But all the round pegs are going into round holes again. If the characters came back last episode, the show itself is back in classic form now.
Just let them be.Īnd is it just me, or is this the first time this actually feels like a natural continuation of the series proper rather than an exercise in nostalgia? I feel like tapping complete strangers on the shoulder and saying, “ This is my show,” not, “This is The X-Files: Millennial Edition,” or “This is The X-Files: Alt-U Version ft. For Spock’s sake, no one wants to watch them play at playing house. It needn’t even come up in onscreen conversation as an issue, as it didn’t here and no one missed it. It’s also a connection that need not be worn on the surface. A casual viewer can see clearly that there’s a connection here that goes as deep as the ocean, and no amount of surface level machination is going to penetrate that depth. Their “relationship” is their history it’s their partnership. On that note, this very history and context is why the “breakup” as such is an exercise in dramatic futility. No, some emotional context is not too much to ask for.
See? This is what I’m talking about: the way they bring their entire history into their every interaction. I just can’t get over the looks on their faces as they both remember the events of that episode. Speaking of Mulder’s mysterious powers and mysteriously well-placed flashbacks, this probably should’ve been called “One Breath Again”. And of course, we can’t forget the legendary use of “Wonderful! Wonderful!” in “ Home” (4×3), which is what we’re obviously intended to remember. Diegetic music hasn’t been used to send a victim to the River Styx like this since “ Kill Switch” (5×11). Then Petula Clark gave a post-mortem comeback performance and it was all over for me. And within the first two minutes of Mulder and Scully on the case, barring any fourth quarter fumbles, I knew this was going to be in the A range. I knew within the teaser, when that classic Mark Snow soundtrack started playing, that this was the direction I personally needed to show to go in. That one initial shot of the two of them was worth both the eight year wait after I Want to Believe AND having to sit through all of Season 9. I’m Special Agent Dana Scully and this is Special Agent Fox Mulder.Īnd we’re done here. If I adored Maggie Scully, then what’s with the goofy grin on my face that won’t be suppressed? You would think, you would think, that the episode where Maggie Scully dies would have left me feeling bereft and befuddled with tears. There wasn’t a whole lot of deep observation going on as I watched this episode, just pirouettes and prancing.
So I warn you right now that I don’t have much to tell you. The thing about raves is that they’re shorter than rants.