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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.
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.
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
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.
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."
For people in other countries:
Australia's Network 10 will air Season 9 in July.
In Denmark, TV2 will air Season 9 in late April.
Norway will get Season 9 in September on TV2.
HMG in Holland is currently running Season 8, and they are expected to begin Season 9 in late September.
TV4 in Sweden is also currently showing Season 8. They will air Season 9 in September as well.
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!"
...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".