Huge fan of the original series, altho I still haven't watched the last few seasons. I have all seasons on DVD and often plan on sitting through the final 7-9, but always prefer restarting from season one and going through the first seasons. I've always liked the "monster of the week" episodes better than the mythology and most of the best episodes are from seasons 1-3.
I read about this new mini series (altho seems to have been "promoted" to season 10 last night) when it was announced, but didn't have any idea what it would be about and kind of forgot it since. I was caught a bit off guard a week ago that the new episodes were actually coming out already so I had no time to build up any expectations.
Episode one is continuation to the mythology storyline. I'm quite sure it would've helped to have watched the seasons 7-9 properly, but to me it felt a lot had happened to the characters that I didn't know about. There are kind of two plots here, the relationship between Mulder and Scully and the newly introduced mythology that is partly introduced with flashbacks from the Roswell incident in the forties.
It was nice seeing the good old characters and the episode is passable, but the further it went the more concerned I was about the overall quality of the new episodes. Everything seemed a bit rushed and forced and while the new mythology twist was sort of interesting, it wasn't played out very well. A lot of times the pace is very off in this episode. The dialogues are abrupt, especially one important scene between Mulder and Scully. The script, direction and editing would all have needed some polishing. It feels like the episode was thrown together a bit too hastily.
Then there are quite a few times when they "google" stuff or watch "youtube", but they aren't google nor youtube, but something they just made up (?). That doesn't work on a show that tries to touch real issues about our society today. On the other hand they talk about Snowden and Assange etc who are very real and have quite a few news footage clips edited in which also feel a bit underliney and out of place.
I'm just gonna quickly say that the episode two was a lot better. It was a MOTW episode and very true to old X-files style, very nostalgic. They touch some mythology issues in episode two also, but in a way it's quite a jump from episode one and that too was a but distracting.
I'm quite curious how they're gonna wrap this new season as there's only six episodes and they basically rebooted the whole storyline. All in all I'd say S10 hasn't been a bullseye so far, but not a total disaster either. The remaining episodes will hopefully be a bit more even in quality, but I'll definitely be watching with great interest.
I read about this new mini series (altho seems to have been "promoted" to season 10 last night) when it was announced, but didn't have any idea what it would be about and kind of forgot it since. I was caught a bit off guard a week ago that the new episodes were actually coming out already so I had no time to build up any expectations.
Episode one is continuation to the mythology storyline. I'm quite sure it would've helped to have watched the seasons 7-9 properly, but to me it felt a lot had happened to the characters that I didn't know about. There are kind of two plots here, the relationship between Mulder and Scully and the newly introduced mythology that is partly introduced with flashbacks from the Roswell incident in the forties.
It was nice seeing the good old characters and the episode is passable, but the further it went the more concerned I was about the overall quality of the new episodes. Everything seemed a bit rushed and forced and while the new mythology twist was sort of interesting, it wasn't played out very well. A lot of times the pace is very off in this episode. The dialogues are abrupt, especially one important scene between Mulder and Scully. The script, direction and editing would all have needed some polishing. It feels like the episode was thrown together a bit too hastily.
Then there are quite a few times when they "google" stuff or watch "youtube", but they aren't google nor youtube, but something they just made up (?). That doesn't work on a show that tries to touch real issues about our society today. On the other hand they talk about Snowden and Assange etc who are very real and have quite a few news footage clips edited in which also feel a bit underliney and out of place.
I'm just gonna quickly say that the episode two was a lot better. It was a MOTW episode and very true to old X-files style, very nostalgic. They touch some mythology issues in episode two also, but in a way it's quite a jump from episode one and that too was a but distracting.
I'm quite curious how they're gonna wrap this new season as there's only six episodes and they basically rebooted the whole storyline. All in all I'd say S10 hasn't been a bullseye so far, but not a total disaster either. The remaining episodes will hopefully be a bit more even in quality, but I'll definitely be watching with great interest.