Author Topic: X-Files returns (Read 6773 times)

JN01 · « **on:** March 24, 2015, 10:06:52 PM »

For six new episodes anyway: http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/x-files-revival-officially-ordered-at-fox-david-duchovny-and-gillian-anderson-back-for-6-new-episodes/ar-AA9WpbV?ocid=ansTVLine11

Loved the series but the second movie sucked. Thirteen years of FX advances should help to make it even creepier, I just hope they get some good writers.

Battle Monkey of Zardoz · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2015, 12:37:59 AM »

I'm worried that they are calling it a "reboot". I hope they just pick up where they are today.

K Frame · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:29:03 AM »

Wasn't all that keen on the series when it was first out, don't see myself being drawn in this time, either.

I watched it on a hit or miss basis.

BryanP · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:34:48 AM »

Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on March 25, 2015, 12:37:59 AM

I'm worried that they are calling it a "reboot". I hope they just pick up where they are today.

If I had to bet, I'd say they'll use the two stars coming back as a way to transition to a new team. X-Files: The Next Generation.

makattak · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:39:06 AM »

Quote from: JN01 on March 24, 2015, 10:06:52 PM

For six new episodes anyway: http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/x-files-revival-officially-ordered-at-fox-david-duchovny-and-gillian-anderson-back-for-6-new-episodes/ar-AA9WpbV?ocid=ansTVLine11

Loved the series but the second movie sucked. Thirteen years of FX advances should help to make it even creepier, I just hope they get some good writers.

The first movie wasn't all that great either.

I thought the X-Files was best when it wasn't obsessed with aliens. The vampire trailer park is the single greatest episode they ever did.

The one guest starring Bruce Campbell was right up there as well.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:42:27 AM »

Quote from: makattak on March 25, 2015, 08:39:06 AM

I thought the X-Files was best when it wasn't obsessed with aliens.

This! I was a huge fan in the early days, but by the last season or two, I barely watched at all. My interest waned as the focus on aliens increased. With shows like that, I'm a big fan of the "monster of the week" formula. I don't need a long story arc, just give me a new creepy critter each time.

I slowly lost interest in Fringe for the same reason, though it didn't quite lose me before the series ended.

Chris

makattak · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:45:33 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on March 25, 2015, 08:42:27 AM

This! I was a huge fan in the early days, but by the last season or two, I barely watched at all. My interest waned as the focus on aliens increased. With shows like that, I'm a big fan of the "monster of the week" formula. I don't need a long story arc, just give me a new creepy critter each time.

I slowly lost interest in Fringe for the same reason, though it didn't quite lose me before the series ended.

Chris

It's funny- I can tick off dozens of episodes of the random monsters or weird phenomena right off the top of my head. The overarching plot with the conspiracy and the alien-human hybrids and the faceless aliens? I know the overview, but it was so uninteresting to me that I can't really tell you the specifics.

K Frame · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:53:03 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on March 25, 2015, 08:42:27 AM

I don't need a long story arc, just give me a new creepy critter each time.

Oddly enough, that's exactly why I lost interest in Sleepy Hollow less than half a season into it.

I deleted the recording schedule and any saved episodes and screw it.

This week they're battling the headless horseman. Next week they're battling a Iroquois demon shaman who lives in your dreams.

After that, a boy from the lost colony of Roanoke (which somehow made it from coastal Virginia to New York) manages to break free into the real world!

Underlying it all is a huge, evil conspiracy in which all of the townspeople have chosen sides...

Hot.

*expletive deleted*ing.

Mess.

makattak · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:39:46 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on March 25, 2015, 08:53:03 AM

Oddly enough, that's exactly why I lost interest in Sleepy Hollow less than half a season into it.

I deleted the recording schedule and any saved episodes and screw it.

This week they're battling the headless horseman. Next week they're battling a Iroquois demon shaman who lives in your dreams.

After that, a boy from the lost colony of Roanoke (which somehow made it from coastal Virginia to New York) manages to break free into the real world!

Underlying it all is a huge, evil conspiracy in which all of the townspeople have chosen sides...

Hot.

*expletive deleted*ing.

Mess.

You have to have the proper structure for a different creepy critter each week. Staying in one location strains the suspension of disbelief. (I.e. your B.S. meter gets pegged.)

Travelling around the country, actively seeking them out, can keep it "plausible enough" for a suspension of disbelief.

K Frame · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:56:26 AM »

Quote from: makattak on March 25, 2015, 09:39:46 AM

You have to have the proper structure for a different creepy critter each week. Staying in one location strains the suspension of disbelief. (I.e. your B.S. meter gets pegged.)

Travelling around the country, actively seeking them out, can keep it "plausible enough" for a suspension of disbelief.

Quote from: makattak on March 25, 2015, 09:39:46 AM

You have to have the proper structure for a different creepy critter each week. Staying in one location strains the suspension of disbelief. (I.e. your B.S. meter gets pegged.)

Travelling around the country, actively seeking them out, can keep it "plausible enough" for a suspension of disbelief.

At first I snorted derisively and thought "he's full of poo..."

You know, I never considered that nuance before, but damn, I think you're really on to something.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer at least explained it by the town being on the Hellmouth, but Sleepy Hollow? That was more like Scooby and Scrappy Doo meet the Harlem Globetrotters kind of BS.

230RN · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:15:30 AM »

I watched it on and off, enjoying the counterplay between the "believer" and the "nonbeliever."

To me, the most plausible premise was kind of a Carl Sagan-ish presumption of aliens being a viable possibility.... "billions and billions," doncha know.

Nowadays I actually look for that program, "Unsealed Alien Files" just to keep my paranoia circuits humming.

