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Scully Leaving X-Files
Thomas M Hughes sent us a link where Gillian Anderson announces that Sculley will follow Mulder's footsteps off the X-files after this season. (And since I'm in Germany for LinuxTag I get to post something before I usually even get up!)
> surely readers of Slashdot are people who have
> better tastes in entertainment!
Why would you say that? The bulk of the Slashdot crowd are morons.
(Or should I say "backside"?) Now she can be in more (R-rated) movies where she can be naked.
Yes, I read the article where she talks about spending more time with her progeny and husband and stage acting. I'm just hoping the money runs out soon, at least before her looks do.
I remember that, when I was younger (I'm only 17 now, so this is not that long ago), Fox came out with some series that involved aliens coming to Earth (I believe they were attempting to escape another, evil species of aliens). I was convinced throughout most of its run that they were actual aliens, and that Fox had somehow obtained footage of them.
Perhaps younger children have a harder time differentiating reality and television than I thought.
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So when are you going to realise that a lot of readers are in Europe, and that you could do with a full-time European correspondent?
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At least, we don't know for sure : )
He was pushed down the stairs and knocked unconscious, but Krychek didn't check his pulse to verify that he was finished off.
Similarly, we don't know whether Jeffrey Spender might resurface. He was shot, but we were never told whether he died.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
That would be truly funny. A spin-off movie of a spin-off TV show of a movie. :)
Guess you haven't seen all the advertisements for Dale Earnhartd memoribilia. Sci-Fi fans arent the only ones that "flog a 'dead' horse".
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Geena Davis is no scully. *sigh*
"If a show of teeth is not enough, bite
It sounds to me as if G.A. is doing the right thing for her career and her kid. It's time for X-philes and Fox to let go.
Helium balloons want to be free.
Actually, I agree with most, the season following the movie is when the show really started going downhill. Actually it was more like it fell off of a cliff. I believe that the real slide began when they moved the set to California, but I cannot remember whether that was before or after the movie.
The show was, basically, the characters, and they should have ended it when Duchovny didn't want to come back.
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she was born on august 8, 1968. a year before i was. i am 31. she is 32. you are an idiot.
That's news.. didn't it seem pretty obvious by the last episode that Scully & Mulder were out?
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I'll second this... I watched Sliders series 1-4 on UK Terrestrial TV, right up until the point where Wade's actress left and Quinn was left standing around in some strange futuristic place... then the BBC stopped showing it indefinitely.
I got cable TV some time later, and watched some of what was, it seems by your descriptions, the last series. It was terrible, it has to be said. ('Composite' Quinn Malorie?!) The thing about the batteries running out in the timer was just the last straw. Pathetic.
I continue to hope that either the BBC or Sky One will show some of the earlier Sliders episodes again so I can see the ones I missed the first time around.
X-Files has sucked bigtime for many, many moons now...
Damn, I must have missed that episode. I know this is starting to get off-topic, but can you give me a synopsis? Or at least an episode number, so that I can look it up? I still watch The X-Files, and I've been wondering for a long time why I haven't seen anything about his sister.
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- Some kind of alien comits some kind of crime.
Think that about sums it up.No one can figure out what happened.
Mulder investigates, witnesses the alien in the flesh and solves the case.
Mulder tells Scully and others.
No one beleives him, although Scully wants to beleive him.
Mulder gets suspended for being a fruit-cake.
The truth is exposed and everyone appologises to Mulder.
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It's not just sci-fi that has rabid fans (although I plead guilty to wanting a resurrected Doctor Who series).
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The episodes that I have seen with Doggett in them (TV here in NZ has pulled it mid series...grr), are actually much much better IMHO.
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Robert Patrick is the bastard son of Ted McGinley
Uh, her name is Kari Wuhrer. Don't personally know who Kate Wohler might be.
Always nice to see that hard-earned +1 bonus employed to promote well-researched posts. :)
Usually when a show starts doing this sort of thing, it hits the spin-off zone.
.oO0Oo.
The three geeks would probably make good candidates (despite being terrible characatures).
maybe she's off to do more pvc clad spreads for FHM - great
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This movie, jesus, bah, nevermentionitagain..argh!! Its evil! shh!
