Duchovny to Quit X-Files

!Xabbu writes "Canoe reports that "David Duchovny says corporate nepotism at Fox cost him millions and this is undoubtedly his final year on The X-Files"... Woe-is-me... for what shall we do if the X-Files goes off the air? "

Comments

Re:Alturnatives

[Anonymous Coward]

But no Sculley. Sigh.

Not Necessarily...

[Adrian Drury]

In the Entertainment Weekly article, it says that "...Gillian Anderson's contract calls for an eighth year if Carter and Fox decide to carry on without Agent Mulder." So, there's the potential for one more year, under Anderson's contract.

Re:Not Necessarily...

[NoodleBoy]

Actually, GA is the *only* one who still has a contract, I believe. Carter and Duchovny are both only signed for season 7, and Carter is all hot and bothered about doing his new series "Harsh Realm," so I doubt he will actually want to continue. I'm guessing that Harsh Realm will suck, and die like Millennium did. Except Millennium was really really cool, and much darker and more disturbing than X-Files. Thank god for FX.

I'm thinking there should be a movie starring the following three leathery-faced old men:
1) Lance Heinriksen (sp)
2) James Woods
3) Roy Schieder

Lance could be the quiet, brooding, intelligent one, James could be the violent one who goes around killing bad guys, and Roy could be the excitable one who runs around like a chicken with his head cut off :)

- NoodleBoy
"CORN!"

Re:oh well

[Spazmoid]

Same here, about 1.5 - 2 years ago. I spung and watched the flick in the theatre and was abhorred. It was s 2 hour episode with bad dialoge and cussing. Oz is great, the Sopranos kicks some serious tail and Stargate SG-1(showtime sci-friday) is sometimes good sometimes hokey but i loved the movie. Sex in the city is funny but i want to get liad like these women do and it just ain't happening :-). (points to above misspelling... maybe if i could just spell liad right!!)

Loveline (kinda off-topic)

[Wah]

Anybody watching Loveline on MTV last night (Mon.)? I keep it on in the background, so it's a radio show like it should be (and is). There was this chick whose husband had died, and since he looked a lot like Fox and they watched it together, she was obsessively watching it. Anyway, her question for Dr. Drew and the crazy Jew was if she should stop. I guess somebody was listening and had a good answer for her, eh?

(BTW: The Man Show kicks ass, and shows it off...)

Re:Greatest idea..

[BooRadley]

Thanks for clearing that up... I keep imagining Frank Black a.k.a. "Black Francis" of the Pixies.

Imagine a 300-pound bald dude in overalls screaming into a microphone while a dischordant guitar plays loud surfer tunes.

Best album: Surfer Rosa :)

Now imagine said "Frank Black" having steamy, but thwarted encounters with Scully. Sorta like "Moonlighting meets Drew Carey" as directed by David Lynch.

Yuck.

Anyone care to mirror the file?

[MontyP]

I can't find the file on the page or any links related to the page, i also looked in the source as suggested above, i guess i'm too late. It sucks to see the xfiles go but i'm sure they will play re-runs. Just look at the flintstones.

Old Newz

[soward]

Dudes, this is OFN. I read this in my lame local newpaper's entertainment section weeks ago.

X-Files, TNG...coming soon I'm sure, and for those D.D. fans, there's always Red Shoe Diary episodes on showtime....

Re:It was expected

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard He didn't like LA and quit because he missed the glorious weather in Vancouver LOL

Re:gettin any?

[AngryFatMan]

She's not really a redhead, so why bother?

No way! This is like finding out Mickey Mantle corked his bat!

Maybe this isn't so bad...

[Anonymous Coward]

This could be a good thing... a nice little bitchslap to Chris Carter, and a strong compelling reason to 'GET TO THE POINT, MAN!' Come on, the series is starting to draaaaag onnnnnnn forevvvvvverrrrrrrrrr... On the other hand... David Duchovny played Fox Mulder quite brilliantly, with appropriate smug arrogance, and a personality that makes other actors seem appropriately cardboard. Considering that Carter developed every character but Fox, IMHO. Watch him get snapped up for a new mystery-thriller show on CBS or ABC. Serves the administratii right. At least they made a million by ripping him off for the 100 million X-Files made for them.

WHAT TO DO WITH A PETRIFIED MAE LING MAK

[Anonymous Coward]

You raise some good points. Once Mae Ling Mak has been turned to stone, there's the question of what to do with her. *I* propose that she be given a telepathic keyboard hookup up to a kick-ass box running her favorite distro, so she can keep hackin' away, and doin' what she does best. She'll be happy. And since she's naked and petrified, anyone who wants to can just walk up & touch her & stuff. But if she becomes unhappy with them, she'll fire up Vi and compose a nasty text file telling them to stop! You know, people can probably think MUCH faster than they can type. She probably averages less than 100 words per minute now, but if she had a telepathic keyboard, who knows HOW fast she could hack! She could do kernel updates and stuff like that! Kernel 2.2.12 mlm35. That'd rock!! She could THINK a lot faster because she wouldn't have to worry about stuff like eating and breathing, because she'd be a statue! I think all females should be turned to stone. If a female is concerned that once she is petrified, people might only think about her looks rather than her more mental/social attributes, she can be transformed into a featureless rock rather than a statue likeness of herself, that way nobody will even be able to see her physical virtues, and will have to think about her mental attributes! Have a GREAT day!

Mirror what?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's nothing to mirror. Someone's idea of a lame joke.

Re:XFiles could go on without Duchovny (Sure!)

[simm_s]

Two words for you "Yeah Right!"

The X Files died the day after the movie was released. The main attraction in my opinion was the question of whether aliens existed or not. Now that I know for sure, it does not intrest me. The Xfiles should have done what the movie Ronin did. They should have never told us the secret. Also moving to California was the gravest mistake they ever made. This whole season was a mistake I hope.

In my dorm we used to watch the X files like it was a religious ritual. After three episodes of this season we never watched it again. Once you know too much the secrets are not important anymore. Not to mention this season was terrible!

They should have learned from JMS (from B5 fame) to leave meat on the hook and keep drawing the audience deeper.

MAE LING MAK NAKED AND PETRIFIED

[Anonymous Coward]

I think there should be an episode of the X-files where Mulder and Scully discover that Mae Ling Mak has been transformed into a stone statue, whilst nude. Many interesting plot ideas could spring forth from this. And so it goes.... I would watch that episode, over and over. Mae Ling Mak could play the Mae Ling Mak statue. It would be a very challenging role, unless maybe the produces could figure out how to ACTUALLY turn her to stone... then she could REALLY be a naked statue on the show.

Re:MAE LING MAK NAKED AND PETRIFIED

[Monkey]

WTF is Mae Ling Mak anyway??

Re:MAE LING MAK NAKED AND PETRIFIED

[mattc]

It is someone on the Segfault.org humor site. I haven't been able to figure exactly what it is supposed to mean though because segfault is always down :/

Re:MAE LING MAK NAKED AND PETRIFIED

[Anonymous Coward]

Just what we need, more stupid goths

Re:MAE LING MAK NAKED AND PETRIFIED

[nosilA]

Mae Ling Mak is a reasonably cute and very intelligent linux-type female. She spoke at Linux World Expo or something... if you want, some pictures are on http://www.spinster.org/my_photos.html

Honestly, I don't really get it... I mean, even if you are attracted to her, why would you want her naked and petrified if she's a smart linux hacker. Call me idealist, but I want guys to like me for my brain as much as my cute face :).

And on the topic of X-files, I like the show, but Duchovny has been putting no energy into his acting for the past few years, and he'd do well to be replaced.

-Alison

Not a surprise really

[Scott]

Duchovny's contract was up after this coming season anyway, and he most likely would have left even if Fox didn't get caught up in a game of greed. He had originally wanted to quit after five seasons, but they threw too much cash at him at the time.

Anyway, GA is still under contract for this season and the next, so all the x-philes out there have at least two more seasons to look forward to. With the dropoff in show quality over the last two seasons though they probably should have made the last season the series finale.

