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And Joel McHale was just a weird bit of casting, why take a guy known for acerbic wit, put him in an Alex Jones style role ripe for satire, and then make the role humourless, basically Basil Exposition thing? Very strange.

It thought it WAS satire.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
It thought it WAS satire.

Then what were they satirising? Making the Alex Jones character right about everything only really satirizes the X-Files (if our imagined universe was real, look which crazy donkey-caves would actually be the heroes!)

 notprop wrote:
So I just watched E5 and the Mulder tripping a scene and can't believe that no one mentioned the Lone Gunmen being in it!

Mind blown!

I really think S10 has hit its straps in its second half, roll on the season finale.

I initially hated the Mully and Sculder characters, though I suppose it was supposed to be funny. It was kind of working by the end. The redhead seemed a bit more interesting than the other guy, probably because she had more airtime.

The trip scene was brilliant. I recognised the Lone Gunmen but not Skinner in the scene. I question whether you could be led into such hallucinations by a placebo, however Mulder did come up with the vital clue somehow, which of course is the central mystery of that episode.

I have come to the conclusion that overarching plot arcs are ruining modern TV.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that overarching plot arcs are ruining modern TV.

Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Vikings, The Originals, all say hi.

Overarching plot arcs are not ruining modern TV. When done right, they're fantastic.

The inability to write a good overarching plot arc is what ruins TV shows.

Yes, I agree. The difference is that something like War And Peace is a mammoth, overarching plot arc within which many individual stories are explored.

Modern TV too often consists of many individual stories, with a overarching plot arc epoxied on top, resulting in stress distortion of the whole series.

I have to say, Game of Thrones IS like that and why im not watching it anymore. It just became too disjointed with to much going back from one character to another to another, and I wasnt interested in it that much.
You dont need multiple seasons to tell a story, you dont even need a season.

Final episode (I think) was on the TV last night in the UK. What a rotten mess!

Mulder spent most of the programme on some kind of silent road trip. Scully and this new Agent Einstein spent the programme mooning around a hospital wondering if everyone had alien DNA or not and if this made them ill from or immune to the sudden unexplained outbreak of lots of differet infectious diseases. New Agent Miller (?) found out Mulder is in Scranton or something. So what? The cigarette smoking man did something or said something or something or something or something..

I couldn't tell what the hell was supposed to be going on, or what it was supposed to mean. It was probably the worst episode ever.

Yeah that was disappointing. So disjointed after a decent run of episodes (3-5). All the same gakky disposition as there was in episode 1. It all just sort of happened without ever seeming to go anywhere.

I guess they are setting Einstein and Miller up as new leads clearly forgetting that's pretty much what killed off the XFiles last time. Einsteins face is far too shiney for tv, her character made it hard to watch too. Miller is just a non-entity.

After my high hopes of the last two weeks has been dashed against the rocks. I'm not too bothered if it comes back againif that is the direction they are going.

Einstein seems to be in a near-perpetual snit. A most unattractive character. Miller is a stupid enthusiastic and clumsy puppy dog.