What happend to Buffy?? Us over here in germany thought it was alright with Buffy?? Shes leaving or what?? Lispy
This is so weird...what is happening to Angel? Sold too? Why on earth would a network want to sell a good running show?? I dont get it...hmm...
these are the 21s, anything goes!
I wonder if BTVS will face the same destiny? With all those characters leaving and loining the plot and Sarah Michelle getting way to mature to play a teenie girlie i sometimes wonder if it wasnt the best for BTVS to make a big screen Movie and kill the original series. The Spinoffs are great still, so why let the original show go down? Anyways i really loved the 5th season and hope they can keep up with their high standards... Lispy
but you dont know what your missing. Ive never seen a series where trash and quality are so close together...give it a try someday..
Faust7 wrote: "2) The Consortium alien invasion / mytharc ends (primarily) with all the main baddies getting torched in a hanger. Effectively, the threat of a "V"-like global alien invasion, which was introduced as a potential threat in the 4th season and created a palpable urgency for a few seasons following, was neutralized simply by killing off two dozen old white men that drank brandy with Cancerman. " This was never stated - only implied. The Consortium figure heads died in that fire - but the Consortium was made up of hundreds (maybe thousands) of people across the globe. Surely they weren't ALL killed.... I always believed that the Consortium would come back... with different figureheads... and the fact that CSM was still around, I would beg to differ that the Consortium ceased to exist. The alien invasion? Well - I guess it's still up in the air... there was hints about such an invasion when Scully was pregnant... (and what was that all about??) And now Fox Mulder is a deadbeat dad to Dana's new baby. How are they gonna kill Fox off for good??? Hell - he came to life after being dead and BURIED for 3 months. When a person dies, they DRAIN all their fluids, break their spine so they don't sit up in the coffin, and replace their drained fluids with EMBALMING FLUID. So HOW could Mulder still be alive?!? You're right tho - the show is now a hollow self-parody of what it started out to be. I'm Another Disgusted Fan(tm)
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I always thought she was a weak character, a real waste of potential.
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You're kidding right? Scully kicked ass on numerous occasions. She was rarely not able to hold her own against whatever was menacing the world that particular week. There were times that she was positioned as the victim for plot reasons. Since the show was really centered on Mulder, they had to make him look like a hero every now and then by letting him rescue the person who meant the most to him, his partner.
She's weak in combat, always seeming to get her gun knocked away.
She shot everybody! Hell, she even shot Mulder once. On purpose!
I tend to agree with your analysis of her not being a partner to Mulder. But, only early on. And, this was intentional. She was origionally paired with Mulder to debunk his X-Files conclusions.
As far as the show with new agents is concerned, it may very well end up being a decent show. (I doubt it) Even if it is a fine show, it still will not be the X-Files that some of us have come to know and love. But then, I guess is hasn't for past couple of seasons either.
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My wife and I have a deal. If I have sex with Gillian Anderson it's not cheating.
Sadly Gillian hasn't returned my calls.
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Coupled with that the stories dont even make sense any more, its like the writers forget what they wrote half way through an episode and just leave things unexplained.
Thank god, I thought it was just me... seems like the show has been failing to do any quality storytelling for years now.
I like Robert Patrick, a lot better than Mulder actually... but he can't save the show. Stick a fork in it... you know the rest. At least it had a few good seasons.
dont you just love when they post a story about another story! The article even tells you where to find the original story.
Use the source! that goes for news as well as code.
Is it just me or are an awful lot of MSNBC stories getting posted? Keep you friends close and your enemies closer.
I quite agree. After becoming a rather religious X-Files fan around the third season, I always thought that Carter had a plan in mind. That plan seems to have ended during the "Full Disclosure" clifhanger episode of a few years back. After torching the Consortium, who lent a great sort of cloak and dagger mystery to the show, Carter seemed to lose focus with the show, and had absolutely NO clue as to where to take the series. I mean, losing Mulder, and now Scully, and giving us two good episodes, and then about a month of standalone, completely random, eps. He also left a TON of things unexplained. How about the oil rig? Why exactly was the Black Oil under the sea, and how did it get there? I know some of you will think I forgot the fact that the spot is about where the Doomsday asteroid supposedly hit to wipe out the dinosaurs. But, to just kinda leave the story with the Oil hanging there, seems very short-sighted on Carter's part....really, I think Gish is a great actress (see SLC Punk for more of her), but she couldn't replace the early Scully...if Carter is trying to restart the series, this won't work...Sorry Chris
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Skully returens from being abducted, the aliens decided to have some fun, a changed body with an improved personality. Wow this could be a new actor :P
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I think with Gillian Anderson announcing this is the last season she will be on X-Files, I think it is time for creator Chris Carter to finally end the show.
