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The music and sound effects were also mixed in so perfectly that if I closed my eyes I could almost imagine seeing everything play out like it was a TV episode. In sum, I had a great time with this audio drama and would do this again in a heartbeat. I still want to believe! View 1 comment. Jul 18, Mina rated it really liked it. Wonderful experience for a lifetime X-Files fan. First of all, the production quality was excellent.
The "episodes" in this audiobook were written quite well, though I'm not sure how well they'd fare if part of the actual series- which is exactly what I expected and I don't mean this to come off as a deterrent.
I think the character of Mulder was the most accurately written of all. I found some plot holes but it isn't like those didn't exist in the series.
The bits of invented lore to bring back Wonderful experience for a lifetime X-Files fan. The bits of invented lore to bring back some key characters was pretty cool. The main cast's voice acting was great and the others were passable. By the way, I'm awful at reviews if you couldn't already tell.
I felt I had to try because I saw no others just yet. I've loved The X-Files since I was a single digit age and really enjoyed listening to this. While it seemed the writer tried to make it suitable for newcomers or maybe he just intended the lines I'm referring to as refreshers , I don't think it's the place to start getting into The X-Files. I must recommend beginning with the pilot episode. Loved the mentions of Frank Black from the Millennium crossover entitled Millennium - one of my favorite episodes in the series.
Millennium was an underrated series, I must add. View 2 comments. Jul 18, Dinara Tengri rated it it was amazing Shelves: novels. How long have I been waiting for this! How many times have I checked my calendar, counting the days before I could download this audiobook to my tablet! But it's finally here, and last Tuesday, I sat down, and I listened to the whole thing in one sitting.
I just gobbled down this audiobook like it was a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream, with whipped cream and strawberries on top. The X-files: Cold Cases is an audiodrama that is based on X-Files: Season 10 - a series of comic books that were writt How long have I been waiting for this!
The X-files: Cold Cases is an audiodrama that is based on X-Files: Season 10 - a series of comic books that were written by author Joe Harris, under the creative supervision of the series creator Chris Carter. It stars most of the original cast, including the actors playing the Lone Gunmen. In Cold Cases , we meet Dana Scully and Fox Mulder living and working under fake names, as they are still hiding from their enemies, presumably after the events of season nine finale. The two of them are pulled back into the limelight, however, after a cyberattack on the FBI database.
It seems that whoever was responsible for the attack was targeting FBI agents that were connected to the X-files, an infamous project outside of the FBI mainstream. Soon after the attack, Scully is abducted by a mysterious group of shapeshifters that call themselves the Acolytes, and Mulder gets a visit from an old foe, who was thought dead.
There have been so many reincarnations and adaptations of this cult classic TV-show. We're talking about books, novelisations, comics books, games, and movies. But this is the first time that The X-Files has been adapted into audiodrama, and I was both excited and nervous to see how it would work out. There are elements of these stories that are dependent on the visual medium, like the special effects, and those small, quiet moments between Scully and Mulder that can only be shown on-screen.
So it was interesting to see how The X-Files would fit in this format. This turned out to be an amazing audiodrama that exceeded my expectations, and left me craving more. Four hours is just not enough, damn it! What is it with the new X-Files seasons being so short? This audioplay is a non-stop, four-hour thrill ride. It's fast-paced, and there's never a dull moment between all the action.
The story is thrilling and unpredictable. It's dark, violent, and scary. But it's also chock-full of the dry, deadpan humour that the show has always been known for. The performances from the original cast are excellent.
You don't get a feeling that these are just actors reading lines into a microphone; they're all giving one hundred percent in their performances, just as they would if this was another season of the show. I would say that the star here is David Duchovny. You can hear that he's having fun playing Mulder again. Even Gillian Anderson, I feel, has more energy here than she did in season ten. She brought back that witty, and cocky Scully we remember from the earlier seasons.
Davis as Cancerman are great as well, and it was so great hearing their voices again. As for the rest of the cast, most of them are doing a very good job. Their performances are emotional and life-like. There are. For instance, the Russian and the Arabic accents are laughable. They're so cartoony the aren't even offensive. But the most disappointing part is that neither Robert Patrick nor Nicholas Lea came to reprise their roles as John Doggett, and Alex Krycek respectively. The actors who got to portray these characters are good, it's just that both Patrick and Lea have very distinct voices, and hearing someone else voice their characters is just not the same.
I can never buy anyone other than Nicholas Lea being pummelled by David Duchovny. Cold Cases is an audioplay that consists of five episodes: four mythology episodes, and one monster of the week. The latter is a welcome return to a classic episode from season two, and it gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling, while also being pretty gross, and disturbing. It would have been right up there with some of the better monster of the week episodes, if it weren't so short about thirty minutes.
But in this format, it works very well. The meat of this audioplay, however, is the mythology. And let me tell you right now that this mythology is so much better than the one we got in season ten.
The X-Files has always had a very complex mytharc that, not only involved cool science, and juicy conspiracies, but also asked questions about family, spirituality, government control, and life beyond our Solar System. Most importantly, the mythology has always been driven by exciting stories, and strong well-developed characters.
