For X-Philes and Shippers of Mulder/Scully. An archive of the Senseless Shipper Surveys that cluttered the alt.tv.x-files usenet back in the day. All in preparation of the RETURN of the famed television show for a six-episode run in the near future!
I've let things go on this blog, mostly because real life keeps getting in the way of things and partly because the revival series left a bad taste in my mouth.
I can't guarantee when I'll get back on here to post more of the Senseless 'Shipper Surveys I did back in the days of high adventure, but I hope everyone else is doing okay and finding their own means of enjoying one of the best shows of the 1990s.
Looking back on all that Season Eleven had wrought:
1) Still not enough Darin Morgan.
2) The shift of the Mytharc away from "OMG Aliens are here and taking us over with clones and cyborgs!" to "OMG William is a whiny emo why are we even trying to save him?" has gotta hurt.
5) If there is going to be a Season Twelve, Chris Carter needs to give up on bullsh-tting his way out of the corner he's painted himself into, go back to the points where he started screwing up the alien invasion Mytharc stuff, and fix the plot holes he still hasn't gotten around to resolving so we can get up to date on this stuff and bring back some sense of global menace that made the X-Files an unnerving show to watch.
The introduction of teenaged William as an illusion-casting self-healing Mutant was slightly unexpected in the middle of what started out as a Monster of the Week (Ghouli), and it seemed part of a disjointed plot to bring some cohesion to a muddled MythArc that had spiraled out of control.
There was a lot of plot ideas thrown at the screen in a 60-minute episode - which begged whether this should have been one of the epic two-parters that informed the MythArc episodes from Season Two forward - and because of that I felt the character development for William went nowhere. He was not given enough time on-screen to show depth.
Although if Smoking Man is his biological father, he's taking after his old man by double-dating and two-timing multiple girls at one time.