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."

Comments

I want to believe...

[sconeu]

"The money is out there, Scully..."

Oh good....

[Punchcardz]

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.

Re:Oh good....

[PolygamousRanchKid]

I always thought that the best episodes, were the ones that avoided the "dreaded main thread" . . . just show something weird, about some creepy-crawly critter, and do a bit of self satire.

Those were the best.

Re:Oh good....

[ArcadeMan]

The best one was, IMHO, War of the Coprophages.

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Mulder: Bambi also has a theory I've come to acro...
Scully: Who?
Mulder: Dr. Berenbaum. Anyway her theory is...
Scully: Her name is Bambi?
Mulder: Yeah. Both her parents were naturalists. Her theory is that UFO's are actually nocturnal insect swarms passing through electrical air fields.
Scully: Her name is Bambi?

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Mulder: I'm just speculating here, but if extraterrestrial lifeforms do exist...
Ivanov: Oh, there's no need for speculation, I believe they do.
Mulder: And assuming that they're more technologically advanced than we are, and if your own ideas about the future of space exploration are correct, then...
Ivanov: Then the interplanetary explorers of alien civilizations will likely be mechanical in nature. Yes. Anyone who thinks alien visitation will come not in the form of robots, but of living beings with big eyes and gray skin has been brainwashed by too much science-fiction.
(Mulder looks away, shrugging slightly)

the AARP-files

[turkeydance]

get those aliens off my lawn!

Re:the AARP-files

[PolygamousRanchKid]

get those aliens off my lawn!

Sorry. Obama granted all of them amnesty, and they won't be deported to their home planet.

Deal with having aliens on your lawn.

Try bringing them out some lemonade, and trying to make friends with them . . . ?

Now, do Firefly

[fph il quozientatore]

This is really getting my hopes up for Firefly --- it's not impossible. I want to believe.

Why

[mugetsu37]

David Duchovny why won't you love me?

Re:6 Jose Chung episodes

[i work on computers]

Jose Chung's I Can't Count

Unless this is filmed in Vancouver it will be...

[nihilistcanada]

...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.

Re:I used to love X-Files ...

[zidium]

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? :)