The first thing that I notice in this season is that I discover actually a lot of episodes. So, apparently, i dropped watching the show in 2000 but I can't remember the reason: was it basketball? Another show?
The season begins badly as the mythology goes silly: as long as the conspiracy was exterior to our duo, the mythology was riveting but as soon as it becomes too much personal, it's dull: after the romantic and family ties, Mulder reaches now an apotheosis, becomes a Chrislike figure and the savior of humankind. If you add the holy ship that mixes religion and science, it's a bit too much. I don't say that the new idea of deifying aliens is bad (it's rather interesting) but not plotted like this, as much as it lacks clarity.
Nevertheless, as we get to the loners, this season finds a new breath: it's again a dark show and it was since the 4th season that such anguish was there. The only big difference for me is that the Vancouver production had a cold, blue, dark light that was fine with paranormal whereas actually, the light has gone orange, almost sunny and it's less chilling.
For one time, it's the monster that runs the story instead of our duo (7.03) and the new millennium (7.04) offers us Zombies and at last the first kiss of our duo, which is rather symbolic! Then, the next episodes carry on this tension: (7.07) welcomes the third return (after Tooms and the Pusher) of an old foe and (7.09) is again with religious undertones. After cats and dogs, it's maybe the first episode in which animals are really terrifying (snakes). This year, new territories of paranormal are also visited in ideas (the "luck" factor in 7.6) or visually (the "cops" episode). The return of cyberpunk author (7.13) is funny because the next episode felt like a King one (remember "thinner), exactly like in the 5th season.
This year, we have also our duo doing all chores: acting, writing, directing. It's hard to decide between them because the episodes are very different: Anderson is more cerebral, Duchovny is more entertainment. In the end, neither of them delivers a true x-files episode.
Unfortunately, we may have also the biggest stinker ever: (7.08): if the idea of magic could have been a good pretext to explain paranormal, the script is so complex and absurd that the only thing that disappear is the fun! (7.20) with the couple of twins is totally crap for 40 minutes for only 3 minutes of fun !
This year, my best pick goes to "Closure" as it's an excellent final chapter of Samantha's file. Maybe the walk-in world is not what i have expected after all those years, but all along the two parts, there was chilling suspense and Duchovny's performance is just incredible as he lets down his barriers (and cry again!). "Je souhaite" is also an incredible episode as it's interesting to see X-files doing fairy tales in our modern civilization!
Finally, i can only leave with a note of the last episode as it confirms my feeling that the show is back to its track and its soul: having the season final revisiting the first episode ever and meeting again the same characters seven years after is brilliant. But as soon as i was thinking this was the best mythological episode since maybe season five, the last words told by Scully make me sad again: With that, we are sure to deal again with a father, a mother, a daughter, a son and not about aliens or monster of the week !
The season begins badly as the mythology goes silly: as long as the conspiracy was exterior to our duo, the mythology was riveting but as soon as it becomes too much personal, it's dull: after the romantic and family ties, Mulder reaches now an apotheosis, becomes a Chrislike figure and the savior of humankind. If you add the holy ship that mixes religion and science, it's a bit too much. I don't say that the new idea of deifying aliens is bad (it's rather interesting) but not plotted like this, as much as it lacks clarity.
Nevertheless, as we get to the loners, this season finds a new breath: it's again a dark show and it was since the 4th season that such anguish was there. The only big difference for me is that the Vancouver production had a cold, blue, dark light that was fine with paranormal whereas actually, the light has gone orange, almost sunny and it's less chilling.
For one time, it's the monster that runs the story instead of our duo (7.03) and the new millennium (7.04) offers us Zombies and at last the first kiss of our duo, which is rather symbolic! Then, the next episodes carry on this tension: (7.07) welcomes the third return (after Tooms and the Pusher) of an old foe and (7.09) is again with religious undertones. After cats and dogs, it's maybe the first episode in which animals are really terrifying (snakes). This year, new territories of paranormal are also visited in ideas (the "luck" factor in 7.6) or visually (the "cops" episode). The return of cyberpunk author (7.13) is funny because the next episode felt like a King one (remember "thinner), exactly like in the 5th season.
This year, we have also our duo doing all chores: acting, writing, directing. It's hard to decide between them because the episodes are very different: Anderson is more cerebral, Duchovny is more entertainment. In the end, neither of them delivers a true x-files episode.
Unfortunately, we may have also the biggest stinker ever: (7.08): if the idea of magic could have been a good pretext to explain paranormal, the script is so complex and absurd that the only thing that disappear is the fun! (7.20) with the couple of twins is totally crap for 40 minutes for only 3 minutes of fun !
This year, my best pick goes to "Closure" as it's an excellent final chapter of Samantha's file. Maybe the walk-in world is not what i have expected after all those years, but all along the two parts, there was chilling suspense and Duchovny's performance is just incredible as he lets down his barriers (and cry again!). "Je souhaite" is also an incredible episode as it's interesting to see X-files doing fairy tales in our modern civilization!
Finally, i can only leave with a note of the last episode as it confirms my feeling that the show is back to its track and its soul: having the season final revisiting the first episode ever and meeting again the same characters seven years after is brilliant. But as soon as i was thinking this was the best mythological episode since maybe season five, the last words told by Scully make me sad again: With that, we are sure to deal again with a father, a mother, a daughter, a son and not about aliens or monster of the week !