Fox: The X-Files
 

Seem like I'm about 23 years behind on this one?

(Jesus, 23 years?!)

Apparently not. Fox is in talks with Chris Carter to bring it back, including having David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise Scully and Mulder. Nothing creative yet, just seeing how schedules line up, but still...

Also having (unrelated of course) talks about bringing back Prison Break and running a Kiefer-free version of 24 (not sure how that would work; he was that snow).

Yes, this is good.

Interesting.........



Not sure how much demand there is for it though? That last movie was a flop and was fairly awful.

I would imagine there's a lot of people my age (@40) who'd tune in for nostalgia if nothing else. Whether they can maintain a full series on that who knows. I'm not sure this kind of stuff is as cool to the younger crowd now as it was then.

I absolutely loved that show until the first movie. After that, it was just so inconsistent and I didn't bother watching the second movie until years later on cable. I found it to be barely watchable.

I'd love to see episodes like seasons 1-4, not so much MOW, but interesting investigations and government cover ups. But the entire alien thing was nearly as bad as Lost's overall arc, which was course, was awful.

I have all the seasons on DVD up until like 9 or 10 and haven't watched them in half a decade. Thanks for the reminder!

I would think that if they did a 12 episode season, like 24 Live Another Day, there would be some serious interest but I'm not sure about a full 24 season order, especially with Vince Gilligan running Saul.

Yea, basically when they moved production from Vancouver to LA, the show steadily dropped in quality.

The second movie was terribad but there was some good stuff in seasons 5-7.

If I did it I'd focus more on the alien stuff and the cigarette smoking man and friends. Still do monster of the week but make the government conspiracy stuff more prominent.

My cousin used to hate the intro song.

More Gillian please.

Twilight Zone The Movie doesn't live up to the episodes that preceded it either. I wasn't big into X-Files, but from what I saw, a lot of its allure was the ability of the episodic form to play with moods and structure, while still moving forward with a meta-story,

Buffy and Fringe tried similar things.

The first four seasons were awesome, especially for the time. I'd recommend checking them out with an open mind. Some episodes are absolutely lifetime classics.

Probably because Serling was dead by that time and many of the Twilight Zone episodes were written by him or other great sci-fi writers like Bradbury and Matheson.

I love the original Twilight Zone. I actually introduced my kids to them this year on Netflix. They loved them. Of course its dated, but the stories and themes hold up incredibly well.

Loved the show.....have friends that liked the monster episodes more than the main alien story line.

I was the opposite.....and got frustrated when the "near end of the world" would happen one week, and you might not get back to that storyline for a month.

Would watch again if they bring it back. Hell..next year we have Twin Peaks coming back...could be a great trip down 90s memory lane next year!

Like most scifi style shows, once the writers move from independent one off episodes to an overall story arc, the show starts the down hill slide. Either the talented writers price themselves out of a job, or the writers get lazy.

Would love to see new X-File episodes, but only if they follow the model of the early seasons. I watched a few episodes from the first season last summer and they held up surprisingly well.

What? Nothing could be further from the truth. I don't think you understand how a Writer's Room works.

Great first couple seasons, show turned to absolute shit in the later years. To me it got better the last season but by then it was too late and viewers probably gave up on it. The movie was bad also, I think bringing it back would tarnish it. I mean do not get me wrong, I would love it to come back and be great. But.

Gillian is still hot.

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She'll be hot for about 16 more years

When can we expect the 'Millennium' 'Harsh Realm' and 'Lone Gunman' reboots?

yeah, i was watching that tv show she was in last year, i was like holy shit, she's hotter now then when she was in Xfiles. Could be because they had her in tight dresses in that tv show instead of pant suits.

YES, YES, and MORE YES

I hope they can retcon the Lone Gunmen back in. Actually just heard a podcast with Dean Haglund talking about all this (he doesn't know any more than we do...). That show's pilot episode is still freaky, how prescient it was with regard to 9/11. Written by Vince Gilligan, as I recall.

I liked Millennium, really liked Lone Gunmen (one of the original wtf fox cancellations as i recall, the ratings were fine) but Harsh Realm never did it for me.