:-(
It has been a long, nice run, but without Mulder and Scully it really isn't the same.
Perhaps you mean Weekly World News. News of the World is a gutterpress red-top from Blighty out on Sundays.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
...on Doctor Who they'd call this "regenerating".
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another" - Doctor Who
The MSN Article is datelined July 4, the Yahoo story is datelined July 2, so maybe she is going, but all these stories have a certain lead time, so maybe it's still undecided...
Further, when you consider that it's becoming a well-established tradition for these actors to state they're leaving loudly and publicly, only to return after getting promised more money, better scripts, whatever, it could very well be that both stories are equally inaccurate, and that Slashdot fell for a non-news story. "Stuff that matters" indeed.
And to think of all the fascinating stories I submitted that got rejected because we weren't in the summer news-vacuum yet...
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So, last I figured Doggett was the new Scully and Scully was the new Mulder. Now I guess Doggett will be the new Mulder and someone else will be the new Scully?
Hmm, good to hear that someone else dislikes Akira.
Well, while still cant believe it, there are people suiciding for this already...
I guess everybody knew this would happen way back when both GA and DD were in legal issues against FOX...
And if the series still persists, everybody knows it won't be the same thing, no matter how great are the new actors. Anyone remembers Michael J. Fox leaving Spin City? Well, i guess its X-File's spin off now... the time has come, its the end.
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Is television really so powerful that a well-crafted science fiction series can increase the gullibility of millions of Americans?
No, it isn't.
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A lot of people here seem to have stopped watching the X-Files entirely since the film, so whatever happens the x-files is already dead to them.
I am actually not so displeased that she is leaving. Robert Patrick gives a rock-solid performance as Doggett(apparently I'm not the only one since he won an award for best television actor).
The departure of Scully will hopefully allow Carter(if he wants to) to be more creative by letting loose the ties of the past. I for one will be tuning in to watch Patrick's character(Doggett) evolve. Krycek's dead, so there's one block of the whole conspiracy dead, now they just need to kill off the rest once and for all.
I like to think the kiss was more friendship than romance, but man, the way they've been dancing around each other... yeah, I'm disappointed and feel somewhat betrayed. I'm even more amazed that they intend to carry on the show without Duchovny.
2) The Consortium alien invasion / mytharc ends (primarily) with all the main baddies getting torched in a hanger. Effectively, the threat of a "V"-like global alien invasion, which was introduced as a potential threat in the 4th season and created a palpable urgency for a few seasons following, was neutralized simply by killing off two dozen old white men that drank brandy with Cancerman.
I don't know about that. The Syndicate is dead, but that was mostly Cancerman exacting revenge for their trying to kill him awhile back. The old administrators of the conspiracy are dead, but the last couple of seasons have affirmed that the alien invasion is still imminent.
3) The search by Mulder for his sister, which formed the true heart of the series and propulsion for his career and search for "truth" ended a couple of seasons ago with Mulder romping around with her ghost in a forest!. Turns out she died at the age of 13 or so. (insert comic 'boing!' sound effect here).
Yeah, that sucked. There was so much potential for that storyline. I'm of the opinion that they either couldn't agree or couldn't figure out how to resolve it and so took some kind of easy out. Thud.
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They should have pulled the plug on the show when Mulder left, if the show is supposed to go on now with Scully leaving. Well, the show accomblished to morph into a "spinoff" of it self. Sad, very sad indeed. It just shows(like we didnt allready know that) that, that the producers worrie alot more about $$ that actually making a good show(i mean, it wouldve been way better for the XFILES storyline if they have stopped with Mulder. For me X-FILES without Mulder is like soda with out the carbondioxide(aka. some sort of juice, its just not the same thing!!)).
they should have killed it off before it got this bad, but what else are the actors going to do? maybe it's a bit late to warn them about being typecast.
