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In customary FOX fashion (hello “Firefly”!), the episode line-up of a beloved series is being shown out of order.
Speaking, you might’ve guessed, about “X-Files” which premiered over two nights last week.
Instead of showing the second episode of the sixth-episode season, it was decided to screen episode 5 instead.
Creator Chris Carter was involved in the decision though, telling TV Insider that it actually made more sense to show those episodes out of sequence.
“Because we have a story arc that runs through the middle of the series…we were concerned that, coming right off a mythology episode [and] going right into a standalone episode, people would say, What’s happened?’ So, it actually worked out. It served Episode 2 better to replace it with 5. It created a better continuity. We’ve come and done what we’ve always done: we give you an amazing mix of episodes-we’ve given you thriller episodes, we’ve given you scary episodes, emotional episodes, comedy episodes.”
Due to the shifting of the eps, some dialogue was trimmed from the fourth episode of the season.