Do they have the guts?

[HSinclair]

Do they have the guts to cut the show after Duchovny leaves? You guys may think you want the X-Files to go on forever, but do we really want the thing continuing on forever as some mutant spawn like the show "Sliders"? Sliders used to be good, but everyone save Rembrandt left.. now they have a couple of twinkies in their place and walking through their parts.

Scully and Mulder without the Mulder just isn't the same.

but but but but ...

[Starr]

the pompousness is the reason why it was sooo good ... that and gillian anderson is a babe (yes i am a chick, bite me ... i like fems ... deal with it)

Re:Alturnatives

[Anonymous Coward]

yea, way to spell alternative dumbass. Thanks to modern technology, you stupidity will be permanantly recorded and available for all to see. ain't technology grand?

STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS

[Cid Highwind]

Look at the left side of your keyboard.
See the button with a light on it? Push it.
Your Caps-Lock is now off, you may continue posting as usual...

Re:STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS

[Anonymous Coward]

It's dedicated folks like yourself, willing to lend a hand to the newbies, that make slashdot such a great place to visit!!!! :)
:):):):):):):)
PS:I loved FFVII TOO!! I can't wait for FFVIII!!!!!

Re:STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS

[Anonymous Coward]

My *God* you're an idiot...

Re:STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS

[Enoch Root]

Woo! It's the Microsoft Advocate, he's back!

"There is no surer way to ruin a good discussion than to contaminate it with the facts."

Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently someone got a hold of the pre sale network affiliate copy of the season premier for next season, and encoded it in real video... you can get it at the following address:

pirate copy of 1999 season premier

Obviously there's no telling how long this will be available before fox shuts it down, so get it quick.

SPOILERS

Mulder suspects UFO involvement

Sculley cannot believe it

Their boss dissaproves of their investigation

the "cancer man" sayse some ominous stuff

I don't want to ruin it, so watch it now!!

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I'd like to watch it, but since real still doesn't have a linux version of thier software I guess I won't. "People who use propreitary software should all be shot" --RMS

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't believe this it's like 30 Meg. Man are they gonna get slashdotted! Glad I got a copy before their server crashed...

Doesn't FOX look at stuff like this?!

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I'd like to watch it, but since real still doesn't have a linux version of thier software I guess I won't. "People who use propreitary software should all be shot" --RMS

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I'd like to watch it, but since real still doesn't have a linux version of thier software I guess I won't.
"People who use propreitary software should all be shot" --RMS

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

you're a dork.

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

Just because you are too lame to find the video is no reason to to flame the poor guy!!!

Re:Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess the Lone Gunmen aren't open source Unix hackers.

I, for one, will miss it

[m3000]

The X-Files was one of the few reasons I even watch TV anymore, and with Duchovny gone, it just won't be the same. I loved the conspiracy theroies(sp) and just the general thought of alien existance. Not to mention that Scully is really hot ; ). I'll be sad to see it go, but I'm glad that by the final show, the whole conspiracy will finally be reveled and understood.

ROTFL!

[Trak]

bahaha! much more entertaining than the mae ling mak posts ;-)

Re:Predictions?

[Anonymous Coward]

You still don't know that cancerman is fox-daddie and btw the sister was already on the show (4th year if i remember correctly). You know that the aliens look like little gray humanoids or look like humans. Note: Who tells me that seti@home/distributed.net-cliens aren't BO-servers from the goverment, so they can spy on us and use ower cpu-power.

'bout time!

[bman]

About time the show ended. It's a good show but it has been dragging on the past few years.

Re:no no this can't be happening

[Processor AL]

not bloody likely that you'll run out of things to do in perl =)

oh well

[Moonshine]

That show is getting old anyhow.

Re:oh well

[rumba]

is the beggars and choosers based on the Kim Stanley Robinson SF novel of the same name? Anybody know out there?

Re:oh well

[Anonymous Coward]

I love watching Oz! It's SO good. I'm a big Buffy fan too...(ducking the flying fruit) X-Files was my absoute favorite show at one point, but after having the proverbial blue-balls for so long I just got tired of waiting for answers and when I got them I wasn't satisfied.

Re:oh well

[Gregg M]

I stopped watching X-Files after they moved from friday to sunday. The show back then was great. There was just one thing missing... ANSWERS.

I went on suspension of disbelief for 3 years. (I'm one of those people that actually remember old episodes.) The creator of X-Files seems to think that people will swallow this stuff till a movie comes out in 2001 to explain it all.

I need resolution of threads throughout the run of the show. Keep giving a piece of the puzzle at a time. Then keep moving the bar higher and higher. Chris Carter couldn't even keep his own threads straight. Carter should learn from JMS of B5 fame.

Re:oh well

[AlefNull]

My wife and I went to the Open Caption version of X files when it came to town, neither of us were impressed, the open caption part was sort of cool..

Oz is very cool. SG1 kicks ass, "MacGuyver in Space!!!!"

Sex in the city annoys me, I'm not sure why.

--
Bun-Bun Rules!
90% of day read /.

Re:oh well

[Anonymous Coward]

I stopped watching X-Files devotedly about 2 years ago. The real X-Files killer for me has been the way Scully & Mulder have discovered horrible secrets about the future of humanity in one episode, and then are chasing down some penny-ante weirdo that has nothing to do with the horror they just discovered. Yeah...right.

My new fav is "Oz", on HBO. THAT is a DIFFERENT and WELL-WRITTEN show, which is what attracted me to X-Files in the first place.

Re:oh well

[tweek]

Start taping Showtime's Friday SciFi. that's a good stretch of shows to watch. Also 'Begger's and Choosers' as well as Sex in the City are great too. I honestly didn't watch much pay tv shows until i caught a gander at those 2 shows.

I'm too damn tired to proof this post so deal ;)

Re:oh well

[Anonymous Coward]

The Show should have never left CANADA!!!

Re:oh well

[tweek]

heheh not that i know of....its a show about a tv network from the tv exec point of view.....really funny stuff

Re:Spinoff Series

[simm_s]

Now if they would end the series with a 'bang' (a Worthy End)...
My Idea of a worthy end:

We find out that Cancer Man is actually the queen alien named Nam Recnac who uses the "cancer stick" as a life support device.

We find out that the Fox is actually Cancer Man's illegit. child.

We find out that Scully in reality is Fox's sister, who is also another illegit child from Cancer Man's past.

On one of the Monster of the Week episodes we find that big foot is actually the crown prince of the royal imperial nation of people who like to gauge their eyes out. For some conveluted reason he does not like his mother who is Cancer Man, so he strikes a deal with race of shape shifters who can only die by having a needle poked in there neck to kidnap Fox and Scully.

The oil aliens who do not seem to serve any logical purpose hears about this conveluted plot and decide to assassinate Bigfoot. Cancer Man believes the humans are responsible for this and blow up the earth ID4 style. Fox and Scully escape somehow and find themselves on the mothership where Cancer Man reveals his true self.

Fox and Scully finally get married and give birth to the antichrist! (sorry wrong show)

You must admit that anything is believable after last season! ^_^

i dont think ill survive :*(

[gorfin]

what will i ever do with out my x-files? havent missed an episode in ages..this is depresssing...i think im gonna go cry my self to sleep tonight :(
Gorfin

He is the second luckiest guy in ShowBiz, next to

[Anonymous Coward]

He is the second luckiest guy in ShowBiz, next to Capt. Kirk I doubt he will get another good showbiz job.

This is a silly news story...

[Ferzerp]

This season will be the last season of the X-files anyway... There will be no X-files for him to quit, so this really isn't news.

Re:This is a silly news story...

[GeekLife.com]

Not necessarily true. Fox loves the X-Files, and they're gonna do anything they can to think of some way that the show will go on.

Re:This is a silly news story...

[Zagadka]

UGH! They better not! If they did, the show would end up like Sliders. Just kill it, and use your highly-paid creative mind to come up with something new for a change.

