RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
I assume you've watched Supernatural, I fell off around S8 or so but it was some excellent TV, been meaning to get back into it again.. the Outsider was brilliant, really enjoyed that one
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New X-Files Series In The Works
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I assume you've watched Supernatural, I fell off around S8 or so but it was some excellent TV, been meaning to get back into it again.. the Outsider was brilliant, really enjoyed that one
reinking
Gold Member
Right there with you. It is one of the few shows I continue to rewatch multiple times. I also agree that it would need a reboot with different agents and not try to remake what is already great.
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When i was younger I was all about the alien storyline, but after watching the show later when i was older and having the benefit of having them downloaded or having the DVDs and watching them in order, the alien storyline becomes pretty convoluted and whack.
The Monster of the Week episdoes are the best now IMO. Alien storyline reached its peak with the train car/lepers/Japanese scientist episode, one of my personal favorites.
MacReady13
Member
Agree with this completely. It's my fav show of all time. Just call it The X Files but have completely different characters. Don't call them Mulder/Scully cause it just won't work.
MacReady13
Member
I must be one of those that never hated the show in the later years. I loved Doggett. Possibly my fav character of the entire show (after Mulder/Scully obviously)! I really enjoyed both films and liked the last 2 seasons as well. I'm still baffled as to why Gillian Anderson doesn't like how her character arc ended at the very end... Is it just another ultra feminist talking point that I'm missing??? She seemed to go off on Chris Carter about it for some strange reason, even though he was the guy who actually gave her a career to begin with.
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I truy feel somewhat sad knowing I would have a a hell of a hard time watching shows in this vein. And yes that sounds conceited and arrogant and what have you. I realise that. As if I'm happy being content with the current (AAA) sci-fi output whether in serie or movie form. Dumned down ideas/premises carried through way of poorly written Nickelodeon brain dead characters which most of the case have their impersonal soap drama cast a thicc blanket over the perhaps 0.005% mildy interesting point of interest.
Thats actually a really good hook for the show, they are junior or "on the outs" agents (probably one of each) that get dumped with the task of following up on the OG reports by Scully and Mulder. That way we can revisit classic eps with a bit of a twist, there is reason for DD and GA to guest star, and they can still do their own thing at times. You know they wanna do the hillbilly family again, the neurotic vamps, that eye smoke shit, etc. So own it and they can rehash stuff within the framework of the show.
Another thing the showrunners gotta realize is that sillier and self-mocking type episodes were EARNED later on, you can't come right out of the gate with too much self awareness. That stuff builds over time, the AUDIENCE determines what it will be, and you have to play off those expectations.
I like Dogget a lot. There are some good eps there but overall the quality had dipped. Agent Reyes was terrible and Duchovney was mostly gone.
If they could have added Dogget as a 3rd agent on the team and Duchovney would have been in like half of the episodes, and no Agent Reyes, they might have been able to hold on a bit longer.
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LimanimaPT
Member
This is going to be terrible. Just don't do it.
Stuart360
Member
I think seasons 1-6 is arguably the pinnacle of tv in this genre. Seasons after also had some really good episodes here and there, but those first 6 seasons, wow. Duchovny and Anderson at their peak.
Even the alien mythology plot had built up to a fantastic point, only to sizzle out in future seasons.
It reminds me a bit like LOST in that sense.
Even the alien mythology plot had built up to a fantastic point, only to sizzle out in future seasons.
It reminds me a bit like LOST in that sense.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Ah M8 it's the next best thing for that xfiles fix, hell there's loads of injokes and references to Xfiles, has the over arching storyline running through the series interspersed with monster of the week shows, there's some absolute banger episodes
eye__writ
Banned
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Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I can see a new X-Files because of all the buzz in the news about UFO disclosure, especially the tic tac UFO filmed by the Navy. There's a real interest and now more than ever belief in UFOs, now called UAPs.
Personally, my favorite episodes are about the UFOs and aliens (well, it turns out they weren't actually aliens in the show) because I'm a big fan of it in real life as well. I also really like Cigarette Smoking Man.
I'm all for a new X-Files show but the red light went off when I read diverse. It's yet another example of bringing something back or rebooting something with a focus on diversity more than story or characters. You think by now Hollywood and video games and comic books would have learned that people are getting tired of this shit, but I guess not.
Personally, my favorite episodes are about the UFOs and aliens (well, it turns out they weren't actually aliens in the show) because I'm a big fan of it in real life as well. I also really like Cigarette Smoking Man.
I'm all for a new X-Files show but the red light went off when I read diverse. It's yet another example of bringing something back or rebooting something with a focus on diversity more than story or characters. You think by now Hollywood and video games and comic books would have learned that people are getting tired of this shit, but I guess not.
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I hope you didn’t sleep on Fringe, it’s a fantastic take on X-Files.
