After far too long, The X-Files returns tonight. For die hard fans, the return of Mulder and Scully does not come a minute too soon. The Lone Gunmen, Skinner, The Smoking Man, and Deep Throat were all memorable and fascinating characters that made The X-Files fascinating and smart all rolled up into one fantastic ball of TV viewing.

Now, as soon as the NFC Championship game nonsense gets over we can get to the truly important business of the evening. Football is temporary, but The X-Files is forever.  It’s 804pm and they are showing a preview? Come on!! Oh geez, the postgame show? Seriously? Nobody cares at all about postgame, OK, maybe 9 guys care, but I’m not one of them! Interviews, confetti, a trophy, blah blah blah. Bring on the aliens and smart people!

Of all the people waiting to watch The X-Files, exactly 4 of them care about the postgame show of the footballing game. Yep, four. The rest of us super cool millions are getting very impatient and wish the commercials and sports balling nonsense would STOP!!

Now they are interviewing Grizzly Adams himself. I thought he passed away in the last couple of weeks? Ah, here we go, a whispered interview with some dude in glasses who is probably a coach of some kind. Losing team, nobody would have cared if you had won. Seriously, the past is the past, move on, buy a book, put together some LEGOS…boo freaking hoo.

Now they have a freaking countdown clock to the start of what we are here to watch. I least they are in some way acknowledging that The X-Files still exists. I can only imagine how nuts the sports balling fans must be going seeing that on their precious football viewing screen.

Finally! We can now get to the topic of this blog post. It….has……begun!!!

That opening sequence was phenomenal…bringing back memories of prior cases/episodes, the helicopters chasing the UFO, the crash of the UFO with the hand and then the most epic X-Files music and opening that they did not change. Thank you! The feel of the original is still there.

“Why would I watch this jackass Scully?” Ha! In reference to the conservative blow hard talk show host spouting off about God and guns. A great way to re-introduce Fox “Spooky” Mulder to the world. “You never know when a gun toting liberal might go Hinckley.” Ha….the humor and snark remains. On top of everything else Mulder and Scully look fantastic. As always.

As the location changes, the font used in the lower left of the screen has not changed one ounce since the original run of the series. It is these very details that fans out there in the world are LOVING at this very freaking second.

The crashed UFO is simply fantastic. Jutting out at an angle like that from the ground. The military presence, the guy in the dark suit…and just now…a freaking ALIEN is crawling away from the scene. And…of course…..the fucking morons with guns kill the thing! Sum bitches. Why is it that some white guy with a gun is the one to ruin a perfectly good UFO crash scene and take out the first alien seen alive? Something is moving…BAM! Got em dead now Pa! Fuck….leave the alien alone. Get to know it, have a conversation with the thing, you might actually learn something for a change.

Scoop mark scars on the young woman’s abdomen. I don’t remember those from the prior 202 episodes. Fascinating. I’m wondering if these sort of scars are often reported post abduction? This little factoid is just screaming for additional research. Huge warehouse, people being met…who could it be? Who could it be?!?! Some guy walking Mulder through the science…this has to lead somewhere good. Always be aware of large warehouses or abandoned hangers. Not what they appear to be EVER! Holy crap…the ship is hovering on zero point energy and can freaking cloak itself! Hold me.

The introduction of the ever present conspiracy therapy developed nicely. Not in your face and overdone. A simple re-statement of a general theme that brings us ever forward into the sense of unease and slow burning excitement that this show has always done exceptionally well.

Skinner opening the old office with the “I Want to Believe” poster laying on the floor. Holy crap that was almost the best moment yet. I still love Skinner. Something about that dude that is so cool. So cool that back in the 90’s I had an AOL email account Sk47xf4a….it stood for Skinner…who was about 47 at the time, X-Files, 4th season, alien. Yep….that is when you know you are way involved in a TV show….and Skinner. Another way to know you are a true fan is when you still have the memorabilia you bought at StarLand in Denver….a small sci-fi comic bookstore that received way too much money from a graduate student who really couldn’t afford toys. But now, the collection is epic to say the least.

“A conspiracy of men against humanity.” You know things are getting serious when a line like that comes out of your mouth and the man to whom you are speaking just gently nods. The old guy in the hat, I love him already. Let’s hope he makes more appearances because he clearly knows what the deal is with the alien conspiracy.

As always, Scully is frustrated with Mulder’s antics. But look at her, just below the surface their is the still smoldering something that she has for Mulder….and that Mulder has for her. It is the play between the two characters that make them so intriguing. One of 37 things that make these two characters intriguing.

This O’Malley characters sucks. He is like a fungus that keeps appearing when it is simply not wanted. A spiky haired egomaniac that wants attention and nothing more. He simply does not have the good sense to recognize that he is out of his league with Mulder and Scully. Hell, this guy would be out of his league with a 2nd grader with a mediocre imagination. Perhaps he serves some greater purpose, let us hope that it is vital and important because he is fucking annoying. He is like a dim witted frat boy from Liberty University. A man with few life options and a total turd blossom.

You know things are turning into a shit show when jack booted thugs bash through doors in matching black Hummers. They are there to flex their authority and nothing more. Who hits a Scientist with the butt of a rifle? Jack booted thugs that’s who.

You know you are on the ball when you sequence an entire genome because you don’t trust initial test results. That is taking follow-up to an entirely different level. Scully is the best kind of over achiever. The type who reads a book and then reads the footnotes found in that very book! Follow through is just that important.

A fireplace grate with CARPE DIEM engraved at the top. Classic. And there he is…..The Smoking Man taking a long drag through his tracheotomy tube….and the episode ends.

So amazingly freaking happy to have The X-Files back in existence. I WANT TO BELIEVE.