The X-Files

X-Files returned this weekend for it's tenth season, I watched it.

So I never watched the entirety of the original run of the show, I have probably seen most of the episodes, but not in order and at this point over a decade after it ended I would be hard pressed to tell you about much of it, except for that one episode where they have a gunfight in a virtual reality game, everyone hated that one, but I thought it was fun. The overarching meta-plot was confusing, involving our leads uncovering deeper and deeper layers of government conspiracy and alien involvement.

Fast forward twelve years or so, the X-Files has been shut down, Scully is working as a doctor in a clinic that builds ears or something, What Mulder has been up to is unclear, but I am pretty sure it mostly involved online forums, and the conspiracy reenters their lives

The premier was a two parter, the first episode was actually kinda unimpressive and silly, as Mulder just sounds like a crazy person if he isn't in the FBI, and it felt like the writers didn't really have a good idea about how to reintroduce us to the world so they just had him string together conspiracy theory buzzwords, it did its job but it made me nervous for the series, part two was significantly better, as the characters investigated their X-File of the week and began working together and rediscovering their old patterns again.

The show does a decent job of not requiring you to remember stuff that happened last millennium, in fact, I suspect it would prefer you forgot most of the storyline episodes, as the new investigation attempts to retcon out a lot of stuff learned during the series, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, while not quite there yet, are beginning to fall back into their roles and are quickly recovering the old chemistry.

Also they kept the theme song, there is something strangely reassuring hearing it on a show in 2016 that I don't think the current generation of watchers will ever quite understand, but it was nice.

Looking forward to what they do next, hopefully it stays good and spins up into something long lasting again.