No offense to your post, thanks for sharing…
But I’m just drained of nostalgia and enthusiasm. I grew up with the X-Files. I’ve seen every single episode of the original run at least three times. I have them all collected, including the movies and two damn spin-off series.
But after a decade of everything being remakes, revivals, ressurections, returns… It’s been a rowdy riot of rectal ripping retronostalgic ravaging. I couldn’t care less that there’s talks about more X-Files. If they actually manage to squeeze more out of this dried up sponge I’ll just ignore it.
To the modern media producers all I can say is go choke on your 90’s nostalgia.
Everything is a reboot, a remake or whatever spin-off they think will be good enough. There are a lot less original ideas and everything ends up being around a superhero, with a bullshit plot twist.
I think the time was right in the 90s when conspiracy theories and urban legends were still just amusingly quirky and bizarre. We had a weekly watch party going in college. It was great. For its time.
In the post truth era? Yeah no. I’ve had it up to here with unhinged conspiracy theories and the utter lack of critical thinking that leads people to believe them. I have a feeling I’m not alone.
Give me a show where in every single episode the conspiracy theorist is shown to be a gullible bozo with the mental clarity of a sack of cats, while the science-y person is right 95% of the time, and maybe I’ll watch.
Or a show that uncovers the kind of back room dealings and bullshit that actually happens (documented in the news) in the halls of power and manages to bring powerful corrupt assholes to justice. That I will watch the shit out of.
Give me a show where in every single episode the conspiracy theorist is shown to be a gullible bozo with the mental clarity of a sack of cats, while the science-y person is right 95% of the time, and maybe I’ll watch.
I think what you’re describing is Scooby Doo.
I guess that’s why I’m a fan lol
“It just feels like such an old idea. I’ve done it, I did it for so many years, and it also ended on such an unfortunate note,” Anderson said. “In order to even begin to have that conversation [about another season] there would need to be a whole new set of writers and the baton would need to be handed on for it to feel like it was new and progressive. So yeah, it’s very much in the past.”
-Gillian Anderson
Not looking good.
I’d be okay with a reboot, though, new blood could help a lot, I think.
I don’t understand why there wasn’t a spinoff. I love mulder and scully, but their time has passed for sure. It was a very 90s show. It could become a very interesting 2020s show with vast conspiracies and shady dealings, but it has to be a new show. Could be based off of the old one, but it needs to leave old X-Files in the past.
I watched a good video about the Simpsons. For the last 10 years the writers were told “We had our glory days from seasons 3-9, try to recapture that”. Now they’re being told under Disney “the glory days are gone, we can’t recapture that. The world has changed. Try new ideas, those ideas that you’ve been too afraid to try”. Who would guess, Simpsons is getting better the last couple of seasons.
Let the writers off of their leashes. Let them make something new out of the old ideas. It may turn out better than studio execs assume. Better than the Poochie equivalent that was X-Files season 11.
I don’t understand why there wasn’t a spinoff.
There were actually two spin-off shows: The Lone Gunmen and Millennium. Granted, I think Millennium was retconned into being an X-Files spinoff show after it was cancelled so that the storyline could be wrapped up in an X-Files episode.
There were two spinoffs: The Lone Gunmen and Millennium. Neither was particularly successful though Millennium at least ran for a few seasons and received a number of awards its first couple of seasons.
There was a spinoff. It was about those 3 conspiracy dudes who I can’t remember their names.
It wasn’t very good
I’d much rather another season of Hannibal of she were to get into another TV series tbh.
It’s been 30 years, do something new.
Do something new for a change.
If it were a spiritual successor, focusing on monster of the week weirdness with great writing and minimal forced character drama? Sure I’ll give it a go.
If it’s just rolling out Mulder and Scully again to cash in on nostalgia? I won’t waste my time.
And if Chris Carter is involved the season is basically dead on arrival so I’ll be actively avoiding it.
I’m not at all the world’s biggest fan but I liked what I have seen…I just can’t be interested when there didn’t seem to be growth and progression in the characters. I want closure on the realities of this universe, what exists and doesn’t and for the main character to actually admit this shit exists.
It’ll be a “soft reboot”, same continuity, just ~20 years later. Agent Mulder has disappeared at a time when his government needs him most. Scully’s estranged son works as an FBI agent and is trying to bring a “new order” to the government, a MAGA-esque cult, by any means necessary.
Meanwhile, our new cast of intrepid, quirky, plucky, randomly gay, multicultural are introduced through a series of weird encounters and will absolutely hate working with each other. After a series of shadowy encounters, and ominous snippets of The Vaping Man”, they’ll be introduced to Senator Skully, who tasks them with finding out, “Where is Fox Mulder?” First season will end on a cliffhanger with Walter Skinner getting killed off and the new cast eventually meeting up with Fox Mulder. Final scene will be one of them handing off the “I Want to Believe” poster to Mulder… fade to black.
Somehow, JJ Abrams returns.
God no. Just continue the series under a current setting.
Everything rides on how they deal with the fact that so much tinfoil hattery in the real world today is directly sourced from the '90s series. Mulder would 100% be a Q crackpot now.
