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Xena To Join X-Files
joestump98 writes: "Yahoo! has this story about Lucy Lawless joining the cast of X-Files. Her part is being tightly guarded, but I can imagine it will make for some great stories. She's only signed up for two episodes as of now."
I'm suprised that show is still going. Didn't they run out out plotlines like 5 years ago?
it did
Gabrielle became the wife of a husband and no longer works. At least Xena has a part time interest in not following Rob around all day like a hamster.
This story just makes me think of the simpsons quote: "Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually that I didn't even notice." Lesbian barbarian women sex to wierd hentai alien sex? What's next?! :)
Nite_Hawk
He got cured of cancer by the aliens, dont'cha know.
"A very special episode of X-Files..."
> I really liked the show up until the movie, but the season after that, you start to realize that the story can no longer progress towards anything.
Methinks you missed something. A whole lotta somethings. I realized this during the first _season_. All the conspiracy nonsense meant that they could _never_ really reveal "the truth" without killing the premise of the show. Anyone remember what happened to Moonlighting after David and Maddy got together? It's kinda like letting the castaways get off Gilligan's island. Sure, you can bring the Harlem Globetrotters on, but it's not the same thing.
The only decent episodes, IMO, were the creature ones, with no connection to the conspiracy junk. My favourites were the town full of ex circus freaks, the one where Fox & Dana pose as husband and wife, and the one about the black baseball player/alien.
Duchovny should go back and do more Red Shoe Diaries, and Gillian Anderson can fade back into a much-deserved obscurity.
Cigarette or cigar?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I thought people on Slashdot wanted Bruce Campbell (Autolycus in Xena and Hercules) to replace Mulder. That didn't happen, so they picked Lawless as a second choice?
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Episode one: Xena runs out of bubble gum.
Episode two: Xena reaches the secret boardroom
of the plutocratic pranksters who have been
teasing Scully and Mulder, and teaches them a
lesson they won't forget.
Episode three: with Xena gone, and every
mystery solved ("and I would have gotten
away with it if it weren't for that meddling
barbarian princess!"), Scully and Mulder
are reassigned to the Sklyarov case.
There was. It was about a mindless slug-worshipping cult that kidnapped Scully and tied her to the bed half-naked.
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Special Agent John Doggett & Special Agent Xena will undoubtedly deliver Mulder & Scully's lines in an inimitable fashion, and will remind us of the bygone days when Coy & Vance Duke were speaking Bo & Luke's lines while (lackadasically) tearing around Hazzard county in the General Lee.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I don't think that FOX can pull this off, unless they plan on bringing the Simpsons writers on for the two episodes.
Chances are it'll probably wind up just like this. (Desparately Xeeking Xena - Halloween Episode X)
Lisa: "I didn't know Xena could fly."
Lucy: "I told you already, I'm not Xena. I'm Lucy Lawless."
The X-files have sucked ever since they felt the need to make episodes about folks making films about the X-files. The `introspection' option means they've long-since run out of good ideas.
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Mulllllderrrranahahahahahahahahahahahahaah
(commence ass kicking here)
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Hell, if its good enough for 'ER', it's good enough for X-Files.
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Reminds me of Northern Exposure after Joel left. They can try to bring in new people, but the "magic" is probably gone for good. Let's see if David Duchovny is any more successful in his movie career than Rob Morrow.
One thing that bugs me about X-Files is that they started calling "Cancerman" "Cigarette-Smoking Man". It just doesn't have the same ring to it. Did the tobacco companies complain that the TV show was tarnishing their pristine public image?
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I happen to find French girls very exciting, thank you..:)
and if X-Files does come to NZ, maybe they could do a few episodes on the unexplained mysteries of recent Government decisions
How about Seven of Nine on Boston Public ?
Long nose and eats aunts. Say it with an "Ha-mera-kin axe scent"
Might as well replace Scully with someone who can fly.
(yes, that's a Simpsons reference.)
I can't spell or type, but that doesn't mean I'm unusually stupid.
If the US audience hear her speak with her native New Zealand accent, they'll have to assume she's been cast as an alien.
Reminds me of a camping trip my parents went on. They (from Oz, like me) were in in England when they heard a child of a fellow camper proclaim to her parents: "They sound English, mum, but they're a funny kind of English." Hence the Australian flag hastily painted on the site of the tent. That was 1965 and the navel gazers are still out there coughamericanscough.