Yeah, I could just see it... Fox Mulder is abducted by aliens, who make him look completely different, and then release him. Scully eventually believes that it really is him, but refuses to believe the alien part of the story. She thinks he just got a new haircut...

Re:This is a silly news story...

[Airneil]

It wouldn't be the first time an actor changes but the character goes on.

Darrin Stevens (Bewitched) is just one example.

Airneil

Re:This is a silly news story...

[whoop]

nah, he gets glasses. That makes people look totally different, like the SNL opening monologue when Terry Hatcher was hosting.

Re:This is a silly news story...

[jafac]

UGH! They better not! If they did, the show would end up like Sliders. Just kill it, and use your highly-paid creative mind to come up with something new for a change.

"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

Re:This is a silly news story...

[EAVY]

This season will be the last season of the X-files anyway... There will be no X-files for him to quit, so this really isn't news.

Not necessarily true. Fox loves the X-Files, and they're gonna do anything they can to think of some way that the show will go on.

X-Files: Resurrection

Tagline: Witness the resurrection.

Plot Outline: 200 years after his death, Fox Mulder is revived as a powerful human/Cigarette-Smoking hybrid clone who must continue his war against The Cigarette-Smoking Man.

Guest Appearance: Winona Ryder (as a Synthetic)

Re:Spinoff Series

[dunster]

The Lone Gunmen every week? I can't imagine anything worse - unless it was That 70's Show.

The Lone Gunmen are so one-dimensional. They have so little to work with by themselves. They work in their context. They are a foil to Fox and Dana, a geeky subtext to the interesting ideas.

While I agree that X wouldn't be X without them, that doesn't mean they can stand on their own.

The show is over any way.

[mrsam]

It doesn't really matter. The loose ends in the plotline will probably be all resolved by the end of this season. It's pretty certain that X-Files will continue on the silver screen.

The show had a very good, long, run. It's time to move on to something else. Although, I have absolutely no clue what else I'm going to watch on Sunday nights... Whatshisname's - the producer's - other shows were complete flops.
--

Re:The show is over any way.

[TheSnakeMan]

I really liked Millenium, but it suffers from the same thing as the X-files: Chris Carter is behind it, and he's a wanker. His theory of "keeping people in suspense" just blows. The best X-files episodes are the ones that are not related to the conspiracy / alien takeover crap, the ones that were 1 hour long and were never spoken of again, because they have resolution in them. At the end of the episode, you saw a complete story. After watching 6 seasons and a $100M film, we still don't have any the complete story.

There were episodes of Millenium that I didn't like, but they were fewer and further between than episodes of the X-files. This, I think, is due to the fact that they had a complete story in them, as well as having the series-running conspiracy of the Millenium Group. So he obviously knows how to do a series that gives you a piece of the puzzle a little more frequently, but also keeps you interested in between pieces.

The thing that I found amusing about this story is that Fox apparently knew they were underselling it and offered Chris Carter incentives to let them do so, while screwing everyone else over. So I'd imagine that it won't be hard for Duchovny to get some money out of Fox over all this. I just wonder if he isn't pissed at Chris Carter over it, too.

Re:The show is over any way.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ummm, the other shows might not have gotten the best ratings, but they were not flops. I thought His show Millenium actually was excellent and had surpassed the X-Files in quality. It was a sad day for me when that show was cancelled.

Oh no!

[Upsilon]

Whatever will I do without my X-Files?

Honestly though, that shows been going downhill for a while. I really liked it in the begginning, but nowadays I have trouble staying awake through some of their episodes. Or maybe it's just that after so many years of them doing the same exact thing without ever accomplishing anything I just got sick of it.

The truth

[JordanH]

Yes, but why is X-files going off the air?

hmmm... should have posted this as an AC, but then, all the ACs are really Microsoft Employees, ya' know... In fact, they are all Bill Gates. It's true!

I don't know why I'm bothering with this, they will never let this be posted, or something will just happen to /. and this posting won't be there anymore.

If you see this, do yourself a favor and don't send me any mail. It's the only way you'll be safe in the long run. Bill Gates reads all my mail.

Re:The truth

[Anonymous Coward]

All Anonymous Cowards as Bill Gates? No way! I'm not Bill Gates, really! I mean it! I'm not so just get that notion out of your mind.


Copyright 1999, Micorsoft Corporation, All rights reserved.

David Duchovny

[Half-Deity]

I think that yeah, the show's had as much as it can take. maybe a few feature films wouldn't be too bad, but the show is seriously starting to suffer. Duchovny realizes this and is trying to get as much as he can out of the Fox Corporation. It's sad, but it's smart of him, though his fans don't like it one bit. Though if the show continues without him, it will die, as it has already started to do. I say leave the law suit alone, it's only going to make people hate him and not see his movies, but drop X-Files once it finally dwindles down to nothing.

First Post (but man this sucks...)

[cyanoacrylate]

That sucks. Big time.

Re:First Post (but man this sucks...)

[BradyB]

I really think it's funny when people say first post but well it isn't.

What surprised me..

[Axe]

..is how for the whole life of the Millennium show I managed to hear nothing about it. NO buzz, no fuss, nothing. Well maybe I did not pay atention. I accidentally discovered it in the current re-run on FX: this is order of magnitude better show than anything else on TV. I made me accept American Television, which I hated, and watched only sparely, for language comprehention practice. Rerun is in the middle of the second season now and so far I like it.
I really hope they make good miniseries...

Yeah, she really has a blue mohawk.

[Anonymous Coward]

Shocking. There's no Santa Claus, either.

Just a thought

[DMoylan]

Is this the real reason for the end of the X-files or is there a more sinister one? :-)

no no this can't be happening

[Anonymous Coward]

he's my hero... what will i do on suday night now... what if i run out of things to do in perl and have no xfiles... my life will be over

Re:no no this can't be happening

[y2k HaVoK]

realy, what WILL happen to us? are we to try to love and embrace the new shows that are out there for us? oh i most certainly hope that they can live up to their parent show the X-Files...... maybe one day another unexpected show will jump into our laps and we will be able to enjoy it to the extent of our old and beloved fave.

Re:What to do (get a life)

[Sun Tzu]

As a computer hobbiest, programmer, gamer, webmaster (sorta), and a sysadmin, getting a life is not an option for me. What should *I* do??

G vs E is too annoying to watch

[timur]

I think it's a great show overall, but I can't stand it personally. I watched a couple episodes, and it makes my head spin. It's just too annoying of a show to watch. It seems to be catered to people who've been drinking too much caffeine all Sunday.

Try this

[Anonymous Coward]

Art Bell interviewing Linda Moulting and Howe about the ear implant she shares with Roger Lier after being abducted by aliens from Waco TX.

S

Re:Try this

[jafac]

if they were from Waco, they weren't aliens. You have to go a few dozen miles south of there to find aliens.

"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

Re:Try this

[Gocho]

Once you cross the border, you become the alien.

It's been milked for all it's worth

[Cptn Proton]

Have they not covered every single supernatural phenomena there is and made up a few along the way??? What is left??? I can't think of anything. Some point are they not going to run out??? Have they not killed off every character on there and brought them back to life twice each??? How many different ways can a viewer be grossed out??? How many species of UFO are there???
I'm not a couch potato-er-ok i'm in denial- but have you noticed that most series that are popular have a lifespan of about five to seven years anyway? Is that anything like a seven year itch you find in other relationships?
To be honest, I liked the characters Scully and Mulder. They have endearing traits. Professional but approachable, fictional but completely believable. G-Men-er-G-Persons you could really trust. Not since the days of Eliot Ness have we seen anything so good.

Ok, they run out of spooks to chase. Have them chase something else, but keep the characters Scully and Mulder going. Have them chase ordinary criminals in a exotic locale ala Hawaii Five-O. No, I'm not grasping at straws-it could work. After the extraordinary becomes ordinary then the ordinary is extraordinry. They could reinvent themselves - how 'bout "touched by an FBI" Hey, it could work.

