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David Duchovny In The X-Files Finale
unemployed_schlep writes "According to the official press release, DD will reprise his Fox Mulder role for the two-hour series closer. He'll also direct and co-write (but not appear in) an episode to premiere in late April. The final five eps all deal with the mythology thread." I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping
that the final round of episodes can wash the taste out of
my mouth from this season. I know Carter & Co have
it in them...
I didn't think that show was still on the air...
I was under the impression it was completely in reruns in syndication.
Well, DD never could tear himself away from the show. The fans never really warmed to the T1000 dude.
i'll watch anything with DD in it... 38DD is my favorite, but i'll settle for 36.
x-files + porn = dream come true.
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ever since scully got preggers and the show just started getting weak. can someone fill me on on the theme referenced above?
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The actor David Duchovny, aka Fox Mulder of X-Files fame, has an unknown, very dark past. This photo proves that he was, during WWII, a member of the Croatian Waffen-SS legion 'Waffen-Gebrigs-Division der SS "Handschar"' (he is the second from the left). Probably it was fears that this dark fact would become known that prompted his dismissal from the TV-series. One can only speculate about the atrocities he has committed and taken part in, as this particular legion, mainly recruted among Bosnian Muslims, was notorious for it's brutality.
I havent seen the X-Files in ages.. though I suspect a possibly ender for Duchovney will be him getting taken by aliens to visit his sister on some UFO.
They have always had this sister/abduction thing going on - maybe they will end it for Fox Mulder that way?
Who knows.
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Oh... it is, isn't it? Xena meets T1000 or something like that?
Please, please, please... a tasteful, satisfactory ending.... Just once! I just want one satisfying, well-thought out season ender. Doesn't have to tie up all the (horribly convoluted) threads, doesn't have to result in everybody finding their true love/hooking up with their partner, just end one episode in a way that doesn't give the viewer cinematic blue-balls. Just once! Or let the guy who wrote "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" write it and screw closure. Either one would be good.
I have been so looking forward to this, its good to see it finally happen.
The end of the series that is, I couldn't care less about DD
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Any UK /. readers know when any series/seasons are being shown in the UK on terrestrial?
The last episode I remember seeing was one that was filmed like a live news item...
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... unfortunately will require a bit more than just having Duchovny on board for the finale. His presence will ensure that something will develop. Whether it will develop into a non-smelly/uncrap finish, on the other hand, is another matter altogether.
After all the storytelling bullshit that's been going on in the show, I watch it more out of a bored bad habit than anything else. And it was so entertaining before...
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Death will come, and will have your eyes
-- Pavese
They should come back and film the final 5 episodes in Vancouver, to bring things back to their roots. That would be true closure, a fitting end.
Plus it'd hopefully really piss DD off to have to return to this "rainy" city he so hates. =)
After the movie, and season three and five, I expected a great shift in the series. I expected a great war between aliens and humans and human collaborators. Maybe an invasion. Instead DD leaves. I stopped watching the show after season six started suckin. Too bad, it seemed to completely lose direction.
I used to be a fan, but fell off the bandwagon during an episode where Muldur could have found out all the answers to his questions about his sister and chose not to (can't remember why).
Poor, Gillian Anderson. Wonder when she'll be posing in Playboy to "boost her career"?
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
There's a lot of issues that they'll need to wrap up in those last 5 episodes, so hopefully they'll be able to pull it off. I wish them the best of luck... they have a lot of people to try pleasing. :)
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An another note... I pray to God that DD writes some Scully-in-the-shower or Scully-with-some-greased-up-lesbian-aliens into his episode.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
want to see the Burnaby Public Library passed off as an American government office, again?
I will confess that during my time in London, the hype around this show seven years ago was crazy. I watched the 'murderous office building' episode and could not believe it was filmed in Vancouver. And the acting was terrible.
To my lament, I was hooked. These days I feel X-Files viewers are being punished for their loyalty. Like heroin addicts.
Do you really think bringing it back here would be worth it? The show would still suck.
