![]() It was officially titled The X-Files: Season Ten from 2013 to '15, and Season 11 in 2015 to '16, with a tie-in prequel, The X-Files: Year Zero in 2014. Off the screen, tie-in material continued sporadically, with the most notable being IDW Publishing's comicbook continuation. Series creator Chris Carter's vision of continuing The X-Files as a series of films was shot down by the distinctly average box office returns. Among the series, it would have stood comfortably as a middle-ground episode, but this wasn't enough to secure a strong critical or audience response. A dark thriller, it leant into questions of faith, a common X-Files theme over the years, rather than alien beings or monstrous creatures. I Want to Believe, which co-starred Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet and Alvin Joiner ( aka Xzibit) was refreshingly standalone. The X-Files: I Want to Believe hit screens in summer 2008, the second cinematic outing for Mulder and Scully, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, along with Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner, returning to their roles for the first time in six years. The franchise's first return to the screen was in cinemas. So it was inevitable that The X-Files would continue, in some shape or form, some day. At its height it was one of 20th Century Fox's highest earners. ![]() In spite of a poor reception for much of its last season, the series had been a huge hit throughout its run, with a dedicated fanbase and a solid audience of more casual viewers. The original, nine-season run of The X-Filesended in 2002, with a bang that turned out to be a whimper. What drags things down is Chris Carter's three episodes they all have massive tonal and directorial problems which cast an unfair light on everything else.The X-Files – Seasons Ten and Eleven (2016 & 2018) review by Daniel Tessier ![]() So I think the season flows really well from season 9 and the second movie. They create sights, sounds and whole realities like William is eventually revealed to have done. The kids in "Founders Mutation", the artist in "Home Again" and the terrorists in "Babylon" all have the "power of suggestion". The season even foreshadows the revelation that opens season 11. Like William he's torn between two worlds, and there's ambiguity as to whether he's a killer or a benevolent guy. Guy Mann is a hybrid, half human, half shapeshifting lizard. Is he human or is he an alien monster? Is he a weapon who will save humanity, or will he destroy it? On what side of the Providence (God) / Provenance (Alien) prophecy will he fall?Įven the goofy-ass "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster" episode asks this. This of course all echoes Scully's anxieties about William. In "Home Again" a child is similarly separated from her mother, and a father's creation, which he created for humane reasons, inadvertently becomes a weapon and a monster.Īnd again in "Babylon" we see a child taken away from his mother, and the big question is whether he became a weapon and a monster (detonating a bomb), or whether he retained some kernel of humanity and goodness. It's also about the ambiguity of these kids: are they alien monsters or do they have some kernel of humanity? I used to think season 10 sucked hard, but the last time I rewatched it I realized every episode is symbolically about William, and then most of the episodes started taking on a powerful, soulful quality.įor example "Founder's Mutation" is about kids being taken from their mothers and about families trying to reunite.
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