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Fight the Future
I rewatched the X-Files movie over the weekend. The first X-Files episode I saw was "Jose Chung's from Outer Space," but I think the second thing I saw was Fight the Future. Needless to say, it didn't make a whole lot of sense (take that, Frank "it's a good story even for people who've never heard of the X-Files" Spotnitz). I distinctly remember my brother telling me that the Lone Gunmen were recurring characters.
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moonlightalice is right. They answered all the questions. No more mysteries. There's a scene where Well-Manicured Man tells Mulder everything. And then Mulder sees an alien spaceship and how this virus is working… The end, right? Really. This is the end.
What bothered me is that at the end of the movie, Mulder's like, "We're back where we started! We are no closer to the truth!" Bwah? You know the truth. How has this not changed your perspective? Okay, he doesn't have the proof to bring down the global conspiracy, but there's a fundamental problem here. Mulder just learned that the end of the human race will happen in his lifetime when the aliens return to colonize and that humanity's only hope is this conspiracy. If we're talking about every human life on the planet, experimenting on a few hundred or even a few million seems like a small price to pay. I mean, it's a classic moral predicament. I don't expect Mulder to immediately join forces with the Cigarette Smoking Man, but now that he knows what's at stake, how can he not change his perspective at all? I feel like his quest should now be "fight the coming invasion," not "find the truth."
I also have to say that whole speech about how FEMA is the real government and they're going to swoop in and take over and turn the country into a totalitarian state is a whole lot less menacing after Katrina.
moonlightalice is right. They answered all the questions. No more mysteries. There's a scene where Well-Manicured Man tells Mulder everything. And then Mulder sees an alien spaceship and how this virus is working… The end, right? Really. This is the end.What bothered me is that at the end of the movie, Mulder's like, "We're back where we started! We are no closer to the truth!" Bwah? You know the truth. How has this not changed your perspective? Okay, he doesn't have the proof to bring down the global conspiracy, but there's a fundamental problem here. Mulder just learned that the end of the human race will happen in his lifetime when the aliens return to colonize and that humanity's only hope is this conspiracy. If we're talking about every human life on the planet, experimenting on a few hundred or even a few million seems like a small price to pay. I mean, it's a classic moral predicament. I don't expect Mulder to immediately join forces with the Cigarette Smoking Man, but now that he knows what's at stake, how can he not change his perspective at all? I feel like his quest should now be "fight the coming invasion," not "find the truth."
I also have to say that whole speech about how FEMA is the real government and they're going to swoop in and take over and turn the country into a totalitarian state is a whole lot less menacing after Katrina.
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We could always replay some our favorites, or least favorites (as a drinking game?).
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