While I liked the mythology in season ten quite a bit more than most other fans , I still felt that it was disconnected from the original mytharc, and that it was lacking something. Now, having listened to Cold Cases, I realise how poorly developed the season ten mytharc is. The reason the mythology in Cold Cases works is because it's a continuation of the original mythology.
Harris always takes us back to the original mythology by bringing back old characters - alive or dead - and making them relevant again. He takes the plot lines of the first nine seasons of the show, and he builds upon them.
For instance, black oil plays a major part in this story, as well as Skyland Mountain - the iconic sight where Scully was abducted in season two. But it isn't just a display of intertextuality, where the writer invokes our nostalgia and plays on our heart strings by showing us something that we know and love I'm looking at you, J.
Harris brings back all the familiar iconography of the original show, and uses flashbacks to connect his own story to the original mythology but he does it to expand the established mytharc, and to challenge our beloved characters, and to push them in new directions. The story connects so much better with the first nine seasons than the season ten mytharc.
Another thing that makes this story work is that it focuses solely on the original characters. There are a few supporting characters, like Assistant Director Morales, but they all serve a purpose, and their role in the story is limited to a bare minimum.
Harris understands that The X-Files doesn't need new, cool characters, especially if he won't have the time to flesh them out to make them interesting. The story ends on a cliffhanger because of course it does. But cliffhangers on The X-Files are never just a way to make the audience come back the next week, or the next season.
Each time the credits roll just when Cancerman is about to say something menacing, or when the monster is about to reveal itself, we are reminded of the ambiguity and the uncertainty that plagues Scully and Mulder's work.
There are no definite answers; there is no closure, as each new ending is just a beginning of some bigger, more complex story. On the X-files, finding an answer to one question, always means creating more questions.
And the ending of Cold Cases captures that ambiguity perfectly. Of course, not everything is perfect, and there are few goofs and inconsistencies scattered throughout the story. For instance, in one dramatic scene, Scully encounters a woman who starts speaking German. While we know, from the season four episode, "Unruhe", that Scully does, in fact, speak a little German.
It's also unclear as to how Scully and Mulder went from being pardoned by the FBI in I Want to Believe to once again hiding from the world, and going so far as to change their identities. Something big must have happened in that time period, and it sure would have been nice to know, what.
As another reviewer on Goodreads said, if you're new to The X-Files , this audiodrama is not the best introduction to this complex and confusing world. But if you're familiar with the show and know your way around this universe, I can't recommend this book enough. I've got to say, the creative team behind The X-Files is spoiling us. Now, I want more audioplays. A whole podcast with nothing but X-Files mysteries would be so cool.
Plot: 4 stars Story: 5 stars Characters: 5 stars Performances: 5 stars Total: 5 stars Oct 03, Mridu aka Storypals rated it liked it. This is coming from a person who hasn't watched the series so I really didn't care if it had the original cast or not because well- no nostalgia I picked it up because audible membership had it and it did intrigue me. Now that I have put that out.
I can talk about if I liked it or not. I kind of lost interest by the end of it and I was like yeah okay lalala get over it. Now-- At first I thought I am being insensitive but then I realized-- I didn't watch the show which is why I had no connection with the characters and the audiobook was obviously an extension of the series there wasn't a lot of details on the characters which will make you want to empathize with the characters.
Coming to a valid conclusion. Hear this only if you have watched the series because then it will make more sense, hell you will enjoy it even better. Sep 17, Belles rated it did not like it Shelves: z I thought this would be a fun audiobook to listen to because it has the actors from the TV series performing the story.
However it was incredibly stupid. At least it was free. May 03, Colleen Houck added it Shelves: secrets , aliens , doctors-medical , espionage-intrigue , science-gone-wrong , secret-organizations , paranormal , sci-fi , spy , shifter. This was really fun if you're an X-Files fan. It was like watching the show. All the cast was included, even people who had died so it was really great to hear their voices again. I liked the medium. The short stories were interesting and well written and they all connected and added to the whole X-Files collection.
Mar 11, Erin rated it liked it Shelves: march , tv-series. I dont often listen to audiobooks, I just dont have the concentration for them. But lately I've been listening to alot of podcasts and I got to thinking that if I could listen to a podcast then I could certainly listen to an audiobook.
I love The X Files. I'm one of those obnoxious people who discover something old and then go around telling everybody they just have to watch this show that everyone has already heard of. I didn't start watching The X Files until 3 years ago. I had fini 3. I had finished my annual rewatch of Breaking Bad and I was in a serious show hangover, so I thought why not try something new. I fell in love!
Obviously the first 5 seasons are the best but aren't that bad. The first movie is perfection and let's just not talk about the 2nd movie.. Here's where it gets controversial yall Post a Comment. Previous Post Next Post. In its summary of Cold Cases , Audible says:.
As friends and foes of the agency long thought gone begin to inexplicably reappear, former agents Mulder and Scully come out of anonymity to face a growing conspiracy that involves not only their former department but the US government and forces not of this world.
While it may not be the exact type of announcement fans of The X-Files were hoping for, there are a lot of reasons to be excited for Cold Cases. For one, it signals that Duchovny and Anderson are still very much interested in The X-Files , meaning a follow-up to the revival will happen - it's just a matter of when.
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