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The X-Files To Return
An anonymous reader writes: Fox announced today that The X-Files will return with six new episodes. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will both reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully, respectively, and show creator Chris Carter will return as well. Production begins this summer, but air dates are not yet known. The X-Files originally started in 1993 and ran for 9 seasons, spawning two feature films and a short-lived spinoff called The Lone Gunmen. It won 16 Emmy awards and 5 Golden Globe awards before critical reception soured over the last few seasons. Carter said, "I think of it as a 13-year commercial break. The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories."
"The money is out there, Scully..."
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So this time will it be headed somewhere with an endgame in mind, or will it simply be more filler because the writers have no idea how to make all the threads pay off in the end? I'm not bitter or anything.
When are they going to make new episodes of twin peaks? So many questions left unanswered.
I want to believe
get those aliens off my lawn!
This is really getting my hopes up for Firefly --- it's not impossible. I want to believe.
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David Duchovny why won't you love me?
So I'm sure we won't be seeing them in any of the episodes.
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X-Files to Return -> Meh... Mulder and Scully to Return -> Dear good Lord! Awesome!
Nothing is new anymore. We can't live forever in our little comfort bubble where nothing changes.
Wow, I'd have to say that Nerdist may have made this happen. They brought this up during the Gillian Anderson interview a short bit ago. Either that or it's because of how good David Duchovny looks in jeans.
I used to love X-Files until a friend spoiled it for me. He basically said that Mulder and Scully were basically witnesses to whatever mystery they were uncovering. Nothing would have changed if they weren't there. Sure, the random person would have lived or died, but it's not like they solved any big mysteries.
And after I while I just got tired of the whole X-Files mythology.
Besides, weren't the aliens supposed to have invaded by now?
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Along with the LSD tripping Dr. Walter Bishop. Much better series, except for the last season where it got ridiculous.
...utter garbage. The mood set by Vancouver's gloomy gray wet and cold winters was the perfect setting for the series. When they moved production to Los Angeles(thanks Tea Leoni !!!) it went to hell very quickly.
Dude, I think your meds are off.
Are aliens still a big thing? I thought that fad had kind of fizzled. We have got to the point where no camera footage with UFO's in will be believed because footage is so easy to fake now.
Real dystopian world domination by corporations is being achieved one treaty at a time, but that doesn't make for a juicy story.
I may watch it on one condition - they change the theme tune, it's annoying.
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...if they had respected the characters and the world.
It should have been a darkly comic thriller with a team that only managed to hold together because of the importance of what they were doing. Instead, "they" derailed the cast with Jimmy Bond (and also with Yves Harlow--what, they couldn't find a woman ANYWHERE who could become a functioning part the team?) and turned The Lone Gunmen into a shallow, slapstick-ridden mockery of its X-files version.
Still disappointed after all these years.
It was almost as long ago. Or what about Quantum Leap, or Sliders. Sorry.. 911 changed everything, they said. I'll like it if they make good anti-american episodes that deal with real conspiracy theories.. That's what changed since 15 years ago, real conspiracies rather than wanking about UFOs. Does Mulder still wank himself or what. Eight seasons and he never made out with Scully because he's either gay, or a wanker or both.
When X-Files originally aired it was fresh. 9 seasons later they just waffled back and forth with absolutely no closure.
Fans got tired of Christ Carter not having any balls to commit one way or another.
It wasn't that good a show. Yes, it was better than most of what was on, but most of what was on was pretty horrible at the time too. In the most recent years shows like BSG, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Better Call Saul, and many others have set a whole new standard that X-Files couldn't even hope to measure up to. As for Duchovny , he was 10,000% better in Californication which had brilliant writing.
X-Files just has a plot that goes nowhere fast, while the writers recycle the same half dozen situations in a loop, while slightly changing the conditions each time.
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It's a rainy night. Mulder is sitting in an empty low-lit bar. His head rests on his arms. There's few empty glasses on bar table in front of him. Broody country tones fill the space.
Scully walks in with intention. She spots Mulder and shakes the rain off her coat. He doesn't see her as she walks over. She stops right beside him.
Scully: "Your online dating profile says you're blond."
Mulder (chuckles): "It's funny, you sound just like someone I knew long time a..."
He lifts his head off of his arms and meets her eyes. His face expression changes into bewilderment.
Mulder (whispers): "Scully?!"
Scully: "Hello, cowboy. We're back!"
(intro titles cut in, followed by commercials. Twitter explodes, Facebook explodes, Instagram explodes)
This is honestly the first time I have heard of a second movie. Just how bad was it?
Actually X-Files nearly beat Happy Days for shear number of {in-universe} spin-off series
These spin-offs however often seemed only tangentially or loosely related by a thread.. but I'm suprised how the Future has Recalled the past.. when at the time they were much more closely tied.
"Perhaps Revisionist history..."
"Inspired" might be too loose a word however. Some of the best of the best and even contemporary series drew direct from the X-Files including tongue in cheek wannabe relations to 1970's "The Night Stalker" which itself wasn't meant to be a series but a one-off Movie of the Week which turned into a series of Movies turned Series turned Movies out of the Series..
The Night Stalker was once profiled in a Pulp Horror/SciFi Magazine of the time.. as a "Conspiracy Theory to End all Conspiracy Theories" of a secret war going on behind the scenes of the Everyday that would one day Engulf our 'seemingly' Normal World.. as something that would sweep away the petty disagreements between nations and political systems.. as something of greater importance than even humanity.. as something not of this Earth or this Realm... naturally the Government would have to get involved sooner or later.. hence Project BlueBook which led to 'The X-Files' .. queue Creepy Music
It was actually pretty good, but had nothing whatsoever to do with aliens. It was pretty much just a murder mystery.
