February 02, 2016
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Yes, I got up on my hind legs when Agent Mulder”who’s devoted his life to hunting down the (possibly) government-sponsored aliens who (might have) kidnapped his sister, pausing occasionally to chase down vampires, shape-shifters, and, yes, time-traveling Nazis in the Bermuda goddamn Triangle“curtly dismisses O”Malley as a “jackass.” Not because O”Malley touts conspiracy theories, of course, but because O”Malley is a big fan of the Second Amendment.
And that’s just cwazytawk.
I kept watching in spite of myself. O”Malley’s conspiracy theory is presented in a JFK-type montage paired with equally annoying, Aaron Sorkin-style glossolalia, punctuated by Mulder name-checking Henrietta Lacks and the frickin” Tuskegee Experiment.
Honestly? I reached for the remote.
But”SPOILER”the “right wing” “jackass” turns out to be a good guy.
Yeah, I”ll watch the new X-Files again this week, and probably next week, too.
Even though the thing that makes the old classics so delightful is exactly what renders the latest iteration less than perfect. At least if you”re me, and you know the “truth” really is “out there,” and sometimes wish you didn”t, and that it was still “the “90s,” whatever they were anyway:
The X-Files universe, then and now, is lousy with “greys“ and werewolves and triple-crossing CIA agents, all of whom threaten mankind’s very existence.
But there isn”t a Muslim in sight.