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Death will come, and will have your eyes
-- Pavese
Chris Carter is full of mouthwash?!
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No matter what he says, he loves being in the spotlight. He not only returns to the show, but he gets to direct, too (and as a fan, I've seen the episodes he directed before which quite frankly sucked.) At least we'll have a chance for closure, though. I bet they're paying him $40 million an episode this time :-)
The last episodes I watched have absurd plots that have no clear beginning or end, refer to obscure things in episodes of years ago, hint clumsily at new incredible developments that will happen in future episodes, and quite frankly have more special effects than interesting plot. Plus now they threw in those two new agents that, despite being honestly decent actors, just don't match Gillian and Duchovny and can't seem to manage to peel them off the screen. It reminds be of Coy and Vance who replaced Bo and Luke in the Dukes of Hazzard : they weren't bad at all, but the serie was so linked with its original characters that they just didn't fit in.
I don't know, my friends and I used to enjoy debating what the various X-Files characters were up to, and what might happen in the next episode, but these days it's a just clumsy show that doesn't stick.
In the next episode, Mulder and Scully search for Adam Venus' penis.
Funny, every time I watch it, I keep hearing it as "Dogbert". And I picture Scully and the little round Dilbert character getting out of an FBI Ford Tarus with sidearms ready to take on the latest sci-fi freak or government conspericy in a zany TV / Comic crossover that never should have been...
But maybe that's just me.
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Well, I gave up on this show a season or two ago, but since they're finally driving a stake through it, I might remember to check out the last episode. This show has gone so far downhill it isn't even funny.
I don't think Mulder will help much, it is purely for the nostalgia of the show.
Personally, I think the series effectively ended when Mulder figured out what happened to his sister. After that, it was never that amazing..
Never hit your grandmother with a shovel, for it leaves a bad impression on her mind...
you think Mulder and Scully should have just died in the movie and saved us all the pain. I kept waiting for it, but to no avail. The nearly undead FBI agents, it was almost comical, but just really sad.
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A few weeks ago, someone on /. made an observation referring to napster, but I think it applies equally well to X-files... "it's like a small animal that's been hit by a car. It's flopping around, crippled, blood all over the pavement, and howling in pain. Someone put it out of its misery."
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
And then kill your TV.
if I remember correctly, David Duchovny shows up in a pink speedo sometime during the second season of Twin Peaks.
Series finale. Apparently, unlike Gary Larson and Bill Watterson, Chris Carter failed to master the art of "quitting while ahead".
I stopped watching it shortly after "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", 3x04. Was there anything remotely as good ever again on the series?
Who knows, maybe they'll fire all the screenwriters, post a slash competition somewhere on Usenet, and the final episode will end with a Mulder/Skinner/Krycek three-way.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Mulder and Scully have almost (and even Mulder even has) died so many times throughout the life of the X-Files that it's not even funny.
A fitting end to the series would be the death of Mulder and Scully. The best way is to have Krycek comes back to life and kill them.
This show is still on? It was terrible so long ago, I can't belive that they didn't yank it by now. Truly mind boggling.
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Maybe it should be an episode where Mulder, The Lone Gunmen and The Tick try to discover how the Millenim Group is linked to the project Harsh Realm.
When do you think X-files lost it's groove? Or as it's know, jump the shark?
'SBEMAIL!' is better than a goat!!
Maybe now that they're finishing up with the X-Files, maybe they can start up the XXX-Files ;)
They just forgot to tell the cast and crew.
Or at least it was so bad I stopped watching it.
-Kevin
X-Files was dragged along a little too long. I think the whole 'alien conspiracy' thing went on for too long, and really didn't tie up anything. It's like the show was grasping so hard to keep that little secret, it was unwilling to give it up for fear of prematurely ending the show.
They really would have been better off ending it after the movie. Or maybe even ending it with a movie, I don't know.
I would have been hyped about seeing it's finale in Season 5, but today it's like "uhh... people are excited about it?"