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wooden, raddled, over-rated - just like the whole of the whow, they should have got rid of the lot years ago
It's quite sad, really. I guess the love of penguins and crappy TV go hand-in-hand... no wonder TiVo runs off linux ;)
That sounds like an X-Files episode.
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A crappy pseudo sci-fi show, Duchovny returning to porn, and Anderson hosting the weakest link.
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> What planet do you live on? Who do you hang out
> with? What real people really told you they had
> their fillings removed by the government? I
> noticed you used the plural form, so you must
> have met more than one person like this.
Never underestimate the level of stupidity that is out there. Even now, in the 21st century, you have people here in the U.S. who still believe in ghosts and demons. So having people who take thier fillings out so the government can't track them wouldn't suprise me not one bit.
Last one out of the X-files turn the light off...
Exactly...as I said above (post #128), she should leave NOW, sail off into the sunset with Mulder and child, and leave the two new peeps to get on with it...
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Well now that Gillian and david have left the show it will go down like a lead pigion. I mean at certain stages they have had some real bs, but with the stars gone it has no chance tis a shame :(
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...or maybe not. I started watching X-Files reruns on FX a couple of years ago and was hooked. The characters were good, and there was a rather consistent, interesting plotline. However, this last season pretty much destroyed the show. The beginning of the season showed some hope, but it went downhill quick. I actually found myself hoping Krycek would kill Mulder in the season finale, because it would be ORIGINAL and SURPRISING for a change. However, most of the 8th season episodes lacked those qualities. Next season, the show may have a chance for redemption with Doggett. At the same time, it seems to me that Scully's character will be pretty much redundant. The X-files were turned over to Doggett and Reyes, and Scully has a child to worry about, so what will she be there for? They could make it interesting if the death of Doggett's son was somehow linked to Smoking Man and the gigantic conspiracy that propelled the show forward for so long. But wait. Smoking Man is dead along with (almost) everyone else behind the conspiracy. Oh well. Mulder proved that death means nothing on this show. Guess we have another Star Trek on our hands...
I can remember the premier of the X-Files and for once I thought that this was going to be a really great show. It was, but since has fallen by the wayside as its main characters all start to leave. Nevertheless, when I saw the first episode, I liked the plot, but I didn't think that Mulder and Scully were main characters. Odd as this may seem, I thought the premise was to go through different FBI cases with different agents, and it surprised me to see that it was all the same two agents for all hte cases. From the second episode on I got the drift, but I think that since both main characters are or have left, this could be an interesting idea for the X-Files to try. .... or they could just cancel the show and get it over with.
Those two were almost household names... what's left now?
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>Out of curiosity, why is it only sci-fi gets this kind of rabid fandom?
Ever hear of Xena: Warrior Princess, or how about Buffy? Go to http://www.google.com and do a search for Babylon 5 and the above two shows and see who has the bigger rabid fan base.
Babylon 5 = 436,000
Xena = 789,000
Buffy = 1,720,000
Is it a X front-end for a file server or a FBI spy program ?
Well I just did a 'ps ax | grep xfiles' and it doesn't show up.
So it's not running. I think.
Maybe the process died.
Oh wait ! There is something in my crontab scheduled sunday at 9PM EDT. Is that what we call a zombie process ?
Of course, one can argue that MST3K fell into the trap, with all the changes between season 6 and 10, but since much of the creative talent was still on the show, it didn't suffer as badly (most people still argue that Joel was better than Mike in an infinite number of ways).
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> Anderson says she's leaving Chris Carter's long-running sci-fi hit so
> she can spend more time with her daughter,
> "Now, when I am with her, I don't work," she told the Times . "But for
> the first seven series it was very difficult. She spent a lot of time
> on the set. We all operated under the illusion that was enough.
> Outside of TV, Anderson has been working to shed her Scully image,
> appearing a bit more feminine as a socialite in last year's The House
> of Mirth.
