"The X-Files" limited series/Season 10 thread (4/20/17 update: Renewed for season 11)
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Silver Surfer
Veteran
Why make this BS episode when they could have stuck with the mythology since its only 6 episodes
etrofllenrod504
All Star
I'm still confused with what they were trynna gain with a episode like this...........
How The X-Files Paid Tribute to Those It Lost in "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"
by CHRIS HARNICK Mon, Feb 1, 2016 9:01 PM
When The X-Files returned to Fox, it brought more than just Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) back with it. Eagle-eyed fans can tell you this.
In "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," not only did the show bring back stoner characters played by Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker, but it also cast Alex Diakun in a new role, featured Mulder in red briefs (never forget) and had callbacks to Scully being immortal, her dog and the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that's not all. Two familiar names were featured on tombstones in the graveyard: Kim Manners and Jack Hardy. Manners directed more than 50 episodes of The X-Files and Hardy served as the first AD on Millennium and The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
"It's really our way of dedicating the episode, if not the show to him," series creatorChris Carter told E! News about the Kim Manners tribute headstone. "It's funny, I couldn't imagine doing The X-Files without Kim coming back, but I had to because he's no longer with us. I wore my little 'K.M.' button in his honor and [writer-director Darin Morgan] decided to put his name on a headstone."
MORE: Mulder, Scully and Me: On Set as The X-Files Returns for a New Generation
"Kim, first among a group of—I think—largely unsung directors on the show…as much as the writers, the directors were responsible for figuring out how to scare us, how to thrill us, how to horrify us and how to make us laugh. Kim could do all of those things, as could David Nutter, Rob Bowman, Dan Sackheim, Bob Goodwin—these directors—Kim directed most episodes out of any of them—I think are owed a huge debt and helped put The X-Files on the map in a big way," he added.
Out of all the callbacks in the episode written by Darin Morgan, Carter said the inclusion of actor Alex Diakun is his favorite. Diakun was in three episodes of the original run and in the second movie.
"He's become sort of the ensemble," Carter said. "I think just for me, the greatest touchstone is the silly absurdity of Darin's episode."
As for the whole Scully is immortal thread, well, that's not over. "It was originally meant to be a joke, or at least an evasion," Carter explained. Keep an eye out for more in the remaining three episodes.
MORE: Gillian Anderson plays f--k, marry, kill with famous aliens
With three episodes down, the response to The X-Files has been mixed from critics. "I knew not everyone would like it, so I read the good reviews with a smile on my face," Carter confessed. "I read some of the not so good reviews with a frown and to be honest, with head scratching in some cases. You put yourself out there, you try to do your best work and you walk away and hope that people get it."
The return of The X-Files is a short one. Three episodes down, three episodes left. What's ahead? "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster" offered a "change of tone," a "breather," Carter said, "before you get horrified, terrified and I think frightened in the end for things that no one wants to imagine."
The X-Files airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on Fox.
by CHRIS HARNICK Mon, Feb 1, 2016 9:01 PM
When The X-Files returned to Fox, it brought more than just Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) back with it. Eagle-eyed fans can tell you this.
In "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," not only did the show bring back stoner characters played by Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker, but it also cast Alex Diakun in a new role, featured Mulder in red briefs (never forget) and had callbacks to Scully being immortal, her dog and the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that's not all. Two familiar names were featured on tombstones in the graveyard: Kim Manners and Jack Hardy. Manners directed more than 50 episodes of The X-Files and Hardy served as the first AD on Millennium and The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
"It's really our way of dedicating the episode, if not the show to him," series creatorChris Carter told E! News about the Kim Manners tribute headstone. "It's funny, I couldn't imagine doing The X-Files without Kim coming back, but I had to because he's no longer with us. I wore my little 'K.M.' button in his honor and [writer-director Darin Morgan] decided to put his name on a headstone."
MORE: Mulder, Scully and Me: On Set as The X-Files Returns for a New Generation
"Kim, first among a group of—I think—largely unsung directors on the show…as much as the writers, the directors were responsible for figuring out how to scare us, how to thrill us, how to horrify us and how to make us laugh. Kim could do all of those things, as could David Nutter, Rob Bowman, Dan Sackheim, Bob Goodwin—these directors—Kim directed most episodes out of any of them—I think are owed a huge debt and helped put The X-Files on the map in a big way," he added.
Out of all the callbacks in the episode written by Darin Morgan, Carter said the inclusion of actor Alex Diakun is his favorite. Diakun was in three episodes of the original run and in the second movie.
"He's become sort of the ensemble," Carter said. "I think just for me, the greatest touchstone is the silly absurdity of Darin's episode."
As for the whole Scully is immortal thread, well, that's not over. "It was originally meant to be a joke, or at least an evasion," Carter explained. Keep an eye out for more in the remaining three episodes.
MORE: Gillian Anderson plays f--k, marry, kill with famous aliens
With three episodes down, the response to The X-Files has been mixed from critics. "I knew not everyone would like it, so I read the good reviews with a smile on my face," Carter confessed. "I read some of the not so good reviews with a frown and to be honest, with head scratching in some cases. You put yourself out there, you try to do your best work and you walk away and hope that people get it."
The return of The X-Files is a short one. Three episodes down, three episodes left. What's ahead? "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster" offered a "change of tone," a "breather," Carter said, "before you get horrified, terrified and I think frightened in the end for things that no one wants to imagine."
The X-Files airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on Fox.
The Watcher
Judging you from afar
yseJ
Empire strikes back
theyre shuffling mythology/motw/spoof episodes
The traditional monster episode. But if you want a deeper meaning, it's about Moulder's own disillusionment within his own identity. The monster is an allegorical mirror to his own emotions returning back to the X-Files.
The Watcher
Judging you from afar
And the greater take on humanity.
This episode ran deep while still being funny. It's easy my favorite out of the new episodes so far.
@ Mulder taking picsThe fukkery in this episode
, classic X-Files.
@ the transgender convo
Bruce LeRoy
All Star
This episode kind of reminded me of the episode where Mulder and Scully go to a town to investigate a high school and the planetary alignment has them (along with the people in the town) behaving/acting weird.
I Want to Believe poster pencil dart up
Struggle-smartphone apps
Werelizard decipher Human dualities
Meanwhile, we're the real monsters ou'chea
Skeptic Mulder sip on some Thug Passion
Skinemax immortal Scully BACK
This entire episode was FUKKERY overload
But, that's the 90s X-Files, I know
Struggle-smartphone apps Werelizard decipher Human dualities Meanwhile, we're the real monsters ou'chea Skeptic Mulder sip on some Thug Passion Skinemax immortal Scully BACK This entire episode was FUKKERY overload But, that's the 90s X-Files, I know
Uncle_Ruckus
We The North
Best episode of the new season hands down.
Great episode and had a ton of easter eggs/call backs to earlier seasons. Also liked the "monster" getting bit by a human monster and becoming a regular bum with a 9-5 job. 
Was pretty clever.
Fred.
Was pretty clever.
Fred.
Not sure what you mean breh. The comedic episodes are some of the best of the OG series.
Fred.