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BSG was a rewrite of a terrible though nostalgic 70's TV show. X-Files for its time was pretty good. If they can reboot the franchise, why wouldn't the quality of the show improve in this case? Right, it doesn't fit your narrative.
The fact that TV has gotten better is a testament to modern TV's higher standards, and we can all applaud that. As for if the show's any good, only time will tell. Flaming a production we know essentially nothing about seems a little disingenuous.
Bye!
So this time will it be headed somewhere with an endgame in mind, or will it simply be more filler because the writers have no idea how to make all the threads pay off in the end?
I'm not bitter or anything.
The last episode Mulder will leave the FBI and become a lumberjack.
Think Fargo goes to Minnesota.. and lots of Snow (but not Mark Snow)
and the fbi really are great people , just like those nsa guys
This was a great show when I was 14. As an adult, I look back and think about it, and I find it juvenile and stupid.
I can't imagine being an adult and sitting down to watch the X-Files. The writing was pretty silly, and with the exception of the two actors (both of whom are pretty talented) the show is rather terrible.
It's also vaguely sexist. They did an interesting role reversal by making Scully the rational one, but it turns out that she's wrong about the big picture. So men win again, as usual.
I suspect the new mini-series will have some sort of embedded sublimital leftist propaganda messages like most American TV shows have these days.
Uh, almost all of Fargo took place in Minnesota.
I'm sure glad you said respectively, or I would have assumed they switched roles.
I'd love to see X-Files again, but I really with The Lone Gunmen had never been canceled. That spinoff was the highlight of my week for a brief while.
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"set a whole new standard"
Did you notice that all of your favorite shows are on cable, and most are the equivalent of R rated? So in other words, to you a high-quality show must include naked women, explosions, guns, blood, drug use, murder, sex, etc.
Now try to write a TV show without any of that, to be aired on network TV. How good is the show you wrote? I didn't think so.
From your rant, I'll assume you're under 30. Which means you now watch 90's PG-13 shows and compare them to today's R shows. OF COURSE the new ones are better! I love guns and tits too.
At least he'll be OK.
This is a summary of the episode so good (and different) it could have been a spin off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improbable_%28The_X-Files%29
The Guardian listed "Improbable" as one of the "13 best X-Files episodes ever". UGO named God/Mr. Burt as one of the "Top 11 X-Files Monsters", noting that "as [series creator Chris Carter] imagines him, [God] is a benevolent deity, constantly prodding his creatures to look at the patterns before them, to see the overall plan that he's laid out. He's doomed to failure, and he knows it, though it doesn't stop him from trying".
I thought it was in North Dakota -- you know, the state the city of Fargo is in?
Scully and Mulder will have gone on a spacecraft into the past, which causes the unanticipated side affect of being 13 years older, somewhat plumper, and in need to cash.
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No balls? You think it is easy to tell the truth?
Look at what happened to Snowden. And that is just piss-ant earth politics.
No my friend, Carter has huge balls for even hinting at the stark reality of interplanetary and interstellar veritas. Do not kill the messenger, leave that to our evil alien overlords.
That's the only way this would be interesting. Even then I wouldn't watch it probably.
... unless they can get people like David Fincher, JJ Abrahms or say the Breaking Bad crew to write and direct it. It would need creatives of that quality and with a 100% free hand. Otherwise it will be a TURKEY. Gobble gobble ....
Well, the prospect of a remake of this disappointing series certainly is hymenizing (if that's even a word).
The skeptic in me hated the show - "Logic, Science & Reason" (Skully) always lost out to the "Supernatural & boogeyman" (Mulder). Imagine a show where, at the end, the weird supernatural was always explained by rationality. That's a show I'd like to watch, and it would be educational, too!. What I'm wanting is "Scooby Doo" endings - "The ghost/alien/monster was actually the Smoking Man!!!" - "And I would have got away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling FBI agents!!"
Huh? In the X-Files, once you got to a certain level in TPTB, everyone was a corrupt murderous Orwellian shitbag, or under the thumb of a corrupt murderous Orwellian shitbag.
Nah, there's relevance to modern times, where candidates that run on promises of transparency and protecting whisteblowers (Obama) end up being the most secretive and punitive presidents of all time, respectively (again, Obama). When what passes for "the left" these days (Sanders, Warren) are active participants of America's Global War of Terror.
No relevance at all.
BSG was a rewrite of a terrible though nostalgic 70's TV show.
BSG was an even stupider more terrible rewrite of a terrible though nostalgic 70s TV show. The robots turned out to be lingere models and angsty teen emo girls. StarBUCK turned out to be StarDOE and the new plot was awful.
Agreed. Those "story arc avoiding episodes" are commonly referred to as the Monster of the Week and were always the most enjoyable X-Files episodes.
Carter: "I've run out of money so lets rehash some crap discarded old X-Files episodes and get the gold I need to pay off debts"
GA and especially Duchovny: "Yeah I could do with some dough"
YAWN!
Give it up Chris - if the last X-FIles movie was any indication then you're not fit to write or direct anything.
I'll do the Cigarette man part.
Bring back Millennium Carter it was better than the X-Files by Galaxy! What about this campaign to bring back Millennium being waged through Facebook and lance henriksen asking you over and over to make a movie out of Millennium but no answer from you!! You instead bring back the X-files hey and lets not talk about Harsh Realm, no one else is! X-Files become a convoluted joke but you stated Millennium while still making X-Files then could cope and handed over to Morgan and Wong (your best writers from the X-Files) to produce the second season of Millennium while you went back to the X-Files then came back for the third season of Millennium complaining your show had been hijacked and taken in an unintended direction damaging it viewer wise.. Original X-Files,too long,too drawn so became a pile of uninteresting garbage.