Whew. More feminine eh. Amazing how times change. I remember when being a "supermom" and having the husband sacrifice his career to be with the daughter was the rage. Everyone thought there would be female computer scientists and presidents of countries. Now bring up so much as the idea of a female CEO and people call you a child abuser. It's almost like the 80's never were.
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I started watching the x-files and it was a cool 'outer limits' style show, with different spookiness each week. And that was cool.
And then the plot arc stuff happened and that was immensely cool. I _love_ ongoing stories ever since Bab5 got me addicted (and then DS9 and Buffy).
And then the plot arc stuff went on, and on, and on, and on. And eventually I realised that there wasn't an end point and that Carter was just making it up as he went along.
And it died for me.
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Agreed. It was at about the same time that we had the song "Mulder and Scully" by Catatonia getting solid airtime. You know the feeling - it's on every radio station you tune into. Becoming a household name is often the first sign of forthcoming doom.
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I can't remember when the film came out, but I'm pretty sure i gave up on the x-files before that (of course, being in Europe, it took a while to get here).
Generally: first three seasons great (only because of the Darin Morgan episodes in the third), next two seasons shite, other seasons unwatched.
Fortunately, Geena Davis looks a lot like Scully, but more sexy (and her show is more funny than X-Files) .
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I was never entirely gripped by the X-Files, but I did find it at times diverting. Still, I did notice an interesting social phenomenon that seemed to correlate with the popularity of the X-Files:
America seemed to get dumber. Before the X-Files made paranoia almost chic, the only black helicopter and gray proctologist fans were those you met furtively clutching copies of News of the World. If you caught them and smirked, they were buying it for a friend (sort of like all of the inflatable dolls that no one ever buys for themselves, and the millions of Playboys sold every year to those who only peruse the articles).
After the X-Files, it was okay to be dumb. People who weren't escapees from mental wards would tell you with a straight face that they'd had their fillings removed so that the government wouldn't spy or them. In the years of its peak popularity, I talked to an increasing number of the imbecilic who believed that every episode of the X-Files were real FBI secret reports re-enacted for television.
I've always wondered whether the X-Files was merely liberating the existant mentally feeble, or creating them anew?
Is television really so powerful that a well-crafted science fiction series can increase the gullibility of millions of Americans?
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I think this is a great opportunity to bring Michelle Pffeifer in as a replacement. Only her character should inexpicably wear that vinyl cat woman suit throughout every episode. Yeah, that'd revive my interest in the show...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I've got to admit that if the choice was to wrap up the X-Files a few years ago in a manner that would make it an enduring classic always honed to a sharp edge or to continue it by dragging it out and then try to swap out the lead characters to keep it going, I'd take the former in a flash. The X Files will always be remembered as significant but now also as something that should have quit while it was ahead. That's tragic, when it could have been so much more powerful as a complete body of work if it had been distilled instead of diluted. However, since Carter has choosen this path, what could have been no longer matters. The X Files may have been better as just Mulder and Sculley in their prime, but the reality is that the X Files AS A WHOLE now consists of M&S in their prime, M&S over-the-hill, and also Doggett and Reyes. (Kind of like all our lives, which would be best if we could time warp thru college forever and skip the ex-wife before we get to the good relationship...) So again I say, I'm giving Doggett and Reyes a chance.
Boy, do I ever agree with the resolution of Samantha's abduction. I halfway expected to see Barney come on-camera from the left when Mulder was roamping around with her happy happy joy joy ghost. This was absolutely the low point of the series and marked the moment the X-Files cut itself loose from the mythical aspect that made it great.
Hey, you can't get much more "News for Nerds" than X-Files miscellanea.
Stuff that matters? Well, it matters to nerds I guess.
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1. loss of writers, producers, directors to millenium.
2. loss of writers, producers, directors to move to hollywood from canada.
3. chris carter's abandonement of his original idea of a planned 5 year story arc.
Hey, I wish I'd said that. Oh, wait, I did.
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I don't watch TV alot, but B5 was one of the best TV series (scifi or not) I ever saw. JMS truly created a little gem there, and he's definitively not a one-shot poney (just look at what he did to the comic world with Rising Stars).
