Even though it may have rekindled a sense of nostalgia to
those who have seen it first hand, but does the new X-Files have something to
offer to new prospective fans?
By: Ringo Bones
Even though the previous X-Files season ended way after
9/11, it seems that post 9/11 issues had never been tackled in-depth though
when Chris Carter made one tackling the issue in the so-called Season 10, it managed
to raise some anger in the world’s online social networks. Especially to
Muslims on the other side of the Atlantic who thinks that they are unfairly
stereotyped in one of the most interesting episodes of the series – titled Babylon
– where it managed to raise the post 9/11 unfair stereotype that all terrorist
are Muslims. But to some people, Mulder’s drug-taking exercise in order to
perform a so-called “mind-meld” to a terror suspect in a coma after a failed
suicide bombing attempt seems to be a critique of the origins of Abrahamic
Theology, which many claim to be nothing more than the result of some Stone-Age
holy man taking Psychoactive substances and seeing God.
It may not be as memorable and nostalgia as Mulder and
Scully Meet the Were-Monster episode – and that very episode may well be the
very one that can attract new converts who didn’t experience first hand the
1990s era X-Files mania, but it seems quite inevitable that Chris Carter might
express his own political satire against organized religion through one of the
X-Files episodes and this could be a good place as any. Given that there are
plans to create more episodes, I just hope that Chris Carter will be courageous
enough to make episodes that make everyone – not just X-Files fans – question the
status quo. Even if “the truth is out there”, most of us are actually seeing it
through a prism manipulated by the powers-that-be.
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