Yeah, I can see how having Lucy Lawless being the actress playing the part would open up some great stories.
Oh wait, no I don't. In general, what does it matter who plays the part. As long as the person is a competent actor/actress, it's the writing and directing that are going to matter. With no knowledge of the part, how do we know that Lucy Lawless playing it can more for "some great stories"?
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Yeah, I guess Jeri Ryan (sic) wasn't available to traipse around FBI HQ in skin tight spandex :)
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Does anyone else think this is the most transparent attempt to save a dying show by injecting both low-end star appeal and cheesecake since Sci Fi added the ex teenage-pornstar (can't remember her name) to First Wave?
Man, the X-Files have been sucking for the past 2 years. First, they choose Robert Patrick over Bruce Campbell. Now this.
What happened to episodes like "The Great Mutado"?
Looks like the downward trend continues. (No offense meant to the Xena fans).
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
That wasn't a baseball game (at least not the incident I'm thinking of)
p ress.html has a story. (By the way, the Wings won 5-3, on the road to a Stanley Cup win that year)
Lawless was singing the National Anthem at the Arrowwood Pond in Anaheim CA, prior to game 3 of the Red Wings-Mighty Ducks playoff series in 1997. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8715/free
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Dark Angel is pretty much T&A and SF in one.
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This is particularly true since they didn't end the show when and how they should have: When Duchovny was leaving and with another big event, perhaps leaving a nice big hole (yes, the arcs are full of holes already) where another feature film could have jumped off from.
Ah, but they don't have to leave the country to do that. In fact, I'm sure an X-Files screenwriter is sitting right now, pen in hand, ready to put the finishing touches on the big X-Files stem-cell episode.
I think 'X-Files Goes to New Zealand' will be JUST as exciting as 'Facts Of Life In France'!
You haven't lived until you've seen Xena Warrior Princess die in a terrible grill fire while Sculley flails her arms in terror.
Sounds like an acceptable plot...
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You're using her as bait, Master!
Moulder and Scully go back in time (to whatever time Xena takes place in) using the Lone Gunmen's time machine to investigate how the hell they were able to keep their bangs so trim in primitive days.
Personally, I think it ran it's course when they moved to L.A. To me, nothing says X-files like gloomy, dreary, rainy Vancouver. It was the perfect environment for the show.
Xena learned to act at the William Davis Centre (a picture/quote from her is currently on the front page).
The school was founded by William B. Davis, who is better known as X-file cult favorite, The Cigarette Smoking Man .
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I was going to make an incredibly witty remark about the homoerotic possibilities for Lawless and Anderson, but it looks like 51 people beat me to it.
Why not just bring Kevin Sorbo in as the new male lead?
Oh, I'm just kidding. I'm sure that Lucy will be a wonderful addition to the cast. It's good to see that they chose such a respectable actress. Maybe now the X-Files will finally be taken seriously.
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Ever since Duchoveny left the show I have hardley bothered to watch anymore. Personally I think the management bigwigs are trying to string along a dying program. It was a great show when it was in its prime. I think most will agree with me in saying that show has really lost its edge.
X-Files was a great 3 year show, stretched out for 9 years. Now its just a night stalker rip-off.
I wish shows like this would have a begining, middle and END.
I pretty much stopped regularly watching it when they changed moulder apt. number to 42. btw, 42 is now the official "most over used number". Naturally the fanboys will flame me because once a fanboy likes something, it could be changed into a pile of steaming poop, and they'd still say its the best.
Its no damn good anymore, please make it stop.
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Everyone I know liked the show "up until the movie."
Sadly, X-Files has suffered the same fate as our beloved "Babylon 5". Chris Carter originally intended that the movie would be the end of the show... permanently. It would answer most, if not all of the questions. It was to be a five year run, then a movie.
Unfortunately, Fox (the network, not the character) found that it was just too big a money-maker (and ratings-hog) to let go of. And so, although the end of Season 5 seemed ideally positioned to fulfill the original plan, 'twas not to be.
If you all remember, Straczynski (sp?) had written a movie followed by a five year story line. Season 4 of B5 however, had very poor ratings, and as such the network honchos decided to cut the series short. Stracynski compressed Seasons 4 & 5 into the fourth season to finish the storyline. Low and behold, the ratings went through the roof! (No wonder... so much action in so little time). The network kept the original contract, and Stracynski had to write more story to put into the fifth season... and it sucked (comparitively speaking).
