So the six-episode run is over. Here are my conclusions.
The alien arc stuff seemed rushed. I didn't really care for it.
The best episode, hands down, was the one about the lizard man. I especially liked seeing Tyler Labine back as the stoner. I'll never forget him licking the frog in the Quagmire episode.
Unfortunately, this was the only truly good episode. The rest were "okay" at best and cringe-worthy at worst.
Gillian Anderson's voice is... different. I don't know what happened, but she sounds like she's got emphysema or something. She didn't talk like that back during the show's original run. An important part of acting is being able to speak your lines clearly, and her raspy voice detracted from her performances. If she's ill, then I sincerely hope she gets better. (Or got better, since the show was filmed before it aired.)
Politics. The show was always political, but I don't recall it being so blatantly partisan. Maybe it was and I just don't remember. But if it was, it wasn't enough for me to notice it. I noticed it now. In the show's original run, the whole appeal of the conspiracy stuff was that it was above partisan politics--it didn't matter which party was in power, because the shadowy guys behind the curtain were going to do their thing anyway. That was what made them truly frightening. The partisan snark in these new episodes played against that to the show's detriment.
Resurrections. If the Cigarette Smoking Man can be blown up with a freaking missile but still be brought back to life, then the same can be done with the Lone Gunmen. I always loved the scenes with Frohike, Langly, and Byers. They were, frankly, the best characters on the show. They should have brought back the Gunmen.
Conclusion: It was nice seeing The X-Files on the air again, but not nice enough to make me want a new season. I enjoyed these six episodes, more or less, but I'm also glad they're over.
Thanks, Fox Network, I guess.
Now bring back Firefly.
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