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Original intro. was awesome.
Oh, yes.
That was some vintage Chris Carter nonsense, yo.
Indeed, and I loved it. The went extra deep into the rabbit hole, but Mulder and Scully are back on my tv screen so I'm happy.
I'm less happy that I'll probably still be at work when tomorrow's ep airs.
Holy crap, Chris Carter has forgotten anything he ever knew about subtlety or ambiguity. The original show never committed itself until the very end of an episode, and even then usually left it unclear what actually happened. This? was... just right out there, from the very beginning.
Plus, as Vonnie says, vintage Carter nonsense.
I watched it with a bunch of fangirls, and we had a bingo list -- we got nearly everything on the list, except for the pencils in the ceiling.
Mulder and Scully are back on my tv screen so I'm happy.
This overwhelmed all else. That said, I can get pickier. It had the eye rolling feeling of watching a pilot episode, but I forgave that quickly enough. The only thing that really took away from the warm and fuzzy feelings of having new X-Files on my tv was the 'in your face' scenes between Mulder and Scully. There were 2 or 3 close up scenes where they were interacting that just seemed flat to me. I don't know what emotion they were going for, but it didn't work. I'll likely watch again so I can be more specific, but more than once I had to tilt my head and wished they had done another take.
But, but, but.... X-Files!
Since the first run of the X-Files, the word "mansplaining" has entered my vocabulary. Yeah, I'm looking at you, McHale, as you tell Scully all about alien abductions.
I'm lucky that my neighbor gave me a heads up on football, as the show started nearly half an hour late. But I set my DVR for an hour extra on the end, so it's all good.
Will I pick things apart? Sure. But it's so nice to have new episodes to watch again.
I set my DVR to record the news broadcast after so I caught it all, but I can imagine there are quite a number of people that recorded football.
Did anyone else lol when the doo-doo-doo spooky music started right as Scully looked at the portrait of W?
This makes me so happy, I can overlook all the places where it stumbled a bit. Mulder+Scully+WeirdSh!t=4Evah
It was really fun to see them back on screen again, and Mitch Pileggi looks amazing. Also, they didn't change the credits or the tagline! Amazing!
So, watching the new show "Lucifer" and just figured out that the female cop on the show played Lori on Hawaii Five-0. Girl was an albatross for two seasons (and not just because the brought her on as a love interest for Steve, but they had NO chemistry*) Suspect she's going to be just as bad here.
When is Hollywood going to get over pretty blond cops paired up with formerly evil guys? (see alsoAngel and Moonlight)
Supergirl
Enjoyed most of the episode, but Senator KellyCrane's about-face on mutantsaliens seemed a little too easy. You think her guards being murdered and her being kidnapped by a shape-shifting alien would make her more afraid of aliens, not less, Supergirl's actions be damned.
Hiring Bailey Chase doesn't instill confidence in the Lucifer producers' commitment to acting excellence either.
Tom Ellis is really swinging for the bleachers on channeling Tim Curry in Rocky Horror, isn't he?