they been together the whole time? She doesn't seem to like beards and it would take Mulder a while to grow that one. Why dod they still call each other by their last names when they have shared bodily fluids?

My feelings about the X-Files taken in total is that it was a great show that has been dragged on way too long. It was a mystery that couldn't ever be solved. It was a methaphor for life, you look for truth, can't quite grasp it but keep on the hunt anyway. Those early seasons shot in Vancouver had a great look, the move to LA lost something important. The plots got all knowing and the shipper teasing ruined things. The way they were in this film is how they should have become in season 5!!! The feeling of seeing an actual case unfold with M/S case file narration was gone in favor of out right silliness. Samantha and the conspiracy story lines were ended anti-climatically and then came the travesty of seasons 8 & 9. An intelligent show became just another dumb ol' show to be mocked in reruns.

I was thinking that the X-Files (& the last few Star Trek shows) was the last true sci-fi show on TV. Sure, it was horror/supernatural sometimes too but even then they tried to explain the whys and hows. Since the debut, we've had the trend of magic on fantasy shows and movies be the main concept. Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Pushing Diasies, Tru Calling, Smallville, Heroes, etc. all go "zap!" and some amazing thing happens without any attempt to explain them scientifically. Even the new Dr. Who show is guilty of this, it seems TV writers love wacky concepts so much-who cares to have them make sense? X-Files is passe in this new all magic fantasy environment. I suppose the Sarah Conner Chronicles might count as sci-fi but that's more about action. Star Wars with it's use of the Force doesn't count either. The audience seems to like just cutting loose and doesn't care if writers struggled to come up with a scientific concpet that is topical and might be borderline possible.

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Replies:

Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- CW, 18:27:26 07/26/08 Sat
- Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- kande, 06:07:49 07/27/08 Sun
  - Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- Islandgirl, 12:36:56 07/27/08 Sun
    - Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- SMH, 19:13:20 07/27/08 Sun
      - Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- CW, 19:53:38 07/27/08 Sun
        Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- Lynn, 20:40:44 07/27/08 Sun
        Re: my take on the film & XF in general [spoilers!!] -- Lynn, 20:44:14 07/27/08 Sun
        Hey, my sister beat me to the post! -- detoured, 22:50:28 07/27/08 Sun
        Re: Hey, my sister beat me to the post! -- Lynn, 23:05:10 07/27/08 Sun
        One more quick thing from me -- SMH, 01:29:19 07/28/08 Mon
        PS for IG, a fanwank about the non-marriage -- SMH, 03:17:02 07/28/08 Mon
        Re: PS for IG, a fanwank about the non-marriage -- BDM, 09:33:16 07/28/08 Mon
        What about Hollywood A.D.? -- kande, 09:39:18 07/28/08 Mon
        Re: What about Hollywood A.D.? -- CW, 18:05:22 07/28/08 Mon
        Who would play the Cigarette Smoking Pontiff? (NT) -- BDM, 11:12:45 07/29/08 Tue
        Re: Who would play the Cigarette Smoking Pontiff? -- CW, 11:43:08 07/29/08 Tue
        I think..... -- kenamom, 14:51:52 07/29/08 Tue
        I just don't remember -- CW, 16:03:30 07/29/08 Tue