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They ran out of ideas during the first run.
Time for some new ideas.
Anderson came out as a lesbian.
After that I’m not sure if I can again buy the whole sexual tension thing between those two again.
This time do an episode on the Good People!
The incest episode w/mom under the bed creeped me out!
The Burt Reynolds episode was a refreshingly weird break from the UFO storyline.
Bush v. Clinton and an X-Files “re-boot” with the original stars?
No thanks, been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
After what they did to the show in the last few seasons?!
The first couple were genius television, then they just phoned it in, and left us with pure slop, with a plot that was too sci-fi even for the X-files.
However, I think TV storytelling has become so good these days, that a new X-files can be a hit if they keep the writing tight.
This really is difficult to believe, until one realizes that Duchovny’s “Californication” series has ended, and Gillian Anderson’s lack of chops has landed her in such obscurity that no one even cared that she “came out”. :’) The second movie was like a really, really bad one-off episode.
Here’s some suggestions — Mulder (wasn’t he abducted by aliens, after they spent half of season six burying that entire part of the mythos?) gets reactivated after years spent on the non-duty disability pension, holed up in the NW, taking piles of video footage of sasquatch with wildlife cams; Scully is middle management in some big-time hospital somewhere, having also served overseas during the War on Terror, and is brought back at the same time.
The precipitating event will have to be some kind of great big tease, maybe implying time travel, but including UFOs, mysterious vehicles, and it will turn out that the deaths of the Lone Gunmen were faked, and they’ve been forced into hiding; they’ve continued to research things covertly, and discovered whatever it is that forces the FBI to conclude that it needs its XFiles unit.
Hey, it’ll have to be lame, the whole idea is lame. :’)
More evidence of the intellectual bankruptcy of U.S. TV & movie “entertainment” moguls. The fun, original stuff appears to have been ceded to alternative producers from other countries and is not even appearing on U.S. broadcast TV anymore; we’re finishing up the first 3 seasons of “Lillyhammer” right now.
It would be interesting if they were now the ones trying to keep the secrets from the public!