Elysion
Banned
I don’t think a show like the X-Files could work in the current age, and I certainly don’t think whoever is making this is able (or willing) to make a show like that. The thing about the old school conspiracy mindset, as it was exemplified by Mulder, is that it only works in a society of relative high trust in private and public institutions, be it government, media, corporations etc. Back in the 90s, the majority of Americans (as well as people in other western countries) were generally patriotic, and believed that the people in charge of their country were mostly acting with the best interest of the nation in mind, even if they disagreed about the means to do so. In a context like that, plots about vast government conspiracies do work, exactly because it’s so contrary to how people perceived their government.
This is simply no longer the case today, especially in the US. The population is sharply split into two camps that accuse the representatives of the other side of being criminals, foreign agents, pedophiles, satanists or whatever else they can think of. Furthermore, the cliché of the ‘men in black’ – hardened, ruthless government agents willing to do shady shit on behalf of shadowy government organizations – is outright laughable considering how government agencies these days present themselves as ‘diverse’, ‘inclusive’, ‘empathetic’ etc., with a leadership half of which consists of various affirmative action hires. I mean, Biden’s current health secretary is a transvestite who looks scarier than any alien.
Not to mention, the kinds of people that will be making this new show probably belong to a milieu that thinks people who believe in conspiracy theories are crazy lunatics at best, and potential domestic terrorists at worst. In an environment like that, how are they supposed to make a show about actual government conspiracies? Are they gonna make the government the good guys, and the conspiracy theorists the villains? Or maybe they’ll just leave out anything about government conspiracies or aliens, and just make monster of the week episodes. But I don’t see how tat could work. I mean, a X-Files show without shady government organizations doing shady shit would just feel wrong imo.
TLDR, I can’t see a show like the x-files being made today, considering the current zeitgeist.
This is simply no longer the case today, especially in the US. The population is sharply split into two camps that accuse the representatives of the other side of being criminals, foreign agents, pedophiles, satanists or whatever else they can think of. Furthermore, the cliché of the ‘men in black’ – hardened, ruthless government agents willing to do shady shit on behalf of shadowy government organizations – is outright laughable considering how government agencies these days present themselves as ‘diverse’, ‘inclusive’, ‘empathetic’ etc., with a leadership half of which consists of various affirmative action hires. I mean, Biden’s current health secretary is a transvestite who looks scarier than any alien.
Not to mention, the kinds of people that will be making this new show probably belong to a milieu that thinks people who believe in conspiracy theories are crazy lunatics at best, and potential domestic terrorists at worst. In an environment like that, how are they supposed to make a show about actual government conspiracies? Are they gonna make the government the good guys, and the conspiracy theorists the villains? Or maybe they’ll just leave out anything about government conspiracies or aliens, and just make monster of the week episodes. But I don’t see how tat could work. I mean, a X-Files show without shady government organizations doing shady shit would just feel wrong imo.
TLDR, I can’t see a show like the x-files being made today, considering the current zeitgeist.
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Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Maybe people were a bit more patriotic than they were today in the 1990s, but there were plenty of people that weren't and in fact a lot of people believed in conspiracies. I remember all these shows and specials in the 1990s about government conspiracies.
I do see what you're saying though. I mean you do have UFO disclosure and the government now recognizing it as a real threat so the show could lean more on that. You have stuff like Skinwalker Ranch as well as all your paranormal hotspots that have gained in popularity.
The problem is modern conspiracy stuff will lean heavily into politics. Stuff like QAnon, for instance. It's extremely likely the new X-Files will lean heavily into typical Hollywood politics with "left good, right bad" rhetoric. I mean it's already obvious with the whole focus on diversity.
In one way a new X-Files could work if they focus more on UFOs but overall I don't think it's going to work out because of how politicized people are today and how divisive the show is just going to end up being.
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
You could easily do an Xfiles show today, it is after all a fictionalised drama series and with all the recent furore around UFO's that could easily form the basis of a new show with Agents going into the Archives digging out some old case files on UFO's to see if theres a link from past cases to new sightings and in digging through those old files they come across unsolved cases and investigate those aka monster of the week whilst uncovering a long buried UFO threat that's just started to spin up again
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I stand corrected dear sir.
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Badlucktroll
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My guess is that it will lean heavily into UAPs, and the surrounding conspiracies. Bet we’ll get some weird monster of the week episodes too.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Yup. But make the aliens actually from a different planet rather than the reveal that they were inhabitants of Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago.
I thought that reveal was kind of lame instead of them actually being aliens or extra dimensional beings.
The new X-Files could focus on weirder stuff too than the original series did. Like beings from other dimensions and stuff like the Skinwalker Ranch. The original series was very grounded in reality and didn't go too much into really weird stuff, aka High Strangeness. Plus, the whole idea of other dimensions is really popular nowadays.
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Fools idol
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I will never forget the first time I watched season 1 back in 93. My buddy had recorded the whole season on vhs and we just binged that shit in a weekend with a crate of beers. Good times.
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Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Straight to VHS.
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Nothing like a dramatized predictic programming psy op to turn off after 20 min into it's pilot ep.
Badlucktroll
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Robert Patrick didn’t want to be in any of the new stuff. They had a part for him and he declined.
