NO I’M NOT DONE RANTING YET
Strap in lads, it’s complainin’ time!!
I honestly have no idea what CC was thinking with this season of TXF. The only thing I can think of is that S10 received so many complaints about Einstein and Miller that he decided they had to somehow get rid of them, and then he hatched this harebrained pile of garbage I had to sit through.
Look, my previous posts aside, the entire episode felt like a really long, painfully mediocre Ford commercial. The camera angles were atrocious and kept cutting out and in; I’ve never seen a car chase scene so poorly done in my entire life. The music didn’t once add to anything; it just made the entire thing feel more like a soap opera. I still hate beyond belief what has been done with Monica Reyes’ character; that alone is enough to make me refuse to turn in to the next episode. (But that’s a rant for another day, isn’t it. I could talk for hours about Monica.)
Skinner barely did anything and could have been good, but the only good bit in there with him in it was when CSM asked if he could light up in his car, harkening back in a painful way to Skinner’s “no smoking” sign in his office about a zillion seasons ago. By painful I mean, it was kind of like a slap in the face, like Star Wars: The Force Awakens dropping 87 “references” throughout the film to make you go “OH LOOK I REMEMBER THAT.” Enough, pal, we get it. We know these characters better than you do by this point! We don’t need constant reminders!
Making MSII a vision instead of the reality was, IMO, a huge mistake. I guess it’ll calm the people who hated Einstein and Miller down, but I personally felt they were just about the only good things S10 had going for it…and anyway, what a waste of an entire episode of time.
Spender kind of felt like he came out of nowhere just to be weird. Scully got in her car and drove knowing she was impaired; that was always a very Mulder thing to do. Maybe I’m being a tad harsh here, but…OOC much?
Mulder’s constant voiceover narration made this episode about ten times worse than it needed to be, and that’s not even on the actor; the script was just…legitimately bad. Embarrassingly so, even. I cringed through it.
And then we have that final part. Chris Carter giving us the one-two punch of CSM committing medical rape against Scully, that one-two punch being 1) medical rape, and 2) William isn’t Mulder’s son. Even if this isn’t true, that’s a disgusting thing to even imply! And if it is true… Well, that’s not something I’d like to think about now.
I thought S10 was bad. I really did. I didn’t enjoy it. I thought it did a great job of mocking TXF and of making the actors look old and out-of-date instead of still-capable. I thought it butchered Monica Reyes’s characterization and I knew instantly upon viewing it why Robert Patrick didn’t come back for the season. It’s for the best he didn’t. Doggett’s characterization would have been every bit as messed up as Reyes’s if he’d come back.
But ya know, I thought, that one episode was at least kind of funny! And hey, Miller and Einstein are fun in their ignorance and willingness to still, somehow, get tangled up in this mess. It’s been a while since we had fresh faces in this series, and it’s nice having them around. Doggett was fun. Reyes was fun. Why not Miller and Einstein too? I was looking forward to seeing what was done with them in S11.
But boy, right out of the gate, S11 erases their S10 role and renders them obsolete, continues to further butcher Monica’s characterization (while simultaneously making her look useless), and turns the entire series into a poorly-written, poorly-acted, poorly-filmed daytime soap opera.
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