Re:It's been milked for all it's worth

[Shotgun]

>>They could reinvent themselves

No! I hate it when the networks try to do this. Look at what happened to Sliders. The original show was, well, ORIGINAL. It has now morphed into the "young, brash hero saves the day by pulling a totally unbelievable miracle out of his/her ass" thing that corporate TV turns every action show into eventually. The originallity and freshness is gone, and all that is left behind is some stock stories from the backshelves of a Hollywood studio with the names and set replaced. The same was done with Babylon5. I watched one episode of Excalibur and thought, "Why the hell are they trying to be Star Trek?" (Did anyone one else pick up on the 5 year mission thing? How about the military starship with with wide, clean, carpeted walls and expansive living quarters?)

Let the X-Files die an honorable death gracefully. Don't try to pull it back from the brink by reinventing it like some 60yr old man buying a sports car in a lame attempt to prove he's not getting old.

Re:It's been milked for all it's worth

[Anonymous Coward]

While I agree its ready for burial, I've always suspected the same characters could do well in a changed theme. Not so much with ordinary criminals, but say, get transferred to the serial killer branch. Fox's specialty, after all, was profiling...

Re:OHHH NOOOOOO!!!

[jafac]

buy an old rusted out VW beetle and fix it up, drop a porsche engine into it, go to bug shows, gawk at the bikini babes.

"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

HI I AM DAVID DUCHOVNY AND IS NOT FIND THIS ENTERT

[Anonymous Coward]

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THEREFORE

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Re:Get ready for more of this

[Zagadka]

Well think about it... what kind of stupid name is "USA Mulder"?

Re::Oz and Sopranos.. and Arliss

[stressboy]

HBO is really the only TV I watch anymore. The quality of the shows is so much better than what you get on network TV. I personally love Oz and the Sopranos, and Arliss cracks me up. The older Larry Sanders show is still a crack up. HBO is definitely worth it, in my opinion.

On the bright side.

[ez8]

His acting career is going nowhere, so at least we'll never see him again.

'cept for reruns on the sci-fi channel.

Re:On the bright side.

[radja]

and maybe the playboy channel (or whatever channel owns that ultrasoft 'erotic' show he played in.. I think Red Shoes diaries)

The Y files

[Anonymous Coward]

S'natural progression innit? Like Scully going around investing stuff that was too ridiculously stoooopid to put in the X-files. It could be a comedy.....she could investigate all those other crappy american TV shows with Aliens in and look for a conspiracy.....ALF.....Third Rock....etc.

Re:The Y files

[Anonymous Coward]

You best not be dissing ALF. He was fucking great..

Re:My Fear

[Anonymous Coward]

Dr. Crusher -> Dr. Pulasky
I think you got that one backwards. Pulasky sucked anyway. She was just a female version of Bones.

David Duchovny

[regis7175]

I wonder if Mr Duchovny can spell Mr David Curuso?
Like Mr Curuso, Duchovny is digging his own grave.
He should shut up and be grateful for his success.
He has zero chance to make it in the big screen, instead his single handedly ruining the
series and his own career. I used to love this
guy and his show, but at the rate it is going people will ask who is David Duchovny in just few short years.

Re:The show sucked since the movie

[Anonymous Coward]

X-Files has been going downhill for the past 3 years, it used to be that 1 in 10 was lame, now it's 1 in 5 is any good. The show is tired - very tired, and yeah the movie sucked. Ducovny is dreaming if he thinks he's got a better future doing anything else, he'll be lucky to get more "Red Shoe Diaries" gigs..

Re:Predictions?

[jafac]

SETI@Home is a voluntary CPU-tax.

Instead of $, you pay in cycles and bandwidth, the only REAL currency in the information age. (presuming information really does want to be FREE (beer)).

"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

Re:season premier (pirate) WHERE??

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't find it, is it in the form or what?

I feel sorry for the guy who got his page hacked, he sure is ugly!

Re:season premier (pirate) WHERE??

[Anonymous Coward]

Are those pictures of him, or his pet monkey? :-)

Anyway, the video is on the second page in, you've got to view the source now because they changed it...

Re:My Fear

[Leebert]

I think you got that one backwards.

How so? Dr. Crusher was the original doctor, then she left and Dr. Pulasky filled in, then she came back. Crusher was pretty cool, but Pulasky was annoying.

Very true

[gonzocanuck]

Yeah, the last few seasons have totally not made sense. I'm totally lost as to what's happening in the show now, with aliens here and there, CGB, etc etc, like, what is happening???? Some of the writing, compared to earlier episodes, have been very lame. Can anyone say Twin Peaks?

I liked that one too, but then it just got too weird and made less sense.

Re:Very true

[dirty]

The only thing I liked about the last few seasons was the baseball episode. There wasn't any of the super-conspiricy crap. There wasn't any of the "we'll give you another hint to what the question you should be asking is" crap. It was an alien playing baseball, plain, simple, and really funny.

Re:gettin any?

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus he'll get more time to spend with Tea Leoni (drool).

Re:Babylon 5?

[Steve B]

TNT canceled it before it even started for not having enough sex and violence.

Yeah, a show that cleverly uses an interspecies pr0n video as a plot device doesn't have enough sex and violence for the PHBs. That "cleverly" kills them every time.

What can you expect from a network that has its professional wrestling shows run late so the audience will think it's a real sport?
/.

Re:Millenium, I want Millenium... - It was BORING.

[Anonymous Coward]

It wasn't dark and spooky, it was just dark and BORING. The first episode had me snoring.

What is Gillian going to do now tho? :(

IRS Should Investigate Sale

[Anonymous Coward]

If what DD alleges is true, he she provide the IRS with any information he has. Often these internal sales of assets from one component to another are done at a lower than fair market price so the selling component can report a smaller capital gain and pay less tax. Getting the IRS involved would trigger a few things:
- DD would be eligible for whistleblower protections, so if Fox tried to cut him out of X-files movies, he could collect lost income.
- If this uncovers a pattern, and a substantial penalty is paid by Fox, DD would be eligible to collect a percentage.

Re:2nd Season was great

[Anonymous Coward]

I just want to put a "me too" here. Those are exactly my opinions on Millenium. When I found out about the last second renewal for a third season (which was after the 2nd season finale) I was flabbergasted. I mean how do you come back from that finale? The third season had a few decent episodes but it was quite a let down after the second. It went from avidly watching every moment of every episode twice to "I wonder if this week's will be decent." It will be somewhat of a relief to know they don't have any more chances to mess up a good thing, but it had such promise!

Morgan and Wong's stuff really demonstrated how good TV can be. Imagine if people like them actually got the support of the network execs rather than being cut off at the knees. Oh well we can dream at least.

-Dean Townsley

Spinoff Series

[crow]

I agree with many others that the X Files has run its course, and it is time to move on. However, it would make sense to do a related spinoff series focusing on some of the minor characters. Imagine having The Lone Gunmen every week!

Re:Spinoff Series

[Michel]

Or go for movies.

I've grown sick of the X files by now (and I'm in Europe, which is at least 1 or 2 seasons behind. I can't even imagine how boring it must be by now, unless they've changed course.), because everything has been rehashed at least a dozen times, and nothing's really happening. Nothing gets solved.

I realise that that is the X files, but that way you aren't getting anywhere, the series isn't growing anymore, and 90% of it is more or less a copy of an earlier episode.

Now if they would end the series with a 'bang' (a Worthy End) and go make the occasional movie after that, they could milk more life out of it if they want to. I can imagine the actors agreeing to the occasional movie, but not to Yet Another season of the series. The movies would have to be better than the first one, though... ;-)

That may be the smart thing to do for Fox, because if the actors quit, the X files is basically dead and that's that. I don't think it's possible to replace them...

