The X-Files Season 11: 10 Biggest Reveals From 'The Lost Art Of Forehead Sweat'
9. No Tagline Modificatin This Week - Sort Of
For three straight weeks, the returned X-Files has played with the opening title sequence. Specifically, "the truth is out there" tagline at the end. "I want to believe" became "I want to lie" to start the season, and things ran from there. Each week, a little change.
Not so this week in The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat. At least, not during the opening sequence.
However, a modified opening credits runs partway through the episode. In it, we get the addition of Reggie to the opening sequence, as if he were another character on the show. It's a bit of an odd choice, sort of playing with the audience, pointing out how we should have remembered Reggie all along. However, he's credited as "Reggie Somebody" and really, the whole sequence feels out of place.
It ends with a slightly modified tagline — "the truth is out there?"
So what have we learned? Besides that the producers opted not to modify the tagline four weeks running, we learned that they should have. And that a little editing goes a long way. Cutting the whole fake intro, and throwing the question mark at the end of the opening credits tagline would have been perfect.
Sometimes, less is more.