I Want to Believe had its touchstones, like the pencils collected in Mulder's ceiling in "Believers," Harris gets in a "Spooky" Mulder reference as quickly as humanly possible. Like the movie, "Believers" takes as its purpose to reintroduce Mulder and Scully, again after an absence (though fans can rest assured "Believers" is far more mythology-driven than I Want to Believe) the darkness finds them again, as the last movie discussed, with Director Skinner showing up at their door instead of FBI agents in need.
I read "Believers" just after a re-watch of the second X-Files movie, I Want to Believe. If X-Files were coming back, this is what fans would want, and as a fan I'm very eager for Harris's second volume. There's nary an aspect of fan service that Harris doesn't run straight in to while this might make the book somewhat predictable, it's no more or less so than knowing whether that night's episode was a "mythology episode" or not based on the names in the opening credits. 1 (not apparently called "Believers" despite that it's the title of the story) is not a perfect book, but it's as good a fictional opener for a new X-Files season as fans might hope.
0 kommentar(er)
