![]() ![]() I have another reason Mulder, and people who think the dumb things Mulder thinks, should stay silent: equating news reports of government surveillance (which is real) with the theory that the Trilateral Commission secretly orchestrated 9/11 (which is not real) makes it harder for people who want to stop things like the expansion of the former to be taken seriously. ![]() Saying these things would be irresponsible.” “It’s fearmongering claptrap isolationist techno-paranoia so bogus and dangerous and stupid that it borders on treason. “You can’t say these things,” Scully tells Mulder after his epiphany (by the way: Anderson is great here, even without this monologue to endear her to the embrained members of the audience). All the alien stuff in the last nine seasons and two movies was, of course, a smokescreen hiding the Real Truth: that America will soon be in the grip of a class of Elites, rather than by a class of people who use the word “elite” as a regular singular noun, which at present seems more likely. There’s a human conspiracy at work, Mulder decides. Sveta doesn’t last long and isn’t given much to do except look simultaneously frightened and pouty, and Tad O’Malley fades into the background, likely to return. McHale’s character introduces Scully and Mulder to a young woman named Sveta (Annet Mahendru) who claims to have alien DNA the plot, about baby-stealing, is part of the larger arc of the season, seems like (I’ve seen two episodes as of this writing. Guardian Scully: the voice of reason, kind of Mulder actually gets to see an alien spacecraft (albeit a mildly crummy one, visually speaking – the show appears to have blown its entire budget on the Roswell flashback) and late in the episode there’s a montage of everything from Fema to Monsanto. Carter made his bones on the original series with atmosphere, creepy practical effects and a lot of things you didn’t quite see now he can’t be explicit enough fast enough. The whole enterprise would be more entertaining if fewer people took Jones seriously, I guess. The McHale character, by stark contrast, believes at least one thing that is actually true. Somewhat horrifyingly, Carter has leaned into that realization and models this episode’s enigmatic central guest star (McHale, doing his best, God bless him) on braying jackass Alex Jones, the syndicated radio host who, through his website Infowars, nurtures intellectually that class of people who think 9/11 was an inside job, the Sandy Hook primary school massacre and the Boston bombing were false flag operations, and Barack Obama is literally Satan. Scully: get out get out of the car- FFS SMDH IRL IMO January 21, 2016Ĭhris Carter seems to realize that the Mulder of 2002 feels likely to age into a Donald Trump-loving bottom-feeder who tweets JET FUEL CAN’T MELT STEEL BEAMS in all caps. Once we’re finally in the present and not getting caught up in the pregnancy subplot that kind of ruined the show’s final two seasons, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are doing basically what you’d think they’d be doing, which is to say that Mulder’s not doing much of anything and Scully is off being icy and competent as a doctor who calls her nurse “nurse” instead of, say, “Susan”. Then the old title cards, completely unchanged from 1993, come up on the screen with that wonderful Mark Snow theme song, and it’s high school all over again. ![]() The show cuts abruptly to a big, FX-heavy sequence set in 1947 Roswell with a really boss spaceship and a classic model big-eyes-and-forehead grey alien, and it feels like everything’s going to be all right. Yes, it feels like a throwback, but if you want something arch and contemporary, I recommend BoJack Horseman. ![]() There’s an adorably hokey voiceover by Mulder at the beginning of this thing that makes me a) nostalgic and b) afraid for the rest of the hour. ![]()
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