My Fear

[Leebert]

I'm afraid now the X-Files won't end their series, now, and instead give Scully a new cheesy sidekick. (e.g. like Dr. Crusher -> Dr. Pulasky)

Re:My Fear

[MikeHammer]

Nay, Nay, Dr. Pulasky was the best character on Next Generation; she's the only one who didnt want to be buddys with everyone and take everything so seriously. Plus, she treated Data like a machine which was a refreshing change from all the other starfleet do-gooders

The show sucked since the movie

[Anonymous Coward]

Loved the show, watched it from day one.. After the movie however things just began to suck.

Re:The show sucked since the movie

[Anonymous Coward]

Its sort of hard to determine when it began to suck. I mean, it doesn't totally suck, not even these days. But it has a lot of crap episodes. Over half of the episodes are crap rather than the 1-2 per season it started off with. To my way of thinking the fourth season was when it began to get a bit shaky with some of the the "mythology" episodes like Terma being lame, but it was still very good. All this is probably because TV shows should end after four seasons. Babylon 5 sorta died in the fifth season as well. The fifth season and sixth seasons of X-Files were dull. Dull mainly because the overall plot lost all coherence and consistency with the previous seasons, because many of the non-mythology episodes were cheesy and lame, and because lots of ideas were repeated (the X-Files being closed down, for example.)

I LIKE MILK

[Anonymous Coward]

ON MY BODY...
cmgers01@athena.louisville.edu

File Under X for eXpired

[tomwhore]

The X-files has all the relevnace of WIN buttons (not the computer kind,lets see who remebers what they were) and the price of octarine tinted sunglasses on the hub.

If you want to hear the real dealstuff the Xfile cant deliver anymore, go listen to art bell, go listen to X Minus One, Dimension X, and even Earth Search.

It sadens me to see so many people so tied up in such a shitty excuse for a TV show. The only way X Files could get any worse is if they hired Richard Greeco and the cast of Freinds to come in and have the whole thing written by Sid and Marty Croft.

David D, go home and have some sex with your wife. Jesus man, your married to one fine piece and you actualy leave the house? With all that so called "Sexual addiction" you have you should order in every night and day and get housekeeping to change your sheets every 6 hours.

As for Gillain Anderson, i bet ya shes guest staring on Love Boat The Next Generation within a year.

Re:File Under X for eXpired

[cwinters]

*W*hip *I*nflation *N*ow, probably the only thing people will remember about Jerry Ford except for the chevy chase impersonations and the "appearance" on the simpsons...

"Do you like Nachos?"

Oh Well, I Don't Even Remember the Season Finale

[Anonymous Coward]

So, this is the last season for the X-Files. Ho-hum.

Funny, I know I WATCHED the last season finale, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was about. It ended with Scully on a beach or something, right?

I used to care, really I did. I mean, apart from being the best drama on TV, with witty scripts, great effects, and an amazing ambiance, it was made within walking distance of my house. Who could ask for more? I watched it religously, I bought the episode summary guides (just in case I forgot a detail when watching a future episode), I read the newsgroups.

Then, David Duchovny started whining. "I have to be closer to my wife and her [cancelled] show. Besides, it rains too much." Please. His Diva antics would make Whitney Houston blush.

So, against the wishes of Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson (who put the show's quality above her own conveniences), the supporting cast, and the crew, they moved the show to L.A. Well, now I dispised Duchovny for taking away my favourite show, but I was determined to still enjoy the show itself. I was one of 15,000 extras at G.M. Place for the last episode's chess match scene. It was tons of fun.

Last fall, after wating and waiting for the season to start, I became quickly disappointed. Why were the first four episodes all set in California or Nevada?

By mid-season, I realized it wasn't just the ambiance that had suffered. Maybe the move had caused new frictions, or maybe the show was just sinking anyway, but the quality of the stories and of the writing went way down. After that stupid two-parter where "Dana" didn't realize that Mulder wasn't Mulder (I spent the whole time screaming at the screen that Scully isn't supposed to be a fscking retard), I gave up. I'v e watched one episode since: the season finale. I don't remember anything about it, apart from the final scene, and I don't really even care.

So the show will end. In my mind, it already has. Besides, the sooner the X-Files goes, the sooner I NEVER have to hear or see David Duchovny again. I am confident that the X-Files was it for him. He hasn't done anything else worthwhile, and I'm sure he never will. Why he insists on biting the hand that feeds him, I just don't understand.

Re:Millenium, I want Millenium...

[EXTomar]

The first season of Millenium did rule. Unfortunately, it was too dark for the mass appeal(like some of X-Files episodes aren't *shrug*) so they dumbed it way way down. By doing that, they lost the following it originally had dooming it all together. Once again, the TV Execs killed an intreging show before it's prime.

The X-files....

[bgheen]

The X-files along with Star Trek DS9 were two of the most creative and orignal shows on TV. They spawned so many copy shows, space above and beyond, Dark Skies...etc. The number of copy shows that survived (um..none) proves that The X-files had a special formula. Mulder (david) fit perfectly. He had character and charm. I will miss this show. Growing up is no fun.

-brandon
"hacking for all the kiddies that need scripts"

Re:Millenium, I want Millenium...

[Jahf]

Umm, Millennium was cancelled already ... Actually, Space Above and Beyond was better than either, though I think that they all 3 could have converged quite nicely (now that could make a good movie).

Oz Rocks!

[Edward Teach]

So do the Soprannos, SG-1, and Total Recall 2070. Now if I could just figure out how to get a cameo on Sex and the City... X-files is getting a little wimpy now but back in the day, it rocked as well.
--- Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time ---

Re:31337 31337 31337

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly my thoughts

Re:Millenium, I want Millenium...

[Gramie]

Millenium is no more -- not renewed for the fall season -- and if I may say so, it's a good thing.

The first season was good. The second season was, in my opinion, some of the finest television ever produced (with a couple of clinkers). Morgan and Wong wrote and produced intelligent, witty shows that asked questions about life, death, and faith.

They even used religion superbly, with mysticism (not trashy, Shirley Maclaine type), superstition and historical Christianity blended into plots that didn't just tease like the X-Files.

Then, in the third season, Chris Carter returned to the helm and apparently decreed that there was to be no more religion. Back to the "psycho killer of the week" dreck, completely ignoring all the developments of the second season, and forcing it into an ugly "Special FBI Agent" theme. So much for all the best conflicts like family/work, spiritual/physical, loyalty/justics.

I've heard that the third season improved in the second half, but they haven't come out on video here (Japan) yet, so I can't comment on them.

There is talk of a 6-part miniseries to wind things up, maybe around Christmas. I just hope to God they bring back Morgan and Wong.

Why am I always the last to hear?

[Edward Teach]

Now I'm really bummed. I've been waiting for the season premeire of Millenium!

Dammit!!!

BTW, "the practice" is pretty cool for Sunday nights.
--- Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time ---

Err... Wrong logo

[wilkinsm]

The X should be used for this post, not for the X-Free86 post.

I nominate Mike Myers as David's replacement...

"The X-Files86 Movie Version 2.0"
"The alien that shagged me"

Re:Err... Wrong logo

[BandoMcHando]

kinda like this:

"Scully, Are you horny?"

;)

Re::Oz and Sopranos.. and Arliss

[Xel]

...And lets not forget Spawn. Im forced to get it on DVD however, not having cable yet. But now that Mediaone is in my town (along with cable modem access) I don't think I'll be able to resist.

Hey, anyone remember when HBO showed movies?


====

Fox Mulder == Col. Henry Blake?

[CoffeeNowDammit]

Y'know, Fox could royally screw Duchovny by killing off Mulder in next season's finale.

Would they do it? I don't know. For most fans Duchovny and Anderson are the X-Files. Such a move would effectively wipe out any chance of movies in the future.

On the other hand, if the lawsuit wipes out that chance anyway, well..
-----

Good riddance!!!!!

[jtseng]

UFOs maybe but it's been getting kinda ridiculous in the last few years. Never liked the show...

Today's English Lesson: Oxymorons

Three Words Baby...

[Lord Kano]

The Lone Gunmen!

Ok, now more than three words. I was remarking to my fiance' last season how cool it would be if Fox did a Lone Gunmen series.

