New X-Files Series in Discussion

[Reverend]

The second movie was a bit confusing IMO. In the TV series finale, they're clearly on the run and the aliens/supersoldiers/Toothpick man or whatever are sort of still in control, but in I Want To Believe Scully's using her real name in a hospital, and they're given a full pardon...and we never really found out what happened to John, Monica and Gibson.

They probably figured that not enough people would remember or care how things left off in the show for it to be worth the effort addressing those things....and they were probably correct since I have no clue who those three people are. Still, that in itself should have been a warning flag when the made the movie and probably a good indicator as to why it was just so forgettable.

IMO the show lost it's spark *way* before the end. I'm not sure if it's due to Carter running out of ideas or the main cast loosing interest in their roles, both or something else altogether. Honestly just getting Mulder and Scully back for one more random adventure doesn't appeal to me. I'd much rather they do something new in interesting or not bother at all.

I sort of have the same opinion of the recent 24 mini season. While it was fun while it lasted, I instantly forgot just about everything about it and have no particular anticipation for another instalment.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Telegram to Hollywood:

Please

STOP

Don't do it, please

STOP

We had nine years of complicated big government conspiracies, some of which were never really tied up. The last thing I want is to go back to all that for season after season, and I especially don't want it tossed out like none of it ever happened.

And I don't want to deal with a Mulder/Scully love story with a toddler thrown in.


And I certainly don't want an X-Files without Mark Snow and I can't imagine him returning after nine years of scoring the other.



EDIT:

Wait a fucking second! Why can't they talk about renewing gorram "Firefly"???

 

[Richard Baker]

I really enjoyed the stand alone episodes of the X-Files, but I did not get a chance to watch it every week. When they started that big conspiracy arc they lost me completely. Nothing is more frustrating that having some big reveal about a arc element (and the characters give stunned and knowing looks to each other) and you don't have a clue WTF they are talking about.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Plus I think some parts of it were altered. The black oil for instance, in the first movie (and the season after it) it seems to suddenly have properties similar to the Alien series instead of assuming control over hosts, it grows a baby alien. Or something.

 

[Saga]

i think once they disposed of the Syndicate the series kinda lost its way.

 

[Starbreaker]

Lots of news circulating today. Apparently they're just waiting to see when Duchovny and Anderson can film together. It's getting very real very quickly.

 

[Bad Bishop]

I love the idea of a series revival.

I saw I Want To Believe only once. I don't really remember much about it, save that Mulder and Scully were in Margaritaville by the time the end credits rolled.

What was the status of Mulder and Scully when we last saw them? Just former FBI agents, or former agents and fugitives?

 

[Pingfah]

I liked the last movie. For me X-Files was about the characters, with the plot a supporting element, and the last movie was a great character piece for the pair.

Would love a mini series or something, just to see them again.

 

[Marsden]

I love the idea of a series revival.

I saw I Want To Believe only once. I don't really remember much about it, save that Mulder and Scully were in Margaritaville by the time the end credits rolled.

What was the status of Mulder and Scully when we last saw them? Just former FBI agents, or former agents and fugitives?

In order to get Mulder to consult for that case, they dropped all charges and everything was swept under the rug. They didn't elaborate. They also didn't explain how they got William back, either.

I would like it if they could just finish up what would have been the third movie in a 8 to 12 part series like Agent Carter or Broadchurch. That would be great. I don't care if it's 2012, it's a story, the very first thing they could scrawl on the screen could be December 19, 2012 and just go. I just saw a new Millenium comic preview just came out and the first page starts in 1999. It's possible to do. It would be great if Dogget and Reyes were involved in some way, and Gibson Praise and Frank Black and Jeffery Frank Spender and Flukeman. You wouldn't need to know who they were previoulsly if it's written properly but would be nice for everyone that was around.

I'm cautiously optimistic but not expecting anything. Just like the B5 movie.

Look out, here comes the 90s!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

How could they return to a dynamic where Scully is skeptical of the paranormal and Mulder's theories? Hasn't the ship on that sailed, at least when it comes to extraterrestrials? Am I wrong that it wouldn't be believable for them to try to recapture that defining dynamic of the original series, or would the relationship between Mulder and Scully pretty much have to move forward into something new? In other words, to be a continuation, I'd think that the series would have to reinvent itself entirely.

Oh, and please forgive me, if the answer is obvious to more knowledgeable X-Files fans.

