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silver_chipmunk in xfiles

So what did we think of this one?

Feb 15, 2016 21:52

Pretty wild for the placebo effect... or was something else going on? And did they have to use Muslim terrorist refugees, reinforcing the stereotype? And what do we think about Miller and Einstein, the junior Mulder and Scully?

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ericadawn16 February 16 2016, 02:56:26 UTC

Kill it all. I don't want it but next week looks great.

mosinging1986 February 16 2016, 03:04:29 UTC

I just started watching it. So "Muslim refugee terrorists" are actually the bad guys? That would be a good thing, instead of having a twist where it ends up that the bad guy is actually some conservative Christian terrorist. (Spoilers: No such thing exists. The Bible neither teaches nor condones any such behavior. That's why there are no Christians doing any such things, around the world, on a regular basis, in obedience to any such commands.)

Sigh. Well, here goes. Please, Show, don't make me hate you!

mosinging1986 February 16 2016, 03:44:19 UTC

Tried to watch bits and pieces. The drugged out/hallucination scenes were embarrassingly awful on so many levels. Knowing DD's real life issues, did we need to have a bunch of females shaking their booties like that? And it just went on and on! And is THAT all we get of the Gunmen?! Seriously? What a cheat ( ... )

insaneladybug February 16 2016, 04:23:20 UTC

I haven't seen the episode yet, but I recorded it and came in at the end to shut it off and saw the Gunmen's actors credited at the end, which made me suspect they weren't in it much since that was the same thing they did with William B. Davis in My Struggle. And so they only appeared in some hallucination and weren't even really there? Even showing up as ghosts would be better than that, although I really wanted them to be alive....

meistergedanken February 16 2016, 12:54:34 UTC

"And did they have to use Muslim terrorist refugees, reinforcing the stereotype ( ... )

dictatorcari February 17 2016, 04:40:12 UTC

Yikes.

mack_the_spoon February 16 2016, 13:37:28 UTC

I really didn't like this one. The only good things were the cute moment with Mulder and Scully at the beginning, and how comfortable and sweet they were with each other at the end. Even that scene had a completely nonsensical conversation between them, though, in just the way CC usually writes nonsensical dialogue. The plot of the case was rambly and ham-fisted, too.

Hoping Miller and Einstein do *not* show up in a potential continuation of the show beyond this revival.