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MeeVee Rewind: Investigating The X-Files (Season 9, part 1)

Posted July 20th ago via TV with MeeVee 
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digg_url = 'http://blog.meevee.com/my_weblog/2008/07/meevee-rewind-5.html'; Passionate fans of The X-Files' have a hard time speaking rationally about Season 9. As I watched the first half and tried to unpack my feelings, rather than useful and well-reasoned statements about the flaws, I mostly yielded eye rolling, groans, and whimpers. If you'll forgive my use of a tired meme, it's such an epic case of Do not want!' on the part of the viewers that pushing past the initial feelings of discomfort and boredom to get to the actual reasons for the suck presents a challenge. However, now that I'm worked through my moaning and whining, I think I've unpacked a few big reasons behind the nigh-fiasco. Most glaring, the way Mulder's sudden and disappearance just days after the birth of Scully's baby gets dealt with feels ham-handed at best. He's just - poof! - not there and nobody wants to discuss it. Scully and Skinner's reticence to talk feels like an attempt to add drama and high stakes to the season. By the time you finally get some answers it seems less mysterious and more like a pay no attention to the man behind the curtain' explanation for the actor's departure. Although Mulder's absence presents Season 9's most obvious problem, I don't think it's what really dooms it. The biggest obstacle between Season 9 and the Land of Unsucky comes from the fact that the character relationships, how the people are motivated and how they relate to each other, just don't work. Attempting to restart the series by focusing on Doggett and Reyes while keeping the older characters around but only semi-relevant fails from the start. Scully and Skinner drift into and out of the story, and their presence s...

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