Fox's X-Files revival has controversial new theories (based on Alex Jones)

Entertainment Weekly ^ | January 12 2016 | JAMES HIBBERD

[BenLurkin]

The conspiracy spiel in the first episode was cringe-worthy.

[Jack Hydrazine]

[traumer]

I love it !

[real saxophonist]

I did indeed cringe.

[2ndDivisionVet]

More David Icke than Alex Jones, actually.

[WENDLE]

Fox has gone dark side. I am leaving.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Chris Carter said Alex and Glenn in the article.

[yarddog]

I used to watch it about half the time. Seems like most episodes were not that good but still a lot of interesting ones.

One I remember was when they were in the Apalachicola National Forest where descendants of Ponce de Leon’s men were still hiding.

[driftless2]

The conspiracy spiel in the first episode was cringe-worthy.

Ditto...evil right wing government types messing with embryos. Sure sounds plausible. /s

I never watched any of the original series episodes. But I heard a lot of talk about how great it was. After this smear, I don't think I'll watch any more of these episodes.

[Excellence]

I was really disappointed. We have enough real problems without making up this fantasy conspiracy stuff. Our big problem is Islam. It is the real truth.

[Jack023]

O’Malley’: this is an example of mangled text that is seemingly ubiquitous here at FreeRepublic. Can’t the webmaster do anything about it? It is very annoying.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yes I know. Are you familiar with Mr. Icke?

http://www.davidicke.com/

[BenLurkin]

The original could be fun — and Gillian Anderson was a cutie.

Mulderisms and Scullyisms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0sVps-bRsA

[Republican1795.]

The reverse I think as Dave says its aliens that control the planet wile Alex says it just corrupt elite humans & does not subscribe to the alien postulation.

[SunkenCiv]

It's the other way around -- Alex Jones (born on February 11, 1974) appears to have nabbed most of his nitwit ideas from the X-Files (originally aired September 10, 1993, to May 19, 2002). The creator of the X-Files and the writers borrowed some real and quasi-real events and whatnot from the fringe literature, and created other material out of the whole cloth.

[mrsmith]

The conspiracy theories in X-files are like the zombies in Walking Dead- just dressing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The original X Files was never about reality.

No reason to expect the reboot to be.

[Balding_Eagle]

X files?

Heck, we have X files right here on FR.

The posted article looks like it was typed out by aliens in their native langauge.

[Company Man]

The closest AJ has come to this, is stating that it may as well be alien reptoids who are running the tyrannical "New World Order".