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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..."
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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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...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.
The aliens' plan of releasing a sentient virus to, in effect, terraform human bodies into human/alien hybrids whom would have their consciousness downloaded... it got *seriously* disrupted when Mulder injected the antidote into the main colonization ship, at least a decade or two too early.
Now, they would have to traverse the stars, and we have NO idea AT ALL if FTL travel is even possible in the X-Files universe (all of the alien vessels could have been coming from the Antarctic mothership), so maybe it will take them 20 years to get here? maybe 2,000? Maybe they have parked motherships in reserve 30 years away from Earth? who knows? :)
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That's what the aliens want you to believe. They are just waiting till everyone is onto the next big thing before they invade.
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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'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)
My sister (huuuuge X-files fan) had a 5 foot poster of that Rolling Stones cover over her bed, pretty sure she wanked to it. I was never sure if it was David or Gillian she fancied.
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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