“Remember all the craziness that ended last season? A deathly ill Mulder confronting the Smoking Man; a plague escaping into the wild; the first tentative stumbles of a civilization on the verge of collapse? Well, that was all a dream. Or more specifically, a vision.”

Yes...I...totally hated when Scully put on that sexy dress...That...was a bad thing to have happened on TV....I was......very offended....

I was wondering if the opposite can be done, can you ruin older episodes by re-editing them into this new insane frantic style?

I know most fans don’t like the mythology ones as much, that’s basically what I just said. I’m trying to say with each year, those episodes get more and more underrated and are constantly pointed to as something the show did badly. And this makes no sense to me, because especially for those who watched at the time,…

I assume this is going to be ugly flat looking flash animation stuff like all cartoons these days? I can’t imagine they’ll go with the old school style these days.

It can’t even maintain the general flow the way a movie trailer does. It’s even worse.

Wait what?? I missed this too. There wasn’t a bunch of people getting sick and etc?? What the fuck?

I almost wish that reveal wasn’t there because it seems to be distracting people from how badly executed everything else in the episode was.

I highly enjoy them till the end. I’ll do you one better: the mythology episodes are some of the only ones in season 9 that I like. And the mythology ones throughout season 8 are better than the standalones.

Another example of pacing: the Scully morse code brain. This could have been like a big setup for an interesting X-File. Or explored more. Or been more gradually revealed through the old school pacing where you felt mystery and tension and suspense. Instead it was 5 seconds and everyone yelling at each other and then…

I had a particularly negative day (a lot of online fights, bad X-Files episode, dropped my pizza on my carpet during it), but otherwise I’m OK. That X-Files put me in a really rotten mood all night. Even if there’s a decent one coming up, it’s just not worth it to me.

I didn’t like the throat cutting, because Mulder would have interrogated him to ask WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!? Mulder is usually more careful about these things.

I’m a big defender too, I always defend season 8, have even had some kind words for season 9, but I absolutely hated season 10 and I feel less kind towards this episode tonight.

“Also, she called Harmon out later that year over some excessively dramatic comments he made about how much he hated season four”

So these are some tweets I did, but I wanted to post them here too. Here’s an example of how bad the pacing is and how the old version of the show would approach things.

My hot take is the mythology MOSTLY worked, or consistently worked, and that fans for some reason really shortchange its appeal and quality when reminiscing about the original seasons. To deny that many of those episodes were some of the best is very strange to me. There’s more likely more bad MOTW episodes than there…

“Scully’s great prophetic gulps are delivered in quick edits and shaky camerawork that conveys a sense of weight and danger even when the details don’t quite hold together.”

Exactly.

This was complete dog shit. I can’t believe what I just watched. Horrendously edited and paced, badly shot, badly written, badly scored, every aspect of this was embarrassing. I can’t take this much longer. I have no idea how something so psychotically frenetically paced could have so little story, but this was an…

I’m excited for the new TMBG album and then weekly new songs from them throughout the rest of the year.