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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."
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.
"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.
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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."
Mulllllderrrranahahahahahahahahahahahahaah
(commence ass kicking here)
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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?
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"?
--Ty
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?
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!
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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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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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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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.
Ok, enough gossip, back to the real world.
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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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Nice, firm, round episodes?
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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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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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.
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.
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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