Things Are Getting Strange
An X-Files rewatch podcast. Updates weekly. Currently exploring Season 9.
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Things Are Getting Strange
Kim Manners Was Right
...mostly about the current state of the conspiracy here in Season 9...
Providence, wait, Provenance. No, Providence. Dammit, its Provenance!
Provenance has the Lone Gunmen for hilariously, almost futile inclusion and seems to want to hark back to one of the series more startling reveals - a half-buried ancient UFO off the coast of Africa. Except not we have one in Calgary, Canada.
We complain at length about what has been done to Scully's character and how weirdly certain people are that Mulder has died somewhere off-screen (made pointless given Carter's reported statement that Duchovny would be appearing in the finale).
Providence doesn't get much better as a weird alien prophecy means either Mulder or William has to die for... reasons, and how everyone acts like Mulder stopped the aliens taking over when he did effectively nothing of the sort.
The episode also reminds of us of better things. Babylon 5, The Tommyknockers. Quatermass and the Pit...