Things We Learned From The X-Files Revival Premiere My Struggle

Amid buzz over “The X-files” reboot 2016, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have also been the center of various entertainment news reports due to their purported romance.

Was all of his work for nothing, though? And yet it’s Scully the non-believer who reaches out to Mulder, surprisingly, after she’s contacted by FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) with a request for Mulder to look into a right-wing government conspiracy theorist, Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale).

Whispers of The X-Files returning have swirled for years, culminating in 2008’s utterly disastrous movie X-Files: I Want to Believe, which should have permanently buried the franchise. The familiar push and pull between Mulder’s enthusiasm and Scully’s reason manifested itself in the form of bickering, charged with more emotional baggage than before. But since the abduction of his sister during childhood, Mulder’s obsession with aliens visiting from another planet has been an unquenchable thirst.

After two feature films, The X-Files will return to the small screen 14 years after its cancellation on January 24. This proves important not just for a convenient McGuffin, but also a disturbing tonal shift-when investigating the unusual occurences around the birth of her son, Scully tends to ditch her skepticism and becoming even more of a true believer.

But should we believe it? He seems to be pressing on with that belief in “My Struggle” too; in one scene particularly fraught with heavy dialogue, Scully refers to herself as Mulder’s “friend and physician”.

The episode has a strong opening with Mulder monologuing the history of the UFO conspiracy, it feels immediately like an “X-Files” episode which was promising early on, but it quickly becomes clear that unlike the majority of episodes from previous seasons, this episode wouldn’t wrap up its own mystery. Are you a first-time believer?

“It’s interesting. You’ve got a heroic quality – he’s the most unlikely hero, but he does have a kind of heroic quality in that sense, and the mythology that developed around him gave him a kind of saviour-like quality”. This was the running theme of the original series as he searched for the truth, not just about aliens, but about any number of mythical creatures.

At least we won’t have to wait a week to get the next taste. It’s right in line with the original show, which did take many real accounts and urban legends to inspire plot points. And who better to figure out the “truth” for us, than Mulder and Scully!

Of course, as one door closes, another one opens, and Scully reveals a shocker: Actually, Sveta did have alien DNA (good thing Scully ran those tests again), but so does Scully!