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| sleeping together, but interrupted by Langley |
I was pleasantly surprised that episode #2 ("
This") of
The X-Files season 11 was almost a
science fiction story. Rather than science fiction, "
This" is a typical X-Files conspiracy fantasy with some Hollywood pseudo-science crammed into the plot by Chris Carter.
Golden Braid: Struggle to Kill the Shark
"
This" continues an old X-files Sci Fi theme that was revived in "
My Struggle III": some remaining members of the
Syndicate are trying to arrange for a select few humans to escape the imminent
END OF THE WORLD.
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| artificial Langley |
In "My Struggle III" we were introduced to Mr. Y and
Erika Price. Erika shows up again in "
This", running some sort of hi-tek think tank, a virtual reality system in which a digital copy of
Langley's mind has been kept since Langley's death (see "
Jump the Shark"). "
This" will remind X-Files fans of the old episode, "
Kill Switch".
Jump Again
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| still got some scoot in her boot |
"
This" is silly and goes over the top with absurd action scenes that I'll try to forget as soon as possible. The worst part of the episode comes when we are told that Erika Price's mysterious mind-snatching organization can use smart phones to suck the contents of peoples brains into their virtual reality-generating server array. Viewers of the episode are told that inside that virtual reality, the minds of Steve Jobs and assorted rock stars function as digital slaves, solving tough problems for Erika, presumably getting her close to being able to escape from Earth, go into outer space and live happily ever after on a Dyson sphere.
Plus One
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| in bed together |
During
The X-Files season 11 episode #3 I kept hoping that they might tie the telepathic powers of the perps to the telepathic powers of
William or the characters in Season 10's "
Founder Mutation" episode. However, there was little effort made towards having this episode make sense. One hint of logic: maybe these perps were born with the ability to telepathically "
push" people towards suicide, but Scully had the power to resist (three cheers for alien DNA).
Watching this episode (and all of Season 11 so far), I felt transported back to the 1960s when
Captain Kirk had to have a fist fight in every episode of
Star Trek. Now in every X-Files episode Mulder has to fight someone and Scully has to lament becoming an aging spinster. Every episode now also has to show Scully and Mulder sleeping together.
Telepathy
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| a telepathic connection |
Did Mulder just get lucky when he stumbled upon the first of the two twin perps? For an agent called "
spooky", I'm willing to believe that Mulder has some kind of telepathic ability, maybe an ability to receive telepathic signals from folks like the perps in "Plus One".
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| Evidence |
I have to believe that Mulder and Scully had exactly what it took to defeat the two telepathic perps, telepaths who have been killing people since they first became murderers by killing their parents. Scully, in particular, was able to summon her rationality (just like
Spock in
Star Trek) and so defend herself (and Mulder) from the two perps. And we have to believe that it was the smokey fire of the Mulder-Scully relationship that ignited a feud between the two perps, distracting them and ultimately making them kill each-other rather than the two stars of the show.
Mulder and Scully are not getting any younger, and it seems like Chris Carter wants us to believe that they are now (finally) both ready to turn to each-other for comfort. The
shippers go wild.
The Y-Files
I
previously fantasized about ways that
The X-Files might morph into a new existence as some sort of "
X-Files the Next Generation" science fiction television series. It looks like Season 11 is stumbling towards a "My Struggle IV" final episode that will show William's struggles and which could easily set the stage for a "Next Generation" X-Files continuation. The rest of the Season 11 episodes might just continue to show Mulder and Scully getting ready for retirement. Yawn.
Related Reading:
The X-Files Season 11
Episode 1
Anti-yawn: Season 11,
Episode 4
Next: Retro-reading 1939;
Asimov's first story.
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