Mulder and Scully, who have become entirely content with the FBI being a thing of the past and their Kolchak days behind them, are suddenly confronted with evidence that forever changes what they thought they knew about the X-Files. O’Malley enlists Mulder and Scully to get back in the game and address some fascinating information that he’s come across from Sveta, an alleged alien abductee. Someone who is given a proper introduction here is conspiracy theorist, Tad O’Malley-played by Joel McHale, in a role that’s not that far of a stretch from his The Soup persona. Don’t just have Scully mid-sentence in a hospital and Mulder browsing away on his laptop. I know that a flashy entrance isn’t necessarily needed here, but it’s goddamn Mulder and Scully! They’re icons.
They sort of just appear, with their entrances in I Want to Believe even acting as the more satisfying reunion. Even more disappointing is that Mulder and Scully’s respective returns in the premiere are felt like non-moments. While it might not seem like a big deal, this is the scene that starts off the series! Throwing us right into the action would have been the much more effective way of throwing us back into this world. If you somehow weren’t aware of these story beats, educated viewers would be able to piece these minor details together on their own. Furthermore, none of this information is necessary. Carter was always one for purple prose and heavy, verbose monologues to start off episodes, but this one particularly stands out due to just how long it’s been.
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The series is reintroduced with some rather clunky exposition, which provides much of Mulder’s backstory and an “elevator pitch” of what The X-Files was. After watching the first episode of the show’s return, I’d say the verdict is still out on how well this series does in our current world.
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The real question then becomes not if Chris Carter and company still have stories to tell (it’s been over a decade and they’re doing six episodes), but rather, The X-Files was very much a product of the ‘90s, and if it is capable of transitioning into this post-Snowden world full of cell phones, the deep internet, and corporate hacks. That being said, I’ve been a staunch supporter of the series right until the end (and I’ll fight you over season eight and nine’s validity to the grave while I wear my What Would John Doggett Do? shirt), and even though pop culture has had such a trigger finger lately for rebooting and sequelizing properties, I was still very much on board with things when this return was announced. While X-Files fandom was-and still is-quite severe, the audience’s love for the show certainly cooled off during the programs final seasons, and our last encounter with these characters and this world in 2008’s I Want to Believe left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths (that final post-credits scene still conjures up bile in me-let’s hope Eugene Tooms isn’t around). There is no denying that The X-Files left its impression on the world. Beyond that, the sexual chemistry between Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully was so palpable that the term “shipping” (stemming from the word “relationship”) was created over their prospective romance. It’s engagement with serialization and building a mythos for itself became the blueprint for later programs like LOST and Fringe that prided themselves on such things. The X-Files wasn’t just appointment television though because of the creepy storytelling that it embraced. The quirky little supernatural program-that-could which seemed like it was very much banished in FOX’s own basement office ended up lasting nine seasons, two movies, and forever changing the landscape of television.
The X-Files was a cultural landmark that hit a fevered status that so few properties achieve.
‘The X-Files’ long-awaited return to television has taken place, but a puzzling direction drags down the reunion party
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