After last years money grab Pass... :unsure
While I enjoyed the "series" last year, it wasn't nearly as good as I had hoped it would be, with the exception of the already mentioned "Were-Monster" episode, which I thought was fantastic.
Ill certainly watch the upcoming episodes.
What is really interesting to me, though, is this...I started wondering if "The X-Files" was better in my memory than it truly was, so I fired up some episodes and gave them a watch...and I was really disappointed. Almost every episode I watched just seemed campy and bad. I remember loving the show when it was on, but I guess maybe TV has just come a long way since the series was in its prime, and it just didn't stand the test of time well. This, of course, is all just my opinion.
What is really interesting to me, though, is this...I started wondering if "The X-Files" was better in my memory than it truly was, so I fired up some episodes and gave them a watch...and I was really disappointed. Almost every episode I watched just seemed campy and bad. I remember loving the show when it was on, but I guess maybe TV has just come a long way since the series was in its prime, and it just didn't stand the test of time well. This, of course, is all just my opinion.
Yeah, I re-watched seasons 1 through 6 not too long ago and was also surprised by how dated some of it felt. And as Solo4114 mentioned, all the Chris Carter conspiracy stuff is a chore to sit through knowing there's no real payoff.
And yet a lot of episodes still work for me. I like the ones that balance the creepy vide with humor, like "Quagmire," "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Humbug." Basically all the shows that writer Darin Morgan had a hand in.
In the runup to the new series relaunch, I went back and started watching through the series again, too. A lot of it was good, and suitably creepy. Most of that was the monster-of-the-week episodes. Some of the conspiracy arc stories were well done, but as stated, when you know the payoff is a big fart sound, it makes it hard to get into those episodes. And yet, when I look back on the show, they were what propelled my interest in the show at such a high level.
It's a shame, really. Especially considering the new show had a chance to really solidify what had been left so unsatisfying and just introduced a bunch of conspiracy gobbledeegook, and then dropped/ignored it.
The X-Files was one of the first few shows that I really got into that taught me not to get invested too deeply in a "mythology"-driven or "mystery"-driven show until the ending has been written AND you know that it was satisfying. The X-Files is also why I never watched LOST.
It's a shame, really. Especially considering the new show had a chance to really solidify what had been left so unsatisfying and just introduced a bunch of conspiracy gobbledeegook, and then dropped/ignored it..