If he takes the same care with Legends of the Rangers than he did with B5, and since TNT doesn't have anything to do with the new serie and thus can't mess it us (Crusade anyone?), I really don't see how you can condemn it before even seeing it (or knowing anything about it for that matter).
Maybe it will suck. Maybe it will be just as good as B5. Knowing JMS, I think (and hope) for the latter. In any case, I'll wait 'till it out before making any judgements.
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Was it the second or third time they found Mulder's Sister?
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Especially an entertainment link at MSN. According to this she may be back for more, assuming the show is still on.
You forgot the bit where they got John Dawgit (spelling?) and he just reads all the lines that were normally scripted for Scully and Scully reads the lines normally written for Mulder.
Amazing how Scully suddenly believes everything and John wont believe anything even though he sees things with his own eyes.
Coupled with that the stories dont even make sense any more, its like the writers forget what they wrote half way through an episode and just leave things unexplained.
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This was actually Duchovny's idea, and not originally in the script, at least, according to his interview at EOnline.[1]
I agree with your rant. I quit watching shortly after the movie, and nothing I've heard about recent seasons makes me regret it.
[1]While I'm posting, might as well throw in the Beeb's coverage of Anderson's career move, since I haven't seen it linked here yet.
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the x-files has really gone downhill now...
I liked the "mythology" episodes that advanced the store and some of the standalone episodes. What I didn't like was how the grand plot kept twisting in ways that made no sense. It really made me wish that someone had mapped out a five-year plot for the show. I also got sick of seeing two "mythology" episodes that built up to something, then some crappy standalone episode the next week.
This one at Yahoo (nice photo!) says she hasn't ruled out to return, this one at Mrshowbiz reports that she will not be back. Let's just wait and see...
Personally, I would have preferred more episodes with no conspiracy plot in them. One monster / phenomenon per episode, that's it. Now that Scully is a mother, I find it hard to believe that she would do anything dangerous...
Because I'm sure a few people reading this haven't heard of Catatonia, or this song, I've got it hosted (fot a limited time only, no doubt) here, or directly linked here, although that may not work due to the way GeoCities servers stop direct linking.
If you would like any other Catatonia mp3s, feel free to e-mail me. Nothing like assimlating a few more people into raving fans ;)
Catatonia are one of my favorite bands, and with the singer Cerys' 'odd' voice can be an aquired taste. Mulder and Scully is far from their best (imho), but is a good sampler.
If you'd like some more info on the band, a good and constantly updated site is here.
To go further offtopic, I'd like to thank the late Napster, because without it I'd never have bought 3 Catatonia albums, a bucketload of their singles, and an EP imported from Japan, and 2 EP's from Amazon.... but Napster robs from artists, right?
Well, after almost everybody got killed in the season finale a few years ago, and Cancerman was killed afterwards, X-files kinda died.
Then Duchovny stepped out of it (the episodes with mr family man (*puke*) still haven't aired in the Netherlands, but I assume they suck bigtime), now Anderson. Going downhill fast.
In my opinion, Carter should've ended the series a long time ago, maybe with a cliffhanger, but the series lost the charm it had a few years ago.
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I think it was more of a slow lingering death. The best episodes were superb, but the dross just drowned it all out in the end.
In particular, there was only so many times that I could take Mulder's whiny monotonic yelling and flashbacks to childhood anal probings. The whole alien conspiracy thing got tired, confused and irritating, and I stopped caring long before Duchovny left.
Basically, they ran out of ideas about the time the movie was made, and have been coasting since then. Gillian will be missed, but only in an abstract way, I think. Frankly, I'm surprised she's stayed so long, considering the amount of skin they've been making her show in the past couple of seasons. Not that I've watched much of them, but the trailers have all been Gillian in a vest, Gillian sweating through a blouse, looking down Gillian's pleasant but modest cleavage... The sexual tension between Scully and Mulder was delightfully and tastefully handled - it's sad to see Scully reduced to a titillation role, and I think Gillian's right to get out while she's still got some dignity and credibility left.
