The tagline for this episode should have been 'Apocalypse Now' instead of 'This Is The End'. Dean Winchester would have put it more succinctly with his trademark 'Seriously?'.
The episode spins the premise of all the alien-related episodes of the original series - that the aliens have been kidnapping humans to study them and the government is keeping this information from the public to avoid wide-spread panic - on its head. Now we are told that an alien DNA has been injected into the American citizens as a part of a wider conspiracy to shoot their immune systems to hell so they, and the world along with them, can be eliminated in an outbreak of a contagion. This is purging of the earth where only the privileged few - like Dana Scully - are destined to survive. You can almost hear the conspiracy theorists blurting out to each other 'Haven't I been saying this for years?'. :-)
It was good to see Agent Monica Reyes after such a long time but hard to accept that she chose to remain with the Cigarette Smoking Man - even if to sabotage the Syndicate from within. I bet Agent Doggett must be feeling totally left out :-) I must say that after this I lost the plot completely what with Scully and Einstein racing against time to locate the alien DNA in Scully's body using various medical theories.
Though the episode, and the mini-series, ended bringing up excellent possibilities of further development of this plot, I can see that when, and if, the show does come back, it will not have much scope for the plain-vanilla cases. It then risks sounding like countless Hollywood offerings in this genre.
The episode spins the premise of all the alien-related episodes of the original series - that the aliens have been kidnapping humans to study them and the government is keeping this information from the public to avoid wide-spread panic - on its head. Now we are told that an alien DNA has been injected into the American citizens as a part of a wider conspiracy to shoot their immune systems to hell so they, and the world along with them, can be eliminated in an outbreak of a contagion. This is purging of the earth where only the privileged few - like Dana Scully - are destined to survive. You can almost hear the conspiracy theorists blurting out to each other 'Haven't I been saying this for years?'. :-)
It was good to see Agent Monica Reyes after such a long time but hard to accept that she chose to remain with the Cigarette Smoking Man - even if to sabotage the Syndicate from within. I bet Agent Doggett must be feeling totally left out :-) I must say that after this I lost the plot completely what with Scully and Einstein racing against time to locate the alien DNA in Scully's body using various medical theories.
Though the episode, and the mini-series, ended bringing up excellent possibilities of further development of this plot, I can see that when, and if, the show does come back, it will not have much scope for the plain-vanilla cases. It then risks sounding like countless Hollywood offerings in this genre.
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