X-Files Season 10 News..

Don't hold your breath. Last I heard, David Duchovny is still starring on Californication. This sounds more like taking a tip from Buffy.
 
YIKES!!!

I am actually watching Season 1 right now.

It was a great show that lasted 3 years to long and I am being kind.
 
Solo4114 said:
Don't hold your breath. Last I heard, David Duchovny is still starring on Californication. This sounds more like taking a tip from Buffy.
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I saw him on Leno (or Conan I forget which) the other night, he said he'd gladly play Mulder even if he had to use a walker to do so.
 
Apollo said:
.....or god forbid a good script! :lol
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Well that wasn't an issue with the last movie. The script sucked and yet there he was playing Mulder.

If he likes playing Mulder so much why did he leave the show?

The X-Files burned out after season five. There were a few good episodes here and there after that but the resolutions of the recurring themes were awful. Let it rest in peace for goodness sake.
 
:lol You preaching to the choir on that one.

I actually thought all the movies were horrible and for me the series tanked after season 4

Season 5 was all right but for me it was going down hill FAST!

Chris wrote himself in a corner with the Mythology as he never thought that show was going to be a hit let alone having to reconcile a lot of it.

Really enjoying re watching Season 1 now some of them I have not seen since they aired.

Tooms, fluke, Humbug.

Man I miss this show!! :lol


Hard to believe it has been 20 years since it first aired.

As far as Duchovny is concerned you throw him enough money and the script be damned! :lol



Mola Rob said:
Well that wasn't an issue with the last movie. The script sucked and yet there he was playing Mulder.

If he likes playing Mulder so much why did he leave the show?

The X-Files burned out after season five. There were a few good episodes here and there after that but the resolutions of the recurring themes were awful. Let it rest in peace for goodness sake.
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When he left they should have canceled it. Bringing on Dogget and then making Skully the 'champion' of the paranormal was just too much....


Plus, replacing Fox with Doggit. I mean, you don't replace a fox with a dog!
 
It was a totally fantastic show for the first five years with a ton of classic episodes. I really looked forward to it every week. The show was only supposed to last five years so that explains a great deal.

I agree with you Apollo that both the movies sucked big time. The season after the first movie hit was the beginning of the end for me.

I recently watched every episode again and I have to say I have never seen a TV series implode like this one did. The writing for the stories and characters became so inconsistent it was pathetic. Damn shame.
 
Yikes. I watched this show religiously until Duchovny left. Chris Carter really mucked it up, and honestly I could not sit through the movies. The show had it's moment. As much as I would love to see Fox and Scully again, I Don't want another craptastic outing.

Maybe someday we will get a decent reboot. I need to watch some of the old episodes again. I loved how Mulder turned out to be a pornoholic, not unlike the character in the other show he was filming at the time "The Red shoe Diaries". Come to think of it, he turned out to have a problem with that in real life too.
 
The mythology episodes always sucked. The stand-alones were great (and even some in the Dogget years).

I agree that they should have cancelled after Mulder left - the series was about him looking for his sister. However, they probably could have created a successful spinoff with Doggett (X-Files LA or something). There could even be the occasional cross-over.
 
Just came across the first bad episode in season 1 ,"ICE"
Cheap shoddy half ass remake of The Thing :lol
 
TheDoctor said:
The mythology episodes always sucked.
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I couldn't disagree more. For me the mythology arc was what I lived for with X-Files. The stand alones "were" good too. And when they were good, they were great ("Jose Chung's From Outer Space").

However I couldn't get enough of the arc episodes. Loved the shapshifters and Bounty hunter aliens. Loved the "syndicate" (or whatever the CSM, Well Groomed Man, etc were a part of). Every time something new was revealed it was like a holy nugget for me.

I think the best twist happened in season 4 or 5 (I haven't watched X-Files since it went off the air)---

Essentially the story was that aliens exist, and the govenment is covering it up...

Until the twist was that aliens "don't" exist, however the govenrment is making it look like they "do" exist in order to camouflage their own nefarious experiments.

Which... eventually reverted back to aliens "do" exist. :lol

I will say they "did" cross a line eventually with the myth arc- I think maybe after the first movie came out is the point when things went downhill for me.


Kevin... (Confessions of a former X-Phile ;) )
 
Jango Wes said:
Did he ever find out about his sister?
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Wasn't she tested on by the Cancer Man, and then was hospitalized where she disappeared along with a history of other children disappearing too.. They were taken by "spiritual intervention" beings, which save tormented souls, or something like that??

I liked some of the weirder episodes, but always loved the alien conspiracy episodes..
 
Jango Wes said:
Did he ever find out about his sister?
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Okay going off (hazy) memory alone...

There was an episode in the seventh season in which they meet (someone or something) that can provide the ability to contact the dead.

Mulder has a "vision" of his sister in a playground. Afterward he finally accepts that she is dead.


Personally the series officially ended for me after that episode; it was Mulder's entire motivation for being involved in the X-Files in the first place.


Kevin
 
The arc episodes are what kept me watching, and are what ultimately really sort of tarnished my experience of the show. A classic example of a story looking for structure and "we're making it up as we go" plotting. When you infuse a show with that kind of mythology, you CANNOT make it up as you go. You have to at least know the end-point, and have a fairly good sense of how to get there in a way that doesn't require "tricking" the audience.

As a result, I now find that the standalone episodes are what I prefer to re-watch.

"Home" is, in my opinion, one of the best of the series, and certainly one of the creepiest hours of network TV I've ever seen.
 
Mola Rob said:
Well that wasn't an issue with the last movie. The script sucked and yet there he was playing Mulder.

If he likes playing Mulder so much why did he leave the show?

The X-Files burned out after season five. There were a few good episodes here and there after that but the resolutions of the recurring themes were awful. Let it rest in peace for goodness sake.
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This!! ^
 
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