Hannibal or Crisis?

Yea, Harsh Realm I don't think I ever even watched?

Millennium I watched a few times, it was pretty dark if I remember right?

Lone Gunman was decent, from what I remember? It wasn't on too long?

One show I liked a lot from the mid 90s was 'Space, Above and Beyond'. FOX cancelled too soon........but that's nothing new I guess.

Millienium had a great premise but they blew it early with all of the Revelations stuff. Once that happened, they backed themselves into a corner and the show fell apart rather quickly.

She also has a netflix series called The Fall that's supposed to be good.

I don't remember the series all that well, been too many years, but Lance Henriksen as Frank Black was always good.



Yeah, space above and beyond was another show that died too young.

Wait, there was a second movie? I was a big XFiles fan. Not so much once Duchovney left, though. Robert Patrick was okay but it just wasn't the same. I honestly don't know if I ever saw the 2nd movie. If I did it must have been pretty forgettable. But now I will probably have to watch it. :banghead:

RAWR!

It's called X-Files: I Want to Believe.

You don't want to see it. Trust me.

I was such an X-Files nerd at the time that I had a X-Files : Fight The Future t-shirt.

this X 1000

Crisis! never watched hannibal. Is it good?

Very violent, graphic and cinematic. But if you loved the Hannibal Lecter lore, whether in the movies or in the books, you'll be pleasantly surprised it made it to network TV.

Can't give a blanket recommend because the subject matter is quite strong, but if Hannibal is already your bag, the series will delight you beyond what you'd imagine.

Also, it's very visual and very immersive, so it's not a show to take on half-heartedly. ie, 'pop a bowl of popcorn and settle into your easy chair' watching, not 'fold the laundry and do a crossword' watching.

Soooo....


Also, the trailer that played during last week's Wayward Pines, for those who didn't see it...

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My GF made me watch the whole damn series when we first got together.

I hated sitting through episodes waiting for another part of the big picture. I liked the back story.

It's been years since I actually watched it, I may just netflix some of the alien episodes heading into the new mini-season.

Hell yes so glad

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Nerdgasm!

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THE SMOKING MAN!!!!!

Hopefully this wipes out the events of X-Files: I want to Believe

Is the guy in the glasses a grown up Gibson, or a young Skinner?

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Was expecting a punch line the whole time listening to Winger. Other than that, can't wait!

YES!!!!!!

Looks so good

Been a long time since I watched anything other than football on Fox. Looks great.

I thought Smoking Man got frizzle fried?

Those hands look too young to be TSM. Perhaps his son.

Or a flashback.

Goddamn I love CSM.

I want The Lone Gunmen back. Notice their coffins were all the same size?

She's still smokin sexy.

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I managed a movie theater while I was in college, and when that came out I showed it the night before, all amped up, with some friends that weren't X-Files fans. I was actually embaressed after it was over. Even shrunken down to a MOW episode, it would still be one of the worst of all-time. Right next to the gargoyles episode.

Started re-watching the series. Actually has been a few years, on purpose. Just finished Redux, and Redux II. What a hell of a 3 episode arch those are.

Awesome show. Very excited to see it back. In retrospect, the whole Mytharc was a complete waste of time. Carter had no idea where he was going with the story. When I occasionally rewatch the series, I just skip over those episodes. Still love those Monster of the Week episodes though.

Joel McHale? Really?

Just reached that point in season 4 myself. Watching Gethsemane. Just finished Tempus Fugit and Max, the plane crash two-parter. That was also good stuff.

Complete opposite for me. I skip the MotW episodes and just watch the alien arc episodes. I don't think it starts to unravel until around the end of season 7, when Mulder is finally abducted. I don't remember much of the mythology from seasons 8 and 9, although I do remember hating the finale. But as much as I liked Robert Patrick as an actor, the show fell apart when Duchovny went part time and he took over.

Just wanted to pop in here & say thanks to Netflix I'm addicted to the X-Files. I was a kid during the original run but am about halfway through S1 and I'm hooked. I'm hoping to just watch the series all the way through but that might take awhile (and it sounds like I should just avoid the movies).

