Ok, it was enjoyable enough to watch the episode and get a little recap on the story so far. Also nice to see the answer to the season 4 cliffhanger (which I actually guessed wrong , I thought it actually had looked like mulder's corpse but it was going to be an alien clone or something- the actual answer made more sense).
What's frustrating is the glacial pace of the episode! I really don't need to see so many sequences of army men pacing down drab hallways. It's just not visually interesting! Also it seemed somewhat repetitive, with certain plot points being overexplained or re-explained again and again. We get it: the military are bad guys, don't really need all the detail.
I honestly felt like it was just back and forth, back and forth between leaden monologues by Mulder & Scully. These monologues didn't really seem to be delivered with any kind of excitement or passion. At times it was like listening to a lecture. Couldn't they have added a bit of excitement?
It's not the easiest thing in the world to keep all of the mythology pieces making sense in your head as you watch the ongoing mythology. Can get frustrating.
I appreciated seeing Skinner & CSM at least as I don't think they were in the season 4 finale.
Anyway. I guess it's a decent, functional bridge between Gethsemane & a hopefully more exciting Redux Part 2. But as a stand alone episode Redux is entirely unremarkable.
What's frustrating is the glacial pace of the episode! I really don't need to see so many sequences of army men pacing down drab hallways. It's just not visually interesting! Also it seemed somewhat repetitive, with certain plot points being overexplained or re-explained again and again. We get it: the military are bad guys, don't really need all the detail.
I honestly felt like it was just back and forth, back and forth between leaden monologues by Mulder & Scully. These monologues didn't really seem to be delivered with any kind of excitement or passion. At times it was like listening to a lecture. Couldn't they have added a bit of excitement?
It's not the easiest thing in the world to keep all of the mythology pieces making sense in your head as you watch the ongoing mythology. Can get frustrating.
I appreciated seeing Skinner & CSM at least as I don't think they were in the season 4 finale.
Anyway. I guess it's a decent, functional bridge between Gethsemane & a hopefully more exciting Redux Part 2. But as a stand alone episode Redux is entirely unremarkable.