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I'm sick and tired of being responsible for the preservation of the universe and its outlying suburbs.
There was also a rumor earlier today (can't find the page, pulled it from SciFi.com AvantGo) that Annabeth Gishs' character might be gay. Hmmm...I seem to remember another Lucy Lawless show that did well playing up the "are they or aren't they" question for several years. If Doggett starts wearing silver-wear on his head, I'm out.
First she had a beef with the gods, now she has a beef with aliens. At least she isn't on Star Trek :).
I don't know if anything can save the X-Files anymore. Might be time to be banished to re-run heaven.
Shades of "Silk Stalkings" methinks.
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ok - who knows where we can find a copy of the video of lucy when she popped her top at that baseball game..?
/. pr0n, i dont know what is... and dont bother trying to sneak a goatse link - we all know better.
If this isnt the perfect opportunity for a little
Wasn't there supposed to be an episode of the X-Files featuring /. characters? I seem to remember reading something about this in Variety...
I loved her character on "Just Shoot Me", showed she can do comical well, and Xena showed she can do a fair bit of action (I want to see Lucy as a Sith lord in star wars, if you are out there Lucas...). I think Lucy Lawless has shown that you don't have to be an Americian to be a fantastic actor, maybe a few of the executives at the studios should notice that. If Lucy wins an award for her preformance we Aussies better hurry up and claim her as our own, she did work in Australia for a while, maybe not as an actor, but...
At least us Aussies will get a chance to see it for it is unlikely that channel ten (who screens the X-Files here) will ditch X-Files MIDWAY though a season (such as the 4th season) and play the rest off months later at 4am in the morning!!!
Maybe I speak too soon though
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Uhhh, yeah - all that armor... Heh heh ... he he heh... heh heh...
What a straight line...
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This must be coming close to an end. That's what Ellen Degeneres did before the whole thing caved in.
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Just as long as they don't make me watch "World's Scariest Lesbians"
If they show Janet Reno there, I'll will both have a heart attack and collect a bet I once made...
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Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
and it's a real weapon, too... just not quite as pinballesque.
Shades of "Silk Stalkings" methinks
Heheh -- wouldn't it be great... if they could bring back David Duchovny (remember the Red Shoe Diaries) and team him with Lucy Lawless... hehe, we'd have the XXX files.
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there are those of us who really love robert patrick, and think he's a vast improvement over the dull, lifeless david duchovny (whose finest moment came as a Nice Guy opposing a sadistic Brad Pitt in Kalifornia, IMO).
dunno about lucy though. we'll have to see. but patrick is da man.
btw - it's renee o'connor. who actually looks a bit more like gillian anderson than lucy does. well whatever :)
oh yeah. hinted at? obviously you missed the final ep of Xena. oops, did I say something bad? :)
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actually, my lesbian friends argued about it for many years.
(weird, as a straight male, that I would have more lesbian friends than guy friends, total. I find it odd anyway.)
some were convinced, others were just, like, "you just want there to be something going on because of all the leather." :)
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david duchovny will only be successful in his movie career if he can manage to arrange getting into more films with brad pitt.
well, that's what I say.
the problem with Exposure after Joel was that the whole show was basically Joel and Maggie at that point, and the doctor they got in was an idiot. (the actor, not the character. many of the characters were idiots on that show. part of the charm :)
however, dig Patrick. he is the essence of cool. I actually prefer this guy to Duchovny. for a guy who was supposed to be obsessed with aliens, he always came off as totally flat.
at least the lone gunmen spinoff died. there was something that had a real possibility of making people make fun of geeks even more than they do already.
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what do you think gillian was for?
hmmmmm.... ;)
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...and according to this Norwegian tabloid newspaper that is just what's in store...
In a related story, Duchovny has announced an about-face on his earlier abandonment of the long-running show, and will be returning this fall. Asked to comment on his sudden change of attitude, the X-Files star replied, "Ah... Um... I, er, missed Scully. Yeah. And I wanted to hang with that T2 guy. Really."
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with her original, undyed blond hair.
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It will make it easier to accept her in a different role, since most people have grown accustomed to her raven tresses in Xena.
Should be a good change
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two episodes
Nice, firm, round episodes?
Today's guest star has been brought to you by the letter X...
Well, here is the proof:
http://infinity.hn.org/xena_and_scully.jpg
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replacing scully.