 

[DarthTom]

The X-Files was a great example of a show that, while delivering some great television, had false pretenses to a larger story arc that it couldn't fulfil. The movie was indifferent and the televised finale was a bad joke that basically lost most of the fanbase. I remember going to X-Files parties and absolutely loving the show, but its last couple of seasons make it hard to be enthusiastic about a reboot.

I'm with you and I'm not so sure that this will succeed commercially. All Fox has to do is look at the bring back of 24 in London for how a series like this has reached its life-cycle. And in 24's case, it was immensely more popular than X-Files ever was.

 

[RoJoHen]

In order to get Mulder to consult for that case, they dropped all charges and everything was swept under the rug. They didn't elaborate. They also didn't explain how they got William back, either.

William, their son? They never got him back. He's not in the movie.

 

[Marsden]

In order to get Mulder to consult for that case, they dropped all charges and everything was swept under the rug. They didn't elaborate. They also didn't explain how they got William back, either.

William, their son? They never got him back. He's not in the movie.

Really, I remember her saying he's sleeping in the other room and never mentioning him again and no other explanations about anything. Hmmm. I just bought this movie along with all nine seasons and the first movie, but I "neglected" to watch it again when I watched all of them. I will check.

I have to say about the I Want to Beleive movie, I liked it but it was the most draggy boring movie I've liked. I've been bored with movies before that I didn't like, but I've never come across that peculiar combination with another movie.

 

[inflatabledalek]

If it happens, screw the conspiracy stuff. Good solid fun monster of the week stories were what the show wound up doing best anyway.

I hope if Duchovney and Anderson do come back that they're not just in it for the money, both looked bored to tears in the last film. Though you could hardly blame Anderson as she was shoved into a bizarre subplot about a sad child that made it feel as if the movie was written on the assumption that the two actors didn't like each other and should be kept apart as much as possible.

The problem with any X-Files continuation is that it's a show that's widely regarded as having become crap nonsense by the end (somewhat unfairly, though the general rule of thumb for the last two seasons is any episode with Mulder in is terrible), plus other shows have more than successfully picked up on what it did do so well. Be it cool sexy cops solving crimes or the monster of the week stuff. Unlike 24 (which must have done well based on the spate of returns Fox are planning), which ended still well regarded- if not at its peak- and with no subsequent show really managing the insane full on energy of that show.

Frankly, the best thing for Fox to do would be to wait a few more years and do a big budget film remake of something like Tooms with new actors, no Chris Carter and which embraces what people actually liked about the show when it was good.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Frankly, the best thing for Fox to do would be to wait a few more years and do a big budget film remake of something like Tooms with new actors, no Chris Carter and which embraces what people actually liked about the show when it was good.

What was "good" would include DD, GA and executive producer CC.

If the series come back, it will have been at least 8 years since I Want To Believe. That's a long enough break.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

The X-Files was a great example of a show that, while delivering some great television, had false pretenses to a larger story arc that it couldn't fulfil. The movie was indifferent and the televised finale was a bad joke that basically lost most of the fanbase. I remember going to X-Files parties and absolutely loving the show, but its last couple of seasons make it hard to be enthusiastic about a reboot.

I'm with you and I'm not so sure that this will succeed commercially. All Fox has to do is look at the bring back of 24 in London for how a series like this has reached its life-cycle. And in 24's case, it was immensely more popular than X-Files ever was.

Highest rated 24 episode, Season Five, "7:00am-8:00am": 17 million viewers

Highest rated X-Files episode, Season Four, "Leonard Betts": 29 million viewers

Season Four of theX-Files averaged 19 million viewers per episode.

I like 24 but it was not "immensely more popular than X-Files ever was."

 

[Kelthaz]

And in 24's case, it was immensely more popular than X-Files ever was.

You're joking, right? The X-Files was a cultural phenomenon. 24 was just another, albeit popular, show on FOX.

 

[Saga]

And in 24's case, it was immensely more popular than X-Files ever was.

this is the kind of disinformation one would get from The Cigarette Smoking Man...

 

[Random_Spock]

I'm in!

I'd like to see Robert Patrick involved as well as Duchovny and Anderson. Since Dallas was canned, Mitch Pileggi should be available too...

Same here! I'm a little skeptical in regards to Chris, but other than that... bring in Annabeth Gish and I'd watch.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I hope this comes to fruition. I would watch.