The X-Files is coming back to television

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As if we needed any more proof that the 1990s are alive and well, The Wrap is reporting that The X-Files will be coming back to Fox as a six-episode limited series. … David Duchovny will be returning as Agent Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully, and creator and executive producer Chris Carter will be overseeing it all.Article at The Verge

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A while back when the X-files was on netflix I binge watched season 1 - 7 and really enjoyed it. Anything after season 7 was just a mess, so I’m not sure how much hope there is of rescuing the story. I’m hoping that the episodes are the monster of the week type rather than a mythology arc anyway. The episodes that I can watch again and again like Die Hand Die Verletzt and Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose are all of the MoW variety.
 
No offense, but it has been said that one can’t go home again.
 
Burt_Macklin said:
A while back when the X-files was on netflix I binge watched season 1 - 7 and really enjoyed it. Anything after season 7 was just a mess, so I’m not sure how much hope there is of rescuing the story. I’m hoping that the episodes are the monster of the week type rather than a mythology arc anyway. The episodes that I can watch again and again like Die Hand Die Verletzt and Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose are all of the MoW variety.
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Yeah, season 7+ was wacky frequently. They did have a few good stand-alones, but the mythologies were weaker. I’m one of the rare people who like most of seasons 1-3 over all the rest, but 4-5 were also very solid. My fav is season 1’s E.B.E.
 
Unless Robert Patrick as Doggett is in it, it will be a bomb.

Until he came along and energized the show, I found it slow.
 
Cat said:
Unless Robert Patrick as Doggett is in it, it will be a bomb.
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I thought Doggett was a good character as well, but it’s hard to argue the fact that the show was far more popular with Duchovny and essentially died without him. I would guess they would have Doggett and Reyes at least in part of an episode or two.
 
Cat said:
Unless Robert Patrick as Doggett is in it, it will be a bomb.

Until he came along and energized the show, I found it slow.
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Cat, do you remember Mr. Patrick as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day?
 
Cat said:
Unless Robert Patrick as Doggett is in it, it will be a bomb.

Until he came along and energized the show, I found it slow.
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I haven’t heard anything about Robert Patrick appearing in the new series. But if he can contractually do so and his schedule allows it, I would not be surprised if he shows up. But I doubt he’ll play a major role.
 
I’m not sure this is such a good idea, given how the series and the follow-up movies ended on a weak note. Still, I enjoyed the series and part of me is happy they will be reviving it - except Mulder and Scully will be showing signs of age.
 
Great news.

I did hear the “Twin Peaks” redux is a no-go so this is some comfort (don’t know how to break that to my son, if he hasn’t heard).

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From what I’ve heard one of the reasons they are bringing the show back is because a couple of executives at Fox are fans of the show and aren’t happy that some of the loose ends of the show’s mythology (like the scheduled alien invasion of 2012) have never been tied up. Also there has been a fairly successful set of comic books that came out since the last movie. And of course, Netflix has created a whole new audience, some of whom may have been too young to have watched the original series.

My guess is that this will be similar to how the original series worked. There will be MOtW episodes but they will be also be addressing the important parts of the mythology. William B. Davis (better known as the Cigarette Smoking Man) says that he has not been offered a part in the new series but he has been asked about his availability during the time filming should take place.
 
It’s rather depressing to think that no one can come up with anything new and original. Reviving old series is the best we can do, apparently …
 
tomarin said:
It’s rather depressing to think that no one can come up with anything new and original. Reviving old series is the best we can do, apparently …
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Revivals have been around for ages and are almost as old as TV itself.

Mission Impossible made revivals an artform… And struck it third time lucky big time with Cruise’s big screen rendition, even through he pretty much alienated the original cast in doing it. Some of them still hate him for turning Phelps into a villain.

Twilight Zone has had two revivals on TV(1980s version including the original movie, and Forrest Whittaker’s 2002 revival) with a renewed Leonardo Dicaprio produced big screen third revival spending years in “development hell”.
 
colliric said:
Revivals have been around for ages and are almost as old as TV itself.

Mission Impossible made revivals an artform… And struck it third time lucky big time with Cruise’s big screen rendition, even through he pretty much alienated the original cast in doing it. Some of them still hate him for turning Phelps into a villain.

Twilight Zone has had two revivals on TV(1980s version, and Forrest Whittaker’s 2002 revival) with a renewed Leonardo Dicaprio produced big screen third revival spending years in “development hell”.
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Maxirad said:
Cat, do you remember Mr. Patrick as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day?
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Oh, yes!

He’s currently starring in CBS’s great show, Scorpion, which, IMO, all Christians should at least take a look at. It’s one of the best family shows to come out in years.
 
tomarin said:
It’s rather depressing to think that no one can come up with anything new and original. Reviving old series is the best we can do, apparently …
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When something is good, why not revive it?

There have been attempts to do other TV shows that were similar to X Files, but IMO, they’ve all missed the boat.

So many of the current TV shows are so incredibly grisly and dripping with the “Culture of Death.” Every week, the writers on these shows come up with new and more violent, disturbing ways to murder people so that their CSI squad can solve the case in one hour. I don’t see how people can watch these shows and stay innocent in their souls.

X-Files was pure fun, but intelligently-written. Of course, I really didn’t care for the show until Robert Patrick came along and delivered his lines with some energy. I never cared for Anderson and Duchovny’s “mumbling” style of speaking. But that has nothing to do with the plots of the show. I will agree that many of the Scully/Mulder shows were really well-written (especially the Peacock family–eugh!).
 
Cat said:
When something is good, why not revive it?
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Two points: one, I think shows have a natural lifespan and The X-Files reached the end of its lifespan around the time when David Duchovny left the show (it was on for what, eight seasons or something before that). And secondly, I don’t think people would be bringing back these iconic shows if the shows of today were themselves iconic. Each era deserves to have its defining television and I just don’t see much out there right now that could be regarded as such.

I agree with you about the overabundance of police procedurals and overall darkness on television, however. I don’t watch police procedurals or for that matter shows about serial killers or other gruesome subjects. For one thing I have small children in the house and their mom would be horrified if she caught them peering at such stuff over my shoulder.
 
colliric said:
Revivals have been around for ages and are almost as old as TV itself.

Mission Impossible made revivals an artform… And struck it third time lucky big time with Cruise’s big screen rendition, even through he pretty much alienated the original cast in doing it. Some of them still hate him for turning Phelps into a villain.

Twilight Zone has had two revivals on TV(1980s version including the original movie, and Forrest Whittaker’s 2002 revival) with a renewed Leonardo Dicaprio produced big screen third revival spending years in “development hell”.
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The great Alan Moore has a line about Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy being so bad that next they will be making adaptations of cartoon mascots of children’s cereals such as “Captain Crunch, starring Johnny Depp!”
 
Maybe a “Lone Gunmen” revival or sequel would be more up my alley. Those guys probably aren’t too busy to get back on television.
 
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