I'm not trying to bash X-Files, I like the show. But now I understand why some series are ended with the explanation of 'we want to stop while it is still exciting.", kind of like they did with Deep Space Nine.
"Derp de derp."
Umm.
Appear in a series of movies based on the show but not nearly as good (though the effects rocked), as well as in "Red Shoe Diaries" and as voiceovers in "Gargoyles".
Yeah, she's got a long and illustrious career ahead of her... in B-movies, where everyone will yell out "It's Scully!!!", and then "Take it off!".
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
But debunking is bloody dull!
"Look, it's something strange and dangerous."
"No, it is harmless and ordinary."
"Oh. Well, back to the office."
Somehow, I don't smell a smash hit here. Go see The Amazing Randi if you want debunking. The rest of us would like a smidgen of escapist drivel with our TV.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
It's amazing that he would lower himself to be in the season finalle. Especially after his stellar role in Evolution.
The only thing I like about the X-Files these days is the song that Bree Sharp did about it.
http://www.breesharp.com/
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Pfft. As is that ever stopped slash writers.
And if "no necro" was stipulated, I'm sure they could also bring him back from the dead. 'Cause TV does that. Far too much.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
The one to his left is obviously Joaquin Phoenix...
In the same timeslot, but totally kickin ass is "Alias."
It's like Felicity with double-crossin' spy thriller stuff. Plus the chick is hot and uses hi-tech spy gadgets.
Such is the infinite Grace of Popeye.
I think the X-files kicks ass, and have always kicked ass. I thought that I wouldnt be able to watch it without mulder on there, but damn, i got into it even more, and can't wait to see how everything ends.
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Ever since the adaptation of that new guy, the show has sucked! The entire focus of the show was between Fox and Scully, but then they took both characters out so it was basically pointless. If the ending sucks, i will never watch another chris carter show again! I mean look @ his others, Ally McSlut, and Boston Screwed-up-High, also who could ever froget the pointless, ball of pain known as 24! 24 just rambles on and on, and is compleatly pointless! If the X-Files ends horrably, he's screwed!
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I've always wanted a series finale where everything goes wrong. For example, in Voyager, I was secretly hoping that perhaps they'd make it home, and then right before everybody beams down, somebody spills a soda on something that causes the whole ship to blow. Or perhaps the Borg sneak along and instead of assimilating the Earth, make the poor inhabitants wear chicken suits and become sex slaves. T'TOCK, T'TOCK!
So for the X-Files, there's only one choice. Aliens get ahold of both of them, strip 'em down, and then throw cream pies at them. It should also be perhaps 3 minutes and 49 seconds long.
It's a dream sequence. The entire huge mytharc took place during a 30 minute nap Mulder was taking in his office one wednesday afternoon after a particularly large burrito lunch.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
I guess you just can't tell any more...
No Payoffs, you watch for years for something 'monumental' to happen but it get fuzzed each time. They keep you hanging on and hoping. Which is fine for a year or two but after that there is only 'so' many times you can hack ANOTHER conspiracy/coverup/lookingthewrongway until it becomes pretty boring.
It's almost like the writers are afraid to make any bold statements or actually GO anywhere with it.
" The best Bucket is a SCREAMING one "
It's dead. It died years ago.
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Skinner killed him, at the end of last season I think.
"I'm hoping that the final round of episodes can wash the taste out of my mouth from this season." :)
Well spoken, sir. I could not have said it better myself. And no spelling errors!
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I'd love to see mulder banging scully and show full penetration.
The money shot would be awesome.
Fox found out what happened to his sister. The government kidnapped her, she ran away, and essentially died. But she didn't really die, she kinda transended into a star/energy thing.
Ended the WHOLE series for me, as far as I am concerned.
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Reality check...he lived. If I remember correctly, he had been turned into a super-soldier, and survived. Who knows WTF is going on with Krycek anyways?
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The writers for X-Files ran out of ideas years ago. The show has quite supremely sucked for some time.
