{"id":259,"date":"2016-01-30T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=259"},"modified":"2016-01-30T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:11:14","slug":"trust-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Trust No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The X-Files has returned after almost 14 years. It was worth the wait. Even though it was a disjointed premier episode, suffocated with loose ends and layered with seemingly unrelated plotlines, I loved every minute of it. The nostalgia of the opening sequence. The first scene with Mulder and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-261 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/X-Files-I-Want-To-Believe-Poster1-676x875.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a> Scully. The \u201cI want to believe\u201d poster. The entrance of Skinner. And even the entrance of Smoking Man. I loved it all. The joyful moments were even enough for me to overcome my disdain for Joel McHale. I do think the character and the actor are too campy, and perhaps too clich\u00e9 for the X-files, but I have faith those choices serve a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I enjoyed the first episode, the second episode actually made it seem dull. It fed the plot, but was styled as a classic one-off. It succeeded on every level. Seeing Mulder and Scully sitting across the desk from Skinner again was a treat. And the story was immensely intriguing. Overall, the intensity went up a notch or two.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I anticipate the next episode, I am also dreading that it will all end in just a few short weeks. I hope they\u2019ll decide to give us more. I also hope they won\u2019t make us wait another 14 years.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X-Files has returned after almost 14 years. It was worth the wait. Even though it was a disjointed premier episode, suffocated with loose ends and layered with seemingly unrelated plotlines, I loved every minute of it. The nostalgia of the opening sequence. The first scene with Mulder and Scully. The \u201cI want to believe\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}