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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :- A Change Of Scenery, 18 January 2007 Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
Bye, bye, Vancouver! Season six begins with production switching from dark, cold, and gloomy Vancouver to sunny and warm Los Angeles. The producers let us know immediately by having the first shot of the teaser be of the bright, hot sun. While the fitting atmosphere of Vancouver is missed, the producers do their best to keep the mood of the X-Files by keeping all the inside locations dark and shadowy and shooting plenty of night scenes. The van in the teaser of the episode has "Roush Technologies" on the side, a nice throw-back reference to Redux II from the previous season. Roush is the shady company for whom Blevins worked before he was outed. CSM's indifference to others is illustrated once more as he enters a sterilized operating room while smoking a cigarette. The man has no conscience. It's great to see the dramatic tension that Diana Fowley and Jeffrey Spender bring to the X-Files. They are characters that you love to hate, as they appear to try to thwart Mulder's work on the X-Files. A.D. Kersh's introduction I found to be eerily similar to CSM's. No dialogue, just a short cameo. Even though the scenery has changed, the writers, directors and actors are still the same, and the X-Files is as strong as ever.
I'm sorry, Scully, but this time your science is wrong., 21 November 2009 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
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My main problem with this is the fact that they try to add continuity but it doesn't work. Instead of trying to make it continuous with the previous episode, they try to make it continuous with the movie that came out over the summer. They problem with this is that the movie has no continuity with the previous episode. They don't ever mention Gibson Praise, or Jeffrey Spender, or the burning of the X Files office, or any of that. Yet suddenly at the beginning of this episode we are thrown into a committee talking about the trip to Antarctica and Scully's infection with the virus and Mulder saving her etc. I do think the movie is important to the story, it just seemed like they were trying to make the premiere more of a continuation of that than of the previous episode where we get a feeling of "To Be Continued..." Oh well, the episode at least has some decent explanation into the alien virus for anyone who didn't get what was going on in the movie. And we also learn more about Gibson Praise and his ability. In fact they tie in together. The alien virus turns into the evil alien monster thing when it is born but we learn that after some time it then turns into a gray. Also the alien DNA found in the virus is also found in the alien monster, and it is also found in the human genetic makeup as "junk DNA". This junk strand is active in Gibson Praise which is what gives him his ability. The other important revelation with this is that human are by definition extra terrestrial. Or at least, we are related to the alien species in some way or another. Almost as if to say we evolved from little green men rather than little hairy men. I also have a slight problem with Scully in this episode. Usually I can back her zeal to find scientific proof before accepting something as true, but if I were Mulder I too would have been angry with her unwillingness to believe what I had seen as I rescued her from a giant UFO filled with thousands of bodies, gestating alien monsters. Give Mulder some credit Scully. Its OK to say even at the very least, "I believe you but I still want to find scientific proof of it." She is basically calling Mulder a liar by not accepting something he saw with his own eyes as she was hanging uselessly over his shoulder. Anyway, I don't have much else to say. 8 out of 10 again.
3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- The Beginning of a great season, 9 August 2008 Author: koalablue_1993 from Australia
This episode picks up where the film "Fight for the Future" left off. Even though the X-Files are no longer filmed in Vancouver, they are as good as ever. L.A had its downside, since the gloomy and creepy atmosphere of Vancouver is completely gone it doesn't quite feel the same. The cinematography is just as good as a feature film. I love the teaser for this episode, it reminded me of the movie "Alien" and the gore was similar too. Cigar Smoking Man is as evil as ever, when he starts talking about breaking the human spirit gave me chills. Overall a great season opener to a fantastic X-Files season. And Scully is as hot as ever.
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