I'd never miss an episode as long as they did it right. Then they could use Skully as an occasional character who shows up whenever the boys need a little FBI help.

POssible story line for an episode (or a few if they throw in enough good filler).

'Hickey develops a lightning fast and extremely secure encryption algorithm. After a group meeting with TLG (The Lone Gunmen) he decided that he should open source it, and let the world benefit from increased privacy and keep the "shadow government" at bay. They enlist the help of an Old Skool Berkley hacker type who is more adept at internet anonymity, packet hijacking, IP spoofing and the like. Instead of actually helping them he turns a copy of the info over to AD Kirch who is being blackmailed by the Cancer man because of his mysterious past.

Kirch is instructed to put an end to this Crypto nonesense immediately. He sneaks into the TLG hideout with an emp grenade (sorry for the blatent TF rip-off) and 5 gallons of napalm, as he's about to deploy them AD Skinner, agent Skully, and TLG step out with guns and video cameras drawn. Kirch reaches and pulls out an HK SOCOM .45, Skully and Skinner open fire after they've both empied their magazines Kirch finally slumps to the floor and an effervescent green liquid pours out of all of the bullet holes in Kirch's body. 'Hickey stuffs a Jaz cart into his backpack and the joint goes up on flames.

Fade out....

Fade Back in, TLG are huddled around a computer monitor and Langley exclaims "We did it, the information is out there." Frohike asks "Who's Kung Fu is the best?" They all laugh and we get a glimpse of the screen.


It's SLASHDOT--NEWS FOR NERDS. STUFF THAT MATTERS. With a headline...

Über Crypto algorithm source sent to EFF, FSF, and our own CmdrTaco by anonymous contributor.

Screen goes black with the words emplazened across the middle "The source is out there".

OK, the last line I was joking, but I think that the rest could be shaped into a good run of episodes and possibly even a series.

I don't watch X-Files for Mulder anyway, I want to see Frohike lay Skully.

LK

Re:Millenium, I want Millenium... - It was BORING.

[jbuilder]

Our lil 'button-down sex symbol'? Oh please.. she's Gillian Anderson.. who in Hollywood WOULDN'T hire her. The only flap she made was not being paid equally to Duchovny on the X-Files. Then they paid her, and she's continued to do great work since then.

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing ANYTHING else she does.

Maybe this is what the show needs...

[TheRoss]

The show has gotten quite stale lately... Maybe the loss of a major charachter is what was needed to make it interesting again.

Just a thought,

-Ross

Re:it's time to move on

[Anonymous Coward]

can't everyone find something better to do than stare at a tv all day? i'm all for entertainment, expecially sci-fi, but c'mon people.

Would you prefer that all those people staring at TVs all day get up, go out, and spray the streets and random with an Uzi?

Some people CAN'T find anything better to do than watch TV all day? Who cares -- let 'em. Keeps them off the street.

chicks rule

[The Queen]

I'm a chick, too, and I would SO lick Gillian. And David. :-)
After the XFiles shuts down, how about a season in my pants? Woo!

The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk

Pixies in Xfiles

[The Queen]

HA! You took the words right out of my mouth! Although having the XFiles Theme song changed to "They got a ranch they call...number 51!!!!" would be cool... :-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk

it's time to move on

[swonkdog]

though i never pity a person of whom has a lot more money than they know what to do with and still complain that they need more, i do believe that duchovny does need to protect his interests.
as much as i do not want a lot of money (enough to live on and upgrade my systems will suit me nicely), i would also seek to have my employer live up do their end of the bargain if only for the principal of the matter.
on the other hand while it is true that the x-files is a great show, i think it's probably a good idea to quit beating a dead alien. after the third season the show began to lose a bit of it's ingenuity and now they are simply rehashing old plots with a new spin.
and anyhow, can't everyone find something better to do than stare at a tv all day? i'm all for entertainment, expecially sci-fi, but c'mon people.

Alternatives for Duchovny

[Kazuo]

Well, if the X-Files continues, maybe they should get someone else to join Sculley:

1. Patrick Stewart (as the Bald Man)
2. Lance Henriksen (as Frank Black)
3. Jonathan Frakes
4. Brent Spiner
5. Jerry O'Connell
6. Peter Horton (as Ezekiel Stone) and
John Glover (as the Devil) --- from Brimstone
7. Robert Beltran (as Chakotay Alienfellow)
8. Christopher Walken
9. George Clooney
10. Christopher Lambert (as Conner Macleod)
11. Julia Roberts
......

Hmmmm.....I need some coffee.....
------------------------------------- -----------------------

Re:Alternatives for Duchovny

[Axe]

2. Lance Henriksen (as Frank Black)

That would kick ass. It would be just great. It should be done from the start. Duchovny sucks. Henriksen rocks. I love Scully.

About darn time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dunnon if you folks knew this, but DD never enjoyed being on the show. All he ever did was bitch and moan about how miserable it was. I used to like the show but stopped watching it years ago when I realized that he was a whiner. The content is good enough that you don't have to worry about the character's outside lives, however knowing they hate working on the show really colors it. Kinda like how you see a character differently when they have been typcast. I say good riddance!!!!!!!

Aliens, aliens, aliens

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see. There are the black oil aliens which give rise to the "ALIEN" aliens that nest inside humans and kill them when they break free and rampage throughout the community seeking prey which transform (under conditions of heat and humidity typically found inside a NUCLEAR REACTOR) into the tiny grey skins with the big eyes (ala "communion"). There are the bad shape changing aliens that can only be killed with a sharp pen to the back of the neck and who's blood is green and acidy and toxic to humans. There are the "rebel" aliens which wear incredibly lifelike masks but have scarred their eyes and mouths and other orifices closed so the other bad aliens cannot get into them or whatever. Sheeeeeetttttt, mon. What here be 'dis planet? Grand Central Station? We've got more offworlders than we got natives. Let's start seeing some imigration quotas, people.

Scully

[Anonymous Coward]

Scully is the good lookin' one, anyway- who cares about Molder... they will make him get abducted and disappear... Maybe he should start his own show, call it the XY-Files... :o)

Heres what

[Anonymous Coward]

"for what shall we do if the X-Files goes off the air?" Try getting a life. Better to quit while you're ahead instead of dragging on and the show sucking.

Re:OHHH NOOOOOO!!!

[miahrogers]

heh, we actually own one, but my stepfather refuses to touch it. He wanted to restore it but he's rather frugal when it comes to spending his cash. It's a nice one too 1956 VW bug, ragtop, oval rear view window(those are really popular in the VW world). But he refuses to fix it up... maybe when i'm older...

much more interesting story

[Anonymous Coward]

on that page is a link to story about someone stalking an actress from degrassi high. i suppose that would only be funny if you actually WATCHED degrassi high, but it's still better than this silly x files story. aussies, sheesh.

btw, looking for all x-files episodes...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone have or know where I can find have a set of all x-files episodes ever, on VHS?
Those fox tapes don't include many episodes and I'd like to have all of them, from the pilot on... (nothing on e-bay, so far)

Thanks, ix@that.com.br

Re:gettin any?

[cheese63]

thats ok by my standards (if any)

If you don't like the show, then don't post. *NT*

[emufreak]

Slashdot requires you to put crap in this box, so I'm putting crap here. *NT* means no text.


*-emufreak-*
www.kontek.net/pp

P4K!ST4N H4CKERZ KLUB > U

[Anonymous Coward]

m4n r u evEr 4 w4nn4bE.

we r way more el8 than u kould ever fathom ch1ld.

Regards,
M1ST3R Re4LH4CK3R
PHC

I'm so sad

[detritus.]

This is heavy.

As an X-Phile this can't be true.
It seems the only reason people quit shows these
days is over money - damnit, if I were in duchovny's position I would stop whining and continue the show. Hell, he's got millions of fans, let's all send him a dollar to cheer him up.

Re:DOA in LA

[Michel]

I seem to recall that the move to LA was a demand from Duchovny, if the show were to go on at all. So if they hadn't moved to LA the X files might have been history already. Might have been just as well anyway...

