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David Duchovny In The X-Files Finale

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the end-of-an-era dept.

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...

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  1. Crossing my fingers.... by theRhinoceros · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Crossing my fingers.... by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Okay, this may very well be a stupid question (I haven't watched the show in many a season), but did they ever resolve the whole "main" plot of Fox's sister's abduction, and what about the whole black oil stuff?

      It would be nice to have a whole "blows the lid off the government" ending as well.

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      Evan

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      "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  2. Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? by Jesse+Duke · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I used to love the X-Files : when I started watching it years ago (I think it was 1995 or 1996), it was about those 2 FBI agents investigating strange events, and even though it was overtly about paranormal and aliens, the episodes showed simple, well-thought of mysteries. Then the series started to have more and more episodes about aliens and abductions, but it was still okay because the plot was still believable and genuine suspense was still there. But I could feel X-Files wasn't quite what it was before.

    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.

  3. The 9 Lives of Mulder and Scully by XBL · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. like Stephen King's recent announcement... by smirkleton · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...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".