In one episode, My Struggle, I saw tension. I didn’t find it entertaining (arguments I found cute when the characters were thirty are not so cute when they’re pushing sixty), but it was there.
The canon here needs clarification. As has been repeated ad nauseam, their breakup and reconciliation (especially reconciliation) do not make sense. Their reason for returning to the FBI and staying there does not make sense. The timeline in which all this takes place does not make sense. Trading in nine seasons’ worth of mythology for the pretense of topicality does not make sense. (My opinion: relevance is overrated. The loss of a parent speaks to everyone. Regret over what could have been speaks to everyone. Throwing in Obama and Uber and Wikileaks …show more content…
Mulder is still obsessive, Scully is still overcome with guilt. They’ve not actually resolved anything. Whatever issue spurred their split is presumably still there, ready to rise up once Mulder retires from the FBI and takes up his old cup-pissing hobby. I can only accept their breakup if I assume it’s a serious one, and how can a serious breakup be reconciled in four weeks? This makes no sense, especially after Home Again, in which Mulder’s behavior is indistinguishable from that of a worried husband. There’s no thawing to be had when something was never frozen in the first …show more content…
Like Babylon, it’s ambitious, trying to tell a 3-hour story in 43 minutes. But unlike Babylon, which could at least fall back on the watching-a-train-wreck-thrall of Mulder’s hallucinations, My Struggle II is boring. How can a story about the end of civilization be boring? It has the ingredients of a successful episode. Where Carter goes wrong is his separation of Mulder and Scully, a fatal error that sets the mood for the rest of the episode. I honestly think everything that could be wrong in this episode is wrong, beginning with Scully’s alien transformation, which unintionally captures everything wrong with this
The canon here needs clarification. As has been repeated ad nauseam, their breakup and reconciliation (especially reconciliation) do not make sense. Their reason for returning to the FBI and staying there does not make sense. The timeline in which all this takes place does not make sense. Trading in nine seasons’ worth of mythology for the pretense of topicality does not make sense. (My opinion: relevance is overrated. The loss of a parent speaks to everyone. Regret over what could have been speaks to everyone. Throwing in Obama and Uber and Wikileaks …show more content…
Mulder is still obsessive, Scully is still overcome with guilt. They’ve not actually resolved anything. Whatever issue spurred their split is presumably still there, ready to rise up once Mulder retires from the FBI and takes up his old cup-pissing hobby. I can only accept their breakup if I assume it’s a serious one, and how can a serious breakup be reconciled in four weeks? This makes no sense, especially after Home Again, in which Mulder’s behavior is indistinguishable from that of a worried husband. There’s no thawing to be had when something was never frozen in the first …show more content…
Like Babylon, it’s ambitious, trying to tell a 3-hour story in 43 minutes. But unlike Babylon, which could at least fall back on the watching-a-train-wreck-thrall of Mulder’s hallucinations, My Struggle II is boring. How can a story about the end of civilization be boring? It has the ingredients of a successful episode. Where Carter goes wrong is his separation of Mulder and Scully, a fatal error that sets the mood for the rest of the episode. I honestly think everything that could be wrong in this episode is wrong, beginning with Scully’s alien transformation, which unintionally captures everything wrong with this