Scully to leave X-Files as well

Rick Razzano writes "Canoe is reporting that Gillian Anderson says that she won't return for another season of the X-Files. She's saying that she's "spent" from doing the series.. So does this mean that the show will end, or can the show's producers find someone fill Mulder and Scully's shoes? "

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X-Files will Continue in movies, Carter vows.

[ryder]

According to today's Studio Briefing over at the IMDB: Chris Carter says that series will continue on the big screen with both Duchovny and Anderson on board.

The original source is today's New York Post. Anyone got a link?

She'll regenerate

[mjwise]

As with all of the previous times the talent expressed a desire to leave, the producers will simply produce a regeneration scene to ease the transition to a new Doctor.....er.....wrong show, sorry.

She didn't have much of a choice

[Scott]

I think it was an Entertainment Weekly interview with Duchovny where he said he was leaving, and that he though Carter was going to kill the series after this season.

Infact, in EW's fall show preview issue coverage of the X-Files, they confirm this is the last season and Mulder and Scully will do something they've never done before.

Re:She didn't have much of a choice

[Max Planck]

"something they've never done before"
?? Hmmm...
Gives all the X-philes something to think about. I'm thinking that this "something they've never done before" is pr0n.

Oh, wait, Duchovny has already done that.

Re:Yeah right

[A Big Gnu Thrush]

Has anyone noticed that "Harsh Realm" is the bastard offspring of "Strange Luck" and "VR-5" (or whatever it was called) ?

D. B. Sweeney plus virtual reality equals "Harsh Realm."

Don't worry, that sucking noise you hear is just the script.

The show must (not) go on!

[Lotek]

Man, I seriously hope that since the main actors are leaving the show, the powers that be will just let it go. There is nothing lamer than having the main character leave, only to be replaced suddenly with someone else who shares that person's motivations... The show wouldn't make sense if they add in new characters. (and no, I don't want it to suddenly be about the CSM and Mimi Rogers, thank you.) The entire show has been about Mulder, his obsession with the truth, and his burgeoning relationship with Scully. To try and add in a new set of characters will kill the entire idea off and ruin the memory of the show. It will always live on in reruns and movies.

Lotek---

They can be replaced.

[blue_adept]

Scully should be replaced by a gorgeous woman with telepathic abilities, and Mulder should be replaced by a more authoritarian, comandeering figure... possibly a bald ship captain.

Also, they should change the mood of X-files to something a little brighter and more futuristic... maybe a spaceship... and swap out smoking man for an android. Now THAT would be cool. Modify the name of the show to something more funky, like "ne-X-t Generation", and voila... the show must go on.

Just let it die with dignity.

[Sith Lord Jesus]

Back in the day, the X-Files was one of my absolute fave shows and not just because Gillian Anderson is a Goddess (which she is ;-)).When it was good, it was *really* good--well-written scripts, tight acting, characters you gave a damn about, and mystery. But these last few seasons. . .

I stopped watching the show regularly back in January--it was clear by then that it no longer had any direction, it was just gonna keep going on and on with no resolution to the story arc in sight. In fact, I don't really think that there IS a story arc any more, if there ever was; I believe Carter is now just more or less making it up as he goes. This is why I say Fox should just let it die. Instead of raping the corpse and trying to squeeze one last buck out of it they should wrap it all up neat and tidy this season--with or without an alien invasion--and move on to something else.

Makes me appreciate Babylon 5 all the more--JMS decided at the start that he had a story he wanted to tell, that it would go on for a finite length of time with a beginning, middle and end, and that once it was over it was frigging OVER. I wish that that kind of foresight had gone into X-Files--the show would in all probability be finished by now, but at least it would have ended decently

This is nothing new

[Ferzerp]

As I posted when the Mulder story was posted. The X-files was not to continue after next season anyway. It would be hard for them to continue on the show when there is no show to continue on.

I certainly hope they cancel it

[Jack William Bell]

Considering how badly the Millenium re-launch was handled, and how easy it would have been to do it right, there is little hope that the a show as long-running as the X Files could continue without either of the stars.

Which leaves room for something entirely new, and perhaps even as daring as the first season of Millenium...

Jack

Re:i fucked gillian anderson

[Deitheres]

Hey that's really funny... about a year ago I dressed up as Gillian Anderson and went out to some bars and met this... oh shit.

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