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RE: it seems par for this course on many levels -- spoilers?

Posted by user510 on January 26, 2016 at 14:31:24

In Reply to: X-Files, many years later...anyone catch the first half of the premier...? posted by user510 on January 24, 2016 at 20:23:17:

Story line: The X-Files ran for what.... 10 seasons. That's a lot of material to cut through. It seems that the writer/Writers have condensed the plot down to the essential bits. The core. We only have 6 episodes this time so it has to lead somewhere quick.

Prologue. The opening narration in Duchovney's voice. Mulder's missing sister. The event that defines his search.

As events unfold within the pilot episode, it is revealed that all these years he's thought it was an alien abduction that took his sister and all the other abductees he's documented. Now it seems that his sister may have been abducted by humans and for reasons not yet fleshed out. The mystery begins anew.

Yup. There really was a flying saucer crash at Roswell NM. And an alien was found at the crash site. The question becomes who is responsible for the cover-up? The Air Force? The Govt.? Or is it a secretive society, a group of conspirators populating high office within the government but unbeknownst to many. These individuals can pull strings that remotely control special ops military units to carry out murderous operations. The soldiers aren't privy to the conspiracy. They just carry out orders.

I thought some of the production values were decent. That anti-gravitic space craft was well done. Apparently both CGI and a set mock-up. Although the flying saucer at the Roswell crash site looks like it was made out of light weight cement....or foam.

A key witness is killed before she can tell her story. Those conspirators will do anything to cover their tracks. I suspect we will gain more clarity over the next few episodes. Who was flying that anti-gravitic aircraft that blew up her car? Evidently there was more than one of those craft made. The first having been destroyed in the pilot episode.

The cigarette smoking man. He has to come back. He's just too evil to die. He's too valuable an asset to the 'conspirators' for them to let him die. So they'll keep him alive by machine if need by. Cost no object. I thought the tube coming out of his throat indicates he's had surgery for cancer in the larynx. (just guessing) He survived -- of course. The face prosthetic...? We can only guess but it will serve to make him appear even more evil, more vile, more corrupted. The story needs a wicked witch to ultimately execute. I wonder if we'll dispatch him this time.

Walter Skinner's back. We need him to run interference with FBI higher-ups and thus allow Mulder and Sculley to conduct their bizarre and highly unbelievable investigations.

So with Mulder, Sculley, Skinner and the cigarette smoking dude we have the essential cast members back. And the truth is still out there.

-Steve

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