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I was a huge fan of the show, but as far as I can see, it has run it's course. I'm not trying to be negative but really, they are flogging a dead horse. They could bring in Kevin Spacey or Harrison Ford, but the story just isn't there any more. By continuing with this, they are besmirching the good name that the first 4 or 5 seasons has established. Let it go, FOX.
Hinted? Hinted? My gay friend would knock you silly if she heard that. It's only 'hinted at' to us straight people. The gay community have known what's really been going on for years.
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If anything, this oughta keep the kids busy for a couple weeks trading more new "nude" pictures on just about any IRC, ICQ, messageboard, etc. channel that can be found.
l337h4XX0r_69: h3Y! j00 g0tz n00d p1X7uRz 0f n3w x-ph1l3z ch1ck?
Oh fox, you're the masters at using sex appeal in everything. Now that the lead female (read: sex object (read: this is how network execs work)) character's leaving a major show, the need to fill the place with another character with equal fan following (read: horny teenage boys).
- Relativistic? That's barely Newtonian!
Xena meets X-Files anyone? So first Xena is the plenty-o-cleavage FBI agent in a short skirt doing invesitagtions, runs into aliens and like Clark Kent turns into Xena: The Alien Slayer and kicks some serious butt...
OK... Enough late night reruns for me.
If God gave us curiosity
As one brazilian soap i once heard of .. the soap was getting so bad that they managed to kill everyone in a plane crash.. and start all over again with one of the secondary caracters. Or like in DALAS, make all the seasons (except the 1st one) to be a product of a bad dream of one of the main caracter..
I fuse with Mercer every single day...
Xena is only marginally better than that pitiful jungle slut show that Gena Nolin has going. the only people who like Xena are dateless 14-17 year olds who want her to tie them up and make them play Dungeons & Dragons badly. unless she's an alien that they are going to kill in one episode, i'm not interested. the show was about mulder. mulder is gone. the show is over. now it's just about chris carter trying to ride this gravy train as long as he can.
Evil is the money of all root....
They need to have David Duchovny make a guest appearance. He learns the shocking news, and then with a dead-pan smirk, ask Scully,
"Next time, can I watch...?"
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uhhhh....no!
geee, that was original. here is mine: you putz!
What's next, Ally McBeal in Star Trek? Worf in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
There is absolutely no reason to panic.
Um, I don't see how Scully is supposed to be a sex object. Gentlemen, she is not hot. At all. She's also occasionally whiny, and often irritating. I cannot see her as a sex object.
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I mean, really... how could Scully have ignored Mulder's raw sexual attraction for so long? Occam's Razor would seem to indicate that Scully played Volleyball in school...
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Yep, tried to put glitz, and typical Hollywood techniques to a dark, quaint, once scary and thought provoking show. Hollywood absolutely ruined a good show. I quit watching after the first 3 eps of the 6th season. I was a die hard fan, had to not schedule anything on Sunday nights to watch the X-files. Now, I couldn't care less.
Or even better, will Gabrielle aardvark around with Scully?
If Lucy wins an award for her preformance (sic) we Aussies better hurry up and claim her as our own, she did work in Australia for a while, maybe not as an actor, but...
She's ours! Piss off! We've got Lucy Lawless and Sam Neill, Lee Tamahori is the favourite pick to direct the next Bond flick, and the two stories in the past 24 hours that have made Slashdotters tearfully grateful for the good old days have both been about insane kiwis.
And you guys hosted the last "Survivor", so no sheep jokes, right? Or else it's the crutching irons...
Uh oh, you know what's coming. They're going to give geeks what they've _really_ been waiting for: lesbian innuendo between Scully and Xena.
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I think X-files could survive without Mulder and Scully, but it has other problems. Mainly that the story has nowhere to go but down.
I really liked the show up until the movie, but the season after that, you start to realize that the story can no longer progress towards anything. They just keep shuffling things around and drumming up more drama Soap-opera-style.
They can't get new viewers now, and they've lost huge chunks of their old faithful viewers. The only people who continue to watch are only hooked because of past intrigue.
I'll bet Mulder's soul ends up in Lucy's body.
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Y'know, a freak accident. Or aliens. Yeah, aliens, that's the ticket.
xena's dialogue:
(high pitched, high frequency) grrrrrrr ooooo hhhh lalalalalalla
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Now the nerds can get both their T&A and SF fix in one, conveniently packaged hour instead of having to flip channels...
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