https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(miniseries) Six episodes in 2016, original cast and writers from the first four series. Vince Gilligan, who's since done Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, sadly won't be.
The UFO/ alien ****e was the only strand I liked. Though it got frustrating going round in circles a bit because none of the writers had a scooby what they were on about.
I have to admi, I preferred the standalone/monster-of-the-week episodes myself. I always had the feeling with the conspiracy episodes that they never really knew what the big picture was and were making it up as they went along, which worked ok for a bit but got confusing after a while. The standalone episodes lived and died on their own strengths and allowed more variation in terms of tone and depth.
Definitely. That's why it became frustrating. However, though I'm not a believer in UFO's being alien spacecraft, I do think the proposition of life on other worlds has a basis in science, whereas the rest of the story-lines were pure superstition.
No they are a hidden race living in the hollow earth and allied to the Nazis who set up a secret colony there in the 1940s
It wasnt just that they were making it up as they were going along, I wouldnt have minded that much. It was the fact that by about the third series you didnt have a scooby who was on who's side with the alien cover ups. You got to the end of an episode and went eh????? Why was Krycek who was hired by the illuminatey fellas to stop Mulder find the damning alien evidence, being stopped by Marlborough man who is also working for them To top it off the FBI director was backing both sides. And more often than not there was no closure to any of those storylines. Agree about the stan alone ones being superstitious but I'd add folklore to that which made it seem like there may have been some basis for truth behind it (even if far fetched). There were some classic one offs. The one where they're being accompanied around at night by a "police stop" type camera crew was quality.
Watching them on DVD, the conspiracy episodes did make more sense, certainly more so than when watching them over several years on TV. But you were still scratching your head. I think the quesiton of who was on who's side was partly deliberate - trust no-one and all that. My favourite episode was one with an old man who could see how people were going to die - a great mixture of humour and seriousness.
The fact that there is no (or only partial) closure to the storyline is a common device with most modern drama series so they can milk them for all their worth. They try to keep you hanging on for a denouement that doesn't exist because nobody has actually thought it through to the end. Then, especially with U.S. series, if the ratings drop then the whole thing gets ditched and left dangling on whichever cliffhanger they'd managed to get to. That's why I have very little interest in watching such things. I like a well-developed story, with a coherent narrative and a satisfying conclusion. I'd rather read a good book than waste my time on gawping at hours of popcorn shifters.
Dark Matter Astrophysics is in such a state. Neutron stars are impossibly because of nuclear physics. Pulsars, physics says they should fly apart. Blue helium stars do not have the mass to be a star yet it is just a "mystery" they exist. Quasars have intrinsic (natural) red shift, it's not a measure of how fast they are travelling away. "Mysteries" that disprove theories are called "mysteries" so the theory can continue.
You wanted me to post, that's why you said "what have you done" and you know it, you love that dark matter ****
