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Fish · 03-24-2015, 10:54 AM

The X-Files Might (Almost Definitely?) Reopen Soon!

The shadowy conspiracy to bring us more X-Files is coming out into the light! David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have agreed to reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully, Chris Carter will be writing and executive producing, and Fox is close to greenlighting the show! However, there’s an interesting twist in the details...

Apparently, the new season of the show will be embracing a relatively new trend in American television. According to Comicbook.com:

TV Wise is reporting that Fox is planning to order a shortened season of The X-Files—less than 10 episodes.

This is potentially great news! A short season will be much easier for the actors to schedule, obviously, but even more importantly, an intense arc will encourage Chris Carter to keep the show stay tight and focused, rather than getting lost in the byzantine plotlines of later seasons. Imagine a ten-episode arc where Mulder and Scully have to solve one supernatural crime or fight one particular secret government agency, rather than hacking away at a gorgon of rumors, theories, and Flukemen? Perhaps, for the first time in their FBI careers, they’ll yield results and actually arrest somebody!

As if that wasn’t promising enough, they’ve reached out to Mitch Pileggi, which means we may see the triumphant return of SKINNER’S FIST. So what do you think? Will Mulder and Scully still have a place in our hyper-paranoid United States? Will the inevitable alien invasion really be that bad? And are there any monsters-of-the-week left to chase, or did the Winchester boys get them all?

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-24-2015, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rausch

I would argue that for 4 seasons Fringe did a great job of balancing "story of the week" with an over-arcing story for the season.

In Fringe what happened in ep 2 of season 1 usually came back by the end. Or once again appeared in season 3. I thought they did a great job of slow playing ideas until the compressed last season.

I never did understand their really $#itty conclusion and how the time travel aspects were supposed to work out to make everything OK. In fact, no matter how you look at that ending it makes no sense...

Oh, I get it and I loved Walter, too. Josh Jackson was really great as well. But the writers and producers are reason this show isn't an all time classic. The premise was there, the actors were there but the stories just weren't consistent.

That said, X-Files ran into the same situation. The show dragged on too long and by the time the final season rolled around, I wasn't even interested anymore. There were some good episodes after the first film (which was awful, IMO) and there were some atrocious episodes.

I think that a six episode arc, if well written, could be spectacular and if so, it would be a blast to see even just six episodes a year for a few years.

Fingers crossed (although without Vince Gilligan, I have my doubts).

**Rausch** · 03-24-2015, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Oh, I get it and I loved Walter, too. Josh Jackson was really great as well. But the writers and producers are reason this show isn't an all time classic. The premise was there, the actors were there but the stories just weren't consistent.

That said, X-Files ran into the same situation. The show dragged on too long and by the time the final season rolled around, I wasn't even interested anymore. There were some good episodes after the first film (which was awful, IMO) and there were some atrocious episodes.

I think that a six episode arc, if well written, could be spectacular and if so, it would be a blast to see even just six episodes a year for a few years.

Fingers crossed (although without Vince Gilligan, I have my doubts).

I loved the series (X Files) and thought it deserved a movie or two to wrap things up. The desire by fans was there.

But they didn't wrap things up. It seemed like they approached the films like getting two extra episodes. And I didn't like either one.

Either way I think both shows were excellent for their time. I'd love to see another similar show in the next few years that uses the basic premise (X Files/Fringe) to explore strange things with more modern science.

I also wouldn't mind an update to the "Sliders" idea of visiting a multiverse or parallel worlds...

**007** · 03-24-2015, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Rausch

I loved the series (X Files) and thought it deserved a movie or two to wrap things up. The desire by fans was there.

But they didn't wrap things up. It seemed like they approached the films like getting two extra episodes. And I didn't like either one.

Either way I think both shows were excellent for their time. I'd love to see another similar show in the next few years that uses the basic premise (X Files/Fringe) to explore strange things with more modern science.

I also wouldn't mind an update to the "Sliders" idea of visiting a multiverse or parallel worlds...

Sliders was always my guilty pleasure.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-24-2015, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Guru

Sliders was always my guilty pleasure.

I remember liking the first season, although the VFX were amazingly cheesey. But after that, I lost track of it and once I revisited it, it was completely different.

**007** · 03-24-2015, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I remember liking the first season, although the VFX were amazingly cheesey. But after that, I lost track of it and once I revisited it, it was completely different.

Yeah, it fell of the tracks late in season 2 but I watched it anyway. Cheesy but enjoyable.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-24-2015, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Guru

Yeah, it fell of the tracks late in season 2 but I watched it anyway. Cheesy but enjoyable.

Kari is still a hottie.

**007** · 03-24-2015, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Kari is still a hottie.

**Rausch** · 03-24-2015, 11:41 PM

A (very) fine product of Deutschland genetics.

Her character was $#it and the show jumped the shark by season 3 but she was an exemplary eye candy replacement to the plucky Sabrina Lloyd...

Frosty · 03-25-2015, 07:47 AM

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