dallasstill.blogg.se - X files home based on real

I wrote down the exchange where Scully said, "You're a dark wizard, Mulder," and Mulder said "What else is new," mostly because-like Scully's immortality-I would like this to become a subtle but recurring theme that Scully, deep in her heart, believes Mulder to in fact be a Saruman-style dark wizard.It just didn't do it very well here, and especially when combined with arm-rippin' golem murder, the two halves of this episode never seemed to mesh. Again, maybe this goes back to the six-episode thing: If we're only gonna get six of these, why have an episode where it feels like we're wasting time with an entire boring subplot? I'm not saying The X-Files can't do drama-it can, and it often does it exceedingly well. But even as the show seems to welcome its characters' aging (these new episodes are a lot more continuity-based than I think anyone was expecting them to be), it's also happy to bring along some of the more wearisome aspects of the original show-like the fact that in an episode featuring an ARM-RIPPING HOMELESS GOLEM WITH A BAND-AID FOR A NOSE WHO GETS AROUND IN A GARBAGE TRUCK MURDER-MOBILE, we're also expected to care about Scully's boring mom and her boring siblings and a mysterious coin necklace and.

but for the most part, it's been charmingly understated. "'Back in the day.' Scully, back in the day is now." "Mulder, back in the day, I used to do stairs-and in three-inch heels."

"What? I wasn't gonna shoot the kid, and I don't do stairs anymore." There's some winking to this effect in "Home Again".

There are things I like about these newer episodes, like that the cast seems to have aged into comfier, kinder, more likeable versions of their characters (think of this as the Star Trek effect, where the crew of the Enterprise gradually turned into huggable space-grandparents).

Maybe that's an unfair expectation-I'll always take a "fine" X-Files episode over a non-existent X-Files episode. But with only six episodes in this miniseries, it's hard not to feel like each episode should be better than fine. Had this aired during The X-Files' original run, it would've slid right on by without much notice.

It had some creepy stuff (Mulder touching a used band-aid! GROSS!) and it had some boring stuff (Scully's family, who just are never going to be interesting), and it had some some eye-rolling stuff (like the line "I want to believe-I need to believe-that we didn't treat him like trash," which the always-amazing-but-particularly-amazing-in-this-episode Gillian Anderson deserves a goddamn Nobel Peace Prize for delivering without rolling her eyes out of her skull). I land exactly in the middle on this: "Home Again" is totally, completely fine.

Okay, so reaction to this episode has been all over the map-I've seen some say it was their favorite of the miniseries so far (these people are wrong, their favorite should be " Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster"), and I've seen some say it was the worst so far (these people are also wrong, as "Home Again" was better than " My Struggle" and about on the same level as " Founder's Mutation").