These emotional shadings are gratifyingly brought to the fore in the subsequent two episodes, both only tangentially connected to the broader mythology. But things are indeed very different for them: They’re not only older, but more world-weary and regretful. From their first scene together here, Mulder and Scully exude the rapport of old friends, as if, despite their time apart, nothing has changed between them.
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The danger, as Carter points out in some of his more heavy-handed lines of dialogue, may be greater than ever, but Mulder and Scully retain their challenging yet affectionate skeptic-versus-believer dynamic, one of the crucial elements that helped the series maintain an emotional coherence throughout its mythology’s unwieldy twists and turns. population in general for their own purposes. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) may be brought together again to investigate the alien-existence claims of right-wing pundit Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale), but Mulder soon makes discoveries that suggest the government is involved in something grander and more dangerous: a wholesale staging of incidents and abductions in an attempt by a powerful few to control and manipulate the U.S. It’s fitting, then, that creator Chris Carter takes that distrust to a whole new, and even more subversive, level. With distrust of the federal government at an all-time high, in part due to the revelations made by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden in recent years, the show’s preoccupation with paranoia is more relevant than ever. But that’s not so much an evaluation of quality as it is a statement of fact.
With its by-now-familiar scenes of alien abductions and government-conspiracy theorizing, not to mention the barely changed opening-credits sequence, that may be the first impression one gets from the first episode of the new mini-season of The X-Files.
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