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Fox close to giving new X-Files series the green light

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http://www.gamesradar.com/fox-close-givi...een-light/

EXCERPT: Good news for fans of the unexplained, with TV Wise reporting that Fox is close to greenlighting a new series of The X-Files. [...] Both Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are thought to be on board with the idea...
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Chris Carter too! This a great news. My life has not been the same without my Sunday nite X-files fix..
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I hope that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return. The X-files wouldn't be the same without Mulder and Scully. (Is the Cigarette-smoking man still alive? I heard that he was a Canadian actor who didn't otherwise smoke and who had a philosophy degree, which I like.)

My impression is that David Duchovny was never really into the whole X-files mythos, but Gillian Anderson was.

The Truth is Out There...
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(Mar 24, 2015 03:49 AM)Yazata Wrote: [...] (Is the Cigarette-smoking man still alive? I heard that he was a Canadian actor who didn't otherwise smoke and who had a philosophy degree, which I like.) [...]

If I recollect right after all these years, he was shown literally being burned alive or blown-apart by a helicopter attack in the final episode. As well, the "Lone Gunmen" were killed-off not too long before the ending's events. Another unnecessary addition to the show's suicidal dive into what seemed a deliberate self-ruin and a provoking of maximum dissatisfaction among viewers. (But since it's the X-Files, perhaps the termination of characters is hardly final.)

Those last couple of seasons or so after Duchovny left were more of a disappointing mess than even the ride to the ending of Lost. The alien colonization which was supposed to occur in 2012 was just left hanging as an unresolved future prospect, which now would already be well past if the series returns. The conspiracy story that was interwoven amidst the regular self-contained episodes, which was the heart of show in the beginning, really became a detriment to it as that thread became increasingly meandering and garbled. Who knows in which context they'll pick-up the pieces and resume -- just go on with conventional episodes alone as if the colonization-related affairs never happened, or try to offer an explanation as to why the world is still chugging along as usual in 2015 or 2016, and still tinker around with those conspiracy arcs.
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(Mar 24, 2015 04:41 PM)C C Wrote: The conspiracy story that was interwoven amidst the regular self-contained episodes, which was the heart of show in the beginning, really became a detriment to it as that thread became increasingly meandering and garbled. Who knows in which context they'll pick-up the pieces and resume -- just go on with conventional episodes alone as if the colonization-related affairs never happened, or try to offer an explanation as to why the world is still chugging along as usual in 2015 or 2016, and still tinker around with those conspiracy arcs.

I preferred the show before they started explaining everything. Perhaps they knew that they were going to shut it down and wanted to give it closure.

The earlier episodes were exceeding cool, with Mulder and Scully gradually becoming aware that things (most decidedly) weren't as they seemed, and that dark and powerful unseen forces were at work. It spoke to everyone's innate paranoia, to mine certainly.

The way that the writers framed it around the already existing ufology and conspiracy theory mythos gave it a sense of authenticity, almost as if viewers' own familiarity with those things verified what the show was saying.

I'd prefer that they go back to that. Revealing too much made the X-files into a much more conventional sci-fi show and drained it of its essential creepiness.
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Here's some more information on The X-files return.

Both Mulder and Scully will be in it. No word on Skinner. Chris Carter will be running it. It's going to be an 'event series' and only six episodes are being purchased. They will start filming this summer.

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/24/8284557/x-f...eturns-fox

The story's writer doesn't know if they will be stand alone episodes or whether there will be a single story linking them. Given what Hollywood usually means by 'event series', the latter is more likely. No word on whether the new story will be consistent with the previous alien takeover in 2012 narrative.

The writer also thinks that Fox will likely purchase more episodes, provided that Duchovny and Anderson want to stay with it and provided that the mini-series succeeds with viewers.


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