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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.
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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So I'm sure we won't be seeing them in any of the episodes.
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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.
I wouldn't mind a return of the series, either a reboot or an effective sequel. I just don't think it'll work with the old cast. Their stories were pretty much run into the ground about 2 decades ago. Have some new blood pick up the threads and what happens when they give them a tug.
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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JJ Abrams is actually scheduled to be a reboot of the comfort bubble in 2019.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
...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.
Are you being funny, or are you not aware that Twin Peaks is returning for a season on Showtime?
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.
Twin Peaks is/was crap. I barely made it through all the melodramatic screaming and wailing in the first episode, and lines like "Diane, if you ever get up this way that cherry pie is worth a stop." I gave it two more episodes thinking, "this has to get good at some point," but it just didn't.
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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)
Twin Peaks was one of those "right show at the right time" kind of thing. The country was in a weird state and no one really knew where we were going, nothing like Twin Peaks had ever been tried before so all the twists and turns were new and unusual. Not that I'm saying it's great TV today, but at the time it was something completely different and that's what made it interesting.
Compared to TV today is very tame in comparison. the US was still weaning itself off westerns, detective shows and sitcoms and Twin Peaks was edgy in comparison. Quite a few shows we loved in the 80/90's are like that. they were great at the time but didn't really stand the test of time.
That's funny, because when the X-Files came out the general meme was "The X-Files is for people that can't handle Twin Peaks".
The X-Files was much more formulaic, in its way. And I imagine its announced return now - coming a few months after we learned about Twin Peaks return - is not a matter of coincidental timing.
This is honestly the first time I have heard of a second movie. Just how bad was it?
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.
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Compared to TV today is very tame in comparison. the US was still weaning itself off westerns, detective shows and sitcoms and Twin Peaks was edgy in comparison. Quite a few shows we loved in the 80/90's are like that. they were great at the time but didn't really stand the test of time.
Just the fact that its episodes weren't self-contained, it's subject matter was the rape and murder of a teenage girl, and the fact that it had supernatural elements made it pretty revolutionary for 1990. Add to that David Lynch's signature weird style and it truly was ground-breaking for the time.
The X-files, for all its hype, is pretty tame in comparison. Its episodes are almost entirely self-contained, for example. With the exception of a handful of mythology episodes, every episode begins and ends with the characters in exactly the same place. There are no real character arcs to speak of. By the end of the series Mulder is basically the same guy and Scully is SLIGHTLY less skeptical maybe. But that's about it. There are some great individual episodes (mostly the Darin Morgan ones), but taken as a whole it's a pretty conventional procedural detective show.
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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'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.
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".
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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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.
Twin Peaks is/was crap
Compared with what? Shakespeare? Jersey Shore?
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Not true at all. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" had rape in the first episode, and much of his stuff involved the supernatural. It could easily be argued that he was the pioneer of the genre in television, a good 40 years before Twin Peaks. Of course, judging by our relative moderation points, people want to believe good things about Twin Peaks, and so they do. I guess that's the X-Files connection.
As far as story arcs, the contemporary (to Twin Peaks) "Picket Fences" had all of the things you're describing as well. Incidentally, Picket Fences almost had an actual crossover with the X-Files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I don't begrudge people who actually like Twin Peaks, even if I cannot fathom the reasons, but I do think it's more of a "it's good because people say it's good," phenomenon than anything else.
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I suspect the new mini-series will have some sort of embedded sublimital leftist propaganda messages like most American TV shows have these days.
I know, what with that and the fluoride in the water you might as well be living in Soviet China.
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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.
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.