The X-Files
 

http://i62.tinypic.com/2hd3al1.jpg

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?

I can honestly say that I've never watched more than 5 episodes of the X-files in my lifetime.

I probably would have enjoyed The X-Files, but it was a rare sore point in our household.

One Christmas Eve, soon after we brought the TV back into the house, my sister and I were itching to open some presents early. Only my dad was glued to some apparently spellbinding episode of The X-Files. My mom already wasn't enamored of the TV, which was supposed to only be there to use with the Commodore 64 for educational purposes in the first place, so there was a bit of a row about dad watching shitty brain-rotting TV when we were supposed to be having family time on Christmas Eve.

By the time I'd heard how great the show was, and had my own TV in college, the show was already on its way out the door.

Some day, maybe I'll get a chance to revisit it. Heaven knows I like Vince Gilligan's subsequent stuff, and the premise is solid enough it carried me through the entire run of Fringe.


BTW - Gillian Anderson is hotter than ever. She was recently on Top Gear and it was an eye-opener how petite she is, especially compared to the hulking Clarkson.

Is it on Netflix?

New episodes of Twin Peaks and The X-Files? The future looks a lot like the 90's.

Not that I'm complaining. Two of my all-time favorite shows coming back after all these yeas makes me pretty happy. I hope there's still some magic left.

It was. Not sure if it's still.

Yes. Every episode.

I highly recommend it. It remains my favorite TV series of all time.

It's scifi drama at its best. They have a running theme through the show of course, but they put in stand alone "Monster episodes" to break up the running theme. Usually episodes that have little or no connection to the overall story arc. It's amazingly done.

The show got kinda stupid over the last few seasons. But the first 6-7 seasons are ****ing incredible.

I have been absolutely fascinated with the paranormal since the 80's, and I haven't either.

Might try to give these six episodes a shot though.

I'll check it out. Thanks.

Now how the hell is that possible? This show was tailor made for your paranormal conspiracy loving brain...

Seriously. She's got that Courtney Cox fountain of youth thing going on...

http://i57.tinypic.com/15xjxmq.jpg

http://i61.tinypic.com/2ms53bs.jpg

Her head just looks weird... would still bang, I am just saying.

It's fine full on, it's too flat in profile. Almost Roman. She actually needs more nose.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The ‘X-Files’ is officially returning to Fox in Summer 2015 via <a href="https://twitter.com/Fox411">@Fox411</a> <a href="http://t.co/MbuBC6zsoP">http://t.co/MbuBC6zsoP</a> <a href="http://t.co/Ae0898wYAb">pic.twitter.com/Ae0898wYAb</a></p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/580429437784629249">March 24, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Its been a while since I've thought about it, but my guess is that I was thinking "meh, they're just gonna make it all Hollywood and not delve into the serious and realistic aspects of it, its Scooby Doo for grownups".

But with The Walking Dead and Appalachian Outlaws (among other shows) coming to an end for the year, I have time in my schedule now for another appointment tv show.

So Walking Dead has the serious and realistic aspect you're looking for? ;)

Millennium reboot?

You're comparing apples and oranges, I wasn't, totally different subject matter... each one is judged on its own merits.

;)

YES!

How about no.

Henriksen is older than Jesus.

FOX used to have some cool SciFi in the mid 90s.

VR5 and Space Above and Beyond to name a few

but they would cancel stuff so fast

I own the entire series on DVD. I could watch it every night if it was still in syndication.

I loved it. I really wish it was in syndication instead of a lot of the garbage sitcoms they feed to us.

And I feel the same way about Fringe. Hell, I think I like Fringe even better. Walter might be my favorite TV Character of all time...

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...en-d625p1f.jpg

The X-Files
 

I have the entire series on DVD. I bought it almost all at once probably 10 years ago and binge watched it like crazy.

http://i59.tinypic.com/zv90si.gif

How many ****ing tapes is that?

I watched every episode of Fringe but the writers just couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be about. Aliens? Multiverse? Time travel? Monster of the Week?

At its best, it was nearly as good as the X-Files best seasons (1993-1997, IMO). When it was at its worst (the final season and other episodes), it was Disappointment TV at its finest.

Fringe, Alcatraz and LOST are the reasons I will never, ever spend even two minutes watching a JJ Abrams produced television show, again, and the only reason I have any misgivings about Episode VII.

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...

**** and yes, I am watching the shit out of this.
Love me some goddamned X-Files.

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...

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.

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

Kari is still a hottie.

:D

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...

If you have DirecTV and have the Chiller channel (CH 257), old episodes of The X-Files are on just about every day.