...that he would be retiring from writing "while still at the top of his game", news of Chris Carter's plans to end X-Files this year "before-it-gets-stale" is simply sad.
King and Carter both created some fantastic entertainment- one producing some of the most popular horror and fiction books of his generation- the other creating one of the greatest television series in two decades.
But both have signaled their plans to leave only after overstaying their welcomes. They have exhausted their respective imaginations but keep mining, occasionally pulling out a tiny gold nuggest from the mines that once were their motherlodes.
King's last great works came in the early 90s- and Carter's last great season of X-Files was at least two or three seasons ago.
so bummer. I'll watch- but not because I've any interest in seeing what happens to characters I once cared about. Instead, morbid curiousity makes me wonder "How bad will it be? How bloody bad can it get?" And methinks the answer will surprise us all.
the whole thing vaguely reminds of the last line of a beautiful poem I remember reading in high school.
"his face turned to the face of a man who has said goodbye, and can not find the door".
Now I don't have to deal with people talking about it constantly anymore. About bloody time.
wait...if the last show is in may...then why is DD directing one for april? then wouldn't that be the series finale? or is it just another one thrown in there.
Thus Chirs Carter wants to make one super crappy ep. so that he can say his show did not "jump the shark" untill the last season.
I'm amazed no one else here has mentioned "jump the shark." I don't even like the X-Files, but I head that they were planning to jump the shark. I suppose slashdot people are just to stupid to go get any real information.. like check out a fan site.
It sure is _trendy_ to bash the X-Files on all /. X-File threads these days.
... even beyond the series finale.
The show has given me (and probably a lot of you)excellent entertainment from year one.
I still enjoy the X-Files. I have since the pilot and I am sure I always will
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Just because the series is ending, don't think the characters are done:
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/xfiles2.html
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It's pretty pathetic really. See also (the massively overrated) Buffy and the piss-poor Dark Angel.
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I figured this out around the same time the movie came out, and this is one of the reasons I haven't kept up in the recent seasons: There is no possible ending that could satisfy the audience.
The mystery and magic is a result of the unknown, that's why all the good horror movies don't show you the monster until the very end.
The whole conspiry stuff is far more interesting when it's unknown then when it's known. I predict right now that if they do give away the "whole deal" in the final episode, it will be a big dissapointment to many people, and I think Carter knows this. Their initial plan was to stop the series at the time the movie came out, which was a very commendible thing to do, stop the show in it's prime and occasionally release a movie, as opposed to letting the series show how it's run out of steam.
Now, with all that said... When do the final episodes start?
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Scully can't die. She's immortal since "death" took someone else's life instead of hers. And the guy who could see into the future even said she never dies in a separate episode, I believe.
Sure-fire way to get everyone on Slashdot to agree with you: whine about how stupid Slashdotters are!
I don't care if you are an AC, you're still posting here. Hence you're a Slashdotter. Hence you're stupid. QED an' stuff.
I'd like to see Fox fuck Scully until she howls ...
like a dog
Creator-producers Joel Surnow and Robert Cochrane are the men doing 24, and from my prespective, they're doing an amazing job. The X-Files have had a good run, and even this season is decent. The main Characters we're used to are only hinted at now, so it's a little disconcerting. As far T1000, the character has a similar mind set as Scully had in the beginning. Which is to be expected when someone confronts the X-Files for the first time, but herein lays the problem, we've been through this territory before. Carter will not have to worry about employment for a long time to come I'm sure. But it's time for this to come to a close, so let's see what he can do.
If you're not making mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. -Frank Wilczek, Par
Sounds like a Black Adder episode.
The X-Files Timeline has all the answers to your X-Files story arc questions.
Na, no speedo's involved... he was just a drag queen DEA Agent named Dennis/Denise Bryson. Best line of the series had Audrey (played by Sherilyn Fenn) looking at him/her in disbelief (not knowing the drag part) and asking "They have female special agents?" and his response...
...wait for it...
"Sorta."
classic...and Audrey was never the wiser.
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