Hope the new episodes are as good as the ones I'm watching.

If you like the alien conspiracy story line, you should like the movie.


I'm in the minority, but I think the second movie was pretty good. I think a lot of people were expecting another alien plot and were disappointed. I don't have any faith in the shows creators to "fix" the alien conspiracy story, so I was more than happy when they ignored it.

I thought the second movie was terrible. But just because it was bad. I'd have been fine with non-mythology if it had been a good movie.

As I recall, only the first and last episodes of the new season are mythology, so it's going to mostly be motw. And they're changing up the mythology in some way.

Perfect time for the show to come back, in any case. Government mistrust at an all time high and we all know we're being watched by shadowy figures 24/7.

Yes, even as a stand-alone episode, that plot was horrible. How they spent that much time away and came up with that is one of the things in life that truly, truly, makes you wonder how people are in charge of things and you are not.

Also, to piggyback off your other post, I agree that season 6 is INCREDIBLY underrated. It is 7, imho, that the ship starts going off course. 6 gets lumped in due partially to being filmed in LA, and having the feel of 7-9. Oh and the Diana Fowley disaster. But mythology and MOW are all there in 6. Triangle and Arcadia are two of my all-time favorites. Just the pacing and filming of Triangle, plot aside, is gold. Drive, SR 819, the Unnatural. I could go on.

Two Fathers and One Son is the near culmination of the Mytharc, and are fantastic. The problem is that with the end of One Son, the difficulty in continuing the mythology becomes hard to overcome. Couple that with Duchoveny leaving and the feel of Vancouver gone, it was a tough ask.

I don't think there is any debate that seasons 1-4 are pure gold. If you like 1, there is literally no way you won't love 2-4. 5-6 are also great imo, but opinions start to differ there. You should watch the movie Fight the Future, which happens after the season finale of 5, and before the season premiere of 6. Even if you don't love the movie, it's important for the plot.

Enjoy. I'm sure we would all love to relive seeing them for the first time. I watched them as a young teenager with my father and step-mother on the weekends. Quite literally was the first bridge after my parents divorce.

I loved the first three seasons. Season 2 is my favorite, but 3 is almost as good. Season 5 is my least favorite; "Folie À Deux" being the only really good episode.

6 has some good stuff like "Monday" (which features the daughter of Carol Burnett and the son of Billy Drago) "Terms Of Endearment" (with Ash) and "Drive" (Heisenberg).

Seasons 7, 8, and 9 feature some solid, if not always spectacular, Monster of the Week episodes. I think those final seasons are underrated by a lot of the fans.

Oh, and I liked the plot of the second flick.

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never watched this show religiously...just here and there. netflix has it all there...all 9 seasons...so the last few weeks I've been jumping on the treadmill, firing up an episode and walking until it's done.

I'm most of the way thru season 1....it's not bad...but it's not great either. but I'll get thru them all eventually. I think I'll DVR the new stuff and not watch it until I've gone thru the first 9 seasons...but we'll see.

to this point the biggest surprise to me is how YOUNG Scully looks. mulder too...but man Scully looks like a child. she's so much hotter in Hannibal. :D

Soooo...reviews are a universal 'it sucks'. :(

Hopefully it's not that bad, or at least there's something to like, but be prepared for the worst.

The reviews I've seen are that the first episode sucks, but the second and third ones are pretty good.

Gotta admit, I clapped when the theme song started. Skully is not as hot.

End review.

She hasn't lost that much weight.

Welp, not thrilled roughly halfway into the first episode.

Nope. Community guy ain't doing it for me either. I heard it gets better.

It's definitely rushed and feels like its trying to be really big really quick but being that it's just six episodes that's not too surprising. I am enjoying it but I will eat it up regardless though.

That was good

Good enough for me to keep watching.


I bet the 6 episodes are a test, just like Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. If the ratings are good (and I bet they will be stellar), they will renew for 12 more episodes next year.

The paranoid part of my brain still works