The X-Files: Lost Time

[RoJoHen]

After The X-Files series finale, we leave Mulder and Scully on the run for their lives, Skinner trapped in a room with an evil Super Soldier, and Doggett and Reyes...um...driving.

6 years later, "I Want to Believe" is released. Now, say what you will about the quality film, I don't care. I actually really enjoyed it as a character piece.

What I want to speculate here is what happened in the 6-year gap. Mulder has been in hiding, but Scully has been working at a hospital and was easy enough for Xzibit to find. Why haven't the Super Soldiers been able to find them and hunt them down? What happened to Skinner after he closed the door to Kirsch's office and trapped himself with the the Super Soldier? Where the hell are Doggett and Reyes, and why aren't they leading the investigation (which is clearly an X-File) in the film? Did the Super Soldiers find them and kill them?

Let's play!

 

[Delta1]

Doggett, Reyes, and Skinner defeated the SuperSoldier plot. It turns out that the FBI is really effective when its agents aren't bogged down by unresolved sexual tension. Jimmy Bond, Morris Fletcher, and Lois Runtz revived the Lone Gunmen zine as a collaborative, multimedia website, exposing the Colonization project once and for all. With their plans revealed, the aliens gave up and abandoned Earth. (But not before concentrating millions of gallons of Purity deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico.)

No longer under the watchful eye of his alien handler, President George W. Bush pardoned Mulder and all involved in his jailbreak. The remaining (human) Syndicate members were quietly arrested and locked up at Gitmo. This wasn't good enough for Mulder, who vandalized the J. Edgar Hoover building with obscene graffiti. The Bureau pressed charges against Mulder, who went into hiding. He was considered a low priority fugitive by the FBI, which couldn't even spare the manpower to check his girlfriend's house.

I have no idea how Lucy Butler/Inga Fossa got into the FBI. That's the story that needs to be told. Maybe she's a supersoldier and/or alien shapeshifter and/or clone like Darius Michaud/Peter Watts?

 

[Pingfah]

I'm hoping that they realised the Super Soldiers things was absurdly pathetic and just ignored it, planning to retcon it out if there is ever another sequel.

I agree the film was a great M&S character piece, I really enjoyed it.

 

[RoJoHen]

I had no problem with the Super Soldier plot at all, but it was definitely unresolved at the end. I just really hope there is another movie that deals with alien colonization. 2012 is approaching fast.

 

[Pingfah]

It needs to go into development last week if they are going to do it for a 2012 release. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[RoJoHen]

Me neither, but I still want it!

 

[ConRefit79]

Mulder and Scully figured out that something in the Rocks could kill the Super Soldiers. Maybe they keep enough of it around to keep them at bay. Remember Spender was caught injecting William with a harmless mineral, so maybe small quantities are sufficient.

 

[Hermiod]

It's simple, the aliens decided that the several hundred thousand habitable planets between their homeworld and Earth were much better targets for colonization and moved to one of those instead.

 

[RoJoHen]

But that's the thing. The aliens were living here millions of years ago, and they want the planet back!

 

[Hermiod]

^Yeah, turns out Stargate's Ancients were here millions of years before them so they had first dibs.

 

[Silent_Bob]

^ I think you'll find the planet actually belongs to Cthulhu. Just because he's having a nap doesnt mean anyone who takes a fancy to it can claim ownership.

 

[Pingfah]

It's simple, the aliens decided that the several hundred thousand habitable planets between their homeworld and Earth were much better targets for colonization and moved to one of those instead.

That is a good point actually, why would an Alien civilisation even want this planet? We've mined it of most of it's most valuable assets, the majority of which can probably be found in abundance on numerous uninhabited, even uninhabitable planets anyway.

 

[RoJoHen]

They obviously have their reasons.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It's simple, the aliens decided that the several hundred thousand habitable planets between their homeworld and Earth were much better targets for colonization and moved to one of those instead.

The aliens met up with Anna and her V buddies, and decided that if those losers wanted Earth, it couldn't be much of a planet anyway.

 

[Nowhere Man]

After Mulder went into exile Scooby Doo and the gang showed up and figured out that the Super Soldier that Skinner was in the room with was actually old man Cooper. The whole 9 years was just a plot to scare away the towns folk so old man Cooper could buy up all the real estate for cheap. The Government was involved too. It eventually lead to to the housing and financial crisis that we have now.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Were the aliens actually from Earth in the first place (at least in the first film)? They just wanted their home back I think. But I haven't seen it in ages so I may be wrong.

 

[Hermiod]

It's simple, the aliens decided that the several hundred thousand habitable planets between their homeworld and Earth were much better targets for colonization and moved to one of those instead.

That is a good point actually, why would an Alien civilisation even want this planet? We've mined it of most of it's most valuable assets, the majority of which can probably be found in abundance on numerous uninhabited, even uninhabitable planets anyway.

My guess is that most science fiction writers unwittingly subscribe to the Rare Earth hypothesis.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

It's simple, the aliens decided that the several hundred thousand habitable planets between their homeworld and Earth were much better targets for colonization and moved to one of those instead.

That is a good point actually, why would an Alien civilisation even want this planet? We've mined it of most of it's most valuable assets, the majority of which can probably be found in abundance on numerous uninhabited, even uninhabitable planets anyway.

My guess is that most science fiction writers unwittingly subscribe to the Rare Earth hypothesis.

Considering that we don't actually know how many "Class M" planets exist out there (none at all? 200? Fourhundred million?), it isn't really an inconsistency. How many habitable planets exist is totally writers' discretion.

 

[Delta1]

Were the aliens actually from Earth in the first place (at least in the first film)? They just wanted their home back I think. But I haven't seen it in ages so I may be wrong.

They were originally from Mars. At least, that's what a bounty hunter said (tongue-in-cheek?) in "The Unnatural," and Scully's theory in "The Truth." The alien ghost in "Space" looked like early images of the Cydonia Face, lending some support to that theory. That doesn't mean they evolved on Mars, just that the ailen virus was introduced to Earth by way of Mars.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Obviously there was a smiley crack in the wall in that room with the super-soldier...