I can't wait to see Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny slip back into their old rhythms smoothly and easily. Mulder with his sleepy twinkle. Scully powerless to resist it.
I'm looking forward to aliens, abductions and government conspiracies, hopefully even bleaker and more complex than the old ones. The paranoia ... Mulder and Scully circling each other still, prodding and then retreating; the endless dance between believer and skeptic.
When they went off the air in 2002 everyone thought 'the government's gonna save us'... but now, 13 years later, everyone hates the government again. It really seems appropriate that there are new elements that have come into our culture, that we are all being spied on and things like that.
Mistrust of the government is even more rampant than it was when the show first started, making the idea of an X-Files revival practically a no-brainer. The first episode pulls off a neat kind of trick, in that just as it uses these present-day concerns as the backdrop to launch a brand-new conspiracy -- you better believe the name "Edward Snowden" is uttered in Mulder's opening voiceover -- in its look and feel it also functions as a time capsule to a kinder, gentler era (at least through the deceptive gauze of nostalgia).
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