Show Was Ending Anyways...

[rit]

This isn't completely surprising, nor honestly a big deal.
I recall at the beginning of last season, after doing the movie, that they were discussing ending the show anyways - they had enjoyed doing movies too much, and mentioned wrapping the show up in another season or two...
I was sort of expecting the series to end in this season anyway (Although now it doesn't look like they'll go to do more movies ).

-rit

Babylon 5?

[Yohahn]

Crusade just did a parody of X-files
Perhaps Crusade would be a show to watch...

oh wait.. TNT canceled it before it even started for not having enough sex and violence.

Millenium, I want Millenium...

[Axe]

...much better series. I want them to continue... Screw X-files.

I love Scully.

What to do

[hime]

Getting a life is always an option...

Re:What to do

[jafac]

If you want some REAL entertainment (Subject: get a life), you should check out the X-Files' fan sites' message board. Man, are these guys priced out of the "life" market or what's the deal?

"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

gettin any?

[cheese63]

will he at least bang that redhead?

Re:gettin any?

[Duke of URL]

She's not really a redhead, so why bother?

Re:dya happen to have...

[Yohahn]

A better link (IMHO) about what's happening is at
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~fleming/

It was expected

[Anonymous Coward]

David's head was out of joint ever since he moved the show out of Vancouver. I think many of us already expected this.

Got no cable

[Dirt Road]

Ah heck, X-files is the only thing I've watched regularly on TV in the last 18 years or so. Might as well pull the plug on that dang thing for good.

-- Dirt Road

Re:Space:Above and Beyond

[jafac]

Oh my god, I'm sorry for you. S:AAB was about the stupidest show since Battlestar Glactica. (of course, I watched that when I was 10 too).

Incredibly stupid. What, were they fighter pilots, or ground troops? With NO training whatsoever, they're ready for space flight? They're ready for space combat in one-man fighters? Must be just naturally smart and talented to know how to deal with magnetic fields, radiation belts, gravitational fields, 3-dimensional thinking, alien psychology (in combat situations), etc. Now let's take these brilliant minds, and make them grunts in the trenches, because they can also deal with ground tactics, survival in hostile alien environments (harsh atmospheres, different gravity, alien flora and fauna).
Yeah, all Science Fiction needs is another totally brain-dead, dumbed down shoot-em-up show, built of poorly contrived excuses to show the main characters in a variety of situations where they're zapping bad guys with lasers.



"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

Would not work..

[Axe]

... they can always clone a copy - remember Alien Resurrection? Ripley was dead for 200 years..

about time.

[Anonymous Coward]

its about time. this whole aliens UFO my toaster oven is at the center of a government conspiracy thing has gone far enough. at first they had a ufo. then they had many ufos. now theyre hiding everything from us! and our stuffed animals are really alien listening devices placed there so the government can know how many times a day we blow our noses so they can use our flem to power their ultra covert machines that we might see in the next episode. i better stop before some writer steals this and turns it into the season finale. and the sad thing is, all you x-files people would love it. x-files sucks. a few episodes were good, but its gotten out of control. the plot is about as compelling and twice as convoluted as any daytime soap opera. now they can replace it with another cartoon about red necks and toilets.

There's a song about David Duchovny.

[broohaha]

It's called "David Duchovny Why Won't You Love Me?" It's pretty funny. And they play it on some of the radio stations here in Chicago. Dunno who sings it, though.

next job?

[BandoMcHando]

Anyone know if/when he is going back to the red shoe diaries?
Hmmm, nice bit of voice over and "meaningful" looks at the camera. Hmmmm, good.
I really loved that show! ;)

Re:more room for cartoons

[cheese63]

i agree. more lifelike situations, such as those presented in teh simpsons, help young people such as myself make decisions. i mean, i'll never be captured by a ufo, but i'll be damned if i said i've never been involved in a snake beating or two...

You are a chick?

[Anonymous Coward]

yes i am a chick

No, you aren't

You are a chick?

[Anonymous Coward]

yes i am a chick

No, you aren't

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it's a great show overall, but I can't stand it personally

Uh, ok. Which one of your personalities likes it and which one doesn't?

Re:Predictions?

[Michel]

Finally, my suggestion for a replacement for David, is Kramer from Seinfeld

C|N>K
You bastard!

That's an image I could have done without. :-)

Re:Kill your television

[Anonymous Coward]

> besides sitting in front of the internet "Get off that darn Internet! It'll rot your brain!" - Mom W-W-What? There's something outside? The yellow face, it burns us. Hide in your cave. Screw that man. There's people out there. Germs. Disease. Republicans. I'll stay inside.

The X-File they tried to ban.

[Michel]

This isn't mine. It's just something I found more than a year ago. It's about Linux. It's fun. Laugh.

[COMPUTING LAB - WEST VIRGINIA (No great loss coming up)]
We see a Pimply Faced Youth working over a terminal. Suddenly he looks up at the screen, scrabbles frantically with the keyboard, then shields his face with his arms, screaming

[LATER THAT DAY]

Mulder: So what do you think?

.....

Okay, it's also long. Go see the original

Re:The X-File they tried to ban.

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, ROTF, LOL, ROTF! That's the second funniest thing I've seen today, right behind the Windows GPF pic at the air port posted on linuxtoday.com.

Whoever wrote that gets a kudo!

I can replace him if...

[Alex Belits]

..they will make episodes about:

• Internet stocks rise is a bizzare side effect of perpetuum mobile, successfully(?) built in 1935. Mulder finds the author's granddaughter, she she shows him a glass bulb with something rotating within, and claims that this is the last device, left running for decades. When Scully meets author's granddaughter later, she finds the bulb motionless and has a long conversation with Mulder. Later Mulder finds his LCOS stock in a deep dive that started the day when he seen the device.
• Pieces of FreeBSD -CURRENT and Linux odd-numbered kernels show strangely matching patterns of bugs being introduced and fixed in the same subsystem approximately at the same time. FreeBSD developers notice that and accuse Linux in stealing, Linux developers ignore that except having some minor flames at lkml, FreeBSD core team keeps itself out of this. Scully runs analysis of changes in FreeBSD CVS vs. Linux kernel patches (and makes some derogatory comments to Linux way of keeping the history). Mulder talks with jkh (in person) Linus (by email), Eric Allman and Paul Vixie (in person, both at the same time) and Theo de Raadt (also in person, Mulder meets him at some gloomy and desolate place). None of them make things any more clear than what we already know from them about bugs, however Paul Vixie suggests that bugs are obscure, and really anything can influence people to write them. Mulder talks to Scully, and she tries to match the moments of all kinds of significant events with moments when buggy code was written and fixed. Large amount of "events" fall into short timeframe after things like earthquakes, US military operations, mass shootings and other events, widely covered in the media, intensive flamewars in linux or freebsd mailing lists (however the effect is visible on both systems even if flamewar was limited to one list), and Jon Katz articles. However Scully fails to make any sense of relationship between subsystem affected and a kind of event -- say, TCP bugs to particular military operations, SMP cleanup to school shooting, drivers to media-related Katz articles, etc. Mulder suggests that it takes a non-human intelligence to understand the relation.

Greatest idea..

[Axe]

...posted above

Frank Black should join Scully. Screw Molder.

P.S. Black is the Millennium uberdude - set your VCR on 1am weekdays to FX - it is beeing rerun now..

dya happen to have...

[RoLlEr_CoAsTeR]

a link to this?

Re:dya happen to have...

[kangell]

http://scifi.simplenet.com/crusade/plot.html
Has a summary of the rather bizzaro news about this program.

