Monday, January 25, 2016

The Truth Is Still Out There: The X-Files "My Struggle"


First, let me just say that I don't think I was only one who gotten goosebumps from the very beginning of this first episode. From the catch up intro to seeing Scully and Mulder for the first time, just makes me glad that the show is back.

The premiere episode, "My Struggle," deals with the persona of both Mulder and Scully coming to grips with what they thought to believe that turns out to be the complete opposite. Can something that you once believed be a lie?

For Mulder, he's summoned by Tad O'Malley, who's like Bill O'Reilly meets YouTube, wants his input on a case that involves his source, Sveta, that she's been abducted. Not only did Mulder go but Scully went too, and it felt like love at first sight again. But you can see in their eyes that they haven't been together.

As Mulder and Scully listens to Sveta, Mulder seems to be interested again but for Scully, she doesn't seem to want to believe it anymore. When Scully takes some blood from Sveta for testing, Sveta triggers Scully about her and Mulder's life, Mulder looking depressed and telling her that she doesn't know how it feels about being abducted and tested. Scully leans forward with eyes wide open telling her that she does know.

For Scully, tries to not want to believe anything going on and tries to warn Mulder of what could happen if he goes forward with this investigation. She gets the blood test and not only has Sveta's results but her own as well, just to make sure. And even though she lied to Mulder and Sveta of the results, it turned into a chain reaction of the government destroying everything from the spaceship that O'Malley showed Mulder to taking down O'Malley and even taking out Sveta with a spaceship.

Mulder sees that everything that he and Scully have been working on is a lie from the government, that it's not aliens that are hiding but the government using alien tech on humans. He chatted to a doctor that was apart of one alien experiment that happened in 1947 and the outcome just pushed Mulder to get to the bottom of this.

Mulder meets with Scully in the parking lot and looks like hell. After telling her about what's been going on, she tells him that she lied about the test, but they have one who is positive with alien blood and she wants to help take down those SOB's. But soon they get a text from Skinner that they must come in at once.

Looks like The X-Files have reopened once again and a certain someone isn't too happy about that at all. I'm talking about the Cigarette Smoking Man, which has me asking, how the hell did he get out of that blast in the series finale?

This was a very good solid episode. Watching both Mulder and Scully deal with their struggles of getting back to The X-Files. Both David and Gillian were fantastic and looks like they never missed a step when it comes to doing scenes with one another.

It was a real treat to see at the end, CSM still smoking with some assistants and saying that they have a problem.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch The X-Files in it's regular night and time Monday nights at 8/7c on FOX.

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