I am always amused by the notion that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," since by the sheer numbers of reports, we might already have that extraordinary evidence.

Maybe the truth is out there and His house does have many mansions.

And who am I to disagree?

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8)

Terry, "Unbeliever, but still innocent," 230RN

JN01 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:52:28 AM »

I guess I'm the odd man out here. I liked the combination of the monster of the week along with a continuing story line. Then again, I also liked LOST (even though the ending was a disappointment).

K Frame · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:24:17 AM »

Personally I do believe that there is alien life in the universe, simply from a numbers standpoint.

Is there advanced alien life that's far enough along to travel between stars? Possibly...

lee n. field · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:56:26 AM »

Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on March 25, 2015, 12:37:59 AM

I'm worried that they are calling it a "reboot". I hope they just pick up where they are today.

That. Mulder is semi-retired, doing some consulting work. Skully's a Mommy with a couple kids in their early teens and a toddler. Smoking Man is in the early stages of Altzheimer's, not quite ready to be put in a nursing home. Sometimes he's more lucid and says portentous things. Other times he just rambles. He was an early adopter of electronic cigarettes.

Probably the series punch line will be "And it was all George Bush's fault. The end."

freakazoid · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2015, 12:25:04 PM »

Quote from: JN01 on March 25, 2015, 10:52:28 AM

I guess I'm the odd man out here. I liked the combination of the monster of the week along with a continuing story line. Then again, I also liked LOST (even though the ending was a disappointment).

+1

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Smoking Man is in the early stages of Altzheimer's, not quite ready to be put in a nursing home.

Didn't he die in the last episode? Hiding out in the desert or something from what I vaguely remember when he was found and killed.

HankB · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2015, 12:48:46 PM »

X-Files was interesting early on, but as the series continued it became increasingly incoherent, almost as if the script was being written by someone heavily involved with what is now legal for recreational use in Colorado.

I wouldn't mind a quality reboot of Kolchak:The Night Stalker. I have to specify "quality" as the original series with Darren McGavin in the mid '70s was pretty good, but the reprise that came out in 2005 was downright awful.

BTW, ever see one of those "real" ghosthunter or monster hunter TV shows? Looks like a bunch of frat boys indulging their favorite adult BEvERage on Halloween decided to make a joke video with a cheap camcorder . . . and got that nonsense picked up as a TV series!

brimic · « **Reply #16 on:** March 25, 2015, 12:50:48 PM »

Quote from: makattak on March 25, 2015, 08:39:06 AM

The first movie wasn't all that great either.

I thought the X-Files was best when it wasn't obsessed with aliens. The vampire trailer park is the single greatest episode they ever did.

My favorites were the episodes with the 'fluke man' and the 'Peacock family.'

mtnbkr · « **Reply #17 on:** March 25, 2015, 12:57:37 PM »

Those were good episodes.

Chris

lee n. field · « **Reply #18 on:** March 25, 2015, 01:07:58 PM »

Quote from: freakazoid on March 25, 2015, 12:25:04 PM

Didn't he die in the last episode? Hiding out in the desert or something from what I vaguely remember when he was found and killed.

(Hiding out in a cave on an Indian reservation, IIRC. A cruise missile took them both out. IIRC.)

Faked his death, of course.

Balog · « **Reply #19 on:** March 25, 2015, 02:30:54 PM »

Like many others, I loved the monster of the week episodes and loathed the convoluted smokingmanmulderssisterblackoilalienzomgwtflgbtbbq episodes. I hope they reboot the crap out of it.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #20 on:** March 25, 2015, 03:48:24 PM »

Overall I liked the alien conspiracy arc better than the MOTW's, but the mythology got too complicated and the writers lost control of it.

My favorites were all MOTW. I really liked the one with Peter Boyle, and both of the "Tooms" episodes.

My favorite character was the Smoking Man, at least for the first 4 or 5 seasons. William B Davis figured out that the cigarette was not just a prop but a whole 'nother character.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 25, 2015, 05:07:12 PM »

Quote from: Balog on March 25, 2015, 02:30:54 PM

Like many others, I loved the monster of the week episodes and loathed the convoluted smokingmanmulderssisterblackoilalienzomgwtflgbtbbq episodes. I hope they reboot the crap out of it.

I watched a number of the early episodes but lost interest with the alien conspiracy stuff.

That is what I loved about the Firefly series even though it didn't last. Each episode was more or less self contained with a back drop of character development and the Alliance bad guy stuff. The equivalent of X files would have been the Firefly movie turned into 6 seasons of episodes. Sounds great, but the story would have gotten old.

I think Babylon 5 was the last show with a long multi year story line that I actually followed. It had more cool SciFi stuff than X Files:Aliens.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 25, 2015, 05:10:26 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on March 25, 2015, 11:24:17 AM

Personally I do believe that there is alien life in the universe, simply from a numbers standpoint.

Is there advanced alien life that's far enough along to travel between stars? Possibly...

Eric Flint has his Boundary series of books about finding essentially alien artifacts and fossils around the solar system. I think we would find something like that sooner than advanced living aliens.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #23 on:** March 25, 2015, 05:52:02 PM »

Quote from: brimic on March 25, 2015, 12:50:48 PM

My favorites were the episodes with the 'fluke man' and the 'Peacock family.'

I liked the one that satires the Andy Griffith show, recall that classic?

zxcvbob · « **Reply #24 on:** March 25, 2015, 06:19:10 PM »

Quote from: TommyGunn on March 25, 2015, 05:52:02 PM

I liked the one that satires the Andy Griffith show, recall that classic?

"Home" (the Peacock Family episode) had a Sheriff Andy Taylor. No other references to Andy Griffith that I'm aware of.

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Author Topic: X-Files returns (Read 6773 times)