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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'll watch anything with DD in it... 38DD is my favorite, but i'll settle for 36.
x-files + porn = dream come true.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
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.
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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... 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. =)
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?!
[o]_O
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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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TV4 in Sweden is also currently showing Season 8. They will air Season 9 in September as well.
I pray to God that DD writes some Scully-in-the-shower or Scully-with-some-greased-up-lesbian-aliens into his episode
The XXX-Files!!!! (With apologies to Mad-TV)
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
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!"
Skinner killed him, at the end of last season I think.
...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".
DD kicked ass in Twin Peaks. Much better than his role in "Beethoven"
The X-Files Timeline has all the answers to your X-Files story arc questions.