New X-Files mini series discussion

[Clueless Morgan]

Well.... I'm confused... what was that trashman, anyway?

He was a man who traveled in a garbage truck manifested by a dude who lived in the dark.

If the characters are old.... their parents are older

Scully was in her 30s on the show, and her mother was, let's say late twenties or thirty when she had Dana (she's the 3rd of 4 kids) and Scully is now maybe early fifties which means...

...


Okay, I take your point.

I got nothing, here... why would Mulder sucker-punch Bill?

Because Bill is an asshole who blames Mulder for everything that goes wrong with Scully.

Is that what he was? really?
Why aren't there any more of those things in that world (far from Tibet, anyway)? (don't think that much about it, poca.. it's just a tv show!)

Well, technically this is the second (that I can think of) trash monster on the show - the previous one being a similarly hypothesized Tibetan thought form but literally made of trash - whereas this guy looks like he was sculpted in clay and manifested out of... thought?...

I don't know, turn the brain off, it works better that way

And even though it was abrupt, I also kind of liked that Scully immediately went back to work.  It's what she does: buries her emotions in her job.  That felt rather true to her character, even this newer, a little more touchy-feely Scully.

A bit too abrupt, methinks... perhaps people wouldn't snap into that attitude quite like that... it felt a bit forced.

The abruptness was strange, but the action itself read true to Scully so I chalk it up to needing to move the plot along.

Overall, I thought it was a good, solid episode and felt very X-Filesy.

X-filesy... I like that.
You should coin that term!

I thought I just had...