XFiles could go on without Duchovny

[puppet10]

If the writers are up to it the Xfiles should not have to end even if a major character like Mulder/Duchovny leaves the show. Some other shows have lasted a very long time switching main characters rather often (although the format is generally an ensemble cast the Xfiles could migrate to this kind of story rather easily). For example NYPD Blue, Law&Order, ER, and even ST:DS9 all have lost/eliminated some major characters and they can still write a story. This is actually a minor pet peeve I have, why can't SF series stand to lose a major charcter now and then particularly if the actor wants to leave, this could spice up a stale story line by injecting a completly new element into the story. How long can the Xfiles go on with the one major theme of Fox trying to find the truth about his sister's disappearence, maybe a new main character introduced could expand the govt conspiracy in a different direction and, yes, change the series, but possibly for the better.

Look what they did to the Dukes of Hazard

[Cptn Proton]

The two country bumpkin actors (one of them is a country singer now) quit the show, and rather than giving the show an honorable demise hired a couple of ridiculous standins. They must have fired all the writers as well because the show became a car chase. One long and dreadful car chase. Then the original actors came back to continue the long car chase. I do not understand the economics of producing drivel like that, then again I don't understand soap operas and country music either.

But that has to be a textbook case on how to lobotomize a television series, taking an original and interesting idea and ripping all shreds of distinctiveness from it.

So yeah, I hope that they don't let it boil down to chasing ALF, then again that might be more interesting than watching them chase more sewer slime monsters...

Calling all X-Files Fans

[Anonymous Coward]

Would someone explain to me why a far-fetched series with bad actors can be so popular? It's about the most ridiculous mishmash of mumbles and ridiculous science I've ever heard. Maybe I'm missing it. Maybe you folks realize its B-Trash Sci Fi and a hoot? Is that it? My Uncle told me I didn't have much of a sense of humor.

Space:Above and Beyond

[_Sprocket_]

I saw S:AAB as more of an origional, rather than copy. It had a very different feel to it than Star Trek, B5, or XFiles. It seemed, if anything, a "WWII Air Combat" series in space.

I miss it. I loved the show. Alas, its one of those things that weren't meant to be.

Re:Space:Above and Beyond

[_Sprocket_]

What, were they fighter pilots, or ground troops?

D'oh! OK. Yea. I did forget that little annoyance. :)

I would have much preferred it if the show followed numerous groups. Maybe flyboys and groundtroops. The concept of highly trained pilots being tossed into ground conflicts (requireing completely different training) was... ahem... silly.

Re:Space:Above and Beyond

[jafac]

or, perhaps dump the formula of "a tv show that has a number of familliar faces (usually no more than 6 or so, because audiences can't handle much more than that) that are in every episode".

I'd like to see that, and I'd like to see other shows that actually apply real astrophysics to the flight of spacecraft (B5, Crusade), and shows that don't have painfully trite dialog (B5, Crusade), and shows that don't use stupid misconceptions/stereotypes about science, scientists, computers, computer scientists, but then, I guess I'm asking too much.

How about a sci fi sitcom?:

It's like, you glow.

A man from Earth, travels to a uranium mining colony on Mars, and moves in with an old college buddy, to write a book about how much Mars, and Martians suck.

"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."

Scully is good because they didn't bimbo-dize her

[Cptn Proton]

Scully is an intelligent character, but yet doesn't overpower the weaker Fox Mulder character. Gillian plays it perfectly. So yeah, maybe it would be interesting to see what directions the series could go without Mulder, maybe a reason to watch again. Maybe some black helicopters could come and get Mulder.

What will I do after X-Files?

[Enoch Root]

What will I do when X-Files ends? I'll watch the first four seasons on video, trying to forget the awfulness of the last seasons.

And don't talk to me about Millennium; ever since Season 3, it's been a shameless X-Files clone... Such a pity, it was headed for pure brilliance!

It's a sign of times, guys... X-Files sucks and it's gonna end. X-Files was a show of the nineties, and in the nineties it had its place. The show for the year 2000 may already be "out there".

"There is no surer way to ruin a good discussion than to contaminate it with the facts."

DOA in LA

[Anonymous Coward]

The xfiles died when the production moved to LA. Hollywood corrupts all.

Re:DOA in LA

[Anonymous Coward]

AMEN!

I don't watch for Mulder anyway. SCULLY RULEZ!

X-Files doesn't need Mulder!

Alturnatives

[X-Nc]

If you think X-Files is good you should try "G vs E" on USA. It's got all the "coolness" of the X-Files without the pompousness and arrogance.

---
"Who pill da cubby custar?"

more room for cartoons

[penfold]

Just show Simpsons and Family guy more often. Those lazy cartoon writers need more work. errr, or something like that.

More simpsons and family guy!

Re:more room for cartoons

[kabloie]

More Simpsons and WHAT? Family Guy is the worst thing that Fox has inflicted on us since...their inception! More Futurama, possibly. Family Guy is putrid. Boooooo!!!

-kabloie

More Movies?

[Mr T]

I thought they were eventually going to phase out the show and then make movies every couple of years.

Is he quitting the whole program and won't partake if future movies?

I only ever watched because of Gillian anyways.. ;)

Get ready for more of this

[the red pen]

Duchovny is actually being very reasonable. There's an article in this week's Entertainment Weekly about it, with an interview.

Here's the problem: a hot property (like X-Files) goes into syndication. Despite the fact that USA Network offered more money, the syndication is granted to Fox Network... which is owned by the same people who own the show. Fox (the global entity) reaps the rewards and stakeholders, such as Duchovny, get screwed out of market potential for their work.

Alan Alda already won a similar lawsuit involving syndication of M*A*S*H.

Re:If you don't like the show, then don't post. *N

[tomwhore]

The words BLOW ME come to mind

Ill post what I like when i like

cause I can always count on idiots like you to respond to stuff that makes your little world go quake.

boo hoo did i rain on your personal favorite show??? Awwwwwww. Heres a quarter , go call your mom and tell her that the net is a bad big place and you want to go home.

NT, in your case = Nice Try

That's how good an actress Anderson is.

[Cptn Proton]

Originally the story centered around Fox Mulder, but Anderson has played the part so well that Mulder does seem to have turned into a 'minor' character. You're right - the utility of Mulder chasing his sister doesn't seem to be there anymore. Duchovny probably doesn't want to be typecast ala Nimoy==Spock, but I'm willing to bet it's too late now. Anytime we see him on the tube it's gonna be "there's Mulder"!

What really would be interesting and daring if the show crossed over from a Sci-Fi to straight Drama. That's something I would like to see - putting the same actors in different roles. Leave aliens out for a while.

Sarcasm & the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Sarcasm doesn't travel well over text. From the post:

Woe-is-me

Uhh ok. At first I thought you were serious.

Nice enough guy, but...

[Zico]

he never quite reached the master thespian potential that he showed on Red Shoe Diaries.

Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

:Oz and Sopranos

[Wah]

By far the two best reasons to get HBO. It's starting to be worth it, it's soo nice to watch a show without commercials (and occasional nudity). "Mr. Show with Bob and David" is sketch comedy to the nth, they've got a pretty sweet line-up.

Predictions?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well we all can start making predictions about how the show ends. Will Fox and Scrumptious Sculley finally, ah, em, have breakfast together? Will the Cigarette Smoking Man stop smoking and start jogging? Will we see Fox's sister? Will SETI@home find the aliens? Will we find out that the head of the Justice Department is an alien? (cheap shot, sorry). Will the aliens really look like JarJar? What if they look like penguins?

So many questions, so little brain cells.

And now for the ubiquitous comment. Damn it! It is the X-File System, not the X-Files System.

Finally, my suggestion for a replacement for David, is Kramer from Seinfeld (image his reaction when he sees an alien).

Kill your television

[swb]

What shall we do if the X files goes away? How about doing something *else* with your time, besides sitting in front of the internet/TV?

OHHH NOOOOOO!!!

[miahrogers]

NOOOO... NOt my x-files, what can possibly replace it??? There is monty python.. but i don't get the BBC... I could become a trekkie? But some of those people really do scare me.. like the ones who really DO think they're aliens and go around all day dressed like aliens... oh what to do what to do.. i could become a phish groopie.. but i don't listen to phish that often.. what to do what?? to do??!!