Then there was Mulder's Billy Ray Cyrus meets Saturday Night Fever drug-fuelled romp. The plumb silly episode with the reverse lizard-man featured a voyeuristic image of Duchovny resplendent on a cheap motel bed in a pair of scarlet trunks I can't easily get out of my head together with another fantasy image of Anderson getting ravished in broad-daylight by the creature in human form. In the preceding episodes there was an enjoyable mix of the serious and the light-hearted, the latter no doubt a nod to the "monsters from outer-space" origins of the show emanating from 1947 onwards.
The cliff-hanging ending, with Scully trying to find the plague-infected Mulder on a gridlocked highway to administer an antidote only to be interrupted by what seems to be a flying saucer, certainly took me by surprise and I do hope that Carter and Co can write themselves out of this particular corner if they get the chance through another series.
The big background story was Cancer Man's nefarious plan to kill off everyone on earth with a deadly alien virus bar a select few, including Scully but not Mulder. But would these shows echo the greatness of the early episodes when the programme was new.? Looking back over the 6 episodes, I enjoyed it more than I dared hope. I enjoyed that there was no tampering with the title sequence or theme music, unlike say, recent episodes of "Dr Who".
I was very surprised but pleased to see it revived for another short, 6-episode run, helmed by creator Chris Carter and peopled with many characters from yesteryear.
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Like so many, I was a fan of the original series although I don't recall following it all the way through to the end of its nine-season run in the 90's.
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