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The way this discussion is going, I figured I might mention a website that is dedicated to TV Shows that go from popular, to DOA through a process known as "Jumping the Shark". Here's are the gory X-File specifics to this : http://jumptheshark.com/x/xfiles.htm
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Actually, I wish Anderson was leaving THIS season so we could get on with a clean slate instead of this drag-it-on-til-it-stinks mentality the X-Files has now. Chris Carter & Co. have in my opinion pulled a minor miracle off by establishing Robert Pattrick / John Dogget as a viable and even desirable alternative to Duchovney / Mulder. I have become quite a fan of Doggett's take-no-crap mentality over Mulder's trust-no-one. I also think Gish is a hottie. I say lets wish Mulder and Scully well as enduring icons and get on to seeing what the dynamic could be with people who actually are on a first name basis with one another. The original X-files was about 90s-style alienation and distance between people. I'd like to see them explore the conspiracy of the 21st century now, which is all becoming one big happy group / hive mind led by M$.
So what? Who cares?
When the X-Files first came out it was interesting and innovative, catching the mood of the time perfectly and holding it with well written stories and interesting characters. There was a good balance of one-off shows and the main story arc, and it was all original material.
And now? The main characters have left or are leaving, we're seeing the same old shit time and time again and it's just not exciting any more. I gave up after the film came out, and I've not missed it at all.
It's just a pity that studios feel the need to extend shows beyond any kind of reasonable shelf life, and that far too many writers are all too willing to make a quick buck by going along with it. Let's face it, most writers just aren't talented enough to keep coming up with fresh ideas for years and years, and so we see recycled crap repeating itself again and again. Let it die for Christ's sake!
And even worse, there's the resurrected show, in which studios decide that they can re-milk a dead cash cow. There's a new Star Trek series coming out (oh joy), and even worse, new Babylon 5 as well (ugh). This is just riding on the backs of those viewers who are so fanatical about these things they'll spend their money on it no matter what, which in my book is pretty low.
Out of curiosity, why is it only sci-fi gets this kind of rabid fandom? Other genres have shows which are popular, but it seems only Trekkers and whatever it is B5 fans call themselves are willing to fork out big bucks for some kind of novelty alarm clock which plays their show's theme tune. Is it a substitute for a healthy social life? I just don't get it myself.
I am no longer thusly inclined. My trust in Chris Carter's instincts was misplaced.
Nowadays, if there is to be dissing of the series, I'll join the chorus and ask for a refrain if it ends too quickly.
I find I'm amazed at and depressed by the actions of Chris Carter. He was once a vocal defendant of preserving the dignity of the series. He spoke lucidly about needing to make decisions that were in the best interest of the characters, and one would assume, the legacy of the show. He stated repeatedly on the record there would be no romance between Scully & Mulder, such as in this interview from 1999:
I'm amazed at what Chris Carter has done with the trust of viewers...
The show has become an insufferable self-parody, and Chris Carter will have only himself to blame when it comes time to reflect on the legacy of the series. I suspect he will, for the rest of his life (particularly AFTER the series dies presumably a couple of seasons from now) hear fans and critics alike tell him that he blew it. The X-files was, in its day, both a cultural phenomenon and a show of the highest calibre. But it has become now a depressing, hollow shell of its former self. It has no heart, no soul and no mind, and it asks the same of its viewers.
Rob Malda (who plays Cmdr Taco) said "Yeah, we've been with Slashdot for several years now, and we just felt it was time for a change". The plot twist mirrors those of The X-Files and Buffy, where major characters were killed off for similar reasons.
Industry analysts suspect that fear of typecasting prompted the move, though some wonder if the editors will be able to live down previous glories; Doug Synergy, Self Proclaimed Web-Guru, said "Y'know, they've been doing news for nerds and bashing Microsoft for so long it's difficult to imagine them doing something like The Barbie Fan Club".
In recent weeks Slashdot has been subject to a series of intriguing plot twists, with the server repeatedley being unavailable, but even this hasn't held the interest of previously loyal fans.
It seems unlikely that the site will continue in it's current form for much longer, but it's been suggested that current editors Michael Simms and John Katz could take over a spin-off site; Slashtroll, Goatse.cx That Matters.
on the exact moment the X-Files Jumped The Shark. For me, it was the movie, and the realisation that the plot was never going to have a satisfying story arc as long as they milked it like a cash cow...
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