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⌈ Secret Post #5014 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What Was The Single Most Devastating Moment In Fandom For You?

[(Anonymous)]

Going to see a midnight showing of I Want To Believe (the second X-Files movie) and being utterly devastated by how bad it was. I was at the height of my X-Files obsession at the time and the hype in fandom had been at a fever pitch for months.

The worst part was, the fandom consensus on IWTB was largely positive for the first couple of months after it came out. It was like people were just too invested in it being good to allow themselves to acknowledge it...wasn't. So I went into it thinking it would be at least decent, because the fans who'd seen it already were mostly saying it was good. A few months later, almost everyone had come around to agreeing it was bad.

Re: What Was The Single Most Devastating Moment In Fandom For You?

[(Anonymous)]

IWTB, oh man what a crapfest that one was. It felt painfully out of character and only Mitch Pileggi was on his game. :/

Re: What Was The Single Most Devastating Moment In Fandom For You?

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, you said it.

Re: What Was The Single Most Devastating Moment In Fandom For You?

[(Anonymous)]

After years of adoration, I had fallen off the X-Files wagon during the last season (of the original) because I could no longer follow the mythology. I watched the season premiere, said "Nope, I'm out" and only came back for the finale. When the second movie came out, I was kind of surprised there even *was* a second movie, like, why are we bothering? I didn't hate it but it just felt like a TV episode and not something worth making a movie out of.

Re: What Was The Single Most Devastating Moment In Fandom For You?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I love XF and I'm not about the mythology at all. I honestly think it made no sense after like season 4 maybe. I'm just here for the good monster-of-the-week ones.

Re: What Was The Single Most Devastating Moment In Fandom For You?

[(Anonymous)]

S8 and S9 were not good by any means, but it had been six(?) years since the show ended, and the general sense in the fandom was that people were hopeful Chris Carter would've used that time to gain some perspective and figure out what the core of the show really was, so that IWTB could be a return to form of sorts.

Unfortunately, not so much.

As flat and out of place as the shitty MOTW plot felt under the circumstances, the most damning thing about IWTB for me was that Mulder and Scully felt so OOC throughout, like neither the actors nor the writers managed to find the characters after so long away.