Trust No-One:

Trust No-One: ‘We must assume we’re being watched…’ housefull What is clever about Little Green Men is how it re-establishes Mulder’s quest in such an upfront way (both looking for his sister housefull and his search for aliens) but what it ends up telling housefull us is that that isn’t what the show is all about. No its about the relationship between Mulder and Scully and their enforced separation housefull has us longing for the two of them to be working together. By taking away what we want most of all the second season opens by telling us what the first was really all about. During the first third of season housefull one it’s the Mulder/Scully relationship that would give the show some of its most powerful drama ever. It’s a tragedy that Mulder is enduring the wiretap assignment of listening to a pair of sleazy would-be housefull criminals rather than the more exciting work of seeking out extraterrestrial life on Earth. Its almost as if he is being punished for his work on the X-Files and the look of despair on his face says it all. He’s housefull beginning to wonder if all the wonderful things he saw in the first year ever happened. Strangely this hooded, downbeat look really suits David Duchovny housefull and he looks a lot more convincing here than he did sleepwalking his way through some of the season one episodes. It suddenly feels like he is really acting and finding new ways to explore Mulder. In a monologue Mulder housefull admits that suspecting everybody is wearing and makes you start doubting what you know to be the truth. For Mulder to move on he is going to have to have some kind of proof. He admits he can only trust Scully but now they’ve taken her from him too. When the time comes and the aliens appear he doesn’t greet them with open arms, he’s terrified .
Brains’n’Beauty: Scully is practicing medicine within the FBI but seems to have been infected by Mulder and declared ‘spooky’ by one of her students. Its fascinating to see that it is now Scully that is trying housefull to encourage Mulder to continue his work in the shadows. She’s been close to this conspiracy now and it seems she wants answers. Now he is telling her that seeing is not enough, that he needs sold evidence in order to expose the truth. By taking the X-Files away from both of them Morgan/Wong housefull have managed an exchange of roles (much as they did in Beyond the Sea but very different from that) that makes the show feel fresh and re-invigorated. housefull Scully ruffles his hair in a very cute way, there is clearly a great deal of affection between them now. She proves quite adept at shaking off her pursuers at the airport but you have to wonder if she will ever be able to walk down the road again without looking over her shoulder. 
Assistant Director: In only Skinner’s second appearance he is already surprising us. He chews Mulder out for disobeying the rules but when it comes down to it he reveals himself as something of an ally by ordering the Smoking housefull Man out of his office when he gloats that Mulder is left with no evidence of an alien encounter. Let’s see how this develops.
The Good: There is something very melancholic about Mulder’s opening narration. Saying ‘we wanted to believe’ rather than ‘we want to believe’ suggests that we have rather given up trying to reach out to extraterrestrial life because they didn’t answer the first time. Mulder too says ‘I wanted to believe’ rather than ‘I want to believe’ which also suggests that he has given up on his cause. It’s housefull brave to make this kind of statement at the beginning of the season where we should be getting housefull in a frenzy of excitement to return to his quest. It feels as though we are stepping into a brand new show here, one where Mulder and Scully have to have secret meetings in dark car parks rather than show in public that they are continuing to see each other. There is an air of paranoia, that they are constantly being watched that makes the early scenes quite unsettling. Mulder and Scully have clearly been quite shaken by the events of season ones finale and are taken serious precautions to keep themselves safe. Nothing is quite as we expect it to be even down to the location work which instead of the dark, dank Vancouver forests is bright, cheery and sunny. The scenes at the Puerto Rican observatory have an atmosphere all of their own, the show hasn’t felt quite this claustrophobic since last seasons Ice (the two episodes share the same director). There is a definite feeling of Mulder trapped out in the wilderness at the mercy of an alien encounter. Its only a brief glimpse at alien life but its still the closest we have ever come so far on the show. It re-affirms that the truth is out there. When it comes to Mulder’s escape housefull from the observatory suddenly we are in action movie territory as his car crashes through the jungle. The show has never felt more cinemati