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Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm Posts: 47348
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.
Well if it doesn't return then you won't have a choice but to be done with it.
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Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.
Well if it doesn't return then you won't have a choice but to be done with it.
Guys, I am not a moderator! I swear to God! Why does everyone think I'm a moderator?
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm Posts: 47348
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Holy shit, what a terrible finale. And the narrative set up by the cliffhanger looks completely uninteresting. I think I'm done with this show, whether it returns or not.
Well if it doesn't return then you won't have a choice but to be done with it.
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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19724 Location: Cumberland, RI
I tried to write a long post about my feelings over the finale--working in things like fantasy booking (i.e., using the same bones of the episode, but tweaking the reveal of information so it was more exciting), connecting it to the first episode in productive ways, and so on--but I had to stop halfway through because I was just so disappointed in this episode. There were a lot of things that were wrong with it: their insistence on pushing these young agents so they can spin them off eventually, bringing back a character like Reyes who's so inconsequential, Mulder and the CSM having the same conversation for the umpteenth time. But, by far, what bothered me most about this episode was that it stands as an example (there are many others from the original one) of the X-Files getting away from the unexplainable, the eerie, and the uncanny--the stuff that shouldn't be true but at the same time it has to be: Fluke Man, Clyde Bruckman, Bryan Cranston's exploding head, Duane Barry, Leonard Betts, Eugene Victor Tooms, and all the rest. None of these episodes pivoted--like last night's finale did--on being really good at science; the drama came from Mulder and Scully trying to reconcile the impossible with the very small understanding of the universe that they had. The X-Files is about perspective, and that's why everyone loved "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," it's why everyone lists "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and "Bad Blood" as some of their favorite episodes, and it's why Kurosawa's Rashomon continues to influence some of the greatest art of today: to paraphrase Socrates, the "truth" that's inevitably out there in the best of The X-Files is the fact that we know nothing, and this finale comes off as very "know-y" (as Carter's worst episodes tend to do). I'd give the whole season like a C+
I haven't watched the finale yet, but that 5th episode was pretty bad. The first 4 were ok though